GeForce graphics cards could be available in smaller quantities in 2026. This is based on reports from Asian industry circles that Nvidia will reduce the production of graphics processors for GeForce models by around 30 to 40 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period in 2025. There is no official confirmation from Nvidia. The [...]
It’s been a long time since I presented a gaming monitor to you. So I’m all the more pleased to be able to present a dual-mode monitor to you today for the first time. It’s the Titan Army P2712V, which boasts a UHD resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels and up to 160 hertz. But that’s not all, because those who like it [...]
NVIDIA’s dominance in the AI market is beginning to show serious cracks. After years of undisputed market leadership in training hardware for neural networks, the competition is slowly but dangerously tightening. According to a report by The Information, Amazon is planning to invest up to 10 billion US dollars in OpenAI on the condition that [...]
China is said to have built its own EUV lithography prototype for the first time. This news is less relevant because of its immediate technical implications than because of its strategic dimension. According to a report by Reuters, a functional system exists that generates EUV light and is basically suitable for wafer exposure. Not yet a [...]
An extensive leak from an internal Apple prototype provides clues about the company’s long-term hardware and chip roadmap until at least 2027. The information is based on an early pre-release version of iOS 26, which was on a test device not intended for the public. The existence of this prototype and the authenticity of the extracted code [...]
The development of AI infrastructures is increasingly shifting from compute-intensive training to scalable inference workloads. This change is fundamentally altering the requirements for storage architectures. Traditional combinations of HBM, DRAM and conventional enterprise SSDs are reaching their technical and economic limits when it comes to [...]
A recent case of fraud in the online purchase of RAM makes it clear that even DDR5 products that are declared as new and appear to be originally sealed can be manipulated. In the case that came to light, a buyer ordered several DDR5 memory kits from a well-known manufacturer from the XPG series via the Spanish Amazon platform. The products were [...]
The Corsair RM850x Shift marks a targeted further development within the RMx series because it takes a new approach to the modular connection architecture and thus sets a clear accent in the market. Power supply units in this performance class are aimed at users who prefer a particularly tidy system design because they often work with compact [...]
The latest AI-based attempt to visually reinterpret The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is attracting attention and causing controversy within the gaming community. It is based on a video created by a single content creator that uses artificial intelligence to transform original footage from the game into a photorealistic representation. The aim of this [...]
Sharkoon has significantly expanded its current portfolio and has now introduced several new products that address both the classic gaming sector and the increasingly relevant office and home office sector. The new additions show a clear strategic focus on versatile usage scenarios, where ergonomic aspects, flexible connectivity and individual [...]
The Bavarian state government is being criticized for the planned awarding of an extensive IT framework agreement to Microsoft without prior tendering. The subject of the dispute is a multi-year enterprise agreement for the use of cloud and software services in public administration, the volume of which is expected to reach almost one billion [...]
A boom with an announcement: Google’s hunger for AI is giving MediaTek a firework display of orders that is not only shaking up its own balance sheet, but also the CWoS capacities at TSMC. While the world stares at Nvidia and its H100 clones, another chip offensive is running at full speed in the background: Google is massively increasing [...]
The dramatic price increases for DRAM, both DDR5 and GDDR6/6X, will cast a long shadow over the gaming PC market in 2025. Edward “Ed” Crisler, PR Manager at Sapphire, gets to the heart of the matter in the Hardware Unboxed podcast: “The current price trends are eating through all levels of GPU manufacturing like a black hole [...]
The price development of the GeForce RTX 5070 series in Japan has changed significantly in just a few weeks and is increasingly attracting the attention of market observers and buyers. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti in particular has recently seen an unusually rapid increase in street prices. Within just one week, the lowest available offer price rose by [...]
As a high-end motherboard for AMD’s AM5 platform, the ASRock X870E Taichi OCF is clearly positioned above the classic enthusiast segment and is aimed at users who are specifically looking for maximum electrical and signal reserve. With this model, ASRock consistently transfers the OC Formula concept to the X870E chipset and thus to the [...]
The new ARCTIC MX-7 is a consistent further development of a paste series that has been shaping the market for many years in a rather inconspicuous but technically relevant segment. ARCTIC focused early on creating uncomplicated yet reproducible solutions for users who require reliable thermal bonding without having to deal with exotic [...]
Intel took the stage at the Barclays Global Technology Conference 2025 to dive deep into the company’s progress, challenges and strategic shifts. John Pitzer, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Planning and Investor Relations, provided a remarkably candid update on Intel’s manufacturing technologies, capacity planning and market [...]
The ongoing Russian war of aggression against Ukraine not only has military and humanitarian consequences, but also raises legal questions about the responsibility of Western technology companies. Ukrainian civilians have filed lawsuits in the USA against several major semiconductor manufacturers because they believe that modern Western chips were [...]
AMS-IX is ending its business activities in the United States. According to the company, operations at the two US locations in Chicago and the Bay Area of California will cease on March 5, 2026. The Amsterdam-based operator is one of the world’s largest and oldest Internet Exchanges and had been active in the US since 2013. It entered the [...]
Internal documents from the South Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix indicate that the supply situation for DRAM will remain tight until at least 2028. This primarily affects classic memory products for end users, including DDR4 and DDR5 for desktop and notebook systems as well as GDDR6 and GDDR7 for graphics cards. The analysis suggests that [...]
