memory shortage

Valve engineer Yazan Aldehayyat has delivered a blunt warning for anyone waiting for gaming hardware prices to normalize: the memory supply crisis is still deteriorating, and the prices visible in stores may be months behind conditions in the wholesale market. His assessment matters far beyond...

Samsung has retaken the top spot in global smartphone shipments, displacing Apple in the second quarter of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research figures reported by Mashable and Reuters. Samsung held 24% of the market, while Apple reached a record 20% share despite slipping to second place...

Global smartphone shipments fell 11 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2026, reaching their weakest second-quarter level since 2013 as DRAM and NAND shortages pushed handset prices higher. Counterpoint Research’s preliminary figures, reported by Ars Technica and Reuters, point to AI...

Sony’s PlayStation 6, once widely anticipated for 2027, may not arrive until 2028 or even 2029 as Sony weighs a global memory shortage, rising component costs, AI-driven demand, and the risk of launching next-generation hardware at a price mainstream console buyers will reject. The delay remains...

IDC says worldwide PC shipments fell 4.9% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, the industry’s first annual decline in two years, as an enduring memory-chip shortage raised hardware costs, stopped manufacturers from stocking ahead, and pushed the expected supply recovery into early 2028...

SK hynix forecasts 2027 as the tightest memory-supply year in industry history and says customer demand could remain above its own supply capability beyond 2030, even as the company plans to double memory-wafer production over five years. For Windows and enterprise buyers, the practical response...

Microsoft Azure has validated and readied its datacenters to run NVIDIA’s new Vera Rubin NVL72 rack‑scale AI system, positioning Azure as the first public cloud to claim production validation of the GB300 “Blackwell Ultra” NVL72 platform — a move that crystallizes the shift from server‑level GPU...

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 appearing as Steam’s most popular GPU in February 2026 is a headline-grabbing result — but a close read of the numbers, Valve’s recent client patch notes, and the market context shows this “victory” is far from a straightforward product-success story. Behind the banner...

Orange Pi Neo's launch has been put "on ice" as its partners publicly cite soaring memory and SSD costs — a supply-side squeeze that has quietly reshaped the economics of handheld PC hardware and forced a small-but-ambitious entry into the market to pause before full-scale production. Background...

Valve has told customers it can no longer lock in exact launch dates or prices for the Steam Machine family because AI-driven memory and storage shortages have materially changed component availability and costs since the devices were announced, and the company will “revisit our exact shipping...

Global PC shipments closed out 2025 with an unexpectedly strong holiday push: fourth-quarter volumes rose 9.6% year‑over‑year to 76.4 million units, capping a full year of recovery that saw roughly 284.7 million PCs ship worldwide. The surge — confirmed by multiple industry trackers — was driven...

Global PC shipments closed the holiday quarter with a surprise surge, but that uptick masks a brewing supply shock that could make 2026 a far more expensive and volatile year for PC buyers and builders than most expected. Background The fourth quarter of 2025 produced an unexpected gain for the...