Valve hints at Steam Machine delay… but the plot thickens
digitaltrends - Valve says memory and storage shortages may delay the Steam Machine and related hardware, while updated listings showing “Coming soon” suggest development is still progressing behind the scenes. The post Valve hints at Steam Machine delay… but the plot th…
Back to Top / Friday, March 6, 2026, 6:21 pm / permalink 20290 / 10 stories in 4 hrs
Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage
BeauHD / slashdot - Apple has removed the 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio, leaving 256GB as the new maximum. The remaining 256GB upgrade has also increased in price and now faces longer shipping delays as demand grows "due to consumers seeking machines suitable fo…
Back to Top / Thursday, March 5, 2026, 8:21 pm / permalink 20243 / 8 stories in 26 hrs
Nvidia could bring back the RTX 3060 in mid-March as the memory crisis bites
techspot - At the beginning of January, leaker hongxing2020, who has a long and impressive record when it comes to revealing Nvidia's plans, claimed Team Green has told its partners that the RTX 3060 will be returning in the first quarter of 2026.Read Entire Article
Back to Top / Thursday, March 5, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 20193 / 3 stories in 37 hrs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 With 9 GB GDDR7 Memory Rumored To Debut At Computex
Sarfraz Khan / wccftech - The "upgraded" GeForce RTX 5050 is expected to arrive in June this year at the Computex event. NVIDIA Will Reportedly Debut its 9 GB RTX 5050 GPU at Computex; Same GPU, but Newer GDDR7 Memory With an Additional Gigabyte of VRAM Instead of increasing the V…
Back to Top / Thursday, March 5, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 20188 / 3 stories in 38 hrs
Why Old Game Boy Games Actually Look Worse Than You Remember
bgr - If you're old enough, you remember playing on your original Game Boy the same way people are attached to their smartphones today, playing games like Tetris.
- Government and surveillance clash over Anthropic's limits (6)
- OTHER: unrelated tech, culture, and market pieces (4)
- Unprecedented demand causes major Claude outage (1)
- Users flock to Claude — new tools, integrations, features (6)
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Government and surveillance clash over Anthropic's limits
OTHER: unrelated tech, culture, and market pieces
Unprecedented demand causes major Claude outage
Users flock to Claude — new tools, integrations, features
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Back to Top / Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 20065 / 19 stories in 3 days
Apple (AAPL) Stock: New MacBook Air M5 Debuts With 512GB Base Storage at $1,099
Trader Edge / parameter - Apple (AAPL) launches MacBook Air M5 at $1,099 with 512GB storage, 4x faster AI performance, Wi-Fi 7, and availability starting March 11. Pre-orders open March 4.The post Apple (AAPL) Stock: New MacBook Air M5 Debuts With 512GB Base Storage at $1,099 appe…
- Apple unveils M5 MacBook Air: faster chip, 512GB, Wi‑Fi 7 (17)
- Price pain: MacBook Air base price rises, global market reaction (7)
- Should you upgrade? M5 vs M4 and Air vs Pro (4)
- Unrelated beats: AI legal and policy concerns (2)
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Apple unveils M5 MacBook Air: faster chip, 512GB, Wi‑Fi 7
Price pain: MacBook Air base price rises, global market reaction
Should you upgrade? M5 vs M4 and Air vs Pro
Unrelated beats: AI legal and policy concerns
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Back to Top / Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 20059 / 32 stories in 3 days
Apple unveils new iPad Air with M4 chip
Wayne Williams / betanews - Apple has introduced a new iPad Air powered by its M4 silicon. It raises unified memory to 12GB, adds Wi-Fi 7 and updated cellular hardware, and keeps the same $599 starting price. The upgrade increases performance over the previous M1 and M3 models, whil…
Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 20026 / 6 stories in 4 days
Anthropic's Claude can now absorb your past conversations with other AI chatbots
Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic has made switching to its Claude AI chatbot easier than ever. The company announced a new memory import tool that can extract all of a competing AI chatbot's memories and context of you into a text prompt that can be fed into Claude.With Anthrop…
- Boycott and Pentagon spat — Claude surges in app charts (2)
- Memory import — Switchers bring full chat history to Claude (11)
- Other — Opinion pieces, ads, and company missteps (2)
- Outages amid surge — Millions locked out during Claude crash (5)
Boycott and Pentagon spat — Claude surges in app charts
Memory import — Switchers bring full chat history to Claude
Other — Opinion pieces, ads, and company missteps
Outages amid surge — Millions locked out during Claude crash
Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 20005 / 20 stories in 4 days
Entry-level PC market to ‘disappear’ by 2028 — rising memory prices pile more strain on consumer PC market
tomshardware - A 130% surge in combined DRAM and SSD prices by the end of 2026 will push PC prices up 17% compared to 2025 levels and wipe out the sub-$500 PC market.
- AI data centers starve budget smartphones of memory chips (1)
- Gartner warns sub-$500 PCs will vanish by 2028 (6)
- Phison demands prepayments as NAND prices surge 500% (4)
AI data centers starve budget smartphones of memory chips
Gartner warns sub-$500 PCs will vanish by 2028
Phison demands prepayments as NAND prices surge 500%
Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 11:22 am / permalink 20002 / 11 stories in 4 days
Apple announces iPhone 17e and new iPad Air powered by M4
Adam Vjestica / theshortcut - Apple has revealed two new pieces of hardware
- Apple's 'Big Week' rollout: multi-day launches, press events, retail rush. (8)
- On site: iPad Air M4 — faster M4, 12GB RAM, Wi‑Fi7. (26)
- On the ground: iPhone 17e — MagSafe, A19, doubled storage, $599. (35)
- Other stories: crypto outlier and cross-product rundowns at launch. (1)
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Apple's 'Big Week' rollout: multi-day launches, press events, retail rush.
