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TrendForce reported on December 1 that NAND Flash wafer supply tightened sharply in November as AI workloads and enterprise SSD orders continued to drive sustained demand. The firm said suppliers have prioritized capacity for higher-margin enterprise and premium products while stepping back from older manufacturing nodes. That shift has reduced the available pool of mainstream wafers and pushed monthly contract prices up by 20% and more than 60% across all major product categories.
The steepest increases landed with TLC. TrendForce noted that 1
Scientists reckon that the McDermitt Caldera might hold the largest deposit of lithium ever found. Situated on the Nevada – Oregon border, this huge crater was formed when a magma chamber collapsed around 16 million years ago. Estimates point to there being between 20 and 40 million metric tons of lithium-rich clay at this site. The deposit could be worth $1.5 trillion at current prices, says Earth.com , and be ample to supply the lithium battery industry
The AI data center hardware crunch has already come for your RAM, and it's coming for your flash storage soon . So if you've been searching for a storage deal, this Cyber Monday might be the best time to strike for months or years.
At B&H, you can pick up the roomy and speedy 20Gbps X10 Pro 4TB Portable SSD for just $209.99 with a $60 coupon. That brings this
The Cyber Monday sales are officially here, but if you’ve already filled your boots up with the big stuff like a new PC or a keyboard, what else is there to buy? This 3.5-inch Hagibis mini screen is what you need. This is both a retro desk ornament and a fully-functional LCD display with a built-in SD card reader and USB hub, and it’s plummeted in price to a new record low.
With DDR5 prices on a historic rise due to massive AI demand , the last thing I expected to wake up to on Cyber Monday morning was a sweet deal on a 32GB kit of DDR5-6000. And yet, here we are, as Newegg is selling the Patriot Viper Venom 32
Everyone's been trying to get around the fallout on DDR5 prices, but you can score a 32GB kit for less by going with a prebuilt desktop. There's no better evidence of that than the MSI Codex R2 with an RTX 5060, Core i5-14400F, 2TB of storage, and 32GB of DDR5, which is on sale for just $899.
The maelstrom that is Cyber Monday is upon us. The biggest sales event of the year lasts almost a whole month these days, and is one of the best times to snag a deal or five. One of the most popular items on shoppers' lists if you're a Nintendo Switch 2 owner is a new microSD Express card.
This 512GB SanDisk microSD Express card is only $89.24 at Amazon, a 15% price cut
Watching RAM prices skyrocket in recent weeks has been painful for my PC-building soul. 64GB of DDR5 has gone from around $500 to over $900 in just days, eclipsing the cost of entire builds. So Newegg's B650 motherboard and 16GB DDR5-6000 combo got me thinking: How cheap can you go on a build this deals season without sacrificing single-threaded CPU performance or gaming prowess
AMD has quietly listed the Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor in its 'Drivers and Downloads' section ( via Gray ). With this official mention, the existence of the product is all but confirmed, and if the new CPU does exist, it could be the next best processor for gamers in this generation of CPUs.
AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor with eight cores running at up to 5.20 GHz with a 9