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Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan is looking at a big change to how the company makes chips for others, Reuters reports citing people who know about it. The new plan might mean Intel stops offering its 18A process technology to other companies. This is different from the strategy of the former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who had invested heavily in the 18A manufacturing process. Since assuming leadership in March, Tan has been working to reduce costs and find new approaches to revive the struggling chipmaker. By June, he began expressing concerns that the 18A process was failing to attract new customers. Abandoning external sales of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and focusing on its 14A process would require Intel to take substantial write-offs on the billions invested in its development. Industry analysts suggest these charges could reach hundreds of millions or potentially billions of dollars.

Intel plans to show the board these options later this month. However, a final decision is not expected until this autumn given the complexity and financial stakes involved. Even if they change plans, Intel will still keep its promises about 18A process including producing small amounts of chips for Amazon and Microsoft, and making its own "[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]" laptop processors scheduled for late 2025. Along with standard 18A, Intel is creating [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: 18A-P launching in 2026 and 18A-PT arriving in 2028.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Star Citizen's annual Foundation Festival returns from July 2 to 14, celebrating the Star Citizen community and welcoming new pilots to the 'verse. This year's event also features a Free Fly period, giving all players free access to the game and the chance to fly eight distinct ships and vehicles - a perfect introduction to Star Citizen's rich and varied universe. Hot on the heels of the Alpha 4.2: Storm Breaker release, which introduced new missions and the towering irradiated Apex Valakkar, a colossal worm-like creature from the depths below, the Foundation Festival arrives at the perfect time to prepare new players for the adventure ahead.

To get started, newcomers can check the New Player Essentials, packed with helpful tips, guides, and must-know information to take their first confident steps in the 'verse. There are also in-game tutorials, beginner friendly articles and videos on the Welcome Hub, and the Guide System further connects beginners with veteran players eager to lend a hand and share their knowledge.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Corsair Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRSR) ("Corsair" or the "Company"), a leading global provider of high-performance gear for gamers, streamers, content creators, PC builders and SIM driving enthusiasts, today announced that the planned CEO transition has taken effect. Andy Paul, Corsair's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, has officially retired from the Company and its Board of Directors, effective today. Thi La, formerly the Company's President and Chief Operating Officer, has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer.

Originally announced in February 2025, the transition is part of a long-planned succession strategy approved by Corsair's Board of Directors. Ms. La steps into the CEO role after more than 14 years with Corsair, where she has held key executive positions in operations, product leadership, and strategic development.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The leading system integrator iBUYPOWER is thrilled to share that the MK9 Pro RGB Mechanical Keyboard made in collaboration with the high-value gaming hardware brand REDRAGON, is now available for purchase on iBUYPOWER's Gear Store for $59.99 in black and white colorways.

As part of iBUYPOWER's commitment to improving the experience of prebuilt gaming PCs with the earlier released MK9 RGB Mechanical Keyboard, the MK9 Pro RGB Mechanical Keyboard is a 96% compact full-sized keyboard that retains the functionality of full-sized keyboards while benefitting from a space-saving desktop footprint. This new keyboard is equipped with hot-swappable linear switches for maximum personalization and smooth typing. In addition to an analog control wheel for volume and gasket-mounted PCB that improves the typing feel and acoustics, the MK9 Pro also features per-key addressable RGB lighting controlled by external RGB software, like HYTE's Nexus Link software.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world's leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, is working closely with the ASUS ROG team to explore the overclock potential of the new DDR5 CAMM2 form factor and have successfully reached the early milestone of Memtest-stable at DDR5-10000 memory speed with a 64 GB capacity CAMM2 module on a modified custom ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Hero CAMM2 motherboard with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K desktop processor.

