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(PR) Lian Li Intros the RB Series PSU with Advanced Cable Management
LIAN LI, a leading manufacturer of computer chassis and accessories, launches the RB Series PSU, available in 550 W, 650 W, and 750 W models with 80 Plus Bronze certification for up to 85% efficiency. Designed to deliver clean power and cleaner builds, the RB Series features an integrated cable management system with a built-in groove and Velcro straps to secure excess cables, paired with a semi-modular layout that lets users connect SATA and peripheral cables only when needed. Fully compliant with Intel's ATX 3.1 specification, the 650 W and 750 W units also include a native PCIe Gen 5.1 12V-2x6 connector (up to 450 W) for next-gen GPU support. With a high amperage single +12V rail and a DC-to-DC conversion design for enhanced voltage stability and power quality, the RB Series is engineered for reliable performance. Cooling is handled by a quiet 135 mm FDB fan, ensuring efficient airflow while keeping noise levels in check.
Advanced Cable Management with Semi-Modular Flexibility
The RB Series stands out in the Bronze category with a unique cable management system built directly into the PSU housing. The integrated cable groove on one side and Velcro straps on three sides of the PSU allow users to secure excess cables neatly along the sides, reducing clutter and improving airflow. Along with this is a semi-modular design, where only the essential power cables are fixed. Users can connect SATA and peripheral cables as needed. This setup makes the build process easier while giving the flexibility to create a clean, efficient system without extra wiring.
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(PR) Assetto Corsa Rally Launching in Early Access on November 13
505 Games and Supernova Games Studios, in technical partnership with KUNOS Simulazioni, are proud to announce Assetto Corsa Rally - the new additional arm within the Assetto Corsa series, dedicated to the thrilling world of rally racing. Developed by Supernova Games Studios, Assetto Corsa Rally brings the acclaimed realistic driving engine of the Assetto Corsa franchise to one of the most demanding and spectacular motorsport disciplines. The game delivers an authentic and immersive experience that captures the unique essence of rallying - the ultimate test of speed, strategy, reflexes, and composure, all rolled into one.
The title will be available in Early Access on Steam starting November 13, at the special price of £24.99 / $29.99 / €29,99. Supernova Games Studios, part of the Digital Bros Group, is an international team of industry veterans with a strong passion for sim-racing and motorsport. Thanks to its partnership with KUNOS Simulazioni, the team had access to the acclaimed Assetto Corsa physics engine, which has been specifically refined and fine-tuned to tackle the unique challenges of rally driving. KUNOS supervised and supported the accuracy of the driving model, ensuring the new entry lives up to the high standards of realism and simulation that define the Assetto Corsa brand.
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No More China: Microsoft and Micron Hardware Production is Moving
According to TrendForce, citing a Nikkei report, Microsoft is accelerating efforts to relocate laptop and server production out of China. The company has asked suppliers to prepare for the manufacture of Surface laptops and data center servers outside the country, with the goal of moving up to 80% of server components and final assembly elsewhere by 2026. The transition extends beyond final assembly to components and materials, including cables, connectors, and printed circuit boards marking the first time major U.S. firms have diversified supply chains down to this level.
Meanwhile, Micron reportedly plans to exit China's server chip business after failing to recover from a 2023 government ban that restricted its products from critical infrastructure. The U.S. memory maker was the first American semiconductor company targeted by Beijing in what was widely viewed as retaliation for Washington's tech export controls. The move has cost Micron access to China's fast-growing data center market in favor of rivals Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, and domestic players YMTC and CXMT. However, Micron will continue supplying customers such as Lenovo and other firms with operations outside China, as well as maintain business in the automotive and mobile sectors. Despite workforce reductions in its Chinese NAND division earlier this year, Micron continues to operate and expand its Xi'an packaging facility, one of its key manufacturing sites in Asia, Reuters reports.
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TSMC to Bring More Advanced Manufacturing to Arizona Plant Ahead of Sc
TSMC's strategy to keep advanced manufacturing primarily in Taiwan might be shifting, as indicated by recent comments from CEO C.C. Wei. During the Q3 earnings call, Wei stated, "We are preparing to upgrade our technologies faster... to more advanced process technologies in Arizona, given the strong AI-related demand from our customers." Previously, TSMC has emphasized that its latest nodes would be developed in Taiwan first, with Arizona following. Currently, TSMC produces N4 4 nm technology at its Arizona facilities and had planned to introduce the N3 node in 2028. However, this plan might change in favor of developing more advanced N2 or even A16 nodes in the coming years, as Taiwanese facilities advance to the A16 and A14 nodes first. The U.S. fabs will remain one node generation behind the Taiwanese fabs, rather than several generations as initially planned.
