… AI has changed the marketplace Be prepared to pay a scalper Alongside all these hardware changes, the marketplace is significantly different now than it was three years ago. AI allocation has completely destroyed the PC gaming marketplace. …
… Several other PC manufacturers, including Dell, Asus, and Acer, have already raised PC prices, so it was only a matter of time before Microsoft hiked the cost of its Surface line. …
… He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him inside a chassis somewhere. Sign in to your XDA account AMD has announced the availability of the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, powered by AI Max 300-series processors. …
… Sign in to your XDA account Nvidia and Microsoft recently unveiled the much-awaited N1X and N1 SoCs, now called RTX Spark . These Arm-based chips are meant to reinvent Windows PCs for the AI era, with Nvidia claiming that laptops powered by RTX Spark are purpose-built for agentic AI. …
… The RX 9070 GRE will be available on June 1 for the aforementioned $549. As well as this new card announcement, AMD also rolled out the new Radeon AI PRO R9000 for workstations. …
… While AMD wants to evolve the PC into an actual AI PC, Nvidia is almost rolling out a new class of PC. …
… Related Cheap mini PCs are the death knell for Raspberry Pis With x86 mini PCs becoming more budget-friendly, I find it hard to recommend Raspberry Pi SBCs Pi 5 isn’t a budget device anymore The current AI market trends have generated a huge demand for memory and storage components. …
… If a 2022-era mobile APU platform like the Steam Deck now requires a near-$1,000 price tag just to maintain structural margins, makes the future for Valve's upcoming Steam Machine — which has already been delayed — look bleak. …
Jasmine Mannan Apr 12, 2026, 2:31 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 hardware, she's covered just about everything. …
… More details will be announced at Computex. Just ahead of Computex , Intel has revealed its Intel Arc G3-Series chips, a new family of processors designed for the next generation of handheld gaming PCs. …