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    AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it

    AMD is committing to AM5 through 2029 and relaunching old chips. Today, AMD is promising it will keep supporting its AM5 desktop motherboard socket with new Ryzen processors through 202 it’s relaunching a “10th Anniversary” edition of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate the 10th anniversary of...
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    NVIDIA no longer reports gaming as separate revenue line as PCs and consoles move under Edge Computing

    NVIDIA puts PCs and game consoles under Edge Computing in latest financial results Published: Today, 15:59 GMT • WhyCry The company now uses two market platforms: Data Center and Edge Computing. NVIDIA says this change “better reflects its current and future growth drivers.” The second category...
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    Unreal Engine 5.8 Preview Has Arrived

    Download Unreal Engine 5.8 Preview from the Epic Games Launcher, GitHub, or for Linux. Unreal Engine 5.8 Preview prioritizes performance advancements, providing systems that are more reliable, scalable, and intuitive to support all project requirements. This version introduces Mesh Terrain as...
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    Asha Sharma has to defeat Satya Nadella to save Xbox

    Microsoft doesn't want to sell xbox (hardware) because they are after apple like margins mediatek like margins are absolutely unacceptable for Microsoft the result is in several markets there is no xbox hardware on the shelves despite demand being there...
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    Samsung Exynos 2700 Undergoing Early Testing — SoC Gets Spotted In New Leak

    Exynos 2700 spotted in the latest Geekbench listing Exynos 2700 is reported to leverage Samsung's second-generation 2nm GAA process, bringing better performance and efficiency metrics. As for the CPU cluster, instead of the ‘1 + 3 + 6’ configuration belonging to the Exynos 2600, Samsung...
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    cheating Thai esports player sentenced to 3 months detention — along with boyfriend who helped her cheat

    Thai esports pro sentenced after boyfriend plays for her https://www.dexerto.com/esports/thai-esports-pro-boyfriend-sentenced-to-6-months-in-prison-for-cheating-in-tournament-3337352/ Thai esports player expelled from SEA Games for cheating Entire team pulled from competition as repercussions...
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    Cross-Platform Game Services Are Now Free For Every Xbox Title

    Every Xbox Game Now Comes With Free PlayFab Services Launch your game on Xbox and enjoy cross-platform services for all your players, available now. During GDC this week, Xbox introduced Foundation Mode, a new option that gives Xbox creators access to PlayFab's core game services across...
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    NVIDIA Wouldn’t Exist Without Xbox & DirectX Gaming — Microsoft CEO

    Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hosted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an internal Q&A, amplifying that Microsoft will "always" invest in gaming. "We're long on gaming. We'll continue to invest, and we'll always do so." News By Jez Corden published 2 days ago At a big internal Q&A session, Xbox CEO Asha...
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    Sony's response to Microsoft turning the Xbox into a PC — no longer release PS exclusives on PC

    Industry murmurs suggest Sony will no longer release PS5 exclusives on PC — New leadership might be willing to forgo PC revenue to fortify console platform News By Hassam Nasir published 4 hours ago Insomniac's Wolverine will likely not come out on PC. With the next-gen Xbox essentially being a...
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    Ex-Microsoft lead says he "fought hard" to save the vertical taskbar on Windows 11

    Summary Windows 11 limits Taskbar customization—moving it to the screen sides is missing. Microsoft may restore Taskbar side-placement as it shifts focus to Windows 11 maintenance. Ex-Microsoft exec Mikhail Parakhin says he fought to keep Taskbar options; macOS copied the Taskbar...
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    Toyota announces Fluorite game engine — built on Dart/c++ api, Flutter toolkit using Filament 3D rendering engine on top of Yocto project's AGL Linux

    Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 6 Toyota is interested in a game engine suited for their in-vehicle / digital cockpit experience. Toyota's in-vehicle home screen already has an embedded Flutter...
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    ASML — the sole company behind cutting edge hardware used to manufacture AI chips — to layoff 1700+ people

    Despite AI chip boom and record high stock price, ASML to lay off employees — company to streamline IT and Technology departments, proposed cuts mostly affect leadership roles News By Jowi Morales published 10 hours ago It’s looking to cut around 1,700 positions, mostly at the management level...
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    AMD mainstream monolithic APUs to stay on RDNA 3.5 until the end of this decade

    [warning] gemini nano banana pro generated image AMD is dividing their APU roadmap into: a) Products targeting lower end markets or markets that don't need good iGPU performance (i.e office laptops, and also laptops using high-end dGPUs). These will continue to use RDNA 3.5 until 2029. b)...
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    Windows 11 update KB5074109 is breaking systems — Microsoft says uninstall it ASAP but Windows 11 won’t let you uninstall it