Overclocked CAMM2 Reaches DDR5-10000 Memtest-Stable Milestone
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NVIDIA has quietly engineered a third variant of its flagship GPU in response to new US export regulations, aiming to maintain performance while avoiding restrictions. A few weeks ago, we got leaks about the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which was supposed to be a new version based on the modified RTX 5090D. The initially released GeForce RTX 5090D was designed to comply with the Department of Commerce's updated rules while delivering virtually identical results to its unrestricted counterpart in both gaming and synthetic benchmarks. Now, the newly named RTX 5090D v2 features the same 21,760 CUDA cores and a 575 W power draw, ensuring that the core Blackwell architecture performs as users would expect, albeit with a reduced 24 GB VRAM buffer.

NVIDIA plans to introduce an updated RTX 5090D v2 model in August. According to reliable industry sources, this refresh will feature 24 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 384-bit bus, down from the original 512-bit interface, while preserving overall thermal and computational characteristics. For most gamers, the reduced VRAM capacity is unlikely to be noticeable, as only a handful of titles require more than 24 GB of VRAM. Ultimately, the success of the v2 will depend on whether it reaches the market at a price point that aligns with the expectations of its flagship. Given that the target market is China, we have to wait for sales and performance figures first. According to a well-known leaker, kopite7kimi, they noted that there is some surprise, indicating that NVIDIA has made a significant change to comply with export regulations, so it could be a firmware update preventing these cards from running AI workloads.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

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Marshall designed the original Middleton speaker to be the most powerful portable sound to be held in one hand. Now in its second iteration, Middleton II has even more features to elevate any playlist. With over 30+ hours of portable sound, this speaker comes complete with True Stereophonic multidirectional sound. Delivering the ultimate listening experience wherever it goes.

With Middleton II, music can go on tour for over a day. When fully charged, it delivers more than 30 hours of portable playtime. And when power is running low, it takes just 20 minutes to get the show back on the road. Of course, it's not only about quantity; with Middleton II Marshall has taken it a step further, delivering even deeper bass and more refined performance at maximum volume. And this speaker comes complete with 360° True Stereophonic sound, filling the space and surrounding the listener no matter where they're standing.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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More than 800 games and applications feature RTX technologies, and each week new games integrating NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and advanced ray-traced effects are released or announced, delivering the definitive PC experience for GeForce RTX players. This week, Mecha BREAK launches with support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, while Diablo IV and Still Wakes the Deep are adding native support with new updates, further accelerating performance for GeForce RTX 50 Series gamers. And NTE Closed Beta begins July 3rd featuring DLSS 4.

Mecha BREAK Launches Today, Featuring DLSS 4 With Multi Frame Generation
Developed by Amazing Seasun Games, Mecha BREAK is a multiplayer mech third-person shooter game that allows players to choose from diverse mechs and battle colossal war machines on treacherous terrain. Get ready for the ultimate showdown in 3v3, 6v6, and PvPvE modes. Discover an array of assault, melee, sniper, reconnaissance, and support mechs, each with unique playstyles. Engage in immersive aerial and ground combat, employing strategic tactics for close and long-range encounters. Unleash devastating firepower, scorch foes with precision beams, and rain missiles upon the battlefield. Prepare for adrenaline-pumping battles, lightning-fast maneuvers, and explosive firepower. Experience the essence of speed, power, and thrilling controls.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Welcome to the first full week of July, which continues to be a rather slow week for new game releases. This week's major release puts you in a time loop with your fellow resistance fighters. This is followed by an online tactical action shooter, some old balls and bats, a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller, a remake and another remake, although the two have nothing in common with each other.

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Citizens from either side of an ongoing war must set aside their differences as a mysterious alien invasion threatens humanity - time has come to a stop for all but your small band of freedom fighters. Caught in a seemingly endless loop, you must shape these ordinary civilians into heroes as they repeatedly fight and die in this turn-based tactical roguelite. Real-time exploration, stealth, and teamwork are essential as you acquire new skills, seek out more powerful weapons, escape the time loop, and save the world. Welcome to the resistance. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Infineon has announced that its gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor production is on schedule, confirming that its 300 mm wafer fab will deliver customer samples in Q4 2025. The German semiconductor manufacturer becomes the first company to successfully integrate 300 mm GaN wafer technology into its existing high-volume production infrastructure, achieving a 2.3x higher chip yield per wafer compared to conventional 200 mm processes. Infineon plans to capitalize on the projected annual market growth of 36%, with GaN power applications expected to reach $2.5 billion by 2030, according to an analysis by the Yole Group. The timing proves particularly strategic, as TSMC has announced plans to shut down its GaN production lines and dismantle facilities within two years, creating a significant market vacuum.

