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   Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU prices spike in Japan, up to 41% above US listings

   Retail prices for Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs in Japan have risen sharply, according to Tom's Hardware and cnBeta. Tom's Hardware compared Japanese retailer listings with Amazon US prices and found the Japanese figures were 5.66% to 41.1% higher pre-tax, with the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB showing the largest gap, while cnBeta said the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB went from about ¥85,000 (~$530) at launch to ¥139,800–205,000 (~$881–1,292), a rise of up to roughly 144%. Both reports cite memory supply constraints and strong AI compute demand as likely factors, and note reports that Nvidia plans to halt RTX 5090 production, while cautioning that these are retail quotes and do not necessarily reflect official MSRP changes.

   Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 3
2. 6d
   AI datacenter demand revives DDR4 and old PC platforms as memory prices climb

   Ifanr reports that as AI datacenters absorb memory capacity, consumer PCs are moving backwards: Gigabyte announced on October 9 that existing B760 and H610 motherboards can support Intel's upcoming LGA1700 processors, expected in early 2027, via BIOS updates, with DDR4 still on the compatibility list, while Intel has repeatedly said DDR4-supporting Raptor Lake remains a core strategy with stable supply for years. AMD launched a 10th-anniversary Ryzen 7 5800X3D at Computex 2026 at a $349 suggested price (2,599 yuan in China), with board makers adding new B550X series boards, and the 2021-era RTX 3060 12GB returned to retail this summer at about $339.99, rising to $460–500 at most retailers by late August. IDC data cited by the outlet put Q3 2026 global PC shipments below 63 million units, down 20.1% year over year and 9.1% quarter over quarter; Omdia says DRAM and SSDs now approach 40% of mainstream PC bill-of-materials costs, and TrendForce expects Q4 conventional DRAM contract prices up another 10%–15% and NAND Flash up 15%–20%.

   爱范儿 · 🔥 0
3. 7d
   AI memory demand squeezes PC buyers as Q3 shipments fall 20%

   AI-server demand for HBM and server DRAM is crowding out consumer memory capacity: Omdia estimates memory and SSDs have climbed from roughly 15% of PC bill-of-materials cost to nearly 40%, while IDC preliminary data put Q3 2026 global PC shipments down 20.1% year over year (78.5M to 62.7M units) and Omdia measured a 21.2% decline in desktops, notebooks and workstations, with Macs also down. TrendForce calculates CPU, DRAM and SSD now account for about 68% of the BOM in a $900 mainstream laptop; Gigabyte responded on Oct. 9 by saying all its B760 and H610 boards, DDR4 included, will support new Intel LGA1700 processors expected in early 2027 via BIOS update, after adding AM4 boards alongside the Ryzen 7 5800X3D relaunch in August. On the software side, the open-source Strata project, with about 19,500 GitHub stars, reports running the 125B-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at roughly 94 tokens/s under Q2_0 quantization on a PC with an RTX 5070 (12GB VRAM), Ryzen 5 7600 and 64GB of system RAM, or about 53 tokens/s on IQ3_S.

   虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0
4. Oct 10
   Apollo Power buys 1GWh of Tesla Megapack storage for AI data centres

   Taiwan's Apollo Power signed a contract with Tesla Energy Taiwan for roughly 1GWh of large-scale energy storage — 260 Tesla Megapack units — and launched an "AIDC and enterprise resilient grid" partnership with Phison Electronics, Gigabyte and Shihlin Electric. Apollo Power chairman Wang Hui-min said power, not compute, is often the binding constraint once firms have secured GPUs and servers, and noted that NVIDIA's DSX Ready qualification programme launched in September included battery energy storage systems, with Tesla among the first qualified BESS solutions. Tesla Energy Taiwan general manager Sun Hsiao-han said Tesla Energy has deployed more than 50GWh of storage globally, growing 2–3GWh per quarter, and that Megapack's Grid-Forming technology can supply virtual inertia and voltage support within milliseconds, cutting high-frequency grid oscillation by about 70% in a GPU-load case at Phison's plant.

   科技新报 · 🔥 0
5. Oct 9
   Intel reportedly to launch new CPUs on 5-year-old LGA1700 socket for cheaper DDR4

   Gigabyte says new Intel processors will arrive on the five-year-old LGA1700 socket in early 2027, and has updated BIOS support across its entire B760 and H610 lineups. That socket accepts DDR4 as well as DDR5, and DDR4 is far cheaper to fill a machine with — notable as AI demand pushes memory prices to records. Intel has not confirmed the chips; executive Robert Hallock has said LGA1700 is "still a good socket" and described a "sudden inrush of demand" for older parts.

   The Next Web · 🔥 0

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