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NAND revenue reached a record $46 billion in the first quarter of 2026 as AI data centers continued to absorb more storage supply. The surge shows how strongly enterprise demand is now shaping the memory market, while the traditional PC industry is facing weaker shipments and higher component prices. According to Counterpoint Research, global NAND revenue increased 3.5 times year over year in Q1

ASRock is using Computex 2026 to celebrate 10 years of its Taichi brand with a broad lineup of new hardware, covering motherboards, gaming displays, liquid coolers, and graphics cards. The company is not limiting the anniversary to one product category. Instead, it is using Taichi as the center of a wider premium push across PC components and displays. The Taichi brand started in 2016

SK Hynix has previewed its upcoming HBM4E memory at Computex 2026, showing how quickly the high bandwidth memory race is moving as AI data centers demand more capacity, more bandwidth, and better efficiency. The new memory design can deliver up to 48GB in a 12 layer stack and push bandwidth as high as 4TB per second. That is a major step forward because HBM

AMD’s new Radeon RX 9070 GRE appears to have had a weak start in Germany, with early retail data suggesting that buyers are not interested in the card at its current price. The GPU launched with a $549 price tag, but listings at major German retailer Mindfactory show several models sitting in stock with little to no movement on day one. The problem is

AMD did not simply pull old Ryzen 7 5800X3D stock from a warehouse to bring the chip back for AM4’s 10th anniversary. The company says it had to re-engineer the processor because the original manufacturing method used for the first 3D V-Cache desktop CPU was no longer available. That makes the return of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D more interesting than a normal product revival.

Gigabyte has introduced new Aorus Elite liquid coolers and a very unusual PC case at Computex 2026, but the case is easily the more eye catching product. The Aorus C510 Glass Stealth Infinity looks like a compact gaming case at first, but it can swap its glass side panel for a 16 inch display that works like a real monitor. That means your PC

Samsung is working on a new thermal design for HBM5 memory, and the early concept shows how important cooling has become in the AI chip race. The company has previewed a technology called Heat Path Block, or HPB, which is designed to help future HBM stacks move heat more efficiently as memory becomes faster, denser, and more power hungry. HBM, short for high bandwidth

China’s memory industry appears to be moving faster than expected in high bandwidth memory, with a new report claiming that CXMT has reached technology parity with Korean manufacturers on HBM3. The development does not mean China has caught Samsung or SK Hynix overall, but it suggests the gap in advanced AI memory is narrowing at a time when demand for HBM is exploding. HBM,

MSI has shown a wide range of new monitors at Computex 2026, led by the MEG X, a flagship gaming display that combines a 5th generation Penta Tandem QD OLED panel with built in AI features. The company is also expanding its mainstream OLED lineup, adding new 5K dual mode monitors, and preparing a productivity focused QD OLED model for Mac users. The MEG

Intel’s next desktop CPU socket has appeared online for the first time, giving an early look at the platform expected to support the company’s upcoming Nova Lake processors. The socket is called LGA 1954, and it is designed for Intel’s next generation desktop chips that are expected to move beyond the current LGA 1851 platform. The leaked image reportedly shows a real LGA 1954

Foxconn and Intel have entered a strategic partnership to develop and deploy AI infrastructure and computing platforms, as both companies try to capture more demand from the fast growing AI hardware market. The collaboration will combine Intel’s processor, silicon, and software expertise with Foxconn’s manufacturing scale and system integration experience. The partnership is aimed at AI data centers and other computing environments that need

Sparkle has introduced a single slot version of Intel’s Arc Pro B70 graphics card, giving workstation builders a more compact way to pack large amounts of VRAM into one system. The new Arc Pro B70 32GB Blower 1S is designed for AI, content creation, professional graphics, and compute focused workloads where memory capacity and slot density matter more than gaming performance. The Arc Pro

Inno3D has shown several next generation NVIDIA RTX concept graphics card designs at Computex 2026, giving an early look at how future GPUs could handle cooling, power safety, and real time system monitoring. The company is not launching these cards as retail products yet, but the concepts show where partner designs may be heading as graphics cards become hotter, larger, and more complex. The

PNY has shown a special GeForce RTX 5080 Metal Edition at Computex 2026, but this is not a graphics card you will be able to buy. The card is a one off concept design with a fully metal body and metal fan blades, making it one of the most unusual RTX 50 series cards on display. The RTX 5080 Metal Edition is based on

Maxsun has shown the first desktop motherboard designs based on Intel’s Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake mobile chips, giving builders a new way to use laptop class processors inside standard desktop systems. The designs were shown at Computex 2026 and follow the MoDT idea, which means Mobile on Desktop. This approach takes mobile processors, which are normally used in laptops and mini PCs, and

Phison has shown its next generation PCIe 6 SSD controller at Computex 2026, giving an early look at the storage hardware that will power future AI servers, enterprise systems, and high performance data centers. The new controller, called PS5303 X3 66, is designed to double transfer rates compared with today’s PCIe 5 drives while also improving efficiency. The X3 controller supports PCIe Gen6 x4

Biwin showed a broad range of new storage and memory products at Computex 2026, covering everything from compact SSDs for gaming handhelds to PCIe 5.0 drives for high end PCs and ROG certified DDR5 memory for gaming desktops. The lineup shows the company trying to serve several fast growing parts of the PC market at once, especially handheld gaming, compact systems, and enthusiast memory

DDR4 platforms appear to be losing momentum in Germany, with new motherboard sales data showing AM4 falling below 10 percent share for the first time at a major retailer. The shift suggests that, despite recent interest in cheaper DDR4 builds, many buyers in the German DIY market are moving back toward newer DDR5 platforms. The latest May 2026 motherboard sales figures from Mindfactory show

DDR4 platforms are seeing renewed demand as DDR5 memory prices continue to climb, making new PC builds more expensive than many buyers expected. Several motherboard and memory vendors are reportedly increasing production of DDR4 compatible platforms as gamers and budget builders look for cheaper ways to build or upgrade a system. The shift is not surprising. DDR5 has become much more expensive during the

AMD has pushed back against claims that FSR 4.1 has been canceled for RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics, saying no such decision has been made. The clarification came from Frank Azor, AMD’s Client and Graphics Marketing chief, after reports suggested that the company did not plan to bring its newer upscaling technology to RDNA 3.5 based APUs for now. The rumor started after comments from