PC makers bleed cash as AI giants hoard memory supplies
Shrinking margins force next year’s machines towards painful price hikes.
Global tech titans are gorging on DRAM and flash to feed their AI obsessions, leaving the humble PC market to scrap for leftovers as unit prices rocket.
Samsung and SK hynix warn punters the DRAM drought will drag on
The memory giants say profit comes first
Samsung and SK hynix, which churn out more than 70 per cent of the world’s DRAM, have decided that the current memory boom is an opportunity to squeeze long-term profits.
Raspberry Pi introduces new Raspberry Pi 5 1GB at $45
Rising memory cost raises pricing on other models
Raspberry Pi has launched the new budget-oriented Raspberry Pi 5 1GB model, pricing it at $45. It has also raised the prices of other models due to the rising memory costs.
AMD hints at coming Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU
Faster 8-core with 3D V-Cache
AMD has surprisingly listed the rumored Ryzen 7 9850X3D SKU on its driver website, confirming one of the two Zen 5 SKUs that were spotted earlier. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is an 8-core/16-thread SKU with a 4.7GHz clock and 120W TDP.
Samsung boffins flip old assumptions to slash NAND power
A 96 per cent power cut in flash.
Boffins working from Samsung Electronics have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have slashed NAND flash power consumption by as much as 96 per cent.