We’re all losing to AI – Tech News Dec 7

Tech News Dec 7
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► TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News – December 7, 2025
1:36 Memory Crisis – Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
4:15 Motherboard sales down 50%, GPU Price Increases, Crazy RAM Trades
6:07 AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Appears Legit, has 120W TDP per shipping manifests
TECH BRIEFS
7:26 AMD isn’t increasing prices on CPUs, at least for now
7:57 Nvidia CFO admits the $100 billion OpenAI megadeal ‘still’ isn’t signed
8:38 Epic CEO Furious That Steam Is Labeling Games With AI-Generated Assets
9:24 Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission

► LINKS
Memory Crisis – Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/
https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-is-killing-crucial-ssds-and-memory-in-ai-pivot-company-refocuses-on-hbm-and-enterprise-customers
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/the-ram-pricing-crisis-has-only-just-started-team-group-gm-warns-says-problem-will-get-worse-in-2026-as-dram-and-nand-prices-double-in-one-month
https://www.investopedia.com/micron-lands-usd6-billion-in-federal-grants-to-make-chips-in-us-8759009

https://gizmodo.com/do-not-build-a-pc-right-now-prices-out-of-control-2000694774
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Motherboard sales down 50%, GPU Price Increases, Crazy RAM Trades
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/motherboards/the-dominoes-are-falling-motherboard-sales-down-50-percent-as-pc-enthusiasts-are-put-off-by-stinking-memory-prices/
https://www.theverge.com/news/836221/raspberry-pi-price-increases-ram-costs
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Laptop-prices-could-soar-by-at-least-20-in-2026-not-just-due-to-higher-DRAM-costs.1176288.0.html
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-no-longer-supplying-vram-to-its-gpu-board-partners-in-response-to-memory-crunch-rumor-claims-vendors-will-only-get-the-die-forced-to-source-memory-on-their-own
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-reportedly-raising-radeon-8-gb-16-gb-graphics-card-prices-by-20-40
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-raises-radeon-rx-9000-gpu-prices-increasing-by-usd10-for-every-8gb-of-vram-another-price-hike-is-also-scheduled-for-january-2026
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-reportedly-increases-gpu-pricing-10-per-8gb-ryzen-cpu-price-hike-unconfirmed
https://videocardz.com/newz/enthusiast-trades-192gb-memory-kit-for-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-and-its-not-even-close-to-a-good-deal
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Appears Legit, has 120W TDP per shipping manifests
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7-9850x3d-has-120w-tdp-shipping-manifests-confirms
https://x.com/Olrak29_/status/1995002677106020687
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/amd-has-just-launched-the-ryzen-7-9850x3d-with-zero-fanfare-and-i-think-i-understand-why/
From October – https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/amds-dual-v-cache-uber-cpu-gets-a-rumoured-name-and-a-high-clocked-single-die-cousin-give-it-up-for-the-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-and-ryzen-7-9850x3d/
TECH BRIEFS
AMD isn’t increasing prices on CPUs, at least for now
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-isnt-increasing-prices-on-cpus-at-least-for-now-ryzen-appears-to-be-safe-from-the-ai-hysteria
Nvidia CFO admits the $100 billion OpenAI megadeal ‘still’ isn’t signed
https://fortune.com/2025/12/02/nvidia-openai-deal-not-signed-yet-100-billion-rally-colette-kress/
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-says-no-assurance-of-deal-with-openai-after-100-billion-pact.html
Epic CEO Furious That Steam Is Labeling Games With AI-Generated Assets
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/steam-requires-ai-game-disclosures-epics-ceo-says-theyre-meaningless
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/valve-artist-says-thats-like-saying-food-products-shouldnt-have-their-ingredients-list-as-epics-tim-sweeney-and-more-call-on-steam-to-drop-the-made-with-ai-label/
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gaming-exec-furious-steam-ai-label
Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part

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