Tariff panic sends buyers scrambling for cards

Nvidia has gobbled up 94 per cent of the GPU market as shipments jumped 27 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, a spike analysts reckon was fuelled by punters panic-buying ahead of looming tariffs.

MI308 stays on ice 

AMD, chief financial officer, Jean Hu, slammed the breaks on China GPU production on 3 September 2025, even after getting licences from the Trump administration.

Falling DDR5 prices and bloated AAA titles drive the move

Valve’s monthly Steam hardware survey shows that 32GB of RAM is about to shove 16GB off its throne as the default spec for PC gamers.

AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme, 32GB LPDDR5X, 1TB SSD, and hefty battery

Lenovo's upcoming Legion Go 2 handheld has been confirmed and it packs quite a punch with 1200p 144Hz OLED screen, AMD's Ryzen Z2 and Z2 Extreme SoCs, up to 32GB of memory, 1TB of SSD storage, and a hefty 74Whr battery.

Zen 6 monsters spark race for kilowatt-class cooling

AMD’s upcoming EPYC Venice chips, powered by the Zen 6 architecture and running on the new SP7 socket, look set to redefine power-hungry silicon by drawing as much as 1400W.

Two potentially dead and alive cats

IBM and AMD say they’re going to “build the future of computing” by welding quantum hardware to high-performance silicon, creating hybrid systems to crack problems too gnarly for either approach.

Rivals left bleeding red ink in AI factory economics

Number crunchers at Morgan Stanley have been adding up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reached the conclusion that Nvidia’s monster GB200 NVL72 racks are the only kit worth buying if you want to turn an AI factory into a cash cow.

Chipmaker wants fatter memory bus

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that AMD is planning to beef up its Radeon RX 9070 GRE with more memory after punters grumbled about the 12GB launch earlier this year.

Socket sizzle saga hits ASRock hardest

AMD has finally broken its silence over the smoking AM5 socket scandal, and it's pointing the finger at third-party motherboard vendors for pushing the limits.

16-pin connectors proving they’re a fire hazard

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT has entered the melting connector hall of shame after a user on Reddit managed to cook their 16-pin power cable trying to run an ASRock Taichi OC model on a questionable PSU setup.