‘The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,’ says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up Computers & IT
Logitech’s new G305 X Superlight weighs just 59 grams and costs $79 — company also releases hot-swappable G316 X 98 keyboard with pixel display, translucent control knob Computers & IT
Build an elite AMD gaming PC around Gigabyte’s X870 motherboard for $70 off — Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 drops to $249 Computers & IT
SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 8TB SSD Review — the undisputed king of high-capacity PCIe 5.0 SSDs Computers & IT
Dell’s $699 XPS 13 laptop is now available with the MacBook Neo in its sights — entry-level XPS design comes with Wildcat Lake, 8GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD Laptops
Intel’s performance-enhanced 18A-P process enters risk production — drop-in 18A upgrade promises 9% performance improvement at iso-power, cuts thermal resistance by 40% Computers & IT
Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips Gaming
AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent Computers & IT
SMI says Nvidia is driving its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap, not AMD and Intel — RTX Spark agentic AI platform fuels a hunger for storage bandwidth Computers & IT
This $339 Corsair 32GB DDR5 RAM kit is the cheapest on sale right now, $45 less than the next-best rival — secure overclockable RGB kit with 6,000 MT/s speeds for a new gaming PC build and beat inevit Computers & IT
U.S. gov’t asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines — DOJ says Grok model running at Colossus 2 ‘supports mission-critical operations’ AI & Bots
Fight the price rises on SSDs with this 31% saving on Samsung’s brilliant 1TB 990 Pro SSD — now $219 at Amazon, lowest price since April Computers & IT
Nvidia reveals AI robots that taught themselves to install GPUs into motherboards — video shows robot ‘solve high-precision tasks like… installing GPUs all by itself’ AI & Bots
Why wait for Prime Day? The ‘fantastic’ Nothing Phone (3) has already scored a record-smashing discount at Amazon Phones
