…By the time the year was done, we saw GPU price hikes, too, as VRAM got more expensive and manufacturers stopped caring about consumer hardware . Unlike previous hardware shortages, this AI-induced…
…hardware, clear settings, and room to grow than another polished gadget that turns basic troubleshooting into guesswork. Most of my worst purchases shared the same flaw: they were built to sell peace…
…manufacturer would sell you at the price. The ongoing DRAM crisis , however, seems to have changed all of that. By now, if you've been following the PC hardware market, you could…
…Sign in to your XDA account It’s not a clone or a bootleg, but it’s also not the original hardware either. In Brazil, the Sega Master System lives on as…
…You can also save money on buying new devices for self-hosting because your old laptops can fulfill the role. Rather than buying new hardware, which has become exceptionally expensive in the…
…a product alive The economics behind the cloud kill switch are fundamentally flawed for IoT hardware. Selling a $25 smart plug or a $150 camera once, while paying AWS or Google Cloud…
…Unlike Sony or Microsoft, who generally take losses on hardware and claw it back via $80-a-year online multiplayer paywalls and percentage gains on their digital storefront, Valve is essentially selling…
Jasmine Mannan Jun 22, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…Big retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart don't make enough of a profit from selling Blu-ray or other physical media. So, if you don't buy a title immediately…
…how distorted the PC hardware market has become. AM4 is being held up despite its age simply because RAM makers are diverting their silicon towards creating and selling all their high-bandwidth…