The new announcement addresses a fundamental industry challenge: scaling GaN production while maintaining cost competitiveness with silicon alternatives. Infineon's integrated device manufacturer (IDM) model provides complete process control from wafer fabrication through final product delivery, enabling what the company projects will be cost parity between comparable silicon and GaN devices. Johannes Schoiswohl, Head of GaN Business Line, emphasized that the scaled 300 mm manufacturing leverages Infineon's existing infrastructure investments while supporting rapid capacity expansion for emerging applications, including AI system power supplies, automotive charging systems, and industrial motor control. TSMC's strategic retreat from GaN manufacturing indicates that the company's focus remains on high-margin logic processors, leaving specialized power semiconductor companies like Infineon to dominate the expanding GaN market. In this market, GaN's superior power density, switching speeds, and thermal performance deliver measurable system-level advantages over traditional silicon-based solutions.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has unveiled a detailed roadmap for its Ceramic Nano Memory archival storage system, promising a cloud-based platform capable of storing over 100 PB per rack by 2030. The company expects data transfer speeds to climb above 2 GB/s and the time to first byte to fall below 10 seconds, a dramatic improvement over its current pilot system, which delivers just 1 GB per rack, 100 MB/s throughput, and a 90-second access time. The initial pilot, running through 2026, validates the 1 PB per rack design. A mid-cycle refresh around 2027-2028 will boost rack density into the double-digit petabyte range, halve access times, and more than double throughput. By 2029-2030, Cerabyte aims to reach its full 100 PB capacity, sustain transfer rates exceeding 2 GB/s, and reduce access latency to under 10 seconds. Cerabyte's approach relies on 100 µm-thin glass panels coated with a 10 nm ceramic film. Data are inscribed by etching microscopic holes in the ceramic layer using a femtosecond laser, creating patterns that a high‑resolution camera can read.

Multiple 9x9 cm tablets fit into cartridges similar in size to magnetic tape, and robotic arms handle all media swapping. Financially, Cerabyte projects that the total cost of ownership will decrease from approximately $7,000-$8,000 per PB-month today to just $6-$8 per PB-month by 2030. Supporters include Pure Storage, Western Digital, In-Q-Tel, and the European Innovation Council's Accelerator fund. To date, the startup has secured roughly $10 million in seed financing, along with more than $4 million in grants. Compared with traditional tape libraries, Cerabyte's system offers at least twice the bandwidth, a lifespan exceeding 100 years versus tape's 7-15 years, and half the cost per terabyte. Additionally, the company envisions adopting helium-ion beam writing by 2045 to shrink bit sizes from approximately 300 nm to 3 nm, a change that could increase per-rack capacity into the exabyte range.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

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A lack of PCIe bandwidth can reduce RTX 5090 performance by as much as 25% in video editing and 3D workloads. Puget Systems conducted a series of tests on NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090, comparing different PCIe versions and lane configurations to assess the impact on content creation tools. At its launch, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] noted that the GeForce RTX 5090 is the first high-end card to adopt PCIe 5.0 x16, delivering 64 GB/s of bidirectional bandwidth—twice the 32 GB/s that the RTX 4090 achieves on PCIe 4.0 x16. Our testing revealed a potential performance impact of up to 25% when utilizing limited PCIe bandwidth. Puget Systems today put this interface to the test, confirming real‑world impacts on video editing workflows when lanes or generations are constrained.

