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0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News – March 8, 2026
1:34 PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia
4:58 Nvidia said to be planning RTX 5050 9GB and RX 3060 restock
TECH BRIEFS
7:24 RIP Entry Level PCs – market to ‘disappear’ by 2028
8:04 DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips
8:43 California’s Upcoming Age Verification on OS Installation Law
9:39 Xbox Confirms ‘Project Helix’, Next-Gen Console Will Also Play PC Games
10:29 BBC News Office monitor setup is wild

► LINKS
PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079686/pc-graphics-cards-are-now-nearly-100-percent-nvidia.html
https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/q425-pc-graphics-aib-shipments-decreased-4-4-from-last-quarter-to-11-million-units-with-a-cagr-to-2029-of-5-9/
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/i-think-the-fact-that-everything-is-scarce-is-fantastic-for-us-says-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-in-a-world-of-constraint-you-have-no-choice-but-to-choose-the-best/

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/micron-calls-gddr7-memory-capacity-a-performance-bottleneck-as-nvidias-rtx-50-super-series-remains-mia/
Nvidia said to be planning RTX 5050 9GB and RX 3060 restock
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-plans-geforce-rtx-5050-with-9gb-memory-and-96-bit-bus
https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-3060-stock-may-return-starting-mid-march-2026
TECH BRIEFS
RIP Entry Level PCs – market to ‘disappear’ by 2028
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/rising-memory-prices-pile-more-strain-on-consumer-pc-market
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-02-26-gartner-says-surging-memory-costs-will-reduce-global-pc-and-smartphone-shipments-in-2026
DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-bots-reportedly-being-deployed-to-hoover-up-memory-chips-and-components-one-operation-ran-10-million-web-scraping-requests-hitting-ddr5-ram-product-pages-every-6-5-seconds
https://datadome.co/threat-research/scarcity-ddr5-ram-fueled-by-ai-demand-scalping-surge/
CA Age Verification on OS Install Law
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law
Xbox Confirms ‘Project Helix’, Its Next-Gen Console That Will Also Play PC Games
https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-confirms-project-helix-its-next-gen-console-that-will-also-play-pc-games
BBC News Office monitor setup is wild

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Inside the BBC News Office – the monitor set-up is wild
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The Gulf region has been a hotbed for AI investment, with the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia pouring sovereign wealth dollars into data centers and courting companies like OpenAI to build out their global presence. But the war in Iran is now threatening that future. Drone strikes on Amazon facilities in Bahrain and the UAE have forced tech companies to rethink the safety and viability of that expansion. As AI becomes an increasingly powerful tool in modern warfare, data centers are emerging as strategic targets, raising the stakes for every company invested in the region. CNBC’s Kate Rooney explores what this means for hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others, and whether the conflict could mean steeper costs and longer timelines for the infrastructure powering the AI race.

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