    Windows 11 update KB5074109 is breaking systems — Microsoft says uninstall it ASAP. Here's how. How Tos By Mauro Huculak published 2 days ago Your recommendation now is to uninstall the latest update to mitigate bugs. What's going on with the quality control for updates, Microsoft? On January...
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    In a perfect world, Xbox could bring all first-party games to all platforms

    Xbox Game Studios head says "we want our games to reach the most players that we can," signalling more PS5 releases — Microsoft is done with Xbox exclusives News By Brendan Lowry published 17 hours ago Xbox's Craig Duncan says bringing its games to many different players is "always our goal."...
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    Microsoft CEO says the quiet part out aloud — AI must be used to do something useful for society, else will lose permission to burn up resources

    Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it News By Tyler Wilde published 5 hours ago Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella. In a...
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    2027/2028 Nvidia/AMD/Intel GPU speculation

    lets start AMD RDNA 5 GPUs may launch after Nvidia's RTX 60 series in late 2027 The next GPU cycle is slipping further away https://www.techspot.com/news/110882-amd-rdna-5-gpus-may-launch-after-nvidia.html AMD’s Next-Gen RDNA 5 Gaming GPUs Might Launch After NVIDIA’s RTX 60 Series In 2027...
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    ['credible rumor'] Microsoft could reveal its OEM Xbox PC this year

    a steam machine competitor from microsoft ?? Microsoft could reveal its OEM Xbox PC this year according to 'credible rumors' News By Demi Williams published 8 January 2026 More rumors of an Xbox PC hybrid have emerged while Windows Central has heard "credible rumors", it cautioned that "time...
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    Memory Shortages Won't Improve Before 2028 — Micron VP to Wccftech

    Micron's VP Talks About How Memory Shortages Won't Improve Before 2028, Despite Massive Investments Moore eventually told us that Micron's fab expansion plans won't bring in any meaningful effects until 2028, given that the buildout and customer certifications require a lot of time, and with...
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    amidst RAMageddon, Samsung not to change pricing of S26

    samsung makes so much margin from memory fabs that they decided to cross-subsidize their device hardware Samsung To Absorb Costs To Prevent A Price Increase For Galaxy S26 Series, Galaxy Z Fold8 And Flip8 To Go On A Diet With A Bigger Battery In doing so, Samsung is trying to retain price...
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    Nvidia acqui-hires groq

    Comment by a twitter user https://x.com/andrawesbahou/status/2003989932524896326?s=20 I think Nvidia acquired Groq *now*, to hedge against DRAM prices and capacity. If you didn't know, DRAM prices exploded recently. While nvidia GPUs are HBM (i.e DRAM heavy), Groq chips rely on in-chip SRAM...
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    Engineer would like to rewrite Windows — in Rust — using AI

    In a job listing, Galen Hunt, who has been with Microsoft for the past three decades and is currently a Distinguished Engineer, confirmed that his team has an opening for an “IC5 Principal Software Engineer.” But it’s far from a simple job listing. Windows Latest spotted some intriguing details...
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    Linux gaming is finally viable

    Thousands of gamers are installing Bazzite instead of sticking with Windows — and the reasons behind the shift are surprisingly compelling News By Adam Hales published 4 hours ago With weekly installs rising and SteamOS-style usability, Bazzite is quietly carving out a space for gamers tired of...
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    console sales are massively down year-over-year — and it's going to get worse

    it's not just Xbox, ALL video game console sales are massively down year-over-year — and it's going to get worse News By Adam Hales published 1 hour ago New Circana data shows console sales are falling across Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo — driven by rising prices, weaker demand, and warning...
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    Microsoft is finally giving Teams users the option to make the Enter key start a new line instead of immediately sending a message

    Microsoft Teams learns what the Enter key is for — the long-awaited 'new line' option is coming News By Sean Endicott published 20 hours ago After years of accidental sends and user frustration, Microsoft is finally giving Teams users the option to make the Enter key start a new line instead of...
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    Ayaneo Next II — 9" 2400×1504 60/90/120/144/165 Hz display, 85w strix halo apu & 115Wh battery

    The Ayaneo Next II is a hulking gaming handheld with a 9-inch display We should expect an equally hefty price tag to go along with the premium handheld. https://www.engadget.com/gaming/the-ayaneo-next-ii-is-a-hulking-gaming-handheld-with-a-9-inch-display-175018940.html...
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    Steam machine / steam cube / GabeCube

    Big question is on price. Anywhere from $400 to up (without the controller) 2nd issue is the 8gb vram Although microsoft series S also has only 8gb of usable GPU memory (but it has fast direct storage with CF Express card as mitigation) 3rd issue is FSR 4 upscaling on navi 33 (tsmc 6nm) might...
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    HipKittens unleashes a tile programming based abstraction layer for AMD GPUs

