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Steam Frame may support hot-swappable batteries, but with a catch

Leaks suggest Valve will offer a 'Frame Enthusiast Pack' alongside the VR headset, including a hot-swappable battery pack.

MSI hopes to make DDR5 RAM more affordable, thanks to HUDIMM memory support

MSI adds support for HUDIMM memory, which uses a single 32-bit channel to its Intel motherboards, but there will be a cost to performance.

Apple AirPods 4 tumble to lowest ever price in this early Prime Day deal, saving you 33%

Pick up a set of Apple AirPods 4 for just £79.80 while promotional stock lasts, with the ANC version now costing only £125.40.

Next-gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs appear in official documentation, powered by Zen 6

AMD confirms its next-gen Threadripper lineup, codenamed Mustang Peak, featuring 2nm Zen 6 cores, a new TR6 socket, and PCIe 6.0 lanes.

Dell’s MacBook Neo competitor ends up costing £899 in UK and €1,149 in Europe

Dell’s XPS 13 Wildcat Lake laptop hits Europe and the UK at a much higher price than in the US, making it a hard sell compared to Apple's MacBook Neo.

Consumer SSD market has “almost disappeared,” claims Silicon Motion, with NAND supply likely to worsen in 2027

As AI data centres eat up NAND supply, OEMs are now having to source SSDs from manufacturing channels that typically served consumers.

Intel shows off 18A-P, promising a 9% clock speed boost for the same power as 18A

Intel Foundry reveals the details of its latest refinements to the 18A manufacturing process, including improved thermals and power management.

Valve Steam Machine CPU appears in Geekbench, with six cores at 4.86GHz

A SteamOS-powered rig appears on Geekbench, revealing the CPU clock speeds and giving us an indication of performance.

AMD says Radeon 7000 GPUs will get the same FSR 4.1 upscaling quality as Radeon 9000 cards

AMD explains why it’s taking so long to bring FSR 4.1 to older GPU generations, while promising quality parity on RDNA 3 GPUs.