The Global PC Market Declined By 4.9% Versus Last Year As Memory Shortages Intensify, But MacBook Neo’s Success Shows That x86 Rivals Need To Do More

The worldwide PC market declined by 4.9% in Q2 2026, showing how memory shortages have disrupted the segment.

Memory shortages and continued price hikes grip the PC segments, leading to a severe decline in consumer interest and a fall in overall shipments. As per IDC's latest stats , the PC market saw a decline of 4.9% in Q2 2026 versus the prior year. The overall shipments only reached 68.2 million units, the first decline after

A bar and line chart titled 'Worldwide PC Shipments and Growth, 2026Q2' from IDC shows units rising until 2025Q3, followed by a decline, with YoY growth peaking at 14% before dropping to -6% by 2026Q2.

Elder Scrolls Online’s Season One Is Out Now, But the Game’s Promising Future Is Now in Jeopardy Following 213 Firings

Today, ZeniMax Online Studios announced that Season One for The Elder Scrolls Online is now live on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S and X.

Earlier this year, the studio announced a move away from regular expansions ( Chapters ), with all future DLCs added for free. This allowed them to experiment a lot more with gameplay systems. Indeed, from July through October, Season One will add three new content systems , two questlines , a new Trial , a large open-world event , and a zone

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Christopher Barrett Settles $200M Lawsuit with Bungie and Sony, but the Real Payout Stays Hidden from the Public

24-year Bungie veteran Christopher Barrett revealed in a LinkedIn update that his $200 million lawsuit against Bungie and Sony has now been resolved. Barrett, who was the Art Director on Destiny , then one of the Game Directors for Destiny 2 and the original Game Director on Marathon , left in 2024 among allegations of sexual misconduct . However, he fought back in court, alleging that Bungie and Sony sought to make him a scapegoat for their business failures while also avoiding payment of the " tens

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ASUS Demos Chinese “CXMT” DDR5 Memory Clocking Up To 8400 MT/s On Its AM5 Boards, 48 GB & 32 GB Kits From Kingbank & Lexar

ASUS has now demoed its AM5 boards running Chinese DDR5 memory from CXMT, offering up to 8400 MT/s speeds across various kits.

Chinese domestic manufacturers are now heavily relying on CXMT DRAM for their latest DDR5 kits. We have seen the likes of Kingbank, Lexar, Gloway, and other brands move away from the big three (Samsung, Micron, SK Hynix) and utilize CXMT modules.

The reason behind this shift is simple: the big three are going towards long-term agreements

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Samsung Going Full Throttle With Exynos SoC Development, As Company Has Three Generations Of Releases Planned To Rid Itself Of Qualcomm

The Exynos 2600 was just a sneak preview of what’s to come from Samsung’s side as far as future smartphone chipsets are concerned. According to the latest leak, the Korean giant is adamant to reduce its dependency on Qualcomm by carving out its own path. The company is said to be planning three SoC releases, with each generation more advanced and feature-rich than the last.

The Exynos 2700 is already planned to be announced in Q4 2026 or Q

Samsung has three Exynos chipset releases planned

NVIDIA Rosa CPUs Reportedly Utilize TSMC’s 2nm or A16 With Backside Power Delivery Technologies

NVIDIA's next-gen Rosa CPUs are expected to utilize TSMC's latest process technologies, such as 2nm & A16 with Super Power Rail.

NVIDIA has reportedly tapped TSMC to make its next-gen Rosa CPUs, which arrive in 2029 . The CPU was detailed just a day ago, and now, reports are emerging as to what process technologies will be employed by the chip.

It is reported by Commercial Times that NVIDIA is considering the use of two key TSMC process technologies,

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Intel’s Nova Lake-S Xeon CPUs Spotted on New Dunlow “LGA 1954” Platform, Bringing Up To 28 Cores at 95W

Intel is preparing its next-gen mainstream Xeon lineup codenamed Dunlow, based on Nova Lake-S , which features up to 28 cores.

Intel's Mainstream Xeon CPUs Will Arrive On Dunlow Platform With Up To 28 Core Nova Lake-S Options

It's been a while since Intel released a mainstream desktop option in the Xeon lineup. The last family is still based on the Raptor Lake architecture under the Xeon E-2400 series , with up to 8 cores. The company did introduce

A list of Intel Dunlow project components, including 'MBD-X15SDCB-IN001' and 'MBD-X15SDCB-IN001-O,' both featuring Xeon E3 processors, LGA1954 sockets, and DDR5 support, with a date of 2026-07-08.

China Weighs Reversing Its Own NVIDIA Ban, May Let Alibaba, ByteDance & Others Buy 200,000 H200 Chips

After US-China geopolitical tensions led to the Chinese government banning local firms from buying NVIDIA's China-specific H200 GPUs, a report from The Information claims that the Chinese government is considering allowing local companies to buy the NVIDIA chips in restricted amounts. US chip restrictions have constrained China's ability to manufacture leading-edge chips, and additional restrictions on NVIDIA's products have sapped Beijing's ability to procure the necessary hardware to run the latest AI technologies.

Today's report follows an


An M5 Max MacBook Pro Price Observer Noticed That Apple Hiked An Additional $1,000 On The Top-End Configuration After Its Gut-Wrenching Announcement

Apple dropped a massive bomb on consumers when it was forced to raise the prices of several of its hardware, including Macs, as the company tried its level best to keep the rising RAM and storage costs at bay. Unfortunately, the inevitable has come to pass, but the worst isn’t over, because an individual closely monitoring the M5 Max MacBook Pro’s prices has noticed that, aside from the previous price hike, Apple has made the 16-inch’s maximum configuration now $1,

Price observer believes Apple introduced another $1,000 hike on the M5 Max MacBook Pro
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Obsidian Cancels Avowed 2 After Xbox Layoffs, Pivots to New Fallout Led by New Vegas Director

Obsidian Entertainment is one of the first-party Xbox studios most affected by the recent wave of layoffs. Kotaku had previously reported that the Irvine-based studio had lost around 25% of its staff , and that figure is now confirmed by two reputable sources: Bloomberg's Jason Schreier and Stephen Totilo, who wrote on Game File that 52 workers were cut from Obsidian based on a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice filed in California.

However, the studio is far from dead. According to

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