SK hynix expands U.S. presence with new Bellevue, Seattle office in efforts to get closer to its largest customers — offices near Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft highlight co-designed HBM efforts

SK hynix is expanding its U.S. presence with a new office in the Seattle metropolitan area, placing the world’s leading HBM supplier within minutes of Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Samsung to delay its planned DDR4 end-of-life due to signing a long-term ‘non-cancellable, non-returnable’ contract with key customer — agreement will not alleviate consumer shortage, supply earmarked for server clients

Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company.

Save $650 on this powerful RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC with 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD — now just $1649, this formidable MSI Aegis Z2 machine is perfect for a 1440p setup

A huge $650 saving means this MSI Aegis Z2 gaming PC, with an eight-core AMD Ryzen CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 2TB SSD, could be yours for just $1,649 right now.

Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls (Updated)

U.S. export policy is colliding with the realities of globalized supply chains, reseller-driven distribution models, and explosive demand for AI accelerators in China.

Legacy AMD GPUs receive 30% performance boost in Linux with new drivers — latest kernel update finally drops obsolete Radeon graphics driver after more than two decades

Linux 6.19 drops legacy Radeon DRM driver for the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, ushering performance uplifts up to 30% for AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 graphics cards.

Intel’s upcoming Xeon Granite Rapids workstation lineup leaks, poised to challenge AMD Threadripper with $8,300 86-core flagship — retailer lists prices ahead of CES launch, starts at $540

AMD’s dominance in the workstation segment is about to challenged once again with the Granite Rapids-WS lineup, which has now appeared on American retailer SHI. These early prices paint a competitive picture for Intel’s fo…

ASRock X870 Taichi Creator Review: A Taichi for Creatives

ASRock’s X870 Taichi Creator is a good, sub-$320 AM5 motherboard. Its strong all-around performance and creator-focused features – like 10 GbE, ample slot spacing/dual PCIe 5.0 slots, and numerous USB ports- make it a top …

TP-Link’s five-port Ethernet switch is only $8.99 — Litewave 5-port is 50% off, lets you connect up to four devices to the internet

TP-Link is offering a nearly 50% discount for its 5-port gigabit ethernet switch, allowing you to physically connect up to four devices to your home network for under $10.

Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair’s Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer’s real memor…

Gigabyte removes controversial leaking thermal gel from RTX 5070 Ti Windforce V2 — company opts for traditional thermal pads with updated graphics card

The second iteration of Gigabyte’s RTX 5070 Ti triple-fan Windforce graphics card comes with traditional thermal pads.