NVIDIA may be slowing down its chip orders at TSMC, according to a new report from Taiwan's Commercial Times. The outlet cites unnamed supply chain sources but doesn't name a product, node, size, or timeline. Neither NVIDIA nor TSMC have commented so far, and the claims are single-sourced for now. The report frames this as NVIDIA being squeezed from inside and out. On the inside, there's Jensen Huang's November 8 email to staff, in which he apologized for an extramarital affair, and the board's independent investigation into reports that he was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort. The board has said it has no reason to believe national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised.

The outside pressure mostly comes down to export controls. The report points to tighter export reviews and H200 chips reportedly stockpiled in Hong Kong, both of which it says raise the risk of NVIDIA scaling back orders. It also cites foreign media reports suggesting that some firms approved to handle H200 could be shell companies, which feeds concerns that chips might reach China through fronts like these or middlemen in other countries. The report presents that as a suspicion rather than a finding, and if cuts do happen, upstream suppliers such as TSMC and ASE are the most exposed.

NVIDIA is giving away a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition with a custom Hogwarts Legacy wrap to celebrate DLSS 5 arriving in the game on November 5. To enter, users need to find the official giveaway post on one of NVIDIA GeForce's accounts on X, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok and comment with #RTXON. Only one entry per person is allowed across all four platforms. The giveaway runs until November 12 at 11:59 PM PT, with a single winner drawn at random on or around November 13. NVIDIA values the prize at $2,599, which covers $1,999 for the card and $600 for the wrap. Entrants must be 18 or older and live in an eligible country, a list that includes the US, UK, Canada (excluding Quebec), Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, among others. No purchase is necessary.

The $1,999 figure is NVIDIA's MSRP, though actual retail prices are much higher. TechSpot's October survey put the RTX 5090's normalized global price at $7,240, with the cheapest in-stock US model at $9,400. Supply has also been extremely tight. Reports last month claimed NVIDIA had stopped allocating GB202 GPUs to the RTX 5090, and Jeff Fisher, NVIDIA's senior vice president of personal computing, responded that the card has not been discontinued, while acknowledging constrained supply. NVIDIA has run similar wrapped RTX 5090 giveaways for games like Battlefield 6 and 007 First Light. With prices several times above MSRP and supply this constrained, giveaways like this one seem like the only realistic way for many gamers to have a chance at obtaining an RTX 5090 at the moment.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is now close to double its $749 MSRP in the US. According to price tracking by VideoCardz, the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti at major US retailers was $1,339.99 on November 6, about 79% above MSRP, up from $1,179.99 on October 29. That's a $160 jump in just eight days. Some models have already crossed the 2x mark, like the ASUS TUF Gaming OC at $1,499.99 on B&H. Prices are also moving fast. At the time of writing, the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti sold by Newegg itself is an MSI SHADOW RTX 5070 Ti at $1,409.99. Things aren't much better in Germany, where the cheapest listing on Geizhals sits at €1,300 for a PNY model, roughly 48% above the €879 MSRP.

Things are probably going to get worse, too. NVIDIA's board partners in China are reportedly raising RTX 5070 Ti prices by around 1,000 RMB (about $150) this week, with retail prices expected to follow within a week or two. Unlike the RTX 5090 and 5080 16 GB, which have reportedly been discontinued, the RTX 5070 Ti is still officially in production. After reports of an end of production in January early this year, NVIDIA said it was still shipping all GeForce SKUs, and ASUS denied the card was end-of-life, while admitting that memory supply was hurting production and restocking. The card is still listed at major retailers, unlike the RTX 5080, which vanished from NVIDIA's US Marketplace two weeks after the RTX 5090 did the same. Anyone shopping for an RTX 5070 Ti should probably expect these prices to keep rising for a while.

