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Leading PC manufacturers considering using Chinese memory chips, report claims — HP and Dell qualifying CXMT DRAM, Acer and Asus asking Chinese partners to source locally-made memory chips

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Nvidia won't release new gaming GPU for 'first year in three decades' due to RAM shortage — and it's also slashing RTX 50 production

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Adobe actually won’t discontinue Animate

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Adobe Is Killing A Popular Animation And Game Development Program

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Zotac warns component shortages threaten the 'very survival' of GPU manufacturers and distributors — message to Korean customers suggests that the worst could be yet to come

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ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years

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AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain For Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs

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SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents

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ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years In Striving To Be An Open-Source Windows Implementation - Phoronix

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Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company's NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027 | Tom's Hardware

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10GbE in 2026 is Finally Hitting the Tipping Point

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The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd (Framework laptop)

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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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Clone Wars: IBM Edition

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Running cheap and crappy USB hard drives in RAID0 is indeed a very terrible idea

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Seagate Introduces 32TB Exos, SkyHawk AI, and IronWolf Pro Drives

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After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes

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Senior AMD executive suggests consumers buy cheap CPUs to combat memory pricing squeeze — says ‘consumers have a wide assortment of choice available for all kinds of price points’ | Tom's Hardware

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Major Japanese electronics store begs customers for their old PCs as hardware drought continues — ‘we pretty much buy any PC’ pleads the Akihabara outlet | Tom's Hardware

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Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs/Dell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’

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HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks

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SanDisk says goodbye to WD Blue and Black SSDs, hello to new “Optimus” drives

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ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility

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Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia's RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn't good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers

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Framework announces another memory price hike — and it likely won’t be its last

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