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The RAM crisis has grown even more limbs during the month of October. If the memory shortage was incarnated in physical form, it’d have more legs than a spider at this point, and be a multi-limbed monstrosity with a bite that’s getting nastier by the day as more negative news seems to roll in at…

If you want to pick up the best Garmin watch, you’d be wise to do it soon, because the company’s CEO Cliff Pemble has revealed that pricing changes aren’t off the table due to the rising costs of electronic components.

Nvidia’s supply issues with its gaming GPUs are seemingly the result of a strategy to get AI giants to stock up on more graphics chips than they can handle, if fresh reports are to be believed.

The AI infrastructure boom just hit its first major financial speed bump. CoreWeave, the GPU cloud provider that went public earlier this year, watched its bonds slide into distressed territory last week as investors demanded yields more than 10 percentage points above government bonds. The stock has cratered more than 20% since Tuesday, and the…

I’m not going to sugarcoat it: 2026 has been a terrible time to be a PC gamer. As someone who’s been covering computing tech for over a decade and building machines for longer than that, the future looks bleak.

It’s the hot-button topic at the Frankfurt Book Fair: How profoundly will artificial intelligence (AI) transform the book industry, and how can this transformation be regulated?

AI continues to be the Very Hungry Caterpillar of tech, gobbling up so many semiconductors that supplies of crucial components are limited and prices are soaring. And it looks like the latest tech sector to be chomped is the TV market.

Not everyone is being totally downbeat about the RAM crisis, with Acer’s CEO stating that he’s hopeful that PC prices will drop from the middle of 2027, even if price rises are on the cards for the rest of this year.

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