There is little hope for PC builders in the coming months. In the span of a few weeks, RAM prices have tripled, quadrupled, quintupled, and shot so high they’ve become a meme. SSD storage is likely next to see obtuse price hikes, but soon enough, a CPU and GPU will cost so much more that […]
The Best Gaming CPU May Get Even Better
When gamers are surfing around for lingering deals looking for the best CPU, there’s simply no comparison. The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D still has its square butt on the throne of the fastest, most efficient gaming CPU available today. AMD seems like it’s not doing much to change that with a supposed sequel, even if […]
AMD’s New CPUs Might Just Kill Low-End GPUs Soon
AMD’s secret weapon against Nvidia’s gaming products isn’t another graphics card but a “Max” chip that has the capability to do everything, everywhere, all at once. The company’s Strix Halo lineup, headlined this year by the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, may soon find itself the big brother to a few younger siblings sporting similar graphics […]
Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?
The American economy is little more than a big bet on AI. Morgan Stanley investor Ruchir Sharma recently noted that money poured into AI investments now accounts for about 40% of the United States’ GDP growth in 2025, and AI companies are responsible for 80% of growth in American stocks. So how bad is it […]
U.S. Allegedly Super-Charged Its Efforts to Prevent China From Getting American Chips
The Trump administration has made curbing China’s access to high-powered AI chips a high priority. According to the government, China may use the chips to build up its arsenal of military technology, and it simply can’t have that. At the same time, America’s considerable and longstanding chip export controls may also be aimed at slowing […]
ARM’s New Neural Upscaler Could Finally Make Gaming on Phones Exciting Again
Today’s PCs don’t have to be so powerful to get strong performance out of games, and it’s mostly due to occasionally derided but increasingly ubiquitous AI upscaling. For those of us who dream of their smartphones as true gaming powerhouses, chip designer ARM promises that with this same tech, we may finally play big-name titles […]
Pay-to-Play? Trump Slaps 15% “Export Tax” on Big Tech’s China AI Chips
Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to pay the U.S. government a 15% cut of their revenue from their specialized chip sales in China, in a deal so unconventional the business world is still reeling. The arrangement, effectively a new kind of “export tax,” is an unprecedented move that ends a months-long blockade and reopens […]
Intel May be Prepping a Massive Apology to Gamers
If the rumors are to be believed, Intel may be gearing up for a major apology to gamers in the form of a suite of gaming-specific CPUs. Intel has suffered through multiple crises, a CEO ouster, sweeping layoffs, and a dour outlook on the future of the once-massive chipmaker. To make its case to consumers, […]
AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT Could Do Budget GPUs Better Than Nvidia
In the battle of the low-end, 60-class graphics cards, AMD wants to see if it can pull off the same sucker punch of price and performance it gave Nvidia during the launch of its mid-range GPUs. The graphics card maker offered the first, sparse details on its Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics processors late Tuesday […]
Nvidia Swears You’ll Be Able to Buy an RTX 5060 at $300, but Good Luck Finding One
Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs launch has been fraught, to say the least. Even beyond performance and drivers issues, the most enduring issue is it’s too damn hard to buy any of these GPUs for their base price. After launching all its top-end and mid-range GPUs, Nvidia pinky swears that with the $300 Nvidia GeForce RTX […]