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Dell has dropped the price of its Alienware AW2726DM gaming monitor to $319.99, down $30 from its usual $349.99. The 27-inch display uses a QD-OLED panel with quantum dot technology, a 240Hz refresh rate, and AMD FreeSync Premium Plus support, marking the first discount on this particular model.
Newegg is offering a four-item PC building bundle featuring AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of Corsair DDR5-6000 memory, and a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro motherboard for $1,113.99, a $240 discount off the combined retail price. The deal also throws in a free Cooler Master Elite Liquid 240 AIO cooler worth $80 and an AMD game bundle.
TIME's newly published 2026 TIME100 AI list left out Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both companies dominating GPU supply for AI infrastructure. Instead, the list includes figures like Ben Affleck, Bernie Sanders and Paris Hilton, while Nvidia's only representative is its sustainability chief Josh Parker, featured for work on data center energy use and cooling.
After years of volatile pricing and shortages, GPU prices have largely normalized, with standouts like Intel's Arc B580 at $250, AMD's 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT at $350, and the RX 9070 XT at $600. The 9070 XT now undercuts Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti Super by a small margin despite offering similar 16GB VRAM specs, marking roughly a 25% price drop from that card's 2024 launch price.
Amazon is selling the Samsung Odyssey G55C, a 32-inch curved VA gaming monitor, for $199.99, down 39% from its $329.99 list price. The display features 1440p QHD resolution, a 165 Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, and a 1000R curve, along with AMD FreeSync and HDR10 support.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told BBC News that Project Helix, previously described as a codename for Microsoft's next console, will actually be a 'family' of devices rather than a single machine. She declined to confirm whether any of these devices would be discless, though Microsoft recently launched a program letting users digitize physical games.
Citing eight unnamed sources, POLITICO reports the Trump administration is considering a second wave of semiconductor tariffs that would hit finished products like laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers, not just chips themselves. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reportedly favors tying duty-free chip import limits to each company's committed U.S. manufacturing output, and officials have signaled that exemptions granted under January's Proclamation 11002 for data centers, startups, and consumer devices might not survive into this next phase.
Leaked AMD website documents shared by tipster InstLatX64 show upcoming Zen 6 desktop chips (Olympic Ridge) and some Medusa APUs listed under the AM5 platform, meaning current AM5 motherboard owners could upgrade without switching boards. A separate Medusa lineup will be exclusive to AMD's mobile FP10 socket.
Anthropic has agreed to a six-year, roughly $45 billion deal with British infrastructure firm Nscale to secure AI compute capacity, according to a source familiar with the matter. The capacity will run on Nvidia's new Vera Rubin chip system and come from Nscale's data center in West Virginia, with power expected online in late 2027.
Stability AI, maker of the Stable Diffusion image generator, closed a $76 million Series B round, pushing its total funding to $232 million. Backers include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures, and Pacific Alliance Ventures. CEO Prem Akkaraju said the funds will support the company's creative production tools and professional services expansion.
ASUS has refreshed its ROG Xbox Ally X handheld into the X20 edition to mark 20 years of its Republic of Gamers line. The update keeps the same internal hardware, including an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme chip, 24GB RAM, and 1TB storage, but swaps in a larger 7.4-inch OLED Nebula HDR display with higher peak brightness and a new translucent black-and-gold design.
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT share the same 16GB GDDR6 memory, 256-bit bus and 64MB Infinity Cache, but differ in core count and clock speed, with the XT offering 14% more cores and an 18% higher boost clock. Since launch, pricing between the two has fluctuated significantly, sometimes narrowing the gap enough that the cheaper non-XT model has become a more compelling buy.