High memory prices have become the new normal, and we might never see them returning to normal, says Lenovo. Memory Prices Beyond 2030 Will Not Reach The Levels They Were A Year Ago As Lenovo Lays Out Its Survival Guide For The RAMageddon Memory shortages are worsening each passing day, and major players have signaled the markets to brace for far worse hits in the coming years as supply-demand gaps widen. Micron just stated that things are out of their hand as they can not fulfill the demand, even for their strategic & top-level customers, while Samsung and SK Hynix […]

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Micron says that it has locked in 16 memory customers in an unbreakable agreement, hinting that high prices will continue for several years. Memory Prices Will Remain Sky High As Micron Signs A Strategic Agreement With 16 High-Profile DRAM Customers Memory prices for all sorts of DRAM components, including LPDDR, DDR, and HBM, are sky-high. This is due to the huge demand for memory generated by the booming AI segment. DRAM makers have been unable to keep up with demand for AI, and things are even worse in consumer-oriented segments where OEM/ODMs are continuously raising prices across their product lineups. […]

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NVIDIA is going to retain its top position as TSMC's biggest customer in 2027, but AMD EPYC Venice could outpace its Vera CPUs. TSMC Sees Growing 2.5D Advanced Packaging Demand As CPUs Heat Up The Agentic AI Race - NVIDIA Tops The Customer List While AMD EPYC Catches Vera CPUs are quickly becoming the major consumer of advanced packaging technologies as their demand has grown proportionally with the rise of Agentic AI. So far, 2026 has been a roller-coaster ride for the entire tech segment, and 2027 is shaping up to be just as intense. In 2027, major firms will […]

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The idea that SpaceX might acquire one of the so-called 'Big Three' carriers in the US is getting fairly hackneyed, with a speculative report popping up seemingly on a weekly basis now. Even so, the latest research note from TD Cowen differs from the recent speculative commentary and lays out SpaceX's choices and the associated costs of acquiring T-Mobile in fairly stark terms. Why SpaceX desperately needs additional terrestrial spectrum SpaceX recently acquired around 65 MHz of nationwide, exclusive-use, contiguous spectrum for $19.6 billion, divided into three distinct bands: Here's the rub, however. Apart from the relatively limited AWS-3, the […]

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Those who trusted their instinct in buying Apple’s ‘top of the line’ 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with an M5 Max should pat themselves on the back, especially one owner, who managed to get the best possible specifications right at his fingertips, and he almost saved $3,000 on this purchase. With Apple raising the prices on various products, including its MacBook Pro lineup, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to acquire these top-tier configurations, but those who managed to pick up these machines even a day before the announcement have truly lucked out. With the 14-inch M5 Max MacBook now carrying a price […]

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Warhorse Studios' critically acclaimed RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has just hit its latest commercial milestone as it officially surpassed 6 million copies sold worldwide since its launch in February 2025. The developer announced the milestone in a press release, which also revealed that the studio will celebrate the milestone by putting Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 on sale during the official Steam Summer Sale. If you haven't stepped into either of Warhorse's medieval RPGs, you can grab the first game for 80% off on either the base game or the Royal Edition which comes jam-packed with all of the DLC […]

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After two price hikes in one year, Xbox and Microsoft are going for the hat trick of price hikes, with the price of the Xbox Series X/S going up for the third time in 15 months. As of August 1, 2026, the price of a Series S/X console is going up by $100 or $150, respectively. The 2TB variant is also being discontinued. The news comes from a statement shared on Xbox Wire, which also introduces multiple programs Microsoft is kicking up to try and make the consoles "more accessible," even amidst the prices rising yet again. Before digging into […]

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There has never been a time when Apple hasn’t launched a ‘Pro’ and ‘Max’ version of its base M-series chipset, but according to the latest report, the plan will materialize with the arrival of the M6 later this year. Instead of the M6 Pro and M6 Max, the company will apparently bring forth the M7 Pro and M7 Max. New change of plans threatens the redesigned OLED MacBook Pro launch, which was said to exclusively ship with the M6 Pro and M6 Max SoCs Instead of the M6 Pro and M6 Max, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes that Apple will instead […]

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At last week's Unreal Fest in Chicago, Epic Games unveiled the integration of AI tools like Claude and Gemini into Unreal Engine 5.8 (and the upcoming Unreal Engine 6) through an MCP server. As with all things related to AI, the news received a somewhat mixed response from the development and gaming community, especially as fears of "AI slop" become rampant. In an interview with IGN, Epic Games founder, CEO, and majority shareholder Tim Sweeney admitted that there's the risk of that, but likened it to the "asset flip" of this new generation of games, asserting that low quality games […]

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In a surprising announcement, IBM introduced its 0.7-nanometer chip technology today to make it the first firm to have unveiled a manufacturing process smaller than the 1-nanometer technology node. The firm claims that the technology will enable chips to contain as much as 100 billion in an area the size of a fingernail. To achieve this, the technology relies on IBM's nanostack technology, which relies on nanosheets for chip fabrication. IBM Makes Headway With Nanostack Chip Manufacturing Technology As Part Of 0.7 Nanometer Development According to IBM, the 0.7-nanometer chip has nearly twice the density of its 2-nanometer chip unveiled […]

