Hardware News 28 August 2025

RAM Prices Are Exploding in December 2025 — What’s Driving the DRAM Crisis and How Long It Could Last

Updated December 4, 2025 As of December 4, 2025, RAM (DRAM) prices are in full‑blown crisis mode. Spot prices for mainstream DDR5 chips are hovering just under $27 per 16Gb, more than four times their level in September, and contract

4 December 2025

Micron Shuts Down Crucial Consumer RAM and SSDs as AI Chip Demand Explodes

Micron Technology is abandoning nearly three decades of selling Crucial‑branded RAM and SSDs to everyday PC users so it can funnel more memory into high‑margin AI data centers, deepening a global memory chip crunch and reshaping the PC DIY market.

3 December 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Hardware · Industry News · Memory · NASDAQ:MU · Technology

Meta Poaches Apple Design Chief Alan Dye in High‑Stakes Race for AI Hardware and ‘Liquid Glass’ Future

Published December 3, 2025 Meta Platforms has hired Alan Dye, Apple’s longtime head of human interface design, in one of the most significant talent moves in Silicon Valley’s escalating battle over AI‑powered consumer devices. Dye will join Meta as chief design

3 December 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Hardware · Industry News · Innovation · Technology

Sony unveils 27‑inch PlayStation monitor with QHD 240Hz, VRR and a built‑in DualSense charging hook

Announced around State of Play Japan, the PlayStation‑branded desktop display targets PS5 and PC with 1440p visuals, HDMI 2.1/DisplayPort 1.4, Auto HDR Tone Mapping, and a nifty fold‑down controller charger. It’s slated for a 2026 launch in the U.S. and

12 November 2025

Gaming · Hardware · Monitors · NYSE:SNE · PlayStation · Technology

NVIDIA’s $4 Trillion AI Revolution: How the Chipmaker Overtook Apple and Microsoft

Nvidia Just Hit $5 Trillion—But Can AMD or Intel Finally Crack Its AI Chip Moat?

The state of play: Nvidia’s grip on AI compute Nvidia’s AI accelerators built on Hopper (H100/H200) and now Blackwell (GB200/B200) remain the default choice for training and serving the largest AI models because they pair raw throughput with a full‑stack

5 November 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Hardware · NASDAQ:AMD · NASDAQ:INTC · NASDAQ:NVDA · NASDAQ:SMCI · Semiconductors · Stock Market · Technology

Apple Vision Pro 2 Leak Reveals M5 Chip Upgrade and Big Changes Coming Soon

FCC Leak Confirms Apple’s Next Vision Pro Headset Apple’s next-generation Vision Pro headset has effectively been revealed through a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing. The FCC published documents in late September describing an Apple “Head Mounted Device” with model

5 October 2025

Apple · AR/VR · Gadgets · Hardware · Tech Leaks

Fastest PC Chip Ever? Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon X2 Takes Aim at Apple and Intel

Qualcomm’s 5GHz Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Obliterates Apple M4, Intel & AMD in Early Benchmarks

Sources: Coverage from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit (Sept 2025) and hands‑on tests windowscentral.com windowscentral.com. Benchmarks reported by Windows Central windowscentral.com tomshardware.com, Wired wired.com wired.com, Tom’s Hardware tomshardware.com tomshardware.com, Tom’s Guide tomsguide.com tomsguide.com, NotebookCheck notebookcheck.net notebookcheck.net, PCWorld pcworld.com pcworld.com, and expert commentary

29 September 2025

Benchmarks · Hardware · Performance · Processors · Technology

AMD’s Explosive DDR5 Patent Could Double Your RAM Speed – But Don’t Hold Your Breath

In-Depth Report: Double DDR5 Bandwidth on the Horizon? 1. The patent and how it works. Late September 2025, AMD was spotted filing a patent for what it calls a “High-Bandwidth DIMM” for DDR5 memory pcgamer.com tech4gamers.com. According to the filing,

27 September 2025

Hardware · Innovation · Memory · NASDAQ:AMD · Patents · Technology

Xbox’s New Handheld Costs $1,000 – Why the ROG Ally X Has Gamers Talking

Xbox Joins the Handheld Gaming Race For the first time, Microsoft is officially putting the “Xbox” name on a handheld gaming device. In partnership with Asus’ Republic of Gamers division, Microsoft announced the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally

26 September 2025

Consumer News · Gaming · Hardware · Technology · Xbox

Groq’s $6.9 B AI Chip Surge: Inside the Inference Revolution

Groq’s History and Mission Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, Groq was born when a team of engineers from Google’s Tensor Processing Unit project left to pursue a bold idea en.wikipedia.org. CEO Jonathan Ross, one of the TPU’s designers, believed

18 September 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Chip Design · Hardware · Innovation · Technology News

Borderlands 4 PC Performance Uproar: Gamers Fume as Gearbox Boss Insists It’s “Pretty Damn Optimal”

The PC Performance Complaints: Low FPS, Stutters, and Crashes Borderlands 4’s much-anticipated release quickly turned sour for many PC players due to technical issues. Reports poured in about frame rates tanking well below 60 FPS even on powerful setups, along

16 September 2025

Borderlands 4 · Game Reviews · Gaming · Hardware · NASDAQ:NVDA · PC Performance

Photonic AI Accelerators vs. GPUs – The Battle for AI’s Future in Efficiency, Cost, and Scale

1. Performance per Watt: Photon vs. Electron Efficiency One of the biggest promises of photonic AI accelerators is superior energy efficiency. By using light to perform computations (especially matrix multiplications at the heart of AI models), photonic chips can potentially

28 August 2025

AI Acceleration · Artificial Intelligence · Future Trends · Hardware · Technology Comparison

Hardware News 28 August 2025 - 4 December 2025