Hardware & Chips
RTX 5090 Prices Double to $5,000 as AI Demand Bites [2026]
Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 5090 launched at a suggested price of roughly $1,999. A year and a half later, buyers are paying north of $4,000 for the same…
DLSS 5 Leak Halves FPS: 158MB File, RTX 5070 Ti [2026]
A leaked Nvidia DLSS 5 file has spent the first days of September 2026 tearing through PC gaming forums, not because it looks good, but because of how…
Nvidia DLSS 5 Debuts Sept 3, RTX 5090 Hits 370 FPS [2026]
Nvidia is flipping the switch on DLSS 5 at 9 PM Pacific on September 3, and the company picked an unusual showcase for it: a basketball sim. NBA…
MINIX N304-AI Mini PC Ships With 24 TOPS NPU [2026]
MINIX has launched the N304-AI, a mini PC built on Intel’s newly introduced Wildcat Lake platform, positioning the compact desktop as an entry-level option for on-device AI workloads.…
Samsung Builds 8-Layer HBM4E for Nvidia at 18Gbps [2026]
Samsung Electronics is building a custom 8-layer version of its HBM4E memory specifically for Nvidia, according to a report from Seoul Economic Daily that circulated across finance and…
NVIDIA RTX Spark Hits 6 OEMs, $2,899 Price Leak [2026]
NVIDIA and MediaTek have locked in the launch plan for RTX Spark, the AI-first chip platform set to reshape the Windows laptop market this fall. Six OEMs, ASUS,…
Tim Cook’s Last Day as Apple CEO: Ternus Takes Over [2026]
Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO is today, August 31, 2026, closing out a 15-year run that took the company from a $350 billion firm still mourning…
ASUS, MSI RTX Spark Laptops Sell Out, Order 100K More [2026]
ASUS and MSI have both burned through their first production runs of NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops before a single unit reached a retail shelf. According to a report…
OpenAI Buys, Anthropic Rents: Apple’s AI Server Pivot [2026]
OpenAI has spent the past several months buying tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops, according to a report from The Information relayed by…
OpenAI Buys 10,000s of Macs as RTX Spark Sells Out [2026]
OpenAI has spent the past several months quietly buying up tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops, according to a report from The Information,…
