The old must give way to the new, but in the world of hardware, gaming legends don't fade away easily. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D, once celebrated as the gaming king and one of the best CPUs for gaming of its generation, is reportedly making a comeback.

Arm's introduction of its AGI CPU last week was an expected yet, still a milestone event that marked the transformation of Arm from a technology IP licensor into a supplier of standard CPUs competing directly with AMD, Ampere, and Intel.

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won told reporters at Nvidia's GTC conference in San Jose on Monday that the global memory chip shortage is likely to persist for another four to five years, with industry-wide wafer supply lagging demand by more than 20%

Intel has finally introduced its long-rumored Bartlett Lake CPUs, which use a P-core-only design with up to 12 cores and are compatible with the LGA 1700 socket used on 12th- to 14th-Gen Intel chips.

Intel expects its Core Ultra series 4 processors, codenamed Nova Lake, to change its fortunes on the desktop and laptop markets and finally offer performance that is higher compared to direct competitors from AMD.

Amidst the dire and ongoing RAM shortage, there's a tiny sliver of hope stemming from Germany, where DDR5 prices have "come to a complete halt," according to 3DCenter.org's recent analysis.

A few days ago, AMD added two new SKUs to its Strix Halo lineup at CES 2026. One of those was the Ryzen AI Max+ 392, serving as a cut-down version of the top-end AI Max+ 395 but with fewer CPU cores — 12 instead of 16.

After rolling out Snapdragon X2 Elite chips last year, Qualcomm is expectedly expanding its lineup of Windows offerings with the Snapdragon X2 Plus range. Although we’re likely to see more variants in the future, Qualcomm made two SKUs official at CES 2026.

The outlook for the DRAM market is looking grim, at least for PC enthusiasts; not so much for Micron, which announced record revenues in DRAM and NAND in its first earnings call since killing its Crucial consumer brand.

Intel this week reiterated that it cannot meet demand for all of its client and data center processors due to insufficient supply, and specifically mentioned that it could use more Core Ultra 200-series Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake wafers to increase shipments of appropriate processors.

AMD increased its share across all markets served by x86 processors at Intel's expense in the third quarter of 2025, according to Mercury Research. Intel is holding strong, and as its latest offerings for client and server systems got significantly more competitive

Despite the recent massive price increases for RAM that have shocked enthusiasts, manufacturers aren’t expected to meaningfully increase production of standard memory to offset the demand from the AI industry.