The Hot Take: We'll see, they keep teasing it. But i feel they don't feel they have milked that Ai money cow enough to drop new hardware yet.
For almost a year, the RTX 50 Super series has been part of the rumor mill, but with the AI boom snatching production lines, causing memory prices to skyrocket, hype for the lineup had died down. Now, a potential RTX 5060 Super with 12GB of VRAM is apparently in the works, with the 50 Super series as a whole allegedly getting "back on track."
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The Hot Take: d0h!
Back in March Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52%, well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve...
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The Hot Take: WHY?!?!? We as a society getting that paranoid?
TeamGroup released a plethora of new SSDs and RAM kits at Computex 2026, offering a mixture of design, performance, and security.
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The Hot Take: Interested to see if they catch up on the new platform.
Intel and its partners have prepared for the Nova Lake launch, and even though we are months away, we might witness more leaks like these. Intel Socket LGA 1954 Spotted in Taipei, Intel's Platform for the Next-Gen Nova Lake-S Processors With Dual Retention Design The LGA 1954 socket appeared out of nowhere in Taipei, and it's probably the first time we've seen a real one. The user @laurentschoice posted a pic of an LGA 1954 socket, mentioning that it was spotted in Taipei. It might be one of the early samples, prepared by some motherboardā¦
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The Hot Take: Interesting to see more try do create pump-less All-in-One H2O setups.
ENERMAX has introduced a new lineup of cooling products designed for the increasing thermal demands of AI systems, workstation platforms, and future high-performance desktop hardware.
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The Hot Take: The more GPUs the merrier, consumers win and get options and price points.
Intel has once again signaled that graphics processors remain a strategic part of its PC business, despite lingering uncertainty surrounding the future of its Arc desktop graphics card lineup.
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The Hot Take: Following AMD with releasing DDR4 chips again? We'll have to wait and see. This RAM crunch is getting horrible for sure.
Intel sat down with Tom's Hardware at Computex 2026, and the company says it recognizes the importance of Raptor Lake and DDR4 platforms as the memory crunch continues.
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The Hot Take: Tell me something I didn't know already. Why else would the GPU market go crazy prices wise?
A business-intelligence researcher said that the Chinese military has been actively acquiring Nvidia AI chips, even after the U.S. put export controls on them. Public documents show that some institutions ask for these chips either through the specifications they demand or by directly asking for Nvidia chips by name.
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The Hot Take: Yeah looks like that CZ market is going to get a new avenue of revenue soon enough. Hoping the prices can be kept down is my only concern.
MSI has shown off new cooling and power tricks for future Nvidia RTX graphics cards.
The outfit has said that since the company is not expecting a major gamer GPU launch this year, it used the gap to show what might land on future Nvidia RTX cards and what it will have to come up with to match.
MSI said that it is working on three main areas for its next designs: cooling, power delivery and the PCB. The cooling work includes new fans, heat pipes, thermal pads and baseplates, all dressed up as an advanced thermal architecture. The fanā¦
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The Hot Take: Wondering if this will break more people off into Linux. We'll have to see how/if Microsoft boots him off the board and starts distancing themselves from their pedo founder.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken another battering after the Justice Department released files detailing his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
In a February town hall with Gates Foundation staff, Gates admitted to two affairs referenced in Epsteinās emails. Some people familiar with the matter said they heard about the admission with disbelief, although they should not have been too surprised, as during his divorce proceedings, allegations linked to more than 20 affairs had come up.
The Justice Department files show Epstein knew about someā¦
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