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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced brings Edward Kenway’s Caribbean adventure back with updated visuals, revised systems, and several changes that can affect how you approach combat, sailing, exploration, and progression. The game still follows Edward’s journey from ambitious privateer to experienced Assassin, but the remake includes enough mechanical and technical changes to make older strategies less reliable in some areas. Adjusting the right settings,

Intel has started using ASML’s High NA EUV lithography technology in production for selected layers of its Panther Lake processors, marking an important step for both companies. The chips are being manufactured on Intel’s advanced 18A process. ASML describes Panther Lake as the first high volume logic product to use High NA EUV, although Intel is applying the technology only to a subset of

NVIDIA has announced a new GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition giveaway featuring a custom design inspired by Gears of War: E Day. The promotion is part of the company’s Summer of RTX 2026 campaign and will give two winners a specially wrapped RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card. Each card features artwork based on the upcoming Gears of War title, with visual elements linked

Microsoft is redesigning Windows Search to reduce promotional material and place greater emphasis on apps, files, folders, and system settings stored on your PC. The updated experience removes product promotions from web results and instead aims to show the most relevant answer to a search. This should make the interface feel less crowded, especially when you are trying to locate a local application or

NVIDIA has introduced two new Jetson Thor modules designed to bring more AI processing power to humanoid robots, autonomous machines, healthcare systems, and other edge computing devices. The Jetson Thor T3000 targets advanced robotics and humanoid platforms, while the smaller T2000 is aimed at visual AI agents, autonomous mobile robots, and lower power edge systems. Both products expand NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor family below

Prices for several chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing are increasing as AI chip production raises demand across the supply chain. Hydrofluoric acid and isopropanol are among the materials facing higher prices. Both chemicals are essential to chip fabrication, where wafers must pass through repeated cleaning, etching, coating, and inspection stages before a finished processor can be produced. The latest increases come as semiconductor manufacturers

Pulsar will launch the Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition gaming mouse on July 21, 2026, bringing an unusual active cooling system to a lightweight competitive mouse. The new model includes a genuine Noctua NF A4x10 5V PWM fan inside its carbon composite shell. The fan pushes air through large openings in the top of the mouse and toward the player’s palm, helping reduce sweat during

TSMC plans to invest another $100 billion in the United States, increasing its total commitment to American semiconductor manufacturing to $265 billion. The additional funding will support four new facilities in Arizona, including chip manufacturing and advanced packaging plants. The company had already committed $165 billion to its US expansion before the latest announcement. TSMC is the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer and produces

AOC has introduced two 34 inch curved gaming monitors designed to handle both high refresh rate gaming and everyday productivity. The new models are the AOC Gaming CU34G4CA and CU34G4ZCA. Both use a 3440 by 1440 resolution, a 21:9 aspect ratio, and a 1500R curved Fast VA panel. The main difference is refresh rate. The CU34G4CA runs at up to 180Hz, while the CU34G4ZCA

Palit has added a new GeForce RTX 3060 12GB graphics card to its lineup, bringing the five year old Ampere model back as affordable GPU choices remain under pressure. The new Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Infinity 2 OC uses a dual fan cooler and arrives with a factory overclock. It is aimed at buyers who want dependable 1080p gaming performance and more video memory

AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X3D brings 3D V Cache gaming performance to a lower price point, offering eight Zen 4 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB of L3 cache for $329. The processor sits below the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in AMD’s AM5 lineup. It uses the same basic single chiplet design and the same amount of cache, but AMD has reduced its clock speeds to create

AMD has added official Ryzen AI MAX PRO 400 support to ROCm 7.14, giving developers access to the software tools needed to prepare applications for the upcoming professional processors before they reach the market. The new chips are part of the Gorgon Halo family and are expected to target professional workstations, compact systems, and high performance PCs designed for local AI, content creation, engineering,

Cadence has introduced AuraStack, an agentic AI platform created to reduce the time engineers spend managing complex printed circuit board and advanced packaging workflows. The platform runs through Allegro AI Studio and coordinates several specialised AI agents across planning, physical implementation, analysis, verification, and manufacturing preparation. Cadence says the system can help engineering teams move from an early product concept to a finished design

ASUS has released a new beta BIOS for several AMD 600 and 800 series motherboards, adding broader support and improved stability for DDR5 memory modules built with CXMT chips. The update is currently available for selected X670 and X870 models. ASUS says the BIOS improves memory performance, system stability, and compatibility with CXMT based DDR5 kits. Support has not yet reached the company’s B650

Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT has completed an $8.6 billion initial public offering on the Shanghai STAR Market, giving the company more financial support for its plan to expand DRAM production and compete with the industry’s three largest suppliers. The company is reportedly valued at roughly $80 billion to $85 billion following its market debut. That remains far below the combined scale of Samsung, SK

CPUID has released HWMonitor version 1.65.1 to correct problems introduced by the previous update, including unstable hotspot temperature readings on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. Version 1.65 added hotspot monitoring for RTX 50 GPUs after those readings had been unavailable in earlier releases. However, the software displayed two separate hotspot values, creating uncertainty about what each measurement represented. Some reports suggested that

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has rejected reports that the company’s next generation Vera Rubin platform is facing major delays, saying large scale production is moving forward and significant volumes are expected. Speaking during a visit to Japan, Huang said the rumors surrounding chip and rack delays were inaccurate. NVIDIA has already started production of the Vera Rubin platform, while its Vera CPUs are also

Moonshot has introduced Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model that reportedly completed the design of a functional inference chip during a 48 hour autonomous run. The model handled the design, optimization, verification, timing analysis, and simulation process using open source electronic design automation tools. The resulting chip was created for a smaller Kimi K3 Nano model and reportedly achieved 8,721 tokens

Major PC manufacturers are reportedly placing long term orders with Chinese memory producer CXMT as the global DRAM market continues to face tight supply and high prices. Demand has become strong enough that CXMT’s available production capacity may already be committed through the end of 2027. Large manufacturers are expected to receive priority, while smaller PC brands could struggle to secure enough memory for

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 Super graphics cards may already be in the hands of at least one board partner, but the company has reportedly stopped vendors from selling them while it decides how to handle rising memory costs. The refreshed Blackwell lineup is said to include the RTX 5070 Super, RTX 5070 Ti Super, and RTX 5080 Super. A possible RTX 5050 model with