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A graphics card buyer in Russia reportedly opened a sealed Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti package at a retail counter and found a two litre water bottle inside instead of the GPU. The customer had purchased the graphics card through Wildberries for nearly 90,000 rubles, equal to about $1,125. That price was already well above the RTX 5070 Ti’s original $750 launch figure, making

Samsung says it has secured new 2nm chip manufacturing projects from a major cloud service provider and several high performance computing customers, giving its foundry business fresh momentum as production expands during the second half of 2026. The company has not identified the customers involved. However, it confirmed that design work has already started for products expected to use its advanced manufacturing process. Samsung

AMD is preparing a third type of processor core for its Zen 6 generation, with a new low power design expected to appear in future Ryzen mobile chips. The company already uses regular high performance cores and denser Zen 6C cores in its wider processor roadmap. The new Zen 6LP core appears to target background tasks, idle workloads and other situations where reducing power

TSMC is reportedly developing a new advanced packaging method inspired by Intel’s EMIB technology as demand for AI chips continues to place heavy pressure on its existing CoWoS production capacity. The internal project is said to be known as quasi EMIB and is being developed with Kinsus Interconnect Technology. Full technical details have not been disclosed, but the design may use small silicon bridges

Several ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards are being sold with a free 360mm liquid CPU cooler, creating a more attractive option for PC builders facing higher GPU prices. The bundles include the ASRock Challenger 360 Digital Edition liquid cooler, which is valued at about $89. When that value is deducted from the package price, the effective cost of some RX 9070 XT

Lenovo is reportedly preparing the Yoga 9n, a premium convertible laptop built around NVIDIA’s new RTX Spark processor platform. The Yoga 9n is expected to be one of the first Windows 11 notebooks using NVIDIA’s ARM based system on chip. It combines a convertible design, an OLED display, stylus support and a wide selection of ports, placing it firmly in the premium productivity and

ASUS has expanded its professional monitor lineup with two new ProArt QD OLED displays aimed at content creators, photographers, video editors and other colour sensitive workflows. The new models are the 26.5 inch ProArt PA279CDV and the 31.5 inch ProArt PA329CDV. Both use 4K QD OLED panels, support refresh rates of up to 120Hz and offer factory calibrated colour accuracy. The smaller model is

Intel has reportedly agreed to provide technology from its low power Atom processor family to Rosaic, a chip startup led by an executive with previous business ties to Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan. The arrangement is said to include the transfer of register transfer level code, commonly known as RTL. This would give Rosaic detailed access to the logic behind parts of Intel’s Atom

Microsoft plans to deploy next generation rack scale AI infrastructure from both AMD and NVIDIA as it expands Azure’s computing capacity. During Microsoft’s latest earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella said Azure would be among the first cloud platforms to use systems based on AMD Helios and NVIDIA Vera Rubin. The decision gives Microsoft access to two competing AI hardware platforms rather than tying future

Intel is developing extremely large processor packages that could reach 240mm by 240mm, allowing future AI and high performance computing systems to combine many specialised chiplets within one design. The company calls the concept Hyper Large Form Factor packaging. Its research targets packages up to 24 times the size of a standard reticle, with longer term plans moving beyond that level through panel based

Precigenetics has signed a $2.3 million agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific covering 11 specialised microfluidic environment chips and related licensing. Each chip is valued at about $200,000 under the reported deal, with the remaining $100,000 apparently assigned to licensing or other commercial terms. The unusually high unit price has attracted attention because basic microfluidic chips can cost far less to manufacture. However, comparing the

An MSI customer says the company initially refused to replace the motherboard in a $6,000 Raider GE77HX gaming laptop, even though the system had reportedly been diagnosed before its warranty expired. The laptop, equipped with an Intel Core i9 12900HX processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, began showing graphical artefacts after about 18 months. The charger also repeatedly connected and disconnected, suggesting

The supply of conventional DRAM could decline significantly in 2027 as memory manufacturers direct more production capacity towards high bandwidth memory for artificial intelligence systems. Apacer CEO C.K. Chang has warned that memory companies may release only around 30 percent of their 2026 commodity DRAM volume next year. If that estimate proves accurate, supply would fall by about 70 percent year over year. The

Shanghai Aishengna has reportedly emerged as the company behind China’s latest effort to develop domestic deep ultraviolet lithography equipment. The company is described as a subsidiary of Shanghai Electric and a sister organisation to Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment. It is reportedly responsible for immersion DUV systems, while related companies handle other parts of China’s lithography equipment programme. The reported structure suggests China is dividing

A major Taiwanese retailer has reportedly stopped selling the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 as a standalone graphics card, restricting purchases to component bundles and complete desktop systems. Cool PC currently lists several RTX 5080 models as available only with a full PC build or as part of a wider hardware package. The move reflects tighter GPU availability and rising prices across the consumer graphics

Acemagic has introduced the F9A, a compact AI focused mini PC powered by AMD’s Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 processor. The system uses a 2 litre chassis but includes a 16 core Zen 5 processor, Radeon 8060S integrated graphics, support for up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory and two PCIe 4.0 storage slots. It also provides OCuLink for an external graphics card, two USB4

The shift towards digital games has made buying and managing large libraries more convenient, but recent outages across Xbox and PlayStation have exposed a serious weakness in that model. When account, licensing or store services fail, players can temporarily lose access to games they believe they own. Two major Xbox disruptions and a separate PlayStation outage occurred within a short period. During the Xbox

Building your own gaming PC has long been treated as the better choice for performance, value and upgradeability. That view is becoming harder to defend as prebuilt systems improve their component quality, cooling, cable management and pricing. Many older prebuilts deserved their poor reputation. They often used restrictive cases, proprietary motherboards, weak power supplies and unnecessary software. Some also charged a large premium despite

Microsoft has confirmed a major Xbox presence at Gamescom 2026, with 140 gaming stations and 25 upcoming titles available for visitors to play. The Xbox booth will be located in Hall 7 at booth A 0.61 during the event, which runs from August 26 through August 30. Microsoft is using this year’s appearance to mark 25 years of Xbox and plans to feature games

Sega has opened applications for a closed network test of Crazy Taxi: World Tour, giving selected players an early opportunity to try the game’s online multiplayer before its planned 2027 release. The test will run from September 11 through September 13 on PC through Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Applications remain open until August 31, although registration does not guarantee access. Participants