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SD card prices are ‘shooting through the roof’ – should you buy now or wait?
A global 'memory crisis' has seen the price of SD cards shoot up in 2026, typically by over 200%. Here's my buying advice, and which genuine models I still recommend
DDR5 RAM hits painful new high — and price-hike misery will likely continue
If you were hoping the RAM crisis was abating, sadly that isn't the case as DDR5 has never been more expensive.
Intel's new Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs promise a big boost for PC gamers
Intel's new Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs are already impressing PC gamers with some temptingly low MSRPs.
TechRadar's MWC Awards 2026 — our 12 winners from the big show
Elite products to pay attention to from the Barcelona show.
AMD's new Ryzen AI 400 CPUs prioritize AI skills over GPU power
Want a Copilot+ desktop PC? What do you mean, no? AMD just revealed Ryzen AI 400 CPUs over at MWC 2026.
There's only one way Valve can save the Steam Machine from the RAM crisis
The Steam Machine might be in big trouble launching during the RAM crisis, but one controversial measure from Valve might save it.
Redditor buys a 32GB DDR5 RAM kit for $300, somehow ends up with 10 of them
10 for the price of 1: Redditor buys 32GB DDR5 RAM kit for $300, ends up with 320GB of memory.
Micron reveals faster video RAM that we might see in Nvidia RTX 6000 GPUs
'Rising size of game assets and AI models has outpaced GPU memory capacity, until now': Micron reveals faster new video RAM.
