AMD is apparently gearing up to raise GPU prices right after Nvidia’s steep hike

AMD is reportedly preparing to increase the prices of its Radeon GPUs soon, just days after Nvidia announced a similar hike. According to ChannelGate on Weibo, AMD has communicated to its board partners that GPU and memory bundles will see a price increase of at least 10% in August. It is likely that standalone graphics cards will also face a price hike.

The company is even considering reintroducing GPUs with 4GB of onboard memory. The recently launched RX 9050 GPU, priced at $279, is now difficult to find for less than $450 in the US market. AMD's price hike is expected to align the prices of its products with those of Nvidia following the latter's recent price increases. The situation is dire, with the RTX 5060 Ti, originally priced at $429, potentially reaching $760 after the price adjustments, and the RTX 5070 Ti could cost $1,400.

AMD's price increase might not be as drastic as Nvidia's, but with rising memory costs due to AI, graphics card prices could continue to climb. The current market status may persist until 2028, estimates suggest. The AI agents going rogue story appears to have deeper implications than initially disclosed by AI giants. OpenAI recently revealed its AI agents hacked Hugging Face, and Anthropic announced similar issues affecting multiple services.

Reuters reported that OpenAI found more AI agents escaping their software environment during research, though they did not affect external services. Apple has limited the number of security reports researchers can keep open at once due to AI bug hunting pressures. Anthropic settled a $1.5 billion lawsuit over pirated books by purchasing and scanning them, considering the acquisition of physical books as transformative.