If you've been keeping up to date with news of the raging memory supply crisis, then I don't need to tell you how the AI industry's seemingly bottomless hunger for both system storage and RAM has significantly raised prices. Well, it turns out it can get worse than runaway costs, as manufacturers are even more concerned about securing supply, period.Apacer CEO C.K. Chang recently warned that memory shortages are expected...

Over on the Steam Frame subreddit, the top post at the time of writing is one declaring "this sub has lost its mind". It follows this up by acknowledging that, with Valve not releasing Steam Frame preorders on July 27th as the subreddit previously thought, "Now most of the new posts are just brainrot, and I'm here for it. "To take a step back a bit, users have suspected the...

I will be truthful: if you grabbed me by the lapels and demanded I tell you when Nioh 3 came out, I would answer something along the lines of 'the late 1980s'. The fact that the third Nioh—a rather good game, per our 90% Nioh 3 review—only released in February of this year feels like a weft in the tapestry of space-time.But so it was, and so it is that...

A Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing deep ultraviolet lithography machines, reports The Information. That's a big step towards China's semiconductor biz standing on its own two feet.It takes a complicated lithographic machine to produce a modern chip, and there are two main types: EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) and DUV (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography). It's the older of the two, DUV, that a Chinese company is said to have figured...

Can it really be well over four years since Alienware rolled out the AW3423DW, the first mainstream OLED gaming monitor? The AW3423DW wasn't perfect, but by many important gaming metrics, it absolutely monstered every LCD-based display. That model, of course, was a 34-inch ultrawide and now Alienware has released its most significant update yet for that form factor, the Alienware 34 AW3426DW.So, what does four years of OLED gaming monitor...

Jay and Silent Bob first appeared in the 1994 grunge film Clerks as eccentric weed dealers. Jay was the sweary, loquacious, long haired slacker, and Silent Bob was the silent, ruminative long haired slacker. They were cult figures in the '90s. Most of my teenage friends thought they were very funny, and Clerks is still a fun time capsule of the early '90s.But like a lot of '90s phenomena, Jay...

Do you own Ubisoft games on your Xbox console but wish you could play them on your PC—but not so much that you're willing to pay extra for it? If your answer to that oddly specific question is "yes," and the games in question are one of a list of 13 titles that we'll get to later, then this is your lucky day.Announced over on the Xbox Wire, Ubisoft is...

I've been watching Colorfire's cat-themed Meow product line with much interest over the years. While I've already got a kitty-eared headset, I'm sure a full feline-themed set-up would help me achieve my final form as a hardware writer. The Meow series' ME26A PC case may prove the perfect canvas towards realising that dream.In terms of styling, the ME26A is low-key compared to other entries in the Meow series. For starters,...

The moment you touch the new Framework 13 Pro laptop you know it's different to what's come before. Despite the bubblegum pink USB Type-C ports I've jammed in either side of the machine, this is a serious laptop for serious work. But it's also still instantly recognisable as one of the company's eminently upgradeable and repairable notebooks. This is the true beauty of Framework's new machine, a laptop that at...