Paying more for a computer? Blame it on AI.

The AI boom is driving a shortage of computer memory chips, which will lead to higher prices for PCs and smartphones in 2026.

GPU prices absolutely are on their way up but I've found a bunch of decent value options, whatever your budget is

With the global memory shortage set to run throughout 2026 and probably well in 2027, prices of everything that requires DRAM are only going to rise. However, thanks to a wealth of graphics cards ...

'It is basically DLSS. That’s the way graphics ought to be': Nvidia's Jensen Huang has a clear vision for the future of its gaming GPUs and is going to be all about neural ...

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Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 Level-Up Explained: 6x More Frames, More Detailed Graphics

Nvidia's biggest gaming reveal at CES 2026 was DLSS 4.5, an update for RTX GPUs that can boost frames rendered by six times ...
PCMag

I Saw Nvidia's Motion-Smoothing Pulsar Technology Firsthand. Average Gamers Won’t Notice—But Esports Pros Will Love It

Nvidia’s long-awaited G-Sync Pulsar promises motion as smooth as what you'd get from a 1,000Hz display—if one existed! It's ...
IEEE

A Quantitative Study of Publications about Underrepresented Minority Undergraduate Students in Computer Science Majors in the United States

Abstract: This is a full research paper. Including underrepresented minority groups (URM) in the computing field has been a challenge in the United States for a long time. Specifically, African ...