Way to weather the memory price hike storm

ASRock has introduced the new H610M COMBO motherboard for office and budget systems, which combines support for both DDR4 and DDR5 memory on the same board.

Lunar Lake fails to take off

Troubled Chipzilla's next-generation Lunar Lake processors are sitting unloved on shelves while everyone scrambles to buy the older, cheaper Raptor Lake chips.

Memory factory finds profit in what others abandoned

The general manager of Nanya Technology, Li Peiying, reckons there’s still life in the old DDR4 market, especially now that the big players have moved on and left a gap wide enough to drive a lorry through.

DRAM Shortages bite

The world’s second largest memory module maker ADATA and Taiwan’s number two TEAMGROUP have paused quotations, signalling a market hotter than punters expected and rising prices.

ChangXin’s AI pivot chokes supply

The price of standard DDR4 DRAM has gone through the roof, with 8-gigabit units hitting $4.12 and 4-gigabit parts climbing to $3.14, according to electronics trading firms cited by Nikkei Asia.

Old kit gets dearer as production pivots to high-end memory

DRAM prices are surging as major memory makers pull production from legacy tech to focus on high-end and AI-driven products, according to beancounters at TrendForce.

Both available now

Crucial, or to be precise Micron, has chosen Computex 2023 to officially launch its latest Crucial T700 Gen 5 SSD and the Crucial Pro series DRAM lineup.

Leaked list of Asrock Z790 and H770 motherboards reveals

It appears that Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake will continue to support DDR4.

And it is worse than integrated graphics 

Colorful has launched a GeForce GT 1010 with DDR4 memory which may perform equally or even worse than integrated graphics.

At least with its nice new 700-series chipsets

Chipzilla is asking its motherboard partners to stop using DDR4 in combination with the upcoming 700-series chipsets.