Hardware

Windows could soon let you control how your PC splits memory for gaming and AI

Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims

Cutting corners: Building a memory chip from the absolute ground up takes years and costs a fortune. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) apparently decided to skip the hard part – and today, the company stands as China's biggest DRAM producer. A South Korean court recently heard some fairly wild details about how the memory maker actually got its start.

If one PC creates 20dB of noise and another makes 40dB, how louder is the second PC?

AMD now ships more than 30% of x86 PC CPUs as Intel's long-held lead keeps shrinking

G.Skill starts paying buyers $20 to $25 from $2.4 million settlement over misleading RAM speeds

This enthusiast has been torturing 351 microSD cards for years, and some brands are winning

Valve's Steam Frame could launch any day now, and it might cost $1,200

Intel's next flagship CPU could be the 28-core Core Ultra 9 4950K

How "tokenomics" might save AI PCs

Best Buy removes 32GB RAM worth $600 to "repair" customer's 64GB gaming laptop

The Blood of Dawnwalker's system requirements dropped by half in just months

Intel says Nova Lake, its next major CPU architecture, is coming to desktop PCs before servers

GPU thieves replaced RTX 5080 cards with RTX 3060s in Chinese esports hotels until a blackout gave them away

Entry-level GPU shortages will get worse in the second half of 2026, warns PC Partner

Nvidia may have just built its own hyperscaler without owning a single data center

Why it matters: Nvidia has quietly assembled every piece of a cloud giant, and it doesn't even need to own the buildings. That is the theory making the rounds, and once you see it laid out, the last two years stop looking like a chip company having a very good run and start looking like a plan. The financing arrangement Nvidia signed this month with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and four other Wall Street heavyweights, aimed at funneling more than $500 billion of outside capital into AI data centers, would be the last piece clicking into place. Most outlets filed it under the now usual "more AI money" headline, but there is a more interesting read.

New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba

Intel may refresh Raptor Lake for a third time as high DDR5 prices push buyers toward older hardware

Samsung says Claude Code can cut chip design work from weeks to days, but it still makes serious mistakes

New Dell XPS 13 reviews are in with positive marks and $699 price

Another Ryzen 7 7800X3D reportedly burns out despite AMD's voltage fix

Enterprise SSDs now consume 48% of global NAND flash supply

SK hynix is now Kioxia's biggest shareholder, but taking control won't be easy

Qualcomm's Snapdragon C wants to be the Arm chip for $300 laptops

First look: Qualcomm has released more details about Snapdragon C, the Arm-based chip it is preparing for low-cost laptops. The company is betting that a combination of modest CPU performance, integrated graphics, and low power consumption can give manufacturers another option in a segment of the market typically dominated by entry-level Intel systems starting around $300.