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FromSoftware's parent company Kadokawa Corporation just nearly missed going through a major transition period. Kadokawa's chief executive officer, Takeshi Natsuno, has been able to keep his job as CEO, after some of the company's investors tried to have him replaced due to their claims that Natsuno has failed to properly capitalize on the success of Elden Ring. This comes from a report from Reuters (via GamesIndustry.Biz), which also adds that while Natsuno is staying in the CEO chair for now, he's there with a much weaker support system than what he had just a year ago. Back in 2025, Natsuno […]

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Apple has been loudly and forcefully complaining of the sky-high memory prices for the past few months, using its soaring cost of key components as a cudgel to implement sweeping price hikes. Now, however, memory chip makers such as Micron are pushing back by blaming Apple's penny-pinching ways for years of under-investment and the resulting dearth of capacity. Micron says it informed Apple a few years back that its "aggressive" attitude on pricing was "not constructive" Memory chip makers apparently have had enough of Apple using their shoulders to preserve its margins. As a case in point, consider the valuable […]

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It's Thursday, which means it's also another GeForce NOW Thursday, with a new batch of games getting added to NVIDIA's cloud streaming service. Notable titles include Empulse, the Titanfall-like shooter from 1047 Games, a new action roguelike called Dark Scrolls from developer doinksoft and publisher Devolver Digital, and The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. But what's just as important is that they're all arriving on the service just as the first wave of Steam summer sales start to kick off. Now, that's not to say that those games mentioned are part of any upcoming summer sales. Empulse and Dark […]

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Apple has succumbed to the inevitable by hiking the prices of most of its products in one fell swoop, leading to aberrant pricing outcomes, such as the one pertaining to the M3 Ultra chip-equipped Mac Studio (16TB) and its sole 96GB unified memory variant, which now sells for over $14,000. Apple's highest-end, 96GB unified memory variant of the M3 Ultra chip-equipped Mac Studio now retails for $14,299 Apple laid the groundwork for these sweeping price hikes a few days back, when Tim Cook had declared that memory prices had become "unsustainable," and that "unavoidable" price hikes were coming. As we […]

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The final update for Destiny 2 went live a little more than two weeks ago, on June 9, 2026. Today, in the wake of Bungie putting the game and franchise it had been working on for over a decade down, the studio announced its latest round of layoffs, as a statement shared on its official X (formerly Twitter) account reads "we unfortunately could not continue operating at our previous size." This is, unfortunately, exactly what was expected to happen with Destiny 2's sunsetting. It hadn't even been 24 hours between the announcement that Destiny 2 would stop receiving content updates […]

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Sales for physical video game releases have been declining for over a decade now due to the rise in digital game sales, and with the revelation that GTA 6 will arrive as a code in a box in November for the few players who still head to brick-and-mortar retail stores to buy their games, physical sales are poised to decline even further. But for the first time since 2009, physical game spending has actually seen a year-on-year increase between 2025 and 2026 in the US. The reason? Nintendo Switch 2. That comes from Mat Piscatella, senior director and video game […]

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CEO Tim Cook had already warned that memory prices had become unsustainable, which only meant that Apple was running on borrowed time in keeping the MSRP of its products as low as possible. Unfortunately, the Cupertino firm has thrown in the towel and has announced price bumps across its entire product family, with up to a $1,300 premium being stamped on the more expensive hardware when shopping for the base models. The more popular products like the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air are only slightly more expensive, but it’ll hurt consumers regardless For those who were wondering why Apple’s online […]

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Today, independent German developer Keen Games announced the release date of Enshrouded 1.0. The game will be released on October 15 for PC and PlayStation 5, but the Xbox version has been delayed to next Spring. Jan Jöckel, CEO of Keen Games, said in a statement: Our team worked tirelessly to launch Enshrouded 1.0 and its exciting new content simultaneously across PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, and Xbox Series S|X. Enshrouded combines large-scale voxel building, fully terraformable worlds, advanced multiplayer systems, and a vast open world in ways that are technically very demanding. As we approached launch, we decided […]

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More processors are getting a discount on this Prime Day deal, and you shouldn't miss these Ryzen CPUs if you want to build a powerful gaming PC on a budget. AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Drops to Just $179 While Ryzen 5 7600X is Now Down to $146 on Amazon There are some excellent deals on Amazon at the moment, ranging from PC components to pre-built systems, but the processor deals are particularly irresistible. We have just published Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus deal post that gives you the chance to buy the processor at just $264, making it one […]

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Vendors have started releasing new BIOS updates that restores the TSME feature on consumer Ryzen CPUs. ASUS Releases ComboAM5 P1 1.3.0.1b Patch A to Restore TSME Feature on Non-PRO Ryzen CPUs After AMD Promised to Reinstate it A week ago, users complained that their Ryzen CPUs were no longer showing TSME support. This was due to the latest AMD BIOSes, which reportedly removed the TSME encryption feature on the Ryzen CPUs. However, AMD didn't remove it from the PRO variants and told MSI that the TSME is reserved only for the Ryzen PRO chips. TSME, or Transparent Memory Secure Encryption, […]

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