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SK hynix showcased advanced memory technologies for the era of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) at Supercomputing 2025 (SC25), held in St. Louis, the U.S., from November 16-21. Held annually since 1988, SC is the world's largest global HPC conference. It brings together experts from industry, academia, and research institutions to share the latest trends, create opportunities for collaboration, and discuss the future direction of technological advancement. At this year's event, the convergence of AI and HPC emerged as a central topic. Under the theme "Memory, Powering AI and Tomorrow," SK hynix presented its innovative memory lineup set to lead the AI and HPC markets and shared a new technological vision to accelerate data analysis in computing systems.

Innovative Products and Tech Driving AI and HPC Performance
At the event, SK hynix presented core products including HBM, DRAM, and eSSD solutions. Visitors to the booth could also see demonstrations of the products in AI and HPC environments, highlighting the company's technological competitiveness. At the front of the booth, SK hynix displayed its latest HBM products including the 12-layer HBM4 which it developed as a world-first in September 2025. HBM4 features 2,048 input/output (I/O) channels, twice that of the previous generation, delivering a significant increase in bandwidth. Also offering more than a 40% boost in power efficiency, HBM4 is the most suitable solution for ultra-high-performance AI computing systems. In addition, the 12-layer HBM3E, the highest performing commercialized HBM currently available on the market, was presented with NVIDIA's next-generation GB300 Grace Blackwell GPU.[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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Colorful Technology Company Limited, a leading brand in gaming PC components, gaming laptops, and Hi-fi audio products, today announced three new additions to its B850 motherboard family: the CVN B850M ARK FROZEN, BATTLE-AX B850M-PLUS S WIFI7, and COLORFIRE B850M-MEOW WIFI7. These new models bring enhanced power delivery, upgraded connectivity, and signature COLORFUL design identities to meet the performance needs of next-generation AMD Ryzen processors.

The expanded B850 Series is engineered for gamers, creators, and PC enthusiasts seeking powerful performance and distinctive visual design. A key highlight of this launch is the much-anticipated COLORFIRE MEOW Series motherboard for AMD Ryzen users, now built on the AMD B850 chipset and refreshed with a new white color scheme, cat-inspired accents, and the playful MEOW aesthetic that defines the series. Each of the new B850 motherboards delivers robust support for AMD Ryzen 7000, 8000, and 9000 Series processors, high-speed DDR5 memory, and advanced thermal and aesthetic designs unique to their respective product lines.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Now through December 1st, Sudokoo is participating 2025 Black Friday season with competitive discounts on several of its high-performance cooling products, including its flagship AIO, premium air cooler, and enthusiast-grade fans. Sudokoo Black Friday Deals: Up to 35% Off Flagship Cooling Products

One of SUDOKOO's most advanced AIOs designed for high-end gaming PCs, the PROTEUS 360 LCD All-in-One Liquid Cooler receives its first major price reduction since launch and is available at 25% off. The PROTEUS 360 stands out with its high-efficiency pump design, 30 mm thick high performance fans included, 3-phase 6-slot 4-pole FOC motor fans, and a custom 3.4" LCD screen with 480×480 resolution powered by Sudokoo's MasterCraft control software. Whether you're pushing a next-gen Intel or AMD processor, the PROTEUS 360 delivers class-leading thermals with low acoustic output.

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Fans of the Control game franchise may be in for a surprise at the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] opening night. While there has been no confirmation, it looks as though Remedy, the game studio behind Control, may be preparing to show off gameplay or other content from Control 2 at the annual gaming event. This speculation is fuelled by a recent patent that was filed with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for "Control Resonant," which is now assumed to be the name of the upcoming Control 2.

