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Quarterly contract price movements across DRAM generations, including legacy DDR2 and DDR3 parts.
Microsoft ended security updates for Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro on October 13, 2026, with Enterprise and Education covered to October 12, 2027. For fleet owners the cutoff is a patching deadline, and the memory-price pressure Microsoft's executive describes is a separate hardware-budget question.
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Sipeed expects its 128GB MaixStation to cost about $3,999, against $6,950 for Nvidia's DGX Spark at the same 273 GB/s. The speed figures come from Sipeed itself, and the Kickstarter, shipments and NPU toolchain are all still ahead.
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Gigabyte says Intel plans new processors for existing LGA 1700 motherboards, expected in early 2027. Its BIOS covers DDR4 and DDR5 versions of its B760 and H610 boards, Tom's Hardware reported, so owners can plan a CPU swap that keeps the memory they already own.
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TrendForce still has DRAM contract prices climbing 13% to 18% this quarter while supplier inventories sit at historic lows, which makes the slowdown a limit on what PC and phone buyers can pay rather than relief for anyone's hardware budget.
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TrendForce has DDR2 up 55-60% this quarter and another 35-40% next, which multiplies to about 2.1 times, so the cheapest fallback part on the board is repricing faster than most bills of materials get revisited.
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