Daily Tech News 7 December 2025

• That mini-PC I just bought increased in price by 25% the next day. In fact, the 32GB model now costs more than I paid for the 64GB model.
  
  Which is not a huge surprise - it was markedly cheaper in Australia than on the British Minisforum store, and a key reason I bought it in the first place was because the price was so low compared to the current cost of RAM.
  
  I'll post a quick review once I get it - or at least, next weekend once I have a chance to set it up. But if you're impatient Notebook Check just covered it in detail.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which are the Chinas set to rescue the world from its folly?
  
  Taiwanese memory maker Nanya has seen revenues soar 300% in the past year - and 30% in just the past month - as it scrambles to fill the gap left open by the Big Three.* (Taipei Times)
  
  Nanya mostly produces older DDR4 memory but about 10% of their sales are already DDR5, and they've had an opportunity handed to them gift-wrapped.
  
  Meanwhile West Taiwan's leading memory maker CXMT has entered mass production of DDR5 and LPDDR5X chips itself. (Trendforce)
  
  CXMT was previously accused of dumping DDR4 RAM on the market at lower prices than even second-hand products. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Oh, how the turns have tabled. CXMT can only produce 16Gb chips, not the latest 32Gb models - so 32GB modules and 64GB dual-channel kits - but 64GB of memory you can buy is a lot better than 128GB you can't.
  
  There may only be three big memory manufacturers, but that doesn't mean there aren't little ones looking to get big.
  
  * Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix, formerly Hyundai Semiconductor.

• You can't buy the memory to run them, but you can pick up a 9800X3D (hands down the fastest CPU for gaming) for $439 right now, down from $479, or the previous generation 7800X3D for $365. (WCCFTech)
  
  And use them as paperweights while the market corrects itself one way or another.
  
  
  
• You can also pick up an AMD Radeon 9070 (the slower non-XT model) for $509 instead of $549 (or $569+ with the recently announced price increases), or an Nvidia RTX 5050 for just $209. (WCCFTech)
  
  The 5050 is the low-end card in the lineup and largely gets ignored, but priced closer to $200 than $250 it starts to look like a bargain.
  
  
  
• The radiation shielding at Chernobyl has stopped working because Russia blew it up. (Politico)
  
  The shielding, not Chernobyl. Though that too, come to think of it.
  
  
  
• Now this might strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe that everyone involved in this story should die. (Yahoo)
  
  In a fire.
  
  
  
• Phones, like everything else, look set to become more expensive next year. (CNN)
  
  Panic-buy now and avoid the rush.
  
  
  
• Indie horror game Horses deserves to be played, even if it's not very good. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Counterpoint: No it doesn't, because it isn't.
  
  

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