The patent is for the Control: Resonant name, but covers a number of topics, including video games, computer software, game consoles and controllers, clothing, and even lanyards, among other items. The items mentioned in the patent filing line up with what's expected from a game launch and marketing campaign, and the timing lines up with a potential upcoming showing. Control 2 was confirmed as long ago as 2021, but Remedy has been rather quiet about it since, apart from a brief confirmation in early 2025 that Control 2's development was in full swing. There are indications that Control 2 will be accompanied by an announcement of a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at this year's The Game Awards show.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

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8BitDo is no stranger to transparent and translucent tech, often embracing the 90s and early 2000s trend for gaming peripherals like the bright green Xbox Edition Retro Mechanical keyboard, but its latest translucent controller release, the Ultimate 2C Bluetooth—which is designed for the Nintendo Switch console family—features a decidedly more subtle version of the translucent tech trend. The new version of the Ultimate 2C Bluetooth controller has a plain matte black bottom shell and a smoky, translucent top case, which allows you to see into the controller without resulting in a design that's too loud. Unfortunately for non-US gamers, the new Ultimate 2C controller is a Best Buy-exclusive, and there's no word on whether there will be a wider release at a later date.

The Translucent Black Ultimate 2C Bluetooth controller is very similar to the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless in the same colorway, but the new Switch-specific controller has red rings around the joysticks instead of the green on the previously released version. In terms of internals, the new translucent version of the Ultimate 2C Bluetooth doesn't pack any upgrades over the other versions. It still has the same Hall effect joysticks, 6-axis motion control, optional USB Type-C wired connectivity, and extra R4 and L4 buttons. It is also [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the same $29.99 as its predecessors.[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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News just broke about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that would have been at the same scale as the recent Claws of Awaji expansion, but Ubisoft is still on track to launch Assassin's Creed Shadows on the Nintendo Switch 2 on December 2. Ahead of the projected launch, Ubisoft has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with two developers who worked on porting Assassin's Creed Shadows to the Switch 2 to give gamers an inside look at what it takes to port a game designed to run on PC to a relatively underpowered handheld gaming console. One of the developers, simply referred to as Bruno, said that "Bringing Shadows to Switch 2 was one of the toughest but most rewarding challenges I have ever tackled. We had to rethink almost everything, from the way the world is rendered to how systems interact, all while keeping the soul of the game intact." At the top of the list of priorities for the development team was preserving the game's visuals and maintaining a minimum frame rate of 30 FPS in both docked and handheld modes.

According to the developers, they implemented several of the same simulation systems on the Switch 2 as are in use for PC and console, but optimizations have been made to accommodate the Arm architecture and limited system resources. Namely, simulation data was downscaled to reduce GPU load. Assassin's Creed Shadows will also use the same baked Global Illumination implementation as is used for the Xbox Series S and low-power PCs, in order to conserve RAM. The team apparently spent a lot of time optimizing things like LOD, draw distance, texture resolution, and asset loading in order to hit the target 30 FPS while maintaining the world's immersion and dynamism. Ubisoft included clips supposedly representing the sort of visual fidelity to be expected from the Switch 2 port, and, while the image quality obviously isn't the crisp image of the 4K Ultra settings with RT we saw in our [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the texture and detail levels look reasonable for the notoriously underpowered Switch 2. Ubisoft is using DLSS to upscale the image, a technology that is frequently being seen as a requirement for decent frame rates and image quality.[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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If you've used a modern mechanical keyboard before, you likely have Cherry to thank—mostly for the switch design it pioneered before a flood of cheaper alternatives from China flooded the market when the MX switch patent expired in 2014. In the years since then, Cherry has not had an easy time of things, with the peripherals maker earlier this year announcing that it was moving much of its switch production to a factory in China in an effort to save costs. Despite this move, launching a slew of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and office and gaming peripherals earlier this year, and even [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it seems as though Cherry still has a profitability problem.

According to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from an extraordinary general meeting ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]), Cherry made a net loss of €20.4 million between January and September 2025, prompting two actions from the company's leadership. For starters, Cherry has officially completed moving all of its switch production to China—a process which it had already started earlier this year—leaving the headquarters in Auerbach, Germany to operate as a development, logistics, and service center. In addition to completing the move to Chinese factories for production, Cherry is currently looking to sell off some of its subsidiaries—specifically its peripherals business, responsible for the manufacturing of all office and gaming keyboards and mice, or its Digital Health & Solutions division. The CFO, Jurjen Jongma, commented that "it is currently neither possible nor advisable to strengthen the group's equity in any other way than through strategic mergers and acquisitions options."[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

