Due to rising prices from the "AI" bubble, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics.

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The PC supply chain has begun to react to the ongoing memory shortage, as a new report indicates a massive price hike wave is approaching gamers. PC Manufacturers Cannot Sustain Products at Current Pricing Amid Rising DRAM Shortage By now, memory shortages have made headlines across almost every major media outlet out there, but one aspect of it that is being underreported is the fact that PC vendors in the industry are mostly relying on inventory buildout from the previous quarters, which is why when it comes to consumer devices like laptops, the price hikes haven't been as noticeable as […]

Google warns attacks have started and releases new update for all Pixels.

A lawsuit alleges #Meta stopped an internal study showing users felt less depressed and anxious after leaving #Facebook.

The GPU has finally crossed the 1,000 unit sales in a week, but the RTX 50 doesn't seem to impress the German audience. Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9060 XT are Still the Top-Sellers at Big German Retailer; RTX 5070 Ti is the Seller From NVIDIA Last week, we saw the RX 9070 XT outselling nearly the entire RTX 50 stack, but this time, the combined NVIDIA GPU sales, including some previous generations, couldn't match the sales figure of this GPU. AMD's RDNA 4-based RX 9070 XT has been the top-seller on the majority of the stores for a […]

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#X rolled out profile-level “Based in” labels. A community Chrome extension queries X’s GraphQL API and places flag emojis next to usernames in the feed, letting readers see an account’s country at a glance without visiting profiles.

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According to new rumors, AMD has increased the price of several of its Ryzen CPUs, adding another recent cost hike to the mix for PC gamers.

AMD is reportedly planning a price hike, not only for its GPUs, but also CPUs, affecting Ryzen 9000 & older lineups. AMD Ryzen 9000 & Older CPUs Are Reportedly Going To Become More Expensive Tonight AMD has already notified its AIBs and respective partners of a 10% price hike across its GPU families, such as the latest Radeon RX 9000 series based on the RDNA 4 graphics architecture. These price hikes are due to rising DRAM costs, such as GDDR6, which are used by graphics cards. Since September, the AI segment demand has prompted a sharp rise in DRAM and […]

Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout. That’s according to BlueSky user Steve Lin (spotted by PCWorld’s own Mark Hachman), who snapped a photo at Central Computers, a retail chain in central California. The store cites a global shortage in memory chips causing prices to change drastically every day. “Because of this, we can’t display fixed prices on certain products at this time,” reads the sign posted in front of a case full of Corsair RAM. “If you have questions or want current pricing on any item, our team is happy to help.” A Reddit poster saw similar signs at a MicroCenter store, citing “market volatility” (via Tom’s Hardware). Another user in the BlueSky thread showed a photo that appears to be a Best Buy case of RAM, showing a 32GB set of two DDR5 DIMMs going for over $400 USD, a 64GB kit for over $900. A look at Best Buy’s online shop shows that as of today, that pricing is accurate. For the sake of comparison, I bought a pair of Patriot DIMMs at the same capacity and 6,000MHz speed a year and a half ago for $155. This is, in a word, insane. Best Buy There are a lot of moving parts here, between a higher demand for DDR5 as DDR4-standard processors and motherboards finally exit the market, and prices in the United States in particular being stressed by a year of wildly fluctuating tariffs and exceptions. But the biggest driving factor is the booming construction of “AI” data centers, feeding a massive and growing industry with an unquenchable hunger for memory and storage. Data centers aren’t gobbling up the same consumer-grade memory that goes into new laptops and gaming desktops, but there is a limited amount of production capacity popping out memory modules from factories. If a memory producer like Samsung, Micron, or SK Hynix can max out its capacity with gigantic, profitable orders from companies producing memory and storage for data centers, it will. That leaves little room for the production of new consumer-grade memory, and even less for the memory sold in its own packaging as RAM DIMMs and solid-state drives, since the lion’s share will go to PC manufacturers like Dell and Lenovo. As prices climb higher, it’s possible we could be seeing other exacerbating factors, such as scalpers buying up what scant supply is available, or retailers getting in a cheeky little bump hoping it’ll go unnoticed in the chaos. That’s what happened to graphics cards a few years ago, between the cryptocurrency boom and higher demand for gaming PCs during the pandemic. While prices for completed laptops and pre-built desktops are slower to change as their long manufacturing times lock in rates from weeks or months before, it seems inevitable that the cost of completed consumer electronics will rise, too. Memory prices may get a much-needed correction before too long, either from the market adjusting itself around a new reality, or as demand for new and as-yet-unproven “AI” capacity goes down. Economists are in dread of the “AI” bubble collapsing so quickly and catastrophically that it takes the rest of the U.S. economy (and large chunks of the global economy) with it, in a mirror of the dot-com boom and bust of 2000. At that point, memory should become more affordable…though we might have a lot more to worry about than our _Counter-Strike_ frame rate.

Last week, Microsoft made the classic games _Zork_ , _Zork II_ , and _Zork III_ available as open source under the MIT license. “Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post. Open-sourcing classic games is one way to preserve them for the future, allowing people to keep experiencing them even after their original builds are no longer supported on modern machines. These three _Zork_ text-based adventure games from Infocom pioneered interactive fiction and ran on the early Z-Machine engine. This allowed them to be widely distributed in the 1980s and 90s pre-internet. Note that the games’ commercial packaging, marketing materials, and trademarks remain protected by copyright! The games’ source code are what have been made freely available.

It does want Meta to use a "High-Risk" label at least.

#Valve has confirmed that its upcoming #Steam Machine will be priced “in line with the current PC market” rather than being subsidised like traditional consoles. The move signals a shift in hardware strategy and sets new expectations for buyers.

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More benchmarks are surfacing online, revealing a big jump in performance by Xe3-based iGPUs on Panther Lake CPUs. Arc B390 Reportedly Delivers 2X Score vs Radeon 890M in Time Spy Graphics; Slightly Faster Than RTX 3050 It's well-known that 3D Mark tests favor Intel GPUs and higher scores in 3D Mark applications don't necessarily translate to similar performance in games. That said, the new benchmark numbers for the upcoming Xe3-based iGPU on Panther Lake series are looking too good. @OneRaichu reports that the Panther Lake iGPU, featuring 12 Xe3 cores, can deliver around 7,000 points in Time Spy Graphics. This […]

#Microsoft is reportedly warning retail partners of another price increase for #Xbox Series X and S consoles, prompted by severe global RAM and memory-chip shortages. The crunch is hitting harder than your usual supply issue.