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"It's a totally crazy market" – The seismic impact of the AI boom on video game hardware
… "Whether it's a smartwatch or a phone, it's all coming out of the same overall availability." Consumer cost We're now starting to see the price pressures faced by hardware manufacturers being passed onto consumers. …
PlayStation 5 sees massive sales spike in the US, beating 2026 records so far as eager consumers rush to beat RAM crisis price hikes
… In the US, the base PS5 will retail for $649.99, and the PS5 Pro will be on sale for a staggering $899.99. These pressures are likely due to hardware shortages in the global market, triggered by the generative AI boom which has resulted in ample stress on component manufacturers. …
Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
… The resulting scan:reclaim ratio triggers socket pressure, throttling TCP throughput unnecessarily. Net allocations do not exceed order 3 PAGE ALLOC COSTLY ORDER , so high order reclaim difficulty should not trigger socket pressure. …
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ASUS Announces Price Hikes for "Certain" Product Combinations, Starting 5th January 2026
… This decision is a necessary response to sustained cost pressures and rising supply costs, aimed at ensuring stable supply, maintaining product quality and service standards, and continuing to support the broader ecosystem. …
Motherboard Sales fall 44% as Memory Prices Disrupt PC Upgrades
… As long as DRAM, SSDs, and GPUs remain expensive, the motherboard market is likely to remain under pressure. The current situation highlights how closely motherboard sales are tied to overall platform affordability and broader conditions in the PC hardware ecosystem. …
AMD Warns Gaming Revenue Could Drop 20% Amid Memory Price Surge
… Those supply constraints are now beginning to filter through the broader gaming hardware market. The industry has already seen several rounds of hardware price increases tied to rising component costs. …
The global memory shortage: The hidden bottleneck behind the AI boom
… The Two‑Tier Market Emerging Beneath the AI Boom The knock-on effects extend far beyond data centers. Across the consumer and hardware landscape, manufacturers are being forced to reassess product strategies as memory scarcity and rising component costs erode already‑thin margins in non‑AI segments. …
Apple's AI Future Is in the Hands of a Hardware Expert. That's a Good Thing
… If Apple chooses to continue to take a back seat in the AI race, it won't have to worry about entangling itself in costly plans to build AI infrastructure beyond what it's already good at -- consumer hardware. …
Dell Technologies Introduces Dell PowerStore Elite Storage Platform
… With advancements in data path efficiency and hardware-assisted compression, PowerStore Elite raises the bar from 5:1 to a new industry-best 6:1 guarantee that helps customers offset costs with predictable, long-term storage economics, even in supply constrained environments. …