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It's not uncommon for game developers and publishers to announce games or show off fresh gameplay at the annual The Game Awards show, and that's exactly what CD Projekt Red did when it announced The Witcher 4 in 2024. There is already all sort of speculation flying around about what may be shown off at this year's Game Awards show, but CDPR has confirmed that The Witcher 4 will not be among the games featured during the opening night show, and neither will the hotly anticipated Cyberpunk 2, which just picked up a stack of developers and is looking to hire more, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

As explained by CDPR co-CEO, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], CDPR "won't be bringing any new content to TGA this year," despite the fact that The Witcher 4 has been nominated for the Most Anticipated Game of 2025. Currently, there have been no real leaks regarding anticipated game reveals at The Game Awards 2025, but there is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that we might see some gameplay from GTA VI or a hardware teaser for the next-gen Xbox console, which has already been [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The Game Awards 2025 will be hosted by Geoff Keighley on December 11, 2025, at 17:30 PST (01:30 UTC), and can be watched live on [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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Colorful's sub-brand—COLORFIRE—is well known for producing cartoon cat-themed "MEOW" designs; mostly adorning [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], motherboards, PC enclosures and peripherals. TechPowerUp staffers inspected [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that were exhibited at Colorful's Computex 2025 booth. The Chinese company's mid-year presence—in Las Vegas—signalled new international ambitions; beyond its native distribution of products. A fresh VideoCardz article indicates that COLORFIRE's B850M-MEOW WIFI V14 motherboard is receiving some form of international release. Chinese customers were able to buy retail units two months ago, with prices reportedly going up from an initial launch tag of $120 to $134.

The V14 board design seems to succeed a slightly older B850M SKU: the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. COLORFIRE's cat mascot features prominently on this product, along with a much busier overall presentation—consisting of text and patterns. By contrast, the fancier (specs-wise) mostly white V14 option dials back on visual flare. A smattering of subtle cartoon feline paw prints and MEOW logos are present on the newer model; perhaps better suited to Western tastes. Upgrades include a 10+2+1 power phase design (versus 7+2+1), support for four DDR5 DIMMs, more rear panel connectivity, and Wi-Fi 7 functionality.[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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Today is the day! Lyra Studio is excited to announce that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of this journey. Every test, every piece of feedback, every shared run brought us here. From the Playtest in April, the public Demo in May, the Steam Next Fest in June, and the closed beta starting in August, FrostBound has finally launched as a full version.

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FrostBound challenges players with nine escalating difficulty levels beyond the "Journey" tutorial, ramping up enemy strength and tightening resources while rewarding skilled players with unique buffs and greater loot. High-tier runs feature "Fortification Events" to build defenses and "Beacons" for recruiting epic and elite cards, keeping every run dynamic. Deck management is key. Unlock new card packs, select which to bring into each run, and use "Lock Points" to secure rare cards. A one-click reset makes strategy adjustments easy between runs.[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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Qualcomm introduced its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at the tail end of September, followed by yesterday's presenting of their Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 platform. On a surface level, this confusing naming scheme makes it difficult to tell the difference between the two fifth-gen options. Complicating matters further, semiconductor industry soothsayers have already moved onto predicting the nature of next generation Qualcomm offerings. This week, Digital Chat Station reckoned that Qualcomm's engineering department has moved onto the development of a mysterious "Snapdragon 8950" SoC. This forthcoming "standard" SKU could end up becoming the "Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6" chip; set to exist alongside a more potent "Pro" model.

Earlier today, Digital Chat Station shared fresh musings via their Weibo blog: "the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 platform's performance was pretty good, which gives me some confidence in next year's standard Snapdragon 8950. After all, it uses the same high-end TSMC 2 nm '2+3+3' Oryon CPU (as the Gen 6 Pro), with a slightly downgraded GPU. This chip will be positioned directly in the 4000 yuan (~$560 USD) price range." The speculated "Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro" option is expected to utilize a more powerful Adreno GPU, thus demanding a price premium. Insiders believe that Qualcomm will be selecting TSMC's newer 2 nm "N2P" for production of the sixth-gen Snapdragon 8 production. Reportedly, MediaTek leadership has made a similar decision regarding the makeup of its next flagship designs.[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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Intel's "Arrow Lake" Core Ultra 200S series of processors were launched over a year ago, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] recently conducted Linux tests to compare their original performance and power consumption to the current situation. The results are promising for Intel's CPUs, which have not been particularly popular among DIY PC builders. According to the geometric mean of all benchmarks, Phoronix found that the high-end Intel Core Ultra 9 285K has shown a noticeable performance improvement of approximately 9% after a year of software optimizations.

