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PC shipments are falling, but manufacturers are making more money selling pricier AI PCs

Bottom line: PC makers are selling more expensive machines into a market with fewer available units, as tight memory supplies reshape product mix, pricing, and demand for AI-capable systems. That shift is helping manufacturers preserve – and in some cases expand – revenue even as global shipments decline, but it is also pushing the industry further away from the low-cost devices that once drove volume growth.
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AMD GPUs are climbing the sales charts as Radeon beats Nvidia on Amazon and in Germany

The Radeon RX 9070 XT is Amazon's best-selling graphics card
In a nutshell: Despite Nvidia losing fans over the last few years as its focus on gamers diminishes (or disappears), the company's GPUs have dominated the sales charts. But that status quo is starting to change: Amazon's top 10 best-selling GPU list is an even split between Team Red and Team Green, with the highest position held by a Radeon 9000-series card. Meanwhile, in Germany, AMD is the one that's dominating sales – at least at one retailer.
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Magnetic tape storage is booming again, thanks to AI's unquenchable hunger for data

New LTO Ultrium LTO-10 tapes can store up to 100TB of compressed data per cartridge
Magnetic Storage Bubble: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format was designed back in the 90s as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. Now, the magnetic storage technology is growing in both relevance and shipment volumes because AI companies can't seem to stop gobbling up digital data for LLM training and inference workloads.
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