AMD looks set to bring in more quarterly revenue than Intel for what appears to be the first time ever. Alongside its record Q3 2026 results, AMD guided Q4 revenue to approximately $17 billion, plus or minus 3%, or roughly $16.5 billion to $17.5 billion. Intel, on the other hand, expects Q4 revenue between $15 billion and $16 billion. Even the bottom of AMD's range sits above the top of Intel's, so unless either company misses its guidance badly, the flip is pretty much locked in.

Most of AMD's growth comes from the data center. AMD's Data Center segment hit a record $8.5 billion in Q3, up 97% year over year, on strong EPYC demand and the launch of the Instinct MI450 Series GPUs inside its Helios racks. AMD expects the segment to grow about 50% sequentially in Q4, while Client and Gaming is expected to drop by more than 20%. Intel's Q4 outlook, meanwhile, came in well below expectations, partly due to a two-week shutdown at Fab 28 in Israel that Intel says will cost about $300 million in Q4 revenue.

Sony has started nudging some PlayStation owners in the US to sell their PS5, with a PlayStation app notification shared on ResetEra offering "up to $400" for a standard console. The trade-in itself runs through Back Market, which inspects the hardware and then sends cash straight to the owner's bank account instead of offering store credit. That $400 figure comes with some fine print, though. It is based on quotes for a standard PS5 in Grade 0 condition, which is basically flawless, with two or more controllers included, collected between August 23 and September 22. PS5 Pro owners aren't part of this one. The timing certainly looks pretty convenient, with GTA 6 launching on November 19 and pre-load starting on November 10.

Coincidentally, Microsoft also started emailing inactive Xbox owners last month, offering up to $375 for a Series X traded in at Best Buy. Sony's offer looks a little better on paper, since Microsoft pays out in Best Buy eGift Cards rather than cash. A couple of users who ran the online trade-in estimate got a little over $400 for a base PS5, so the headline number seems realistic for consoles in good shape. A new PS5 now costs $649.99 after Sony's April price hike, while the $899.99 PS5 Pro is hard to find at list price, and GameStop is reportedly asking $1,399.99 for used units. With retailers already expecting console shortages around the GTA 6 launch, used PS5s will probably sell fast. Owners with an idle console are advised to compare Back Market's quote with local resale prices before shipping it off.

In a big surprise to no one, graphics card prices went up again in October. TechSpot's latest survey across 10 countries shows GPU prices rising 11% month over month, following a 15% jump in August and 7% in September, or roughly 35% over three months. On average, cards now sell for 44% above MSRP, climbing to 58% in the US and Canada. Keep in mind these numbers track the lowest in-stock price in each region, so most models cost even more. Moreover, there is another GeForce RTX 50-series price hike on the horizon, so these numbers will rise again pretty soon.

The GeForce RTX 5090 is in a league of its own. It got 32% pricier in a month, and its normalized global price of $7,240 sits a staggering 262% above its $1,999 MSRP, almost double the 136% figure from early September. In the US, the cheapest in-stock model now costs $9,400, or 370% over MSRP, and most models now sit above $11,000 comfortably. The RTX 5080 is following a similar path, up 22% in a month to $2,200 in the US, while Newegg had none of its own in stock when the data was collected. TechSpot argues the GDDR7 memory crisis can't explain a jump that big, and some retail sources apparently told them wholesale RTX 5080 costs have gone up recently too.

Leaker Haze2K1 says on X that Intel might put the Arc B580 on the end-of-life (EOL) list. Apparently, Intel wants to prioritize workstation and AI inference cards like the Arc Pro B50, which are reportedly selling really well and carry higher margins. Intel hasn't confirmed anything, and Haze2K1 only says the card "might" go EOL, so this is only a rumor for now. However, the logic checks out. The Arc B580 launched in December 2024 at $249 and beat the RTX 4060 in TechPowerUp's review. The Arc Pro B50 and B60 use the same BMG-G21 silicon, and the B60 pairs the same 20 Xe cores with 24 GB of memory instead of 12 GB. Intel estimated the B60 at around $500 at launch, roughly double the B580's price. Clearly, Intel stands to gain more monetary benefit from the workstation cards.

