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Anthropic is reportedly in early talks with UK startup Fractile, a company working on a new chip architecture designed to speed up AI inference while reducing cost. The talks are still early, and Fractile has not yet produced test chips, so this should be treated as a developing story rather than a finished product. Fractile’s technology is called Memory Compute Fusion Architecture. The basic

AMD’s upcoming Ryzen AI 5 435G desktop APU has appeared in a leaked benchmark, and the early result is interesting. Even while running below its listed boost clock, the chip performed close to the Ryzen 5 8600G in Geekbench. The Ryzen AI 5 435G is part of AMD’s coming Ryzen AI 400 desktop APU lineup for AM5. These chips are expected to bring newer

ASUS is reportedly changing how it allocates its RTX 50 series graphics cards. Instead of pushing as many RTX 5070 Ti models as before, the company may reduce supply and move more production focus toward the RTX 5080. The reason appears to be simple. Both the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 use 16GB of VRAM, but the RTX 5080 sells at a higher

Xbox is launching a new developer focused video series called Game Dev Update, and the first episode will include more discussion about Project Helix, Microsoft’s next generation Xbox hardware plan. The show is aimed at developers, but many Xbox fans will likely pay attention because Project Helix remains one of the biggest questions around the platform’s future. The first episode will premiere on May

Pearl Abyss has released Crimson Desert update 1.5, and it adds one of the game’s most requested features: boss rematches. After crossing 5 million sales, the studio is clearly still investing in the game with new systems, fixes, and performance features. The update is available across platforms, except the Mac App Store version, which will receive it later. The new Rematch system turns bosses

Intel and AMD are working on a new x86 extension called APX, or Advanced Performance Extensions. It is part of a wider effort by the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to modernize x86 while keeping compatibility with older software. APX is different from flashier AI focused updates like ACE. Its goal is more general. It helps normal CPU workloads run faster and more efficiently by

AI memory demand is getting worse, and the pressure may soon move beyond GPUs. A new report says future AI focused CPUs could be equipped with 300GB to 400GB of memory, a major jump from today’s common 96GB to 256GB range per chip. The reason is agentic AI. These systems do more than answer one prompt. They plan, call tools, manage longer context, and

Tenstorrent is making big claims for its new Galaxy Blackhole AI servers. The company says the system can deliver very high inference performance while lowering total cost compared with current GPU based platforms. The hardware is built around Tenstorrent’s Blackhole chips, which use a RISC V based design. Inside each chip are Tensix cores with programmable RISC processors, matrix units, vector units, local SRAM,

TSMC is preparing to show more details about its A16 process at the 2026 VLSI Symposium, and the node looks like an important step beyond 2nm. A16 is part of TSMC’s Angstrom era roadmap and is expected to bring better performance, lower power use, and backside power delivery. The biggest change is TSMC’s Super Power Rail technology. This is the company’s version of backside

LG has started taking preorders in Japan for two new UltraGear EVO OLED gaming monitors, including its high end 45 inch 5K2K model. The bigger surprise is the price. The flagship 45GX950B B has a listed price of 329,800 yen, which is around $2,099, but the preorder price is 259,800 yen, or roughly $1,653. That works out to about 21% off before launch. The

A Reddit user has found one of the better local PC hardware deals we have seen recently. The shopper walked out of a Walmart with two AMD AM5 processors, a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and a Ryzen 5 7600X, for just $220 total. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D was marked down to $145, while the Ryzen 5 7600X was listed at $75. For context, the 7800X3D

AMD has submitted new patches for its open source AMDGPU driver that move Linux closer to proper HDMI 2.1 support on Radeon graphics cards. This is a major step because HDMI 2.1 has been one of the longest running display limitations for AMD on Linux. The new patches add Fixed Rate Link support, also known as FRL. This is the transport layer that gives

The chip industry is still moving forward, but the pace has changed. A new roadmap linked to IMEC suggests that sub 1nm process technology may not arrive until around 2034, with even smaller 0.2nm class nodes appearing much later, around the 2040s. That timeline shows how difficult chip scaling has become. For years, new nodes brought regular density improvements. Now, each step needs more

QNAP has introduced the QAI h1290FX, a new edge AI NAS built for local AI work, storage heavy workflows, and on premise deployments. The interesting part is the hardware pairing. It uses an older AMD EPYC 7302P processor from the Zen 2 era, but can be equipped with NVIDIA’s much newer RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU with 96GB of VRAM. The system is aimed

The Uperfect UFree V is a 15.6 inch portable monitor built around one clear idea: you should not need cables every time you want a second screen. Most portable monitors are thin and light, but they still need a wired connection for power or display input. The UFree V tries to solve that with a built in battery and wireless screen mirroring. At $189,

SSD prices have been rising, so a large discount on a fast 4TB gaming drive stands out more than usual. The WD Black SN7100 4TB has dropped to $499.99 at Best Buy, down from a much higher regular price. The 1TB and 2TB versions are also discounted at Amazon. That matters because storage has become one of the more painful parts of building or

Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred appears to have changed the tone around Blizzard’s latest action RPG. The expansion adds a new story, a new region, new loot systems, class updates, and faster endgame structure. More importantly, it seems to answer some of the complaints that followed Diablo 4 since launch. The writer went into the expansion worried that Blizzard was changing too much again.

Xbox may be preparing to bring more classic games forward through backward compatibility, and Microsoft is now pointing players toward a community voting site where they can request what they want to see next. The signal came from Jason Ronald, Xbox’s VP of Next Generation. When a fan asked whether people could request more games for Xbox’s backward compatibility program, Ronald pointed them to

Microsoft has changed the way it talks about gaming PC memory. The company now describes 16GB RAM as a baseline for Windows 11 gaming PCs, while 32GB is being treated as the safer “no worries” option. That does not mean 16GB is suddenly useless. It still works for many games, especially if you keep background apps under control. But Microsoft is saying what many

VIDIA’s older Jetson developer modules are now being phased out as memory shortages spread beyond normal PC parts. The affected boards use LPDDR4 memory, which has become harder to source and more expensive as the wider DRAM market stays under pressure. Jetson modules are small embedded computers used for robotics, edge AI, cameras, industrial systems, and developer projects. You can think of them as