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PCB manufacturing costs have risen by up to 50%, far outpacing the average 3% retail price adjustment made in August. Simultaneous shortages of copper, glass cloth, and capacitors driven by AI server demand form the structural backdrop, and pressure for further Q4 price hikes is building.
A breakdown of JPR's Q2 2026 data showing 75.5 million PC GPU shipments, based on three charts covering notebook growth, desktop decline, and vendor market share.
Steam's Linux usage share dropped to 3.90% in August 2026, but remained 1.26 points higher than the same month last year. A closer look at the breakdown beyond SteamOS Holo—and the survey's limitations—shows why a single month's figure can be misleading.
Starting in October, Microsoft will roll out Memory Integrity to eligible devices via quality updates. While it strengthens defenses against outdated drivers, the impact on Intel XTU undervolting varies by CPU generation and BIOS settings.
DLSS 5 expands to the entire RTX 50 lineup, with model processing now 5x faster than the initial version. Here's a breakdown of the 797fps configuration versus the cost of neural rendering alone.
Microsoft has shifted WinUI's mainline development to GitHub, making it possible to follow discussions and validation of changes from outside the company. The timing for accepting pull requests from external developers has not yet been announced.
A modder extracted a pre-release DLSS 5 runtime and ran it in Skyrim. Here's why the resulting image quality and frame rate changes can't be mistaken for official integration or final performance.
Comparing Steam's regional pricing across 268 publishers and 7,375 titles reveals four distinct patterns. This is an observational study—it does not demonstrate that corporate affiliation causes pricing differences, nor does it identify an optimal pricing strategy.
AMD's Technical Information Portal product categories and a Linux HSMP patch shed light on Olympic Ridge and Medusa1/2 configurations across AM5 and FP10. Here's what's confirmed and what remains unannounced.
Apple has refreshed the Mac mini and Mac Studio. Standard memory and SSD capacities carry over from the previous generation, while Japan launch prices rose 27.7% to 58.0%. Here's how connectivity changed and who should consider upgrading.