The push to accelerate advanced node deployment is largely driven by demand from U.S. customers. TSMC recently confirmed that its most advanced N2 node will begin volume production by the end of the year, with a rapid increase planned through 2026 in Taiwan. This marks the second 2 nm-class node to reach high-volume manufacturing, following Intel's 18A node. The competition from Intel's 18A and the upcoming 14A ramp may have led TSMC to reconsider its strategy for bringing advanced manufacturing to its U.S. facilities. While TSMC plans to add five more facilities at its Fab 21 site, it is yet to be confirmed which nodes will be developed there. With an accelerated timeline, it seems only a matter of time before we see the first Angstrom-era nodes produced on American soil.
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Microsoft PowerToys Adds Automatic Light/Dark Mode Switching Based on
It has been over six years since we last covered an update for Microsoft PowerToys. PowerToys date all the way back to the Windows 95 era, offering a set of utilities for power users to enhance and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Modern PowerToys, initially released in 2019, are a collection of tools and apps that allow users to customize the user interface and user experience. The latest PowerToys update, version 0.95.0, introduces features like automatic switching between light and dark modes in the Windows 11 UI, depending on the time of day. Users can schedule light mode to be active during the day and have the tool automatically switch to dark mode when the sun sets.
Another notable improvement is the speed enhancement of the Command Palette, reducing latency by hundreds of milliseconds in real-world scenarios. Additionally, the Peek function, which allows users to preview files without opening apps, is now accessible by simply pressing the space key on your keyboard. For those eager to apply these changes, the Find My Mouse highlight can be made fully transparent and adjusted using a built-in slider. Other features, such as ignoring shortcut conflicts and unassigning shortcuts, are also available.
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Team Group Unveils the T-Force Z54E Gen 5 NVMe SSD
Team Group today introduced the T-Force Z54E M.2 NVMe Gen 5 SSD. This enthusiast-segment SSD is powered by Phison's latest E28 series controller that's built on the TSMC 6 nm node and comes with significantly lower thermals than the E26 series. The drive comes in 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB models, and takes advantage of PCI-Express 5.0 x4 interface to offer sequential transfer speeds of up to 14,900 MB/s reads on all models. The 2 TB and 4 TB models offer up to 14,000 MB/s sequential writes, while the 1 TB model offers up to 13,700 MB/s sequential writes.
The Team Group T-Force Z54E comes as a bare-drive, with only a graphene-based heat spreader, no active cooling solution, so you're probably recommended to use the heatsinks included with your motherboard. The company did not put out random-access performance numbers, but states endurance at 600 TBW for the 1 TB model, 1200 TBW for 2 TB, and 2400 TBW for the 4 TB model. The company didn't reveal pricing.
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Qwertykeys Releases $80 Sonic HE+ Hall Effect PCB Upgrade for Neo65 Me
The Qwertykeys Neo65 keyboard line-up, known for its premium build quality, customizability, and relatively affordable price, was recently updated with a Hall effect version in the Sonic He+, with Qwertykeys promising an upgrade module akin to the one offered by Wooting for the 60HE+ for Neo65 mechanical keyboard owners. That Sonic He+ PCB module has now become a reality, offering Neo65 owners a drop-in upgrade to turn their mechanical keyboard into an HE keyboard with 8,000 Hz polling.
Unlike the Wooting 60HE+ module, the Sonic65 He+ module kit comes with just about everything you'll need to convert a mechanical Neo65 keyboard to its Hall effect sibling. That means the PCB and a carbon fiber plate, a new ribbon cable, mounting and assembly hardware, Owlab Nova Magnetic switches, stabilizers, case and plate foams, and even the frosted translucent keycaps with the cyberpunk green or purple legends. It also includes accessories, like an upgraded keycap and switch puller, USB cable, and a tool to remove the PCB and plate assembly from the plate. The Sonic65 He+ module is available at $80, and users have a choice of white or green legends on the smoky keycaps. The Sonic65 He+ offers similar features to similar Hall effect gaming keyboards, including customizable actuation distance, Rapid Trigger, SOCD, Dynamic Keystroke, and macro creation via the proprietary NeoFlux web driver. The Hall effect sensors offer 0.01 mm sensitivity, and the Owlab Nova Magnetic switches included with the module have 3.5 mm of travel and a 50 gf bottom-out force, which is similar to the linear red mechanical switches that come with many old-school gaming keyboards. The switches also feature a closed-bottom design and a box stem, which should offer a cleaner sound profile and minimize stem wobble.