    AMD GPUs offer state-of-the-art compute and memory bandwidth; however, peak performance AMD kernels are written in raw assembly. To address the difficulty of mapping AI algorithms to hardware, recent work proposes C++ embedded and PyTorch-inspired domain-specificlanguages like...
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    You can soon play PlayStation games without any PlayStation hardware

    Your Rog Xbox Ally X (or any windows device) can be used as a 'PlayStation' — as long as you own a digital copy of the game ? PlayStation forced Microsoft to give up Xbox exclusives — now it wants to destroy Xbox at cloud gaming and Xbox Play Anywhere cross-buy as well News By Jez Corden...
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    Meta researchers demonstrate new AI model that eschews imitation learning for an internal world model

    Agent Learning via Early Experience Kai Zhang, Xiangchao Chen, Bo Liu, Tianci Xue, Zeyi Liao, Zhihan Liu, Xiyao Wang, Yuting Ning, Zhaorun Chen, Xiaohan Fu, Jian Xie, Yuxuan Sun, Boyu Gou, Qi Qi, Zihang Meng, Jianwei Yang, Ning Zhang, Xian Li, Ashish Shah, Dat Huynh, Hengduo Li, Zi Yang, Sara...
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    Microsoft to offer "free" cloud gaming — just like Nvidia GeForce now

    Microsoft reportedly mulls ad-infested free Xbox Cloud Gaming plan — Game Pass Ultimate subscriber allegedly catches ad during game loading News By Hassam Nasir published October 4, 2025 Public tests coming very soon. Android & iPhone won't support this — for obvious reasons Nadella having...
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    Xbox first party handheld

    It was scrapped as per Kepler https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-handheld-canceled-amd-commit-10-million-consoles-sold/ (I think he is right) Earlier Jez Corden had stated that the Surface team was working on it — but he is still in denial. Nothing ever useful came out of the surface division...
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    AMD patents co-compute unit (CCU) linked to L3 cache to avoid cache-thrashing of L1 cache (for memory intensive loads such as RT)

    Is this AMD's version of RT cores ?? Co-compute unit in lower-level cache architecture Abstract A processor includes compute units each including a first-level cache and each communicatively coupled to a co-compute unit (CCU) within a lower-level cache. In response to a compute unit receiving...
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    AMD's Direct Geometry Format (DGF) is a nanite accelerator for RT use cases

    AMD blog on DGF (from feb) — NANITE accelerator for RT use cases A custom compression format can’t be consumed directly by the current raytracing API. Instead, we need to decode it into something which the APIs understand. This increases memory pressure and adds latency to the BVH build, both...
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    AMD Quietly Lists Radeon RX 7700 Graphics Card, Price Unannounced

    Will this be priced between the 9060xt 8gb & 9060xt 16gb 🤔🤔 On September 18, 2025, AMD added the Radeon RX 7700 GPU to its official website—a new RX 7000 series graphics card without a formal announcement, MSRP, or release timing. Based on AMD’s own statistics in overlapping titles, the RX...
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    TSMC showcases biting edge capabilities — Honey Bees

    This is one TSMC product for which many might be willing to pay a premium TSMC is the most "honey-rich" company! Bees love to settle in the factory, and honey is made into souvenirs. Last year, due to its environmentally friendly conservation and management methods, it successfully attracted...
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    LPDDR GPUs are incoming

    AMD rumored to use lpddr5x or lpddr6 based GPUs at the low end Why is AMD using lpddr now for dGPU (timestamped video below that raises this question) Possible reasons They are now faster — newest lpddr stuff will be as fast the gddr5 in base PS5 They are now not as slow as GDDR competition...
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    Nvidia reveals Large Plant Model to zap weeds using laser beams from tractors fitted with nvidia GPUs

    The shovel maker, constantly keeps digging up, new use cases for his shovels LaserWeeder packs two dozen Nvidia GPUs and lasers to zap your weed problem, vaporizes ‘600,000 weeds per hour' with sub-millimeter precision — instant laser death for pesky weeds News By Mark Tyson published August...
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    Epic Games CEO lays blame on developers for poor performance of Unreal Engine based games

    Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney wades in on the UE performance debate: 'The primary reason Unreal Engine 5-based games don't run smoothly on certain PCs or GPUs is the development process' News By Nick Evanson published 22 hours ago Put simply, he's saying that devs need to aim low first, then target...
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    Potential 2027 xbox handheld APU leaked by MLID

    Background: currently AMD has a halo APU which is medusa halo (mainly used in tablets such as Asus rog flow but also a few $1500+ upcoming handhelds). The primary handheld APU right now is the strix point widely used including the new Asus rog xbox Ally X. there is also a low power apu Krackan...
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