Category Hardware

OpenAI spent a decade renting its compute from Nvidia and Microsoft. On June 24, 2026, it started building some of its own. OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom-designed chip, in a joint announcement that put a name and…

AMD’s newest handheld chip just shipped inside a $999.99 device, and it is only 12% faster in real gaming benchmarks than the chip it replaces. That is the uncomfortable headline buried inside the launch of the ROG Xbox Ally X,…

Intel spent the first half of 2026 building toward an answer to the question every handheld gaming PC maker keeps asking: what does Intel actually have to compete with AMD’s Ryzen Z-series chips? That answer is Core Ultra G3 and…

Streamers and YouTubers who want clean console footage without dragging a laptop into the living room still reach for the same piece of gear: a capture card. It sits between your PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, or a second…

Valve shipped a piece of hardware nobody expected to actually reach buyers on schedule, and left the one everybody actually wants sitting in limbo. The Steam Machine, Valve’s console-shaped PC, began reaching a limited batch of buyers on June 30,…

Most gaming monitors ship with more refresh rate hiding inside the panel than the box admits. A 144Hz screen will often run cleanly at 165Hz or higher once you stop letting the factory spec sheet cap it. That process is…

DDR5 kits got a lot more expensive in 2026, and that changes the math on manual memory tuning. When a 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 kit costs $400 instead of the $80 some builders paid in mid-2025, squeezing the last 5-10% of…

AMD used its Advancing AI 2026 conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center to move from roadmap slides to shipping silicon. On July 23, CEO Lisa Su walked a packed keynote hall through the first volume-production details of the MI400 accelerator…

Nvidia is not launching a new gaming GPU architecture in 2026, which means the upgrade path PC builders leaned on for the past decade is effectively on pause (see our coverage of Nvidia skipping new gaming GPUs this year). That…

AMD used its Computex 2026 keynote to fill a gap in its own lineup rather than chase a new record. On July 16, 2026, the company launched the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, an eight-core AM5 gaming chip priced at $329 that…

Nintendo has never sold three official controllers for the same console at once before. With the Switch 2, it does. The Switch 2 Pro Controller, the Nintendo GameCube Controller for Switch 2, and the redesigned Joy-Con 2 all ship or…

Xbox hardware is running out of road. A new forecast from S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Kagan research group projects that Microsoft’s console will ship just 2.5 million units in 2026, then slide toward what the firm calls a “rapid wind-down…

Nvidia sells the RTX 5060 Ti in two versions that share the exact same GPU die, the same CUDA core count, and the same clock speeds. The only difference on the spec sheet is memory: 8GB of GDDR7 on the…

Stick drift ruins more controllers than drops, spills, and dead batteries combined. It creeps in after a few hundred hours of play, first as a twitch in menus, then as a character that won’t stop walking left on its own.…

Valve’s Steam Machine went on sale June 29 at $1,049, roughly $300 to $350 more than the company had reportedly targeted before a global memory shortage forced its hand. That price tag was not an isolated event. Since the start…