In DaVinci Resolve benchmarks, Puget Systems found that configurations running at PCIe 5.0 x16, PCIe 5.0 x8, or PCIe 4.0 x16 yielded virtually identical render times. Dropping to PCIe 5.0 x4, PCIe 4.0 x8, or PCIe 3.0 x16 introduced a modest 10% slowdown. Further reducing bandwidth to PCIe 4.0 x4 or PCIe 3.0 x8 resulted in an increase of roughly 25% in render times. After Effects exhibited only minor slowdowns once the bandwidth dropped below 8 GB/s. Unreal Engine 5.5 virtual production tests recorded about a 7% drop in average frame rates at the lowest lane counts. By contrast, Blender offline renders and OctaneBench scores remained essentially unchanged, and Llama LLM benchmarks showed no measurable dependency on PCIe speed.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NVIDIA has released its DLSS 4 plugin for Unreal Engine 5.6, allowing developers to incorporate the company's most advanced upscaling and AI-driven frame generation tools into their projects. With this update, performance improvements introduced in UE 5.6, such as optimized memory handling and refined rendering pipelines, receive the benefits of Transformer-based upscaling, which [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] while generating extra frames to improve motion smoothness. Developers using Unreal Engine 5.6 can now integrate multi-frame generation, ray reconstruction, deep learning anti-aliasing, and super resolution in one convenient package that requires fewer resources than earlier DLSS versions.

The DLSS 4 plugin relies on a Transformer neural network that evaluates the relationships among all pixels in a frame rather than using localized convolutional filters. This technique reduces video memory requirements by approximately 15-20% compared with the prior DLSS 3 SDK, freeing up capacity for higher-resolution textures and more detailed environments. Multi-frame generation predicts intermediate frames based on recent frame history, effectively boosting perceived frame rates without additional GPU draw calls. Ray reconstruction enhances reflections and global illumination by learning from high‑quality offline renders, delivering realistic lighting with minimal performance loss. Early feedback indicates a 30-50% uplift in ray-traced effects quality in GPU-bound scenes, as well as noticeably sharper visuals under dynamic lighting. The plugin supports Unreal Engine versions 5.2 through 5.6; however, only projects running on version 5.6 can access the full suite of improvements.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

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The P Pro Series is the result of intensive development work and production optimization and defines the new premium segment in the ARCTIC fan range. The P12 Pro and P14 Pro models offer significantly increased performance with particularly high static pressure and airflow, ideal for use with radiators and in cases. Already proven in the latest generation of Liquid Freezer III, the fans are now also available individually. The P12 Pro, P12 Pro A-RGB and P12 Pro PST (5 Pack) will initially be released, with the other 120 mm and 140 mm versions to follow in the coming weeks.

At the center of the new development: the revised fan blade design. Automated manufacturing with low tolerances enables a minimal gap between the impeller and frame - for maximized static pressure and a significantly increased airflow efficiency. An optimized bearing and extended impeller shaft, in combination with a high-precision balancing process, ensures low-vibration and permanently quiet operation.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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BIOSTAR, a leading manufacturer of edge computing solutions, motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices, is excited to unveil the EdgeComp MS-1335U, a standout addition to its EdgeComp embedded edge computing system lineup. Designed to meet the evolving demands of smart cities and connected infrastructure, the MS-1335U combines powerful processing, quiet fanless operation, and flexible connectivity, making it an ideal choice for system integrators, municipal projects, digital signage networks, and next-generation kiosks where performance and efficiency are paramount.

Featuring a compact, fanless design, the EdgeComp MS-1335U is powered by Intel Raptor Lake SoC processors, delivering a powerful balance of performance and energy efficiency for demanding edge applications. With up to 10 cores and speeds reaching 4.6 GHz, it ensures responsive multitasking while operating silently, even in noise-sensitive environments. Supporting up to 96 GB of high-speed DDR5 5200 MHz memory, ultra-fast PCIe Gen 4 storage, and SATA III support for flexible storage options, the MS-1335U is perfectly suited for smart kiosks, interactive digital signage, self-service terminals, and municipal systems that require reliable, space-saving computing with seamless 4K visual output.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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