On site: iPad Air M4 — faster M4, 12GB RAM, Wi‑Fi7.
On the ground: iPhone 17e — MagSafe, A19, doubled storage, $599.
Other stories: crypto outlier and cross-product rundowns at launch.
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Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19991 / 80 stories in 4 days
Smartphone Market To Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due To the Memory Shortage Crisis
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year (YoY) in 2026 to 1.1 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This decline…
- Analysts: smartphone shipments set for record plunge (4)
- Chipmakers race to add capacity; exports surge on demand (3)
- Consumers trade in flagship phones amid buyer remorse (1)
- Memory drought squeezes devices, hikes prices and delays launches (7)
Analysts: smartphone shipments set for record plunge
Chipmakers race to add capacity; exports surge on demand
Consumers trade in flagship phones amid buyer remorse
Memory drought squeezes devices, hikes prices and delays launches
Back to Top / Friday, February 27, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 19899 / 15 stories in 7 days
Smartphone Sales to Plummet 13% in 2026 Due to RAM Crisis, Says IDC
Jeff Carlson / cnet - AI-fueled memory scarcity is hitting the phone market hard this year, particularly for inexpensive, low-end devices.
- AI hardware prices spike; DGX Spark rises $700 (2)
- Chip crunch threatens budget PCs and phones (3)
- DRAM price surge: suppliers hike quotes and contracts (3)
- IDC warns record 13% smartphone slump in 2026 (4)
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AI hardware prices spike; DGX Spark rises $700
Chip crunch threatens budget PCs and phones
DRAM price surge: suppliers hike quotes and contracts
IDC warns record 13% smartphone slump in 2026
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 26, 2026, 8:21 pm / permalink 19854 / 13 stories in 8 days
HP warns RAM now makes up 35% of the cost of building a PC
techspot - Over the past few months, RAM chips used in new PCs have nearly doubled in price. According to HP Inc. CFO Karen Parkhill, memory's share of the PC bill of materials has risen from 15 percent to 18 percent, and now to roughly 35 percent. And that may be o…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 26, 2026, 10:22 am / permalink 19801 / 13 stories in 8 days
Nvidia warns of constrained supply of gaming GPUs — 'we do believe for a couple of quarters it is going to be very tight'
tomshardware - Jensen Huang expects the supply of gaming hardware to be insufficient in the next two quarters and has limited visibility beyond that.
Back to Top / Thursday, February 26, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19795 / 8 stories in 8 days
More Lower-Cost MacBook Details Surface Ahead of 'Apple Experience' Next Week
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple is expected to unveil up to five new products next week, including a lower-cost MacBook, and a few more details about the laptop surfaced today.According to supply chain sources who spoke to DigiTimes, the entry-level MacBook will indeed be launchin…
- Hardware compromises & code leaks — Budget MacBook trims features (4)
- Pricing & production — Suppliers struggle with component cost spikes (4)
- Touchscreen & software changes — Dynamic Island, OLED, touch-optimized macOS coming (4)
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Hardware compromises & code leaks — Budget MacBook trims features
Pricing & production — Suppliers struggle with component cost spikes
Touchscreen & software changes — Dynamic Island, OLED, touch-optimized macOS coming
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Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 19732 / 14 stories in 9 days
Watch Samsung Unpacked 2026 right here: Galaxy S26 series reveal starts at 10am PT / 1pm ET
techspot - Samsung is expected to reveal at least three phones in San Francisco today: the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. It seems that reports the company dropped plans for a Galaxy S26 Edge (and likely any future Edge models) following weak S25 Edg…
- Features: AirDrop support and AI's impact on resale values (2)
- Live coverage: Unpacked launch and promotional stunts (3)
- Other: unrelated tech and startup news (1)
- Supply drama: DRAM sourcing, Micron role and internal distributor clash (5)
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Features: AirDrop support and AI's impact on resale values
Live coverage: Unpacked launch and promotional stunts
Other: unrelated tech and startup news
Supply drama: DRAM sourcing, Micron role and internal distributor clash
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Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 7:21 am / permalink 19714 / 19 stories in 9 days
HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 11:21 pm / permalink 19705 / 6 stories in 9 days
There's a shortage of RAM (computer memory). How is this affecting the industry?
Scott Simon / npr - Memory chips (aka RAM) are in short supply, globally. Why and what does that mean for consumers
- Consumers feel the pinch: RAM prices, deals, and regional shifts (5)
- DRAM market shifts: Samsung, SK Hynix, Chinese entrants reshape supply (5)
- Lenovo warns partners: buy now to avoid March memory-driven hikes (4)
- OTHER: Misc PC items not central to the memory shortage (0)
Consumers feel the pinch: RAM prices, deals, and regional shifts
DRAM market shifts: Samsung, SK Hynix, Chinese entrants reshape supply
Lenovo warns partners: buy now to avoid March memory-driven hikes
OTHER: Misc PC items not central to the memory shortage
Back to Top / Saturday, February 21, 2026, 7:20 am / permalink 19518 / 14 stories in 13 days
Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
John Timmer / arstechnica - Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 19382 / 8 stories in 16 days
Valve confirms the Steam Deck OLED is no longer in stock because of the memory shortage
Reece Bithrey / theshortcut - And we don’t know when it will be back
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