Black Friday is the perfect time to grab a gaming chair at a discount — both gaming companies and premium office furniture companies are having their biggest discounts of the year right now. If you're going to sift through convoluted RAM sales or stalk GPU deals , you might as well be comfortable, right?
We've rounded up the Black Friday gaming chair deals
Framework, the popular vendor of highly-customizable, user-upgradeable laptops, is the latest PC outfit to be hit by the ongoing memory shortage. Owing to its custom nature, the company sells SO-DIMM modules for its laptops that users can buy either as upgrades to their existing devices or while kitting out a DIY model. Unfortunately, things have gotten so out of hand that even Framework has now had to remove almost every single kit of RAM available for purchase separately
Meta may be on the cusp of spending billions on Google AI chips to power its future developments, as the social-media giant is reportedly in talks to both buy and rent Google compute power for its future AI endeavours, as reported by The Information, via Reuters . The ongoing negotiations reportedly involve Meta renting Google Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) in 2026, before purchasing them outright in 2027.
This news shows continuing collaboration
Rapidus, Japan’s homegrown challenger to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has announced that it will start building its next-generation 1.4-nanometer fab in fiscal year 2027, with production expected to commence in Hokkaido in 2029. According to Nikkei Asia , this move is expected to help the Japanese chipmaker close the gap with the Taiwanese chip-making giant, which has already revealed its 1.4-nm technology earlier this year
RAM pricing is quickly developing into an existential problem for high-end PC gaming new-builds and upgrades. If you didn’t already have an uneasy feeling about a 64GB RAM kit costing more than an entire PS5 , Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s sage observations might begin to stir your gizzard.
RAM price increases will be a real problem for high-end gaming for several years. Factories are diverting leading edge DRAM capacity to meet AI needs where data
If you're looking for a prebuilt gaming PC bargain during Black Friday, then take a look at the deal on this MSI Aegis ZS2 gaming desktop for $1649.99 at Best Buy . Assembling your own PC isn't for everyone, as buying a bunch of expensive parts and playing PC Lego can feel daunting to someone constructing their own rig for the first time. Still, if you want to play the latest and greatest PC games, then picking
If you’re tempted to treat yourself to a new gaming laptop for Black Friday, then you’re in luck. This Asus deal is unbeatable for the specs, fitted with one of Nvidia’s latest GPUs, along with a ten-core Intel processor, all for less than £800 and reaching a record low price on Amazon.
That’s because this 16-inch Acer V16 gaming laptop is priced
TSMC on Tuesday announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Wei-Jen Lo, the company’s former Senior Vice President, who used to be responsible for the company’s strategy from 2024 all the way to his departure from the company in July 2025.
After leaving TSMC, he joined Intel as Executive Vice President, and his former employer has reasons to believe that he illegally shares TSMC’s trade secrets with the rival
Huawei has introduced Flex:ai, an open-source orchestration tool designed to raise the utilization rate of AI chips in large-scale compute clusters. Announced on Friday, November 21, the platform builds on Kubernetes and will be released through Huawei’s ModelEngine developer community. It arrives amid continued U.S.export restrictions on high-end GPU hardware and reflects a growing shift inside China toward software-side efficiency gains as a stopgap for constrained silicon supply.
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“Not enough, not enough, still not enough.” Those were the words of TSMC Chairman and CEO C. C. Wei at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) Awards in San Jose on November 20, as he gave a rather blunt assessment of the company’s capacity situation as customer demand continues to rise. He further estimated that TSMC’s existing advanced‑node capacity is still roughly three times short of what its major customers plan to consume.
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