What's particularly interesting is that this performance gain was achieved while using only 85% of the power that was consumed in October last year, representing a 15% reduction. This suggests that Intel has optimized the software to not only reduce power consumption and heat output but also to extract an additional 9% performance from the "Arrow Lake-S" silicon. In these Linux tests, no workload experienced any regressions, indicating consistent results across a wide range of use cases, including code compilation, compression, web performance, HPC, simulation, and many others. We hope that the same optimizations are trickling into Windows software, so more gamers can enjoy everyday performance optimizations[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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It's no secret that Assassin's Creed Shadows has not been Ubisoft's smoothest game launch, with multiple delays and controversies surrounding the game even before launch. Despite eventually launching reasonably successfully, replete with day-zero Steam Deck support and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it looks like Ubisoft is backing down from some of its more ambitious content plans, according to comments by the game's post-launch director, Simon Lemay Comtois in an interview with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The biggest shift away from the game's original plans is the cancellation of the second DLC that was meant to introduce a whack of fresh content in the second year of the game's post-launch development life cycle.

Originally, Assassin's Creed Shadows was meant to receive two DLCs on the same scale as Claws of Awaji, although not much was revealed about the scope of the second update or when it was planned to launch, other than that it was planned as a year two DLC that would otherwise have launched as a season pass. The director goes on to say that the support and development plan for year two of Assassin's Creed Shadows will change from being "quick and reactive" to more "chunky" updates that "shake things up a little more." These comments come the same week that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] featuring an Attack on Titan collaboration, a new story quest, and a whole bunch of quality-of-life and stability fixes.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Hello everyone, we're delighted to share the full reveal of Beyond Words, created by Mindfuel Games and led by Steve Ellis and Dr David Doak, whose previous work includes GoldenEye 007 and TimeSplitters. Today marks the release of our Playable Demo. Watch the announcement trailer (below) to see the experience in motion, then dive straight in.

What Is Beyond Words?
A smart blend of roguelike strategy and word-crafting where every tile you place shapes the board. Build combos, trigger multipliers and discover over 300 modifiers and abilities designed to test your wit. Build powerful word combos, unlock game-changing upgrades and take on a challenge where victory is spelled one letter at a time. Beyond Words is a clever fusion of roguelike strategy and word-crafting that rewards tactical thinking, inventive play and a touch of flair. Try the game for yourself with the free [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It offers a tight and representative slice of the full experience with shifting boards, escalating challenges and a growing set of powers to bend in your favor.[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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Samsung has published new research showing a way to cut NAND flash power consumption by a large margin. In a paper released in Nature, a team of 34 engineers from Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Semiconductor R&D Center describes how combining ferroelectric materials with oxide semiconductors can reduce power use during string-level operations (the method by which NAND flash reads/writes data by passing signals through series-connected cells) by up to 96%. Modern NAND keeps adding more layers to increase capacity, but this also lengthens the path that signals have to travel through each string of cells. As the stack gets taller, read and write power goes up. Earlier attempts to use ferroelectric designs didn't fully solve this problem. Samsung's approach takes advantage of the electrical characteristics of oxide semiconductors. These materials normally have limited threshold-voltage control, which is seen as a drawback in other device types. In this design, however, that behavior helps lower switching power while still supporting high density, including up to 5 bits per cell. By reworking the transistor structure and applying these materials in a NAND layout, the team shows a clear path to much lower power consumption without sacrificing storage capacity.

If brought to market, the technology could help reduce power use in data centers and improve battery life in mobile and edge-AI devices. Market research firm Omdia projects global NAND revenue will jump from $65.6 billion in 2024 to $93.7 billion in 2029 with shipments growing at an average rate of 17.7% annually over that period. However, just [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that the company seems to plan converting parts of its NAND flash lines in Pyeongtaek and Hwaseong into DRAM production, and will also run its upcoming Pyeongtaek Fab 4 (P4) as a DRAM-only line. Industry sources say Samsung has become cautious about the NAND market, while [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) for standard DRAM have jumped sharply.[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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