Chinese manufacturer InnoGrit has unveiled its first PCIe Gen6 SSD controller, while also giving us a look at what its Gen7 SSDs will have on offer. China Fights Back In The Next-Gen SSD Race With InnoGrit Dishing Out Its IG5686 PCIe Gen6 Controller InnoGrit launches its first Gen5 SSD controller in 2023, marking the entrance of a Chinese brand in the current-gen SSD segments. During Computex, InnoGrit (YingRen Technology) is showcasing its upcoming PCIe Gen6 SSD controller called Crestone "IG5686". This SSD controller is targeted towards Enterprise applications, high-end data centers, and AI use cases. Some of the features of […]

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ZOTAC has displayed its latest RTX 50 innovations, and the world's smallest PC featuring a desktop-grade RTX 5080 graphics card. Two Prototype Graphics Cards & Two "20th Anniversary Edition" Products Showcased By ZOTAC At Computex First up, we have the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SOLID SFF OC Edition, which takes the original design and gives it a new gold-themed trim. The card features the same 2-slot design with Icestorm 2.0 cooling, an SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce design, and also comes with a Power safety light that ensures the card is plugged in correctly. The backplate on this card is […]

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PC system requirements should be simple. You look at the minimum, recommended, and potentially higher-tier specs, compare them to your rig, and get a solid idea of what to expect. Easy enough, right? Well, not anymore, sadly. Over the last decade or so, PC game system requirements (or PC specs) have become incredibly messy, inconsistent, and sometimes borderline useless. We are dealing with vague targets, aggressive temporal upscaling hidden behind an inconspicuous “1080p” or “4K” label, and "60 FPS" targets that incredibly rely on frame generation, which is absolutely not the same thing as actually rendering 60 full game frames […]

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Last week, independent developer Crate Entertainment finally set a concrete launch date for Grim Dawn: Fangs of Asterkarn (the third and final expansion for the hack-and-slash action RPG): July 23 for PC via Steam, GOG, and Humble Store. The previous expansion, Forgotten Gods, was released in March 2019. In the meantime, the small studio released a fairly successful city builder, Farthest Frontier, and began working on new projects. Even so, they went back to Grim Dawn, a game that sold over 10 million units between the base game and the expansions. In an email interview with Crate Entertainment Production Director […]

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The disparate parts of Apple's sprawling supply chain are gradually coalescing around the final form and specs for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max and its Pro counterpart, with the emerging consensus serving to dampen the prospects of a dramatic overhaul. Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max is now tipped to match the thickness of its predecessor, lending credence to the speculation that not much will change with the upcoming Pro duo To wit, the tipster Ice Universe has now penned a post on Weibo, disclosing that the iPhone 18 Pro Max will sport a thickness of 8.75mm, which matches that […]

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Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds has released its first Dev Vlog video since the game's early access launch last month, confirming that the game has sold over 4 million copies since launch and thanking players for their support so far. Design lead Anthony Gallegos also reveals a bit about the fixes Unknown Worlds has already made, fixes that are imminently coming, and the game's next big content update, teasing that it'll allow players to "get stompy." That tease comes in relation to a new chassis that'll be made available for your Tadpole when the next region is revealed, which will […]

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One typically must double-check for any offers they receive in their DMs, but when it’s one from the official Verizon subreddit, you tend not to ask a lot of questions. This is exactly what one user did when he claimed the U.S. carrier reached out to him through the social network, telling him that he won World Cup tickets. It’s only after he and his brother booked flights that he realized that something was wrong. Promotions like offering free tickets are usually distributed through Verizon’s Reddit account, so the offer shouldn’t have been suspicious Before you immediately conclude that sending […]

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Frank Azor, CVP of Client and Graphics Marketing at AMD, took to X to dispel rumors surrounding FSR 4.1 being restricted from RDNA 3.5 iGPU solutions. Frank Azor Denies Rumors AMD Cancelled FSR 4.1 For RDNA 3.5 iGPUs The rumor that FSR 4.1 wouldn't be coming to RDNA 3.5 iGPUs started from a conversation Hardware Luxx had with David McAfee, CVP and GM of Client at AMD. Hardware Luxx reported that according to David, FSR 4.1 is not planned for RDNA 3.5 graphics for the time being. However, after the news was circulated over the internet, Frank Azor stepped in […]

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Valve's digital storefront and quintessential home for PC gamers, Steam, is currently under fire from multiple lawsuits. One aimed at microtransaction practices in games like Counter-Strike, and two more, both aimed at the 30% cut Valve takes with every purchase made on Steam, one in the UK and another in the US. It's the latter of the two that we have an update on, as a deposition of boss Gabe Newell reveals how Newell is trying to argue against Steam being a monopoly, claiming that players have "enormous choice" when it comes to buying their PC games. That comes from […]

