BiWin’s CL 100 Mini is a particularly puny but potent SSD for portable gaming
BiWin’s CL 100 Mini is a particularly puny but potent SSD for portable gaming

BiWin’s CL 100 Mini is a particularly puny but potent SSD for portable gaming — 15 x 17mm in size and up to 2 TB in capacity

Nvidia introduces 64GB DGX Spark to throw local AI fans a lifeline amid the RAMpocalypse

Nvidia is introducing a 64GB version of its DGX Spark local AI workstation that’s tailored for a new generation of highly intelligent yet compact local models. Starting at $4999, the more affordable configuration is otherwise identical to the original 128GB Spark and its GB10 siblings.

OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts, not Nvidia’s Vera
OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts, not Nvidia’s Vera

OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm’s AGI or Nvidia’s Vera.

Micron now has an 88% margin on consumer memory as price hikes drive profits
Micron now has an 88% margin on consumer memory as price hikes drive profits

Micron’s consumer business is its most profitable by margin according to the company’s fiscal Q4 2026 financial report, despite shipping less memory in the quarter.

Micro Center requires photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy RTX 5090 gaming GPU

The form requires RTX 5090 buyers to input their personal data before getting approved to make the purchase. However, it remains unclear how Micro Center can use this information to track illegally exported GPUs.

Get over 70% off this Cherry Xtrfy MX 3.1 wired mechanical gaming keyboard
Get over 70% off this Cherry Xtrfy MX 3.1 wired mechanical gaming keyboard

Buy the full-size Cherry Xtrfy MX 3.1 mechanical gaming keyboard for only $34 with promo code WOOTCHERRY. That’s over 70% off, an all-time low, and new Woot customers can drop it $29

Gears of War E-Day is an uncharacteristically CPU-heavy Unreal Engine 5 game
Gears of War E-Day is an uncharacteristically CPU-heavy Unreal Engine 5 game

Gears of War E-Day is a surprisingly heavy Unreal Engine 5 game on the CPU. We benchmarked the game with 25 processors, as well as investigated what the “low core mode” actually does.

Gears of War: E-Day PC graphics performance tested
Gears of War: E-Day PC graphics performance tested

Gears of War: E-Day is the first game to implement Unreal Engine’s MegaLights technology, allowing for hundreds of dynamic ray-traced light sources in a scene. We put it to the test on 43 graphics cards to see what this next-gen feature demands across three generations of GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.

Micron projects tightening RAM shortages through 2028 as it generates record profit

Micron makes big money amid the NAND and DRAM shortage. Company expects supply crunch to continue through 2028.

Micron lawsuit claims Chinese memory maker YMTC poached its engineers, then sued it using its own stolen tech

Micron files a lawsuit against Yangtze Memory, claims that some of the patents which YMTC uses against Micron in various courts were granted to former YMTC engineers who took crucial know-how from Micron and took it to YMTC.