As for the consumer GPUs, their supply already looks quite thin. The B580 is reportedly out of stock at most retailers, and prices have also climbed well above MSRP. The leaker doesn't mention the Arc B570, so we don't know if Intel has similar plans for that card as well. Intel's larger BMG-G31 chip also showed up in March in the workstation-only Arc Pro B70 and B65, so the shift toward pro cards seems to be underway already. If the B580 does go away, gamers will lose one of the more affordable 12 GB cards, even though the Arc B580 was selling above its MSRP. That said, I wouldn't expect cheaper Arc cards anytime soon

Intel is moving some manufacturing capacity away from consumer chips to keep up with demand for its Xeon server processors. During its Q3 2026 earnings call, the company said it will convert some Intel 18A resources at its Oregon facilities to Intel 3, the node behind Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids." According to CFO Dave Zinsner, those 18A wafers "are generally going to build Panther Lake products." Zinsner also indicated that weaker PC demand gives Intel room to make the switch, as the company expects the PC slowdown to last at least through the first half of next year. CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the added Intel 3 capacity should be in production in the second half of 2027.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu TanThe industry continues to navigate one of the most significant supply shortages in the history, driven by the unprecedented demand for Super Intelligence. Against this backdrop, I am pleased by the progress we made growing our server supply in Q3. I'm mindful about the ongoing challenges we face in the future quarters to keep pace with the server demand.

Apple is once again the world's most valuable company, taking the top spot back from NVIDIA after Friday's trading session. Apple shares slipped 1.2% on October 30, leaving it with a market cap of $5.03 trillion, while NVIDIA dropped 4.2% to close at $4.93 trillion. This is the first time Apple has been ahead since it briefly overtook NVIDIA in late July. For context, NVIDIA became the first company to cross $5 trillion almost exactly a year ago, in October 2025. Friday's sell-off came after a run of tech earnings that disappointed investors, with Intel and Amazon following earlier reports from Alphabet and Meta. Intel's stock fell roughly 29% on Friday after a weak Q4 outlook, which CNBC called its worst day since the 1970s.

It looks like the bigger concern is whether the huge spending on AI data centers will pay off, and NVIDIA, as the main supplier of AI GPUs, is directly tied to those budgets. The outlays have grown large enough that Alphabet and Amazon have seen their free cash flow turn negative, pushing them toward debt markets for funding. Apple, meanwhile, has largely stayed out of the AI infrastructure race and kept its capital spending in check. Its shares are up 27% this year, more than twice NVIDIA's gain, and its free cash flow for fiscal 2026 (ended September 30) is projected to climb 38% to $142 billion. The gap between the two is only about $100 billion, though, so the ranking could easily flip back with one good day for NVIDIA.

Intel shares fell roughly 29% on Friday to $65.76 after the company's fourth-quarter outlook came in well below Wall Street expectations. According to CNBC, it was the stock's worst day since the 1970s. Intel had closed at $92.07 on Thursday, right before it posted its third-quarter 2026 results. Oddly enough, the quarter itself was a good one. Revenue came in at $16.5 billion, up 21% year over year, and adjusted EPS of $0.52 easily beat the roughly $0.40 analysts were expecting. Data Center and AI revenue jumped 78% to $7.3 billion, while the Client Computing Group slipped 5% to $8.1 billion.

Investors, however, were looking at Q4. Intel expects revenue between $15 billion and $16 billion, against a consensus of around $17 billion, with adjusted EPS of just $0.25. Non-GAAP gross margin is also expected to fall to about 38% from 44% in Q3. Part of the shortfall comes from a plant shutdown in Israel. CFO David Zinsner said Intel sees "the PC slowdown continuing at least through the first half of next year." On the earnings call, the company said it expects the PC market to shrink by about 12% in units this year, and it reportedly sees another 10% decline in 2027.

