#sram-build-kits

#sram-build-kits

As of 11 April 2026, Mac mini configurations with 32GB and 64GB of RAM and Mac Studio configurations with 128GB and 256GB of RAM are listed as 'currently unavailable' on Apple's US online store, with no estimated delivery date and no path to ordering.

No matter how inevitable the AI-takes-all scenario may sound, as long as there is a person in the world who still wants to own their means of computation, we will be here to build the hardware that enables it.

Motorola has enacted price increases of up to 50 percent on the rest of its 2026 Moto G lineup, indicating a shift in pricing strategy for budget smartphones.

The wandering bite point is when the lever pulls to the bar, and the brakes do nothing. It’s a common issue with SRAM Maven brakes, whether ULT or Base models.

Samsung has reportedly swapped out its homemade OLED panels in some mid-range models for the Chinese CSOT-made OLEDs, aiming to reduce overall costs and avoid raising consumer prices.

Both work with Linux's existing swapping mechanism. Swapping (called paging in Windows) is a way for the kernel to handle running low on available RAM. It chooses pages of memory that aren't in use right now and copies them to disk, then those blocks can be marked as free and reused for something else.

After Google released its TurboQuant compression algorithm, which can purportedly drastically reduce the amount of memory required for certain AI workflows, stock prices for memory manufacturers dropped significantly.

The company has developed 16 gigabit LPDDR6 chips that will be used in smartphones and tablets with on-device AI. Bandwidth-hungry AI tasks will see a 33% speed-up in data processing compared to LPDDR5X. The new RAM has a base operating speed of 10.7Gbps.

What separates this from a standard Raspberry Pi build is the pair of breadboards soldered directly to the GPIO pins, seated inside the case, and accessible through a removable back panel. Connecting a sensor no longer means hunting for a separate breadboard and a tangle of jumper wires. PickentCode plugged in a temperature and humidity sensor and had it reading live data within minutes.

On paper, Positron's next-gen Asimov accelerators, no doubt named for the beloved science fiction author, don't look like much of a match for Nvidia's Rubin GPUs. Yet, the Arm-backed AI startup boasts its inference chip will churn out five times as many tokens per dollar while using one-fifth the power of Nvidia's latest accelerators to do it. Those are certainly some bold claims, which the company contends are possible because the chip was designed to support large-scale inference workloads.

Rambus ( NASDAQ: RMBS) reports fourth-quarter 2025 results Monday after the bell with consensus expecting continued double-digit revenue growth driven by DDR5 product strength and steady licensing demand. The company is coming off a quarter marked by record product revenue and strong cash generation, reinforcing confidence in its hybrid chip-plus-IP model. The stock is already up 20% so far in 2026 as investors look to gauge how durable DDR5 momentum remains and how quickly next-generation platforms like MRDIMM begin to contribute.

Global PC shipments rose by 9.6% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, however, it is unlikely those increases will continue, due in part to a pending memory shortage that will impact both enterprise and consumer markets. IDC stated in a release that it expects that the PC market will be far different in 12 months, given how quickly the memory situation is evolving.

The Xeon 600 lineup spans the gamut between 12 and 86 performance cores (no cut-down efficiency cores here), with support for between four and eight channels of DDR5 and 80 to 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0 connectivity. Compared to its aging W-3500-series chips, Intel is claiming a 9 percent uplift in single threaded workloads and up to 61 percent higher performance in multithreaded jobs, thanks in no small part to an additional 22 processor cores this generation.

AI-driven memory and storage price hikes have been the defining feature of the PC industry in 2026, and hobbyists have been hit the hardest-companies like Apple with lots of buying power have been able to limit the price increases for their PCs, phones, and other gadgets so far, but smaller outfits like Valve and Raspberry Pi haven't been so lucky.

Modern Linux is powerful, flexible, stable, and secure. With the exception of some of the more lightweight Linux distributions, it's also far more resource-dependent (just like all modern operating systems). Also: 5 things to consider before leaping from one Linux distribution to another Consider this: The minimum system requirements for Ubuntu Desktop today include just 4GB of RAM. I've run Ubuntu on a virtual machine with only 3GB of RAM.