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.

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.

Betting big on stockpiles as chip prices shoot skyward

Lenovo is stuffing its warehouses with memory and other vital components as the AI boom squeezes supply chains and sends parts prices soaring.

Shoppers find themselves guessing the cost of RAM

Memory prices have gone properly pear-shaped, with top-end RAM now pricier than most punters expect.

Prices rise by ten per cent

AMD has told its graphics card partners to brace for a price rise across its entire GPU lineup after DRAM costs shot up again, putting an end to the brief spell when Radeon RX 9000 cards drifted back to their launch stickers.

Microsoft adds automatic RAM diagnostics to tackle BSOD headaches

Software king of the world Microsoft is rolling out a new feature called Proactive Memory Diagnostics that will automatically trigger a memory scan at reboot after a system crash, helping users pinpoint whether their blue screens or random restarts are caused by dodgy RAM.

Falling DDR5 prices and bloated AAA titles drive the move

Valve’s monthly Steam hardware survey shows that 32GB of RAM is about to shove 16GB off its throne as the default spec for PC gamers.

Azor reckons most of you are playing esports at 1080p 

AMD’s gaming architect and Alienware co-founder Frank Azor [pictured] has poked the hornets’ nest by claiming most gamers don’t need more than 8GB of VRAM on their graphics cards.

RAM gets a rethink

Software King of the World Microsoft is shaking things up in the Task Manager world.

But that might not be a bad thing

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD’s coming chips might ship with a slower video RAM than its Nvidia equivalents.