Enterprise SSD prices have surged to 18.6 times the cost of hard drives per terabyte, with a 30TB TLC drive now priced at $22,600 compared to $1,216 for a nearline HDD, according to VDURA's August Fla…
Memory prices have surged up to 500% in the past year, with U.S. prices now 5 to 10 times higher than a year ago, driven by AI companies that bought nearly all available memory supply, according to re…
Silicon photonic-specific revenue will surge 23-fold between 2024 and 2030, driven by AI demand, according to a China Insights Consultancy (CIC) report commissioned for Chinese laser developer Yuanjie…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, on July 16 via API and published its weights on July 27, making it the largest open-weight model to date. On the GDPval-AA v2 …
Pine64 founder TL Lim is extending the production freeze on all Linux hardware through at least mid-2027, halting production of Arm and RISC-V single-board computers, the PinePhone family, PineTab2 ta…
Nvidia's RTX 5090 graphics card is now listed at $4,929.99 on Nvidia's own store, up from a $1,999 MSRP for the Founders Edition, after an Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF order was canceled following a $…
ByteDance and Tencent have each received roughly 10,000 Nvidia H200 AI accelerators in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the shipments cited by the Financial Times and reported by Tom's …
Memory prices have surged 500% in 12 months, with 128GB DDR5 kits now costing $3,399, ten times their lowest-ever tracked price, according to Tom's Hardware. Hyperscale buyers have reportedly locked i…
RAM prices have surged 500% in 2026, with a 128GB DDR5 kit now costing $3,399, more than 10 times the lowest price ever tracked by Tom's Hardware. The spike is driven by AI infrastructure demand: DRAM…
Retail DDR5 prices in the U.S. have surged, with a 128GB DDR5-6400 kit listed at $3,399.99 on Newegg and a 64GB DDR5-6000 Corsair kit at $849.99 at Walmart, while Tom's Hardware's PCPartPicker-based a…
AMD reported on August 18 that its rack-scale AI systems achieved a 4x energy-efficiency improvement from its 2024 baseline through mid-2026, surpassing its previously projected 3x gain. The company, …
A Japanese repair shop in Saitama Prefecture is charging 45,000 yen ($282) to upgrade an RTX 2080 Ti's VRAM from 11GB to 22GB, using 200 Samsung 2GB GDDR6 modules it received on August 15. The mod, wh…
Engineering samples of Intel's unreleased Optane Persistent Memory 300 Series 'Crow Pass' modules have surfaced on eBay, with multiple active listings for the NMC2XAD512GQS part. The modules were part…
Frore Systems claims its LiquidJet coldplate reduces Nvidia Rubin GPU junction temperatures by 6 to 12°C compared with conventional direct-to-chip cooling, yielding a 10 to 25 percent gain in tokens p…
Cargo thieves hijacked two shipments of AI data-center hardware on California roads after separate attacks disabled the private security escorts, according to industry investigators cited by WIRED and…
Elon Musk said SpaceX's xAI operation is targeting 10GW of terrestrial AI compute capacity by December 2027, up from a reported 1.4GW at its Memphis and Southaven data centers, implying roughly sevenf…
Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) reported finding an Nvidia Jetson computer module inside a recovered Russian S-71M 'Monochrome' cruise missile, with the component resembling a Jetson …
A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, Anhui province, lost nearly 25 acres of sesame seedlings after following an AI-generated pesticide plan from a chatbot, which recommended a mixture of flupyridine, flu…
Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream said suspected China-linked hackers used an open-source AI-agent system to conduct what may be the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack agai…
Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) shipped 14% of the world's NAND flash in Q2 2026, overtaking Kioxia in volume for the first time, but ranked fifth by revenue as enterprise SSDs consumed 48% of all …