NVIDIA's US Marketplace no longer lists the GeForce RTX 5080. The GPU filter on the store's graphics card page now tops out at the RTX 5070 Ti, followed by the RTX 5070, RTX 5060 Ti, RTX 5060, and RTX 5050, with partner RTX 5080 models gone as well. The same thing happened to the RTX 5090 about two weeks ago and, barring a brief cameo at $5,599, the card still hasn't returned. NVIDIA has since denied that the RTX 5090 is discontinued, though it hasn't said anything about the RTX 5080 yet. Oddly enough, its RTX 5080 product page still says "Starting at $999."

The removal seems limited to the US for now. NVIDIA's UK Marketplace still has 13 RTX 5080 listings and two RTX 5090 cards. Of course, a missing listing could simply mean there's no stock left, since the RTX 5080 already costs close to $2,000 at US retailers, roughly double its MSRP. That leaves the RTX 5070 Ti as the fastest card on NVIDIA's US store, and it isn't cheap either. The seven listings there range from $1,269.99 to $1,499.99, well above its $749 launch price.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 24 GB might arrive sooner than expected. A new post from Board Channels' ChannelGate account claims NVIDIA is speeding up the launch, with availability now expected around January 2027 and December 2026 as the earliest option. Earlier this month, various sources relayed that the card was reportedly planned for Q1 2027. The same post says NVIDIA will stop supplying the RTX 5080 16 GB and the RTX 5090 D V2 to China, leaving the 24 GB RTX 5080 as the only flagship model in that market. The report only covers China, so there's no word yet on whether the 16 GB card is going away globally. If the January window pans out, a CES 2027 reveal seems likely, though NVIDIA hasn't confirmed anything.

Apparently, NVIDIA has already cleared out its RTX 5080 16 GB GPU inventory, and the remaining stock should last around two months. That roughly matches a leaker's claim that NVIDIA has January discontinuation dates set for the 16 GB card. The post is machine-translated, so some wording may be off. Specs are still unknown, though 24 GB on the same 256-bit bus would most likely mean 3 GB GDDR7 modules instead of 2 GB ones. Board Channels previously suggested the card could cost around 19,999 yuan (nearly $3,000) in China, while the 16 GB model already sells for close to $2,000 at U.S. retailers, double its $999 MSRP. With the memory shortage expected to get worse in 2027, it's reasonable to expect the 24 GB card to be both expensive and hard to find.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 has seen a significant increase in its listed price over the past few weeks, with this high-end GPU now costing nearly $2,000. Due to price hikes throughout the supply chain and the GPU's 16 GB of GDDR7 memory, which is currently in short supply, the listing price has doubled its original MSRP. NVIDIA initially launched the GeForce RTX 5080 in early 2025 with an MSRP of $999. However, add-in card partners introduced custom solutions such as new PCBs, enhanced cooling, and other features that gradually increased the price. The pricing issue escalated when the memory supply became constrained, making the GDDR7 memory modules used in this GPU much more expensive.

Across U.S.-based retailers like Best Buy, Micro Center, Amazon, Newegg, B&H, and others, the listing price now starts at nearly $2,000. On B&H, older listings show better pricing but are marked as "Temporary out of stock." Only the in-stock listings are priced at $2,000 or more, indicating that new pricing adjustments have been made across all retailers. In just two months, the listings have jumped from $1,200 to $2,000, which is a dramatic increase in pricing.Below are screenshots collected across U.S.-based retailers.

The latest in the saga of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 discontinuation rumors is that OEMs are no longer able to order GPUs or VRAM for the 5090 from NVIDIA, however it seems as though Zotac is undeterred, having just published a restock of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Solid OC in Japan. The new listing on Zotac's official online store in Japan was spotted by @momomo_us on X, a popular leaker and hardware insider.

While the GPU appears to be in stock, and selling for as much as 1,190,000 JPY (~$7 558,17 converted), there's no telling if this will remain the case for the foreseeable future. It appears as though Zotac may have had some stock ready to go, but it's also entirely possible that the lack of supply or back-order availability that was previously reported by other board partners could have been due to regional or AIB limitations on GPU allocation by NVIDIA. It may also be an indication that previous reports of the RTX 5090 being end-of-life were inaccurate.

