With the RAMpocalypse set to rage for years, memory kit makers are responding in one of two ways: Do nothing or go hell-for-leather

Unless you’ve been living on another planet, orbiting a star light years away, you won’t have missed the fact that memory kits are painfully expensive right now. One of the world’s biggest manufacturers of PCs has warned that the RAMpocalypse will continue for years, but so far, makers of DRAM kits have taken a somewhat…

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Thermaltake Retro 360 TG case review

They say fashion has a habit of repeating itself. What was once deemed gauche and detestable by one generation becomes the next’s “big thing”. Yep, like your grandad’s long socks to Gen Z, and skinny jeans to Millennials, the big beige retro rig has landed square and center on our desks again, at the forefront…

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Baldur’s Gate 2’s co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur’s Gate 4 after Larian declined: ‘Having to compete against Baldur’s Gate 3? That would be insanity’

After the stratospheric success of Baldur’s Gate 3, Hasbro was naturally keen for a follow-up. The only problem? Larian wasn’t interested in doing Baldur’s Gate 4. And it turns out the second person Hasbro asked didn’t want the job either. Larian famously decided to move on from Baldur’s Gate and get back to working on…

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I wasn’t convinced Cyberpunk: Edgerunners could have a sadder ending until I read its writer’s other pitches—and boy did we get off easy

This article will contain spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is an excellent anime, and it’s also very sad—its ending does a great job of reaching into your chest, busting past your ribs, grabbing your heart and ripping it out. It’s a genuinely thoughtful examination of the cyberpunk genre’s dystopia, the corrupt ideas of success…

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South Korea’s president declares that it will invest over $580 billion in its AI chip industry, with Samsung and SK hynix coughing up most of the money

When it comes to making bank off the currently insatiable demand for AI hardware, the companies with the biggest, ear-to-ear grins are those that make the processors, memory, and storage chips for such systems. In the case of the latter two, it’s been so highly profitable that they have collectively agreed to substantially fund a…

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