Rising costs shove AMD and Nvidia towards culling their cheap cards

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD and Nvidia are considering winding down production of their budget-oriented GPUs because the bill of materials has ballooned as GDDR prices shoot into the stratosphere.

Too much competition and low margins

HTC has confirmed that it is giving up on budget Android phones beginning this year. Instead, the company will focus on premium devices, which have a higher profit margin.

Because a single Hamilton makes all the difference

AMD has lopped $10 off the price of most of its cards in an attempt to spoil the release of Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards.

Someone has a use for them

Car hire outfit Avis and Budget Car Rental thinks that there are people who want to hire keyboardless netbooks.