PC makers spent massively to secure memory supply in Q1 2026, leading PC shipments to grow by 3.2% versus the previous year.
has published its latest report covering the Global PC shipments in Q1 2026. The main highlights are listed below:
It's disappointing to see where we are heading, but it appears that for PC hardware makers, nothing can save the current market except relaunching older hardware.
I think I got a little too excited for the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D when I heard it would relaunch soon, since I have been rocking the AM4 platform for years now. It has hardly been a year since it got discontinued, but AM4 has proved that a platform can last for nearly a decade when paired with
Valve's newest Proton update has quietly removed one of Linux gaming's biggest hassles. Through Wine 11 integration and major optimizations, Proton 11 brings Linux to Windows-level playability.
With continuous improvements, Linux has been growing steadily over the past few years, closing the gap with the Windows OS when it comes to gaming performance. Valve's latest Proton 11.0 Beta 1 has now removed all the major hassles to ensure gamers can have Windows-level playability on Linux operating systems, thanks
Intel's Foundry business will soon house some big names by the end of this year as its 14A technology gains huge momentum.
Intel's Foundry success relies a lot of it's upcoming 14A process technology . The 14A node is designed to attract external customers more so than it is designed for internal use. That's something that 18A is built for.
So far, Intel hasn't publicly named any big customers for its 14A technology, but it
A user has tested ASUS's newly released ROG Equalizer 16-pin cable on an RTX 5090, and reports cooler temps & lower voltage drops.
Over at , a user has acquired an , which was recently released. The user got the cable bundled with his ROG STRIX 1200W PSU, which is among the PSU line that will come bundled with the cable:
Insider Gaming's founder and chief leaker, Tom Henderson, briefly discussed the state of Ubisoft 's upcoming lineup during . After reiterating that the Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Resynced remake is the next big game on the release schedule, he added that the new Ghost Recon title is next.
It's been a long time since Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint , which launched in October 2019 to a mixed reception and underwhelming sales . Ubisoft tried to right the ship with the
It's just another rebranded Arrow Lake-HX CPU with "Ultra" missing in its name, but this will confuse many.
Intel just silently released another Arrow Lake SKU, but it has got one of the most confusing names in the family. Unlike how Intel usually brings SKUs under different families, this one shares its naming convention with two different families. As a part of the Arrow Lake-HX family, Intel launched the Core 7 245HX , which sounds noticeably different than usual HX SKUs.
continues to solidify its investments in AI-driven infrastructure, as demand for logic and memory chips continues to grip the industry.
During its Q1 2026 earnings call, ASML President & CEO Christophe Fouqet highlighted the company's increased investment in the necessary tools to speed up advanced logic and memory chip production in the AI ecosystem as demand rises to an exponential scale as AI factories scale up to the next level.
Customers are adding capacity aggressively, and the reason behind it is to address the constraints across end
ASUS has also demonstrated its support for upcoming HUDIMM DDR5 memory on ROG motherboards, leading to cost-effective PC builds.
Yesterday, ASRock, along with Intel & Teamgroup, announced a new cost-effective memory standard called HUDIMM . This new memory standard enables PC builders to make cost-effective PCs by using "One Sub-Channel" memory designs instead of "Two Sub-Channels". This essentially slashes the DRAM capacity in half of what the modules are actually capable of.
Elon Musk confirms that SpaceX & Tesla will always remain a major customer of TSMC, but the Taiwanese chipmaker alone couldn't fulfill its demand, which is why they started the Terafab project with Intel.
A few days ago, Lip-Bu Tan (CEO of Intel) and Elon Musk announced their partnership on the ground-breaking Terafab project , which will be responsible for