Sony has stopped shipping the UBP-X700/K in Japan, its last standalone 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player in the country. Shipments ended on October 22, and according to Sony retailer Kunkoku, the remaining stock on Sony's Japanese store sold out almost immediately. There's no word on a successor. That leaves the disc-equipped PlayStation 5 as the only Sony product in Japan that can still play 4K Blu-ray movies. The UBP-X700/K only launched on May 17, 2025, as a cut-down version of the 2018 UBP-X700 without streaming apps, and it was last listed at ¥58,300. Sony will keep selling the BDP-S1700/K, though that one only handles regular Blu-ray discs.

The PS5 is not a perfect stand-in for home theater enthusiasts either. It handles 4K Blu-ray with HDR10, but it lacks Dolby Vision support, which the UBP-X700/K offered. Sony has also announced that new PlayStation games will stop shipping on disc from January 2028, and it hasn't confirmed whether the PS6 will even have a disc drive, despite an earlier report of a detachable one. If it doesn't, the PS5 becomes Sony's last disc player, and with a successor on the way, its days are numbered too. Sony already announced in February that it would phase out all of its Blu-ray recorders in Japan with no successors, so this was somewhat expected. For now, the player exit seems to be limited to Japan, as Sony's US store still lists the UBP-X700U. However, it's hard to see the standalone player sticking around for long elsewhere if Sony is winding down its disc business at home.

Valve's Steam store listing for the Valve Index now states that the headset is no longer being produced, with remaining headsets, controllers, and accessories up for sale while supplies last. On the US store, the Index headset is down 20% to $399.20 from its usual $499, and the Replacement Left Controller and Replacement Tether are 20% off as well. Valve says nothing changes for existing owners, and the Index will continue to be supported through Steam and SteamVR. The headset launched back in June 2019, when the full kit went for $999 on preorder. Its successor, the Steam Frame, opened for preorders on September 14 at $1,059 for the 256 GB model and $1,299 for the 1 TB version.

This isn't a sudden decision. Valve's Lawrence Yang already confirmed to The Verge in November 2025 that the company had stopped manufacturing the Index, around the same time Valve announced the Steam Frame. The store page update seems to be the formal send-off for the Index. However, the Steam Frame is currently available only through a reservation lottery system. It also uses camera-based inside-out tracking and doesn't support the Lighthouse base stations the Index relies on, so Index owners can't carry their base stations over to the new headset. Anyone still interested in a Lighthouse-tracked Valve headset, at a lower price than the Frame, should probably act soon, since there is no word on how much stock is left.

NVIDIA has reportedly stopped allocating GB202 silicon to the GeForce RTX 5090, according to leaker MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) on X. "No more GB202 for 5090, confirmed," the leaker posted, adding in a follow-up that "all future GB202 supplies are RTX Pro exclusive." GB202 is the largest "Blackwell" graphics chip, and the RTX 5090 doesn't even max it out. The same chip powers the 96 GB RTX PRO 6000 with 24,064 CUDA cores, as well as the recently unveiled RTX PRO 5500, which pairs the RTX 5090's 21,760 CUDA cores with 84 GB of memory. Apparently, NVIDIA would rather put every GB202 it gets into those far pricier workstation cards. The company hasn't confirmed any of this as of the time of writing.

A second leaker, hongxing2020, posted "5090 EOL, 5080 24GB ready" alongside an apparent factory notice saying NVIDIA will no longer sell any RTX 5090 model, China-market D variants included. The same notice says an RTX 5080 24 GB will become the top GeForce card and the 16 GB version will be discontinued. That sounds a lot like the RTX 5080 SUPER, which was rumored with 24 GB of GDDR7 on the same GB203 chip, although it isn't clear if the two are the same card. SUPER cards reportedly reached board partners in July, only to be put on hold over GDDR7 pricing. As for the RTX 5090, I doubt NVIDIA would formally call this an end-of-life (EOL) move, since the chips are simply being redirected to a more profitable product line.

