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Xbox fans are using Microsoft’s new Player Voice feedback system to send a clear message. Many want the company to bring back stronger console exclusives, especially for major franchises such as Halo, Gears of War, Forza, and Fable. The most supported post on the service asks Xbox to bring exclusives back, arguing that consoles need clear reasons for people to buy them. At the

AMD has introduced its Ryzen AI MAX 400 family, also known as Gorgon Halo, with a major focus on local AI workloads. The new chips support up to 192GB of unified memory, which AMD says allows a single x86 client processor to run AI models with more than 300 billion parameters locally. The new lineup keeps the same main architecture as Ryzen AI MAX

Lisuan Tech has launched its 7G100 Extreme Founders Edition graphics card in China, marking one of the country’s first serious attempts at a domestic gaming GPU. The card is priced at 3,299 RMB, or about $500, which puts it close to RTX 5060 Ti territory. The 7G100 is based on Lisuan’s 6nm 7G106 GPU and comes with 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192

AMD has launched its EPYC 8005 Sorano server processor family, bringing Zen 5 cores to systems built for edge, telecom, vRAN, cloud storage, and other space constrained deployments. The new lineup scales from 8 cores to 84 cores and is designed for single socket servers that need strong I/O, memory support, and lower platform power. The biggest change is that EPYC 8005 uses full

Samsung has expanded its Odyssey G8 gaming monitor lineup with three new high end OLED models, including what it calls the world’s first 6K OLED gaming monitor. The new range includes 6K at 165Hz, 5K at 180Hz, and 4K at 240Hz options, all using Samsung’s fourth generation OLED Penta Tandem panel technology. The headline model is the Odyssey G8 G80HS, a 6K monitor with

NVIDIA’s AI chips still hold a strong position in the data center market, but Evercore ISI analysts say some AI engineers are paying closer attention to the full cost of using them. The concern is not only chip performance, but also power use, cooling needs, utilization, and cost per token. NVIDIA has often argued that its AI platforms offer better total cost of ownership

AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D has appeared again at an Indian retailer, suggesting the discontinued AM4 gaming processor may be making a limited comeback. The chip was spotted on 99deals.in at ₹30,000, which is about $310, with only a small number of units listed in stock at the time of the report. The listing is for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition. Earlier reports

Intel’s work on glass core substrates is moving closer to real hardware, with early prototypes shown at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2026. The prototypes included co packaged optics, giving an early look at how advanced AI and HPC chips could be built near the end of this decade. The prototypes were spotted by Dr. Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. They are described

Alibaba has introduced its Zhenwu M890 AI chip as China’s AI hardware market continues to grow under pressure from US restrictions on advanced Nvidia GPUs. The new chip is built on Alibaba’s in house Parallel Processing Unit architecture and is designed for agentic AI workloads, including training and inference. The Zhenwu M890 targets Nvidia’s Hopper based H20 chip, with Alibaba claiming around three times

AMD has shared pricing and availability details for its Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, with preorders set to begin in June 2026 at $3,999. The compact system is designed for developers who want to build, test, and run agentic AI workloads locally instead of relying fully on cloud services. The platform is powered by AMD’s Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 chip, part of the

NVIDIA has confirmed that its next generation Vera Rubin AI platform is scheduled to begin initial shipments in the third quarter of 2026, with volume ramp expected in the fourth quarter. The company also expects shipments to grow further through the first half of 2027 as demand for AI infrastructure continues to rise. This is related to the earlier Vera CPU and Vera Rubin

NVIDIA expects its Vera CPU business to become a major new revenue source as AI companies build larger systems for agentic AI and inference workloads. The company says Vera is already in full production, and early CPU racks have been delivered to firms including OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, and Oracle. Vera is NVIDIA’s first custom CPU platform for this market. It is based on Arm

NVIDIA’s upcoming Vera Rubin NVL72 rack is expected to carry a much higher bill of materials as memory prices rise sharply across the AI hardware market. According to Morgan Stanley Research estimates cited in the reference, the rack’s total cost could reach about $7.8 million, with memory alone making up around 26 percent of the full system cost. The Vera Rubin platform is already

NVIDIA has received US approval to ship its H200 AI GPUs to China based customers, but the company is not counting on any revenue from those sales for now. CFO Colette Kress said during NVIDIA’s latest earnings call that the company has not generated revenue from the approved H200 shipments and remains unsure whether China will allow imports of the chips. The situation shows

AMD is investing more than $10 billion across Taiwan’s technology ecosystem as it prepares to scale its next generation AI infrastructure. The investment will support advanced packaging, manufacturing partnerships, and the rollout of Helios AI racks powered by 6th Gen EPYC Venice CPUs and Instinct MI450X GPUs. This story is connected to the earlier AMD Venice news, but it is not the same update.

AMD has posted a new revision of its HDMI 2.1 FRL and DSC patches for the open source AMDGPU Linux driver, bringing Radeon support for modern HDMI features closer to wider use. The update is important because FRL, or Fixed Rate Link, allows HDMI connections to move beyond HDMI 2.0 bandwidth limits and support display modes such as high refresh rate 4K. The progress

MSI’s upcoming Claw 8 EX AI Plus has appeared at an Australian retailer, giving an early look at how expensive Intel’s next high end gaming handheld could be. The listing shows the standard model starting at AU$2,749, which is about $1,780 before GST. A Launch Pack version was listed at AU$2,849, or about $1,846 before GST. The device is expected to be the first

AMD’s next generation EPYC Venice processors have entered volume production, making them the first high performance computing CPUs to reach that stage on TSMC’s 2nm process. The new server chips are based on AMD’s Zen 6 architecture and are expected to launch later this year. The milestone matters because demand for data center CPUs is rising as companies build larger AI systems. AMD is

Gigabyte’s M27Q2 27 inch gaming monitor is now selling for $179, down from its usual $249 price. The monitor is aimed at PC gamers who want a sharper QHD display and a high refresh rate without moving into a much higher price range. The M27Q2 uses a 27 inch SS IPS panel with a 2560 x 1440 resolution. That makes it a good middle

A leaked Cinebench R23 run suggests Intel’s Core Ultra 7 251HX can deliver better efficiency than the older Core i9 14900HX, even though it has fewer cores and sits below the Core Ultra 7 255HX in Intel’s Arrow Lake HX lineup. The Core Ultra 7 251HX is an 18 core laptop processor with 6 Performance cores and 12 Efficient cores. It was introduced as