Zotac's parent company expects entry-level cards to get scarcer and pricier through the rest of 2026, the grey market is already re-soldering old flagships, and after five years GoldenEye 007's code is fully rebuilt.
This week's Market Watch read: GPU prices sitting almost exactly where they sat last week, three Ryzen desktop chips priced lower and still under MSRP, and a RAM kit that took five passes to finally get its first price.
This week's Market Watch read: the first DE/FR/NL/UK numbers alongside US pricing, and a batch of same-day 7-day trend figures worth reading with real skepticism.
First weekly digest from our own price tracker: 59 GPUs, CPUs, and DDR5 kits across US retail lanes. Blackwell premiums are holding, every desktop CPU we track sits below launch MSRP, and most 32GB DDR5-6000 kits hover near $500.
TrendForce now expects third-quarter DRAM and NAND contract price hikes in the low-to-mid teens, the slowest pace in a year, even as German retail DDR5 set another record in July. Meanwhile Samsung started mass production of a 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 server SSD, and MSI showed the first monitor built on TCL CSOT's inkjet-printed OLED panel.