Walmart's GeForce Week promotion briefly listed MSI's GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB Gaming Trio OC at $4,299.99, and it sold out after showing up in roughly 10,000 shoppers' online carts. The listing has since gone out of stock, according to Videocardz, who first spotted it. That price sits about $2,300 above NVIDIA's $1,999 MSRP, a premium of roughly 115 percent. On paper, that looks steep, but RTX 5090 prices have been climbing hard lately, with some cards reportedly passing $9,000 to $10,000 on the secondary market. Against that, $4,299 from a major retailer apparently looked like a decent option.

It says a lot about how tight the RTX 5090 market has gotten that 10,000 people still added it to their carts. Part of the shortage seems to come from AI firms reportedly picking up RTX 5090 stock in bulk before it reaches gaming-focused retail, though it's hard to say how much of the scarcity traces back to that versus general Blackwell supply limits. The MSI Gaming Trio OC itself is a solid variant, with 21,760 CUDA cores, 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, a 2,482 MHz boost clock, and a 575 W power draw. NVIDIA hasn't announced a successor to the RTX 5090 yet, so anyone chasing the fastest consumer GPU right now has very little room to negotiate on price.

AMD's Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 are finally available in the US, but both are selling above their announced pricing. On Amazon, the Ryzen 5 5500F lists for $120 and the Ryzen 5 7500 for $210, each $20 over AMD's MSRP of $99 and $189, respectively. The Ryzen 5 5500F has been spotted fluctuating between $118 and $125. Both listings are sold directly by Amazon rather than third-party sellers, so this doesn't appear to be a case of resellers padding the price. AMD revealed the two budget chips nearly two weeks ago, though they only became available for purchase now. At the time of writing, Amazon is the only US retailer stocking either chip, with Micro Center and Newegg still showing no listings.

To recap, the Ryzen 5 5500F is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 3 part built on the Vermeer die, unlike the older $90 Ryzen 5 5500, which uses Cezanne. That gives it PCIe 4.0 support and a 4.4 GHz boost clock, versus PCIe 3.0 and 4.2 GHz on the 5500. The Ryzen 5 7500 is essentially a Ryzen 5 7500F with integrated graphics, packing six Zen 4 cores, DDR5 support, PCIe 5.0, and a 5 GHz boost clock, all within a 65 W envelope. AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 saw something similar earlier this year, launching on Amazon $100 above MSRP before settling down once other retailers picked it up, so pricing here could correct itself too.

A new era for AMD has begun today as the company officially crossed one trillion US dollars in market capitalization. This achievement places AMD as the world's 16th most valuable company by market capitalization, climbing up the ranks. This means AMD is catching up to industry giants and has become one itself, joining others like Broadcom, Tesla, NVIDIA, and Apple in the trillion-dollar club. Reaching a session high of $615.98 per share, AMD's value rose nearly 10% from Friday's close, when the company was trading at $559.91. For a company of this size, such a significant move in a single day is simply unbelievable.

Driving AMD's success is its strong product portfolio that is gradually being rolled out. Customers are purchasing millions of EPYC server CPUs, with the latest one being the 2 nm "Venice," while Instinct MI accelerators are gaining popularity for AI training and inference. AMD is also selling "Helios" rack-scale solutions expected to power gigawatts of compute across data centers, and its client business is looking solid as well. Hence, capital markets are pouring massive trust in the company, boosting its share price significantly.

Nintendo's Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 sold out within minutes of preorders going live, and scalpers wasted no time flipping it for two to three times retail on eBay. The console launched at $519.99 through Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and Amazon, $20 above the recently hiked $499.99 base Switch 2 price. All four retailers ran out almost immediately, and Nintendo's own store now shows it sold out too. eBay listings currently stretch from $700 up to $1,700 for the console alone, with some sellers bundling in the matching Pro Controller, carrying case, and even the upcoming Ocarina of Time remake, despite Nintendo never offering that combo at retail.

