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901.

IDC expects average PC prices to jump by up to 8% in 2026 due to crushing memory shortages — some vendors already selling pre-builts without RAM (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-21 | by Jowi Morales | get RAM → | tags: manufacturers, memory, option

902.

I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-21 | get Triton → | tags: attention, block, bullet

903.

MSI adds auto BCLK overclocking to X870 MAX motherboards — claims new 'one-click' features add up to 15% extra performance on Ryzen 7 9800X3D (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-20 | by Aaron Klotz | get Ryzen 7 9800X → | tags: bclk, features, improvement

904.

GTA: Vice City is now playable right in your browser, 2002 title that once demanded Pentium 3 now runs in Chrome — requires upload of an original game file to save progress (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-20 | by Jowi Morales | get GTA: Vice City → | tags: browser, browser based, game

905.

Samsung introduces SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory module for AI data centers — new standard set to offer reduced power consumption and double the bandwidth versus DDR5 RDIMMs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Luke James | get Memory Module → | tags: bandwidth, lower, lpddr

906.

Show HN: Linggen – A local-first memory layer for your AI (Cursor, Zed, Claude) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | get Memory Layer → | tags: code, linggen, local

907.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4 (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | by Aaron Klotz | get Ryzen 7 → | tags: chip, ebay, gaming

908.

Here's why HBM is coming for your PC's RAM — HBM consumes around three times the wafer capacity of DDR5 per gigabyte, as AI supercharges demand for chips and advanced packaging (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Luke James | get HBM → | tags: capacity, dram, memory

909.

Helping to fight the RAM-pocalypse, this $470 Newegg combo pairs an Asus RoG Strix X870E-H WiFi 7 motherboard with 32GB of G.Skill Flare X5 Series DDR5-6000 RAM (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Stewart Bendle | get RAM → | tags: best, deals, gaming

910.

Intel-certified 256 GB DDR5 stick could cut Xeon memory power by 18%, saving millions of dollars — a 32W-per-socket reduction could save millions per hyperscale data center (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-19 | by Anton Shilov | get DDR5 → | tags: capacity, hynix, memory

911.

The RAM shortage is here to stay, raising prices on PCs and phones (theverge.com)

2025-12-19 | by Emma Roth | get RAM → | tags: memory, percent, price

912.

New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-19 | get BIOS → | tags: access, firmware, games

913.

Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Jowi Morales | get BIOS → | tags: bios, boot, hardware

914.

Micron stock pops 10% as AI memory demand soars: 'We are more than sold out' (cnbc.com)

2025-12-18 | by Samantha Subin | get NAND Memory → | tags: billion, demand, fiscal

915.

Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | get Vortex → | tags: cayenne, file, memory

916.

AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Aaron Klotz | get Ryzen 7 → | tags: chip, ebay, gaming

917.

Mini-ITX motherboard launches with four full-sized RAM slots in the middle of a RAM shortage — support for up to 256GB of glorious DDR5 on a tiny PCB (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Zhiye Liu | get Micro-ATX → | tags: farm, maxsun, memory

918.

Micron Says Memory Shortage Will 'Persist' Beyond 2026 (slashdot.org)

2025-12-18 | by Posted | get Memory → | tags: billion, demand, dram

919.

Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that helps PC cheaters (theverge.com)

2025-12-18 | by Jay Peters | get Motherboard → | tags: anti, bios, cheats

920.

Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026 (theverge.com)

2025-12-18 | by Emma Roth | get Memory → | tags: demand, mehrotra, mehrotra said

921.

Evidence of Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU continues to mount, as BMG-G31 chip gets another official confirmation (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Zak Killian | get GPU → | tags: battlemage, hardware, intel

922.

Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Luke James | get DDR5 RAM → | tags: amazon, buyer, fraud

923.

Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | get VirtualBox → | tags: allocation, fail, failure

924.

Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity (feeds.nature.com)

2025-12-17 | by Keener | get Vaccines → | tags: antibodies, cells, immune

925.

Brain-Inspired Algorithms Could Dramatically Cut AI Energy Use (cnet.com)

2025-12-16 | by See Full Bio | get Neural Network → | tags: ai models, algorithms, computer

926.

Parallelizing ClickHouse aggregation merge for fixed hash map (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | get Database → | tags: aggregation, arena, basedaemon

927.

With 91% accuracy, open source Hindsight agentic memory provides 20/20 vision for AI agents stuck on failing RAG (venturebeat.com)

2025-12-16 | get Hindsight → | tags: agent, agents, hindsight

928.

Don't wait if you're planning to upgrade your RAM or SSD, Kingston rep warns — says 'prices will continue to go up,' NAND costs up 246% (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Jowi Morales | get NAND → | tags: crandall, kingston, memory

929.

The AI-fueled chip shortage could raise smartphone prices — new research spells out by how much (cnbc.com)

2025-12-16 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Smartphone → | tags: chips, counterpoint, demand

930.

The AI chip shortage could raise smartphone prices — new research spells out by how much (cnbc.com)

2025-12-16 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Artificial Intelligence Chip → | tags: chips, counterpoint, demand