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Ticktype DP104 Retro Full-Size Mechanical Keyboard Launches As First P
OwLab is known for its premium enthusiast DIY mechanical keyboards, like the $499 PT750, with sister company Qwertykeys bringing up the rear with midrange enthusiast DIY kits. Now, however, OwLab has announced a new sub-brand called Ticktype, which appears to fill the pre-built keyboard niche. While the new keyboard brand has only just been given a name, two keyboards that previously fell under the Qwertykeys brand, the Evo75 and Evo80, will now be sold under Ticktype. That said, Ticktype has also debuted the DP104, a new full-size wireless mechanical keyboard that takes inspiration from retro gaming—much like the QK65 MK3 we covered recently—and the custom mechanical keyboard scene, but with the benefits of a pre-built keyboard.
The Tick type DP104, aside from being a full-size mechanical keyboard with a proper num pad and an aluminium case, boasts a number of features that make it both fun to use and easy to mod for beginners just looking at their first mechanical keyboard. For starters, the DP104 has a quick-release ball-catch top case, meaning the top case releases by applying only a little pressure in the correct direction, allowing you full access to the keyboard's interior for stuff like modifications, cleaning, or changing out the gasket mounting system for something stiffer or with more give. The other neat feature is the colorful "interactive pixel display" located above the num pad. This small landscape display can be used for fun features, like the reactive fireworks mode, real-time typing mode, and an "audio reactive mode" that displays an equalizer that reacts to nearby sounds, or you can make it display keyboard status, like battery charge, OS mode, the time, and caps lock status. The DP104 also has a customizable RGB light bar and two volume control buttons just above the arrow keys.
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Intel "Nova Lake" Could Arrive Without AVX10, APX, and AMX Support
Intel is still finalizing its next-generation "Nova Lake" specifications. However, the core microarchitecture has been done, the NPU design is finished and upgraded, and the instruction set is finalized. It could be the case that these consumer CPUs will again lack support for Intel's AVX10, APX, and AMX instruction set—designed to encompass 512-bit acceleration and fast vector/matrix multiplication for tasks like content creation, encoding/decoding, AI, and much more—remaining exclusive to Intel Xeon processors. According to the latest GCC compiler patch, the initial Nova Lake enablement patch does not include AVX10, AMX, or APX. This might suggest that support for these new x86 instructions could be missing from the next-generation CPU. Initially, Intel decided to disable AVX-512 for "Alder Lake" and "Raptor Lake" client-oriented CPU lineups, meaning that only server-grade Xeon CPUs got the accelerated 512-bit data paths.
This GCC patch seems to contradict the findings from August, when Intel introduced AVX10.2 support for "future Intel Core processors" in the oneDNN software library, likely targeting the Nova Lake series. We need to wait for more information from other enablement patches or direct confirmation from Intel regarding whether AVX10, APX, and AMX will be included in the 52-core Nova Lake SKUs. Enabling fast vector and matrix acceleration on 52 cores would be ideal for consumers, content creators, gamers, and workstation users alike. In comparison, AMD introduced full AVX-512 support with its "Zen 5" cores across its product range, providing a performance boost in optimized applications for both desktop and server CPUs. This marked the first time AMD did not emulate 512-bit AVX, which previously required splitting 512-bit data into two 256-bit units to be processed over two cycles.
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NVIDIA H100 Makes Its Cosmic Debut as the First AI Accelerator in Spac
NVIDIA has decided that covering the earth with data centers is not enough, so the company now wants to accelerate infrastructure in the outer space. According to the latest blog post, NVIDIA will be a part of an AI-equipped satellite from Starcloud, powered by a single NVIDIA H100 "Hopper" GPU. After many months or even years of validation and testing that goes into designing a space payload, Starcloud and NVIDIA have designed a 60 kg package the size of a small fridge, that will be installed in space satellite orbiting the planet Earth. This will be more powerful than any current space infrastructure, at more than 100x compute capacity than the existing accelerators. We still don't know if this GPU has been radiation hardened, or it has just been isolated enough for space radiation to not represent a problem.