Buying all four items from Nintendo directly costs about $720, so most bundles are charging well over double that. A few have gone further, asking $2,000 for the full set. Nintendo tried to keep scalpers off the original Switch 2 by requiring 50 hours of logged Switch playtime before allowing a preorder. There's no word yet on whether similar rules apply to the next restock, but given how fast this batch vanished, some kind of gating system looks likely. Anyone who missed out is stuck waiting for another round of orders to open if they don't want to pay ridiculous scalping prices. The console ships October 29, a week ahead of the remake on November 5.

GeForce RTX 5090 prices in Germany have now pushed past €5,000, with the cheapest listed model on Geizhals coming in at €5,242.94 for the INNO3D iCHILL Frostbite Pro. Hardwareluxx, which first flagged the price increase, reports that there isn't a single RTX 5090 currently listed below €5,200 in the German market, and several mainstream models are edging toward €5,500. The same card was going for around €3,029 back in January, so that's roughly a 73% jump in eight months. NVIDIA's Founders Edition RTX 5090, when it's actually in stock, is still priced at €2,099, meaning custom cards now cost well over double that.

Germany isn't alone in this crisis. RTX 5090 pricing in the US recently crossed $5,000 too, and NVIDIA hasn't addressed either situation publicly. Instead, the company appears to be leaning on event-based promotions, like the one it ran at PAX West, to hand out occasional MSRP units rather than dealing with the overall pricing problem. The rising cost of GDDR7 memory tied to AI demand appears to be the main driver, and board partners have apparently been passing those costs straight to consumers for months.

Framework, the maker of repairable laptops and mini PCs, previously stirred up some controversy when it increased pre-order pricing on its Laptop 13 Pro after promising that the announced pricing would hold throughout pre-orders. Following that July price increase, however, Framework has revealed that it has once again dropped the price of pre-orders on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro, after it was able to secure a batch of LPCAMM2 memory at a lower price.

According to the latest update to Framework's RAMpocalypse tracker and updater page, the new Laptop 13 Pro pricing will not be lower than the original pre-orders, but it will be lower than the adjusted pricing after the previous price increase—that is to say, buyers will still be paying a higher price than expected, but it will not be as much higher. Framework will not only be reducing prices for currently available pre-orders, but it will be retroactively applying a discount to existing pre-orders and issuing partial refunds for pre-orders that have already been shipped at the higher price.

It has long been thought that there would be a long delay between the console and PC launches of Grand Theft Auto VI—GTA V launched to consoles a whole two years ahead of the PC port—however, the unprecedented times facing the PC and console hardware markets may be enough to pressure Rockstar into moving the PC launch of GTA VI ahead, according to recent rumors.

In a recent appearance on the VGC Podcast, Andy Robinson mentioned during a discussion about the ongoing gaming hardware situation that he thinks "they'll push the PC version up," referring to GTA VI. He went on to say that "There's a bit of noise about that. That perhaps the PC version might arrive sooner than some people might expect, just because of everything that's going on," suggesting high demand—some of which is induced by GTA VI itself—may drive Rockstar Games to release the PC port sooner.

PS5 Pro consoles have all but vanished from major US retailers in the wake of GTA 6's extended Netflix reveal, with third-party sellers on Amazon and Walmart charging as much as $1,300 for units that normally go for $899. PlayStation Direct remains the lone major US retailer still selling at MSRP, while Best Buy and Target have sold through their stock entirely. eBay listings for new consoles have reportedly hit as high as $1,200, though there's no telling how many buyers are actually paying these scalper prices.

GTA 6 is confirmed to include PS5 Pro enhancements, though Rockstar hasn't detailed what those improvements actually are. Given how CPU-bound the console is, it's unlikely the Pro pushes GTA 6 past 30 FPS, so buyers chasing the "best" experience may be paying a hefty premium for a smaller gain than they expect. Sony is expected to restock retailers ahead of GTA 6's November 19 launch. For now, anyone not in a rush is probably better off waiting than paying a $400+ markup on a console that may not even hit a stable 40 or 60 FPS in the game.