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Thursday 8 October 2026
AI PCs face memory squeeze as server demand takes priority
Microsoft's October 7 opening of pre-orders for Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring up to 128GB of unified memory, highlights a potential new source of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Nvidia's RTX Spark gives Windows on Arm its strongest shot yet at x86's high end
Nvidia's entry into the Windows PC market with its Arm-based RTX Spark platform is giving Microsoft's Windows on Arm strategy a new test: whether Arm can move beyond being a niche...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Realtek 3Q26 revenue edges up, tracks guidance
Taiwanese IC design giant Realtek reported September 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$12.378 billion (US$388.5 million), down 0.7% month-over-month and up 23.35% year-over-year. Third-quarter...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Pricey local AI machines arrive as memory costs threaten PC shipments
As soaring memory prices are forecast to cut PC shipments, a new class of expensive machines built to run large AI models locally, from Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops to Apple's Mac Studio...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Nvidia's RTX Spark hits order books, taking on Apple's Macs
Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip for Windows PCs moved from stage demos to order books on October 7, as pre-orders opened for Windows laptops built to rival Apple's unified-memory Macs...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Microsoft prices Surface Laptop Ultra at US$2,599, pitches Windows for hybrid AI
Microsoft is betting that the next reason to buy a premium Windows PC is the ability to run AI agents and large models on the machine itself, pairing its most powerful Surface laptop...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Transcend September revenue rebounds on IPC, networking project shipments
Transcend reported a sharp recovery in September 2026 revenue as shipments for industrial PC and networking customer projects picked up. The memory module maker said monthly consolidated...
Monday 5 October 2026
Acer tops Canada's Windows PC market in August
Acer said it led Canada's Windows personal computer market in August 2026, according to the latest Circana data. The company reported a 22.9% market share in the country and said its...
Saturday 3 October 2026
Interview: AI PCs reach 65% of Europe's notebook channel, but what brings buyers to the market?
The rapid iteration of AI-capable hardware, following an industry-wide push toward integrating AI-processing capabilities into PCs, is bringing renewed attention to what AI could offer...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Charts: Micron earns its best margins from PCs, phones, not AI
Micron's best margins aren't coming from AI data centers. They come from PCs and smartphones, markets where Micron warns that unit sales could fall.
Thursday 1 October 2026
Qualcomm says PC chip shortages are manageable; price swings hit harder
Qualcomm's senior vice president and general manager of the compute and gaming business, Kedar Kondap, said the biggest challenge facing the PC industry is not component shortages,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
'I tell myself every day it'll ease': Phison CEO sees years of memory shortage
Phison Electronics CEO Pua Khein-Seng says he tells himself every day that the memory shortage will ease tomorrow. In reality, he says, AI-driven demand has opened a gap between memory...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Googlebook, QwenBook bring agentic AI to the PC system layer, opening new chip opportunities

Qualcomm unveiled no new PC chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026, but its PC strategy remained firmly in focus.

Saturday 26 September 2026
Acer, Phison split on DRAM outlook as PC memory supply eases
Acer and Phison Electronics are offering sharply different readings of the DRAM market as supply conditions improve for mainstream PC memory while AI and server demand keep the broader...
Thursday 24 September 2026
IEI sees network security, video growth through 2028

Industrial PC maker IEI Integration said on September 23 that it remains upbeat on full-year 2026 revenue, expecting double-digit growth...