The Hot Take: Did they set the goal AFTER stating 32GB ram is more than enough for windows 11? I'm sorry loving my 64GB and would double it if I didn't have to sell a kidney.
A recent X post by Mikhail Parakhin, who was the former boss of Windows and Bing, revealed that years ago, Microsoft engineers had an internal â20/20 projectâ that had a goal of reducing Windowsâs idle RAM usage and installation size.
Parakhin, who had several titles at Microsoft, was replying to a post by the present Windows President, Pavan Davuluri, about Microsoftâs commitment to Windows quality, which, if you havenât heard already, is the companyâs attempt at fixing Windows 11 from the ground up.
Mikhail Parakhin talking about 20/20âŚ
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | March 23, 2026 |
Hardware
The Hot Take: This "Ai shortage" is getting nuts.
The PC hardware market is facing increasing pressure in 2026, and new data from Amazon US highlights the impact on processor sales. During the first quarter of the year, CPU sales on the platform declined by 47% compared to the same period in 2025.
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The Hot Take: I was just starting to look at them again. :(
Is OnePlus going to SETTLE in select countries?
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The Hot Take: Is this why they left the consumer market? Going to a different market other than Ai to make more money with?
Micron has outlined a significant increase in memory requirements for future autonomous vehicles, with the company stating that Level 4 (L4) self-driving systems could demand more than 300GB of RAM per vehicle.
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The Hot Take: Seems like ASRock keeps leaking everyones up and coming products. But this wasn't a surprise with Intel hitting back with their own on chip memory stack.
ASRock has inadvertently confirmed the existence of AMDâs upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor, following the premature publication of a press release on its official website.
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | March 23, 2026 |
Hardware
The Hot Take: Interesting new physics? He re-writing the laws of physics?
Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add up Elon Musk has put Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI in harness to build a chip fabrication outfit called "Terafab" capable of producing a terawatt's worth of computing power each year, then send most of it into space.âŚ
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The Hot Take: Only going to shoot costs up on Ai accelerators and RAM or Samsung Chips.
Samsung Electronics' labor union has voted overwhelmingly to initiate dispute proceedings following a breakdown in wage negotiations, raising concerns over potential disruptions to the supply of HBM4 memory for Nvidia's next-generation AI accelerators.
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The Hot Take: What happens when you have a dual-opoly between 3 major chip makers.
It doesnât sound like Crimson Desert, the recently released prequel to Black Desert Online, will support Intel Arc GPUs anytime soon, if at all. On the gameâs FAQ page, its developer Pearl Abyss advised players expecting Arc support to apply for a refund. âIf you purchased the game expecting Intel Arc support, please refer to the refund policy of the platform where the game was purchased for available options,â the company wrote. Apparently, though, itâs not from lack of guidance from Intel. The chipmaker told Wccftech that it reached out toâŚ
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | March 21, 2026 |
Hardware
The Hot Take: We'll own nothing and be happy folks.
Japanese PC peripherals and accessories stalwart Elecom has announced that it is pulling out of the Blu-ray drive market.
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The Hot Take: Intel hopefully catches up. We'll have to see what the real word benches say.
When an apparent Medusa Point APU based on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture found its way to Geekbench earlier this week, the big news was the amount of reported L3 cache. Well, whoever is uploading benchmark runs of the mystery chip to Geekbench has done so again, and this time the highlight is on the performance and what looks like
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