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Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus ship with additional efficiency cores, native DDR5-7200 support, and aggressive pricing that undercuts their predecessors by up to $100, though AMD's X3D chips retain the gaming crown.

Both x86 chipmakers have notified OEMs of 10-15% price increases effective March-April, as AI data center demand consumes manufacturing capacity and pushes delivery times from weeks to months.

AMD's Instinct MI400 family debuts three CDNA 5 accelerators on TSMC 2nm alongside the 72-GPU Helios rack, but a production timeline dispute clouds the second-half 2026 launch.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS enters beta on March 26, shipping Rust-based coreutils and sudo, GNOME 50 without X11, post-quantum SSH, and AMD ROCm in official repositories.

Both GPU makers are shifting mainstream production to 8 GB models as DRAM prices surge 180 percent, MSI calls 2026 its hardest year since founding, and IDC warns the sub-$500 PC market may vanish by 2028.

TSMC and Intel have entered preliminary discussions to form a joint venture that would see TSMC operate Intel's U.S. manufacturing facilities, with the Taiwanese chipmaker holding up to 20 percent and pitching Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom as co-investors.

Microsoft announced Project Helix at GDC 2026, a next-gen Xbox on a custom AMD SoC that plays both console and PC games natively, with developer kits shipping in 2027.

Valve's cube-shaped SteamOS console faces component shortages that have already shifted the release window twice, but the company insists all three new hardware products will ship this year.

AMD's first RDNA 4 graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, launched on March 6 at $549 and $599 with competitive rasterization performance, a machine-learning-powered FSR 4 upscaler, and 16 GB of VRAM — but sold out within hours as AMD described demand as 'unprecedented'.

Linus Torvalds confirms the next kernel will be 7.0, citing confusion over large numbers, as the first RC ships with one of the largest merge windows on record.