Gigabyte smashes DDR5 records
Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE
Gigabyte has grabbed the top three spots in the global DDR5 overclocking leaderboard, thanks to its Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard and a touch of frosty engineering.
LPDDR5X price explosion as DRAM market tightens
Smartphone makers face rising costs as wafer supply shifts to AI chips
Prices for LPDDR5X, the low-power DRAM used in premium phones, are about to skyrocket.
Intel jacks up the price of Raptor Lake
Lunar Lake fails to take off
Troubled Chipzilla's next-generation Lunar Lake processors are sitting unloved on shelves while everyone scrambles to buy the older, cheaper Raptor Lake chips.
Nanya says DDR4 shortage is helping it rake it in
Memory factory finds profit in what others abandoned
The general manager of Nanya Technology, Li Peiying, reckons there’s still life in the old DDR4 market, especially now that the big players have moved on and left a gap wide enough to drive a lorry through.
ADATA and TEAMGROUP halt memory module price quotes
DRAM Shortages bite
The world’s second largest memory module maker ADATA and Taiwan’s number two TEAMGROUP have paused quotations, signalling a market hotter than punters expected and rising prices.
Intel sharpens claws for Threadripper scrap
Granite Rapids-WS brings 86 cores and 4.8GHz boost to workstation fight
Troubled Chipzilla looks set to finally give AMD’s Threadripper lineup a kicking, with a new Granite Rapids-WS workstation chip spotted with 86 cores, 172 threads and a boost clock that goes to 4.8GHz.
Origin Code coming soon to market with high-end memory kits
256GB kits, triple-fan memory cooler, and more
Origin Code could stir up things in the DDR5 memory module market as the company is already teasing some high-end memory kits with its Vortex series.
32GB of RAM about to dethrone 16GB on Steam
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.
G.SKILL hits DDR5-8400 CL38 with 256GB DDR5 R-DIMM kit on Threadripper PRO 9985WX
Korean overclocker "Phantom" to blame
G.SKILL was keen to brag about a new overclocking record of its DDR5 R-DIMM memory, where a renowned Korean overclocker has managed to hit DDR5-8400 frequency with CL38 timings on a high-capacity 256GB (8x32GB) kit. The overclocking was done on the Asus Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard and the latest AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9985WX processor.
G.Skill unveils new T5 Neo Series DDR5 R-DIMM memory kit
The 512GB (64GBx8) DDR5-6400 CL38 kit
G.Skill has announced its newest high-performance T5 Neo series DDR5-6400 CL38 512GB (64GBx8) overclocked DDR5 R-DIMM memory kit that is aimed to be used with new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO series CPUs and AMD WRX90 chipset motherboards.