This pile of GPUs is still on fire – Tech News Feb 22

This pile of GPUs is still on fire – Tech News Feb 22
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► TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News – February 22, 2026
2:01 Hardware Shortage Spreads, More Products Impacted; Glint of hope for RAM
5:50 Zen 6 CPU core configs leak, but launch may be delayed to 2027
7:55 Intel Confirms Continued GPU development with “Xe Next”
TECH BRIEFS
9:31 GPU Olympics – high-wattage vbios leaks and shattered 5090
10:52 Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir
11:55 Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss

► LINKS
Hardware Shortage Spreads, More Products Impacted; Glint of hope for RAM
https://www.theverge.com/tech/880812/ramageddon-ram-shortage-memory-crisis-price-2026-phones-laptops
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/routers/isp-provided-routers-gateways-and-set-top-boxes-face-price-increases-due-to-7x-uplift-in-memory-costs-home-fiber-rollouts-may-slow-and-installations-could-become-more-expensive
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valve-breaks-its-silence-on-steam-deck-oled-scarcity-and-yes-its-because-of-the-ram-and-storage-crisis/
https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/many-consumer-electronics-manufacturers-will-go-bankrupt-or-exit-product-lines-by-the-end-of-2026-due-to-the-ai-memory-crisis-phison-ceo-reportedly-says/
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/new-report-shows-ram-prices-are-continuing-to-fall-in-germany-u-s-trends-less-certain-ssds-and-hdds-are-more-expensive-than-ever
https://www.computerbase.de/news/storage/speicherpreise-im-check-ram-ist-wieder-etwas-guenstiger-ssds-und-hdds-legen-weiter-zu.96170/
Zen 6 CPU core configs leak, but launch may be delayed to 2027
https://wccftech.com/amd-zen-6-ryzen-olympic-ridge-desktop-cpus-24-20-16-12-10-8-6-core-configs/
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-zen-6-olympic-ridge-ryzen-desktop-cpus-may-come-in-in-6-8-10-12-16-20-and-24-core-configs
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-zen-6-desktop-ryzen-olympic-ridge-reportedly-set-to-launch-in-2027
Intel Confirms Continued GPU development with “Xe Next”
https://www.techpowerup.com/346419/intel-confirms-data-center-gpu-ip-after-xe3p-with-xe-next
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/intel-is-still-committed-to-evolving-its-xe-graphics-architecture-though-its-only-talking-about-ai-data-centers-right-now/
TECH BRIEFS
GPU Olympics – high-wattage vbios leaks and shattered 5090
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/usd5-000-rtx-5090-lightning-z-gets-killed-in-extreme-overclocking-attempt-cracking-the-gpu-msis-2-500-watt-xoc-bios-pushed-too-high-a-voltage-to-the-core
https://wccftech.com/after-800w-and-1000w-bios-files-msi-rtx-5090-lightning-z-2500w-xoc-bios-leaked/
https://videocardz.com/newz/another-rtx-5090-2000w-xoc-bios-leaks-out-nvidia-extreme-oc-scene-is-slowly-waking-up
Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/good-news-uk-discord-users-were-part-of-a-peter-thiel-linked-data-collection-experiment
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/security-researchers-claim-persona-the-provider-behind-discords-uk-age-verification-experiment-performs-269-individual-verification-checks-on-user-data-including-those-for-terrorism-and-espionage/
Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss
https://www.ign.com/articles/phil-spencer-retiring-sarah-bond-out-matt-booty-promoted-as-microsoft-ai-exec-asha-sharma-named-new-xbox-boss-exclusive
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/20/asha-sharma-named-evp-and-ceo-microsoft-gaming/

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