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Controllers and Gamepads Valve will open Steam Controller reservations on May 8 at 10 AM PT, with a limit of one controller per user. Controllers and Gamepads Good guy Gabe. …

May 8, 2026

Steam Controller scalpers are asking for $300+ on eBay — Valve's $99 controller demands high price as pre-orders sell out almost immediately

… Freedman writing, "The Steam Controller is a comfortable, fully-featured controller at a sensible price point between basic controllers on the market and their more customizable counterparts. …

May 4, 2026 · Jake Roach

Nvidia is finally ditching its iconic GPU Control Panel after 20 years — new driver updates only ship in the Nvidia App

… The Nvidia Control Panel will now live in a “maintenance mode” for the foreseeable future. Users who still want to use the Nvidia Control Panel won’t be forced to use outdated Nvidia drivers to keep the control panel installed. …

May 26, 2026 · Aaron Klotz

Valve opens Steam Controller reservations today at 10 AM PT after record-breaking sell-out — reservation queue puts real fans ahead of automated bots

… The Steam Controller launched for $99 on May 4. It only took 30 minutes for it to sell out. The demand was so high that Valve's payment system crashed almost immediately after the controller's launch. It didn't take long for scalpers to start flipping the controller on eBay for over $300 . …

May 8, 2026 · Zhiye Liu

Steam Controller puck charger nearly catches fire after contact with Pixel Watch 3 — sparks fly after the metal wristband magnetizes to the puck's pogo pins

… The Steam Controller is Valve's latest gaming product that takes the input controls from the Steam Deck and squeezes them down into a controller form factor. The controller is available for $99 on the Steam store and features 35+ hours of battery life. …

May 23, 2026 · Aaron Klotz

Phison shows PCIe 6.0 X3 SSD controller with 28 GB/s of bandwidth and 6.8 million IOPS, supports 2 petabytes per drive— also new power-sipping E37T SSDs for PCIe 5.0 systems consume a mere 4.5W

… Power efficiency is a focus for this controller, with Phison claiming 4 GB/s per watt, which works out to a total power draw of 7 Watts. The controller supports all the latest specs, like NVMe 2.3, OCP v2.6, and a full suite of security features. …

Jun 2, 2026 · Paul Alcorn

Steam Controller interview full transcript — Valve programmer and engineer discuss design, latency, prototyping, and the joys of not having a kernel driver

… But the the main thing to keep in mind is that to be a controller, like a PlayStation controller on PlayStation or an Xbox controller on a Windows PC, you have to go through the driver framework for those controllers, and the licensing program for those controllers. …

May 4, 2026 · Andrew E. Freedman

Silicon Motion increases sales of SSD controllers amid NAND shortage, but expects NAND shortages to get worse in 2027 — 'supply conditions will become even worse'

… But as ASP of high-end controllers is higher, it compensates dropping sales of lower-end controllers . …

Jun 4, 2026 · Anton Shilov

SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann

… The second driver was our controller business. Sales of our high-end controllers, including PCIe Gen4 and PCIe Gen5 SSD controllers as well as UFS 3.1 and UFS 4.1 controllers, were very strong and contributed significantly to revenue growth. …

Jun 16, 2026 · Anton Shilov

New Silicon Motion SM2524XT chip brings 14 GB/s to mainstream SSDs — 6nm DRAMless controller boasts heavy AI PC optimization and slashes KV cache latency

While high-end SSDs with eight-channel controllers approached peak read speeds of around 14 GB/s years ago, mainstream drives with quad-channel controllers often offer around 11 GB/s. …

May 29, 2026 · Anton Shilov

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