Hate waiting for games to load? Intel’s new trick for Arc GPUs will be music to your ears, especially if you have a handheld

Intel’s Precompiled Shaders feature allows for up to 3x speedier loading with Arc Battlemage GPUs and integrated graphics for Panther and Lunar Lake.

‘The current shortage could continue until 2030, so we expect more than a 20% shortage of the wafers’: SK Group chairman issues bleak warning on RAM crisis

We’ve had previous forecasts that the RAM crisis will continue through to 2028 — but 2030 is upping the ante worryingly here.

Nvidia’s CEO goes full Principal Skinner in response to DLSS 5 backlash — says it’s the gamers who are ‘completely wrong’

‘This is very different than generative AI; it’s content-control generative AI’: Nvidia’s CEO defends DLSS 5 in no uncertain terms.

Buy now or wait? SD card prices are shooting through the roof – here’s how to navigate the ‘memory crisis’

A global ‘memory crisis’ has seen the price of SD cards shoot up in 2026, typically by over 200%. Here’s my buying advice, and which genuine models I still recommend

DDR5 RAM hits painful new high in pricing — and it looks like the relentless price-hike misery will continue

If you were hoping the RAM crisis was abating, sadly that isn’t the case as DDR5 has never been more expensive.