In space, the power requirements can easily be neglected. With the use of solar panels, any hardware is capable of tapping nearly infinite energy for powering the infrastructure. That way, NVIDIA H100 GPU can run at full throttle crunching any AI computation without any issues, and making sure that the Starcloud satellite is doing its job. The cooling structure of this AI box is also interesting, as it runs as a passively cooled setup where the deep vacuum of the outer space is about -270 °C. This negative degree environment allows the design to run at the lowest possible operational temperature, meaning that the issues of heat management is also solved due to the natural property of space, similar to what the power infrastructure utilizes.
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NextSilicon Claims Its Maverick-2 Outperforms NVIDIA GPUs, Unveils New
NextSilicon, a startup company founded in 2017 has detailed its Maverick-2 Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA), claiming it outperforms NVIDIA's HGX B200 GPU and Intel's Sapphire Rapids CPUs in high-performance computing and AI workloads. Built on TSMC's 5 nm node, Maverick-2 is available as a single-die PCIe card with 96 GB of HBM3e (300 W) or a dual-die OAM version with 192 GB of HBM3e (600 W). According to internal benchmarks, Maverick-2 delivers up to 4× higher FP64 performance-per-watt than the HGX B200 and over 20× higher efficiency than Intel's Xeon Sapphire Rapids. In GUPS benchmarks, it reached 32.6 GUPS at 460 W, reportedly 22× faster than CPUs and 6× faster than GPUs. In HPCG workloads it achieved 600 GFLOPS at 750 W, while consuming roughly half the power of competing solutions. The company attributes these gains to a data-flow based architecture that shifts overhead management from hardware to adaptive software, allowing most silicon area to be used for computation rather than control logic.
Alongside Maverick-2, NextSilicon announced Arbel, a RISC-V-based enterprise-grade chip also built on TSMC's 5 nm process. The company claims Arbel already surpasses current RISC-V designs as well as Intel Lion Cove and AMD Zen 5 cores. Arbel features a 10-wide instruction pipeline with a 480-entry reorder buffer for high core utilization, running at 2.5 GHz. The chip can execute up to 16 scalar instructions in parallel and includes four 128-bit vector units for data-parallel workloads. A 64 KB L1 cache and large shared L3 cache ensure high memory throughput and low latency to reduce bottlenecks in compute-intensive applications. No release date or full benchmarks were disclosed, but NextSilicon says Arbel represents a move toward a fully open, software-adaptive silicon platform for future HPC and AI systems.
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SK hynix Second-Gen 3 GB DDR5 "A-Die" Chips Spotted, Rated for 7200 MT
A new generation of SK hynix DDR5 memory chips has surfaced online, reportedly marking the debut of second-generation 3 GB A-die ICs. First shown by Team Group's Kevin Wu on Facebook, the chip carries the X021 marking and "AKBD" part code. According to leaker @unikoshardware, the X021 label identifies it as the successor to the 3 GB M-die used in early DDR5 modules. Based on SK hynix's internal binning scheme, the "KB" designation in AKBD likely corresponds to a native 7200 MT/s JEDEC speed following the company's established progression from "EB" (4800 MT/s) through "HB" (6400 MT/s). This new bin suggests SK hynix is preparing faster DDR5 ICs aimed at next-generation Intel platforms, with Panther Lake and Arrow Lake Refresh expected to support up to DDR5-7200.
The sample shown reportedly uses an 8-layer PCB, which could limit headroom for extreme overclocking beyond 8000 MT/s. To fully exploit the new A-die's potential, manufacturers are expected to move to 10 or 12-layer PCBs for greater signal integrity. While SK hynix has yet to officially unveil the part, this early appearance of the 3 GB A-die AKBD hints that production may already be underway. To add some background, Samsung was reigning supreme in the DDR4 days with high-end memory modules pretty much always having Samsung's hand-picked B-die chips. However, things have changed in the DDR5 world with SK hynix taking the lead with its A-die and M-die chips grabbing all the attention.
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