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Samsung LSI sought to exploit Samsung Mobile over the past few months by repeatedly hiking the per unit price of its flagship Exynos 2600 chip. Well, Samsung Mobile now appears to be responding to these relentless price gouging tactics by reducing the share of the Exynos 2600 chip within the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8, while increasing its uptake of Qualcomm's more economical Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. Samsung's Exynos 2600 chip is reportedly falling a victim to the fairly myopic ongoing in-house feud that has rendered the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip a much more economical alternative […]

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NVIDIA has officially embraced the Windows on ARM platform with the arrival of its RTX Spark, with the chipset expected to be found in a bevy of notebooks this fall. Perhaps the most advantageous aspect of this silicon is how it’ll enable the industry to push forth with lighter laptop designs thanks to its efficiency. No longer will manufacturers need to rely on a multitude of heatpipes to tame the CPU and GPU, with an example being Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, whose TDP for the RTX Spark is just 110W. The lack of an elaborate cooling solution on the Surface […]

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It's been almost six years since the announcement of State of Decay 3, but the long wait might soon pay off. In April, developer Undead Labs opened registrations for a limited Alpha test that took place in May; now, with three days left before the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, Windows Central's Jez Corden shared that the game will not only be featured there but will also showcase its newfound triple-A feel. It's almost certain we'll see State of Decay 3 at the showcase too, given that it's already in private Alpha testing with a small subset of the community alongside […]

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Earlier than most publishers do, Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Game Studios have revealed the Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis PC system requirements, and it's not good news for anyone playing on a mainstream GPU, though it's hardly surprising, considering the game is powered by Unreal Engine 5. The system specifications published on the game's Steam store page detail the minimum and recommended requirements early, but with a significant catch: there's no indication of target resolution and framerate. Requirement Minimum Specifications Recommended Specifications OS Windows 10/11 (64-bit) Windows 10/11 (64-bit) Processor Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Intel Core […]

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DDR4 isn't going anywhere despite witnessing some temporary decline in popularity in some regions as we reported recently. DDR4 Memory and Motherboards Witness Significant Demand As DDR5 Memory Continues to Sell for 4-5 Times Higher In some regions, we see DDR4 platforms recording a decline in popularity, while most regions witness huge demand for DDR4 platforms. Soaring DDR5 and SSD prices have made it extremely difficult to build even an entry-level system for under $1000, and the rise in prices continues as we enter the second half of 2026. DDR4 memory is also quite expensive, but nothing compared to similar-capacity […]

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DDR4 platforms are weakening in popularity in Germany, while DDR5 platforms are getting more popular than ever. AM4 Loses to LGA 1851 Platform at Popular German Retailer With Now Just 6.2% of Total Share, While AM5 Shows is Dominance With Over 80% Share It appears that AM4 couldn't maintain its dominance for long after seeing the RAMpocalypse era. The platform is gradually dying as AM5 takes over the hardware market. While the latest data doesn't represent a true representation of the platform's popularity, in Germany things are going in a completely different direction after witnessing the dominance of AM4 for […]

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Apple's new Siri, empowered by a custom Google Gemini model in the cloud, was supposed to run on Apple silicon, or so the maker of iPhones had assured not too long ago. Yet, Apple has struggled to accommodate Google's behemoth of a model on its own servers, forcing the Cupertino-based tech giant to resort to a NVIDIA GPU-based band-aid of sorts to safeguard at least a shred of its privacy-related credentials, all the while hosting the Siri-enabling Gemini model on Google's servers. Apple has to host the new Siri-enabling behemoth of a model on Google's servers for optimal inference, and […]

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Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition will finally arrive on the Nintendo Switch 2 later this summer on August 28, 2026, developer FromSoftware confirmed today. The release date reveal is welcome news for Switch 2 players who've been waiting for Elden Ring's arrival since the Switch 2 was revealed and the open-world epic was one of the biggest third-party titles set to arrive on the handheld platform. Though the plan was to initially bring Elden Ring to Switch 2 at some point in 2025, concerns for what that version would look and run like were apparent from the earliest Switch 2 previews […]

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Biwin has an SSD for everyone, from handhelds to high-end PCs, but their memory division is dialing up a notch with ROG-Certified DDR5 modules. Biwin Comes Prepared For Gaming Handhelds & Compact Devices With Upgraded Mini SSDs For Computex, Biwin is introducing its latest Mini SSDs. The first of these includes the CL100, which is a cost-optimized PCIe 4.0 solution that is compliant with the NVMe 1.4 standard. The SSD comes in 512 GB, 1 TB, and goes up to 2 TB of storage capacity, making it a top-value choice for gaming handhelds. The SSD offers speeds of up to […]

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One of the many announcements that came out of PlayStation's State of Play event earlier this week was the reveal that No Rest for the Wicked, the action RPG from Ori developer Moon Studios, would launch out of early access this coming October 2026 and launch on PS5, but not Xbox Series X/S or Nintendo Switch 2. It's not uncommon to see Switch/Switch 2 versions of games arrive later, but what's the holdup for Xbox? Well, according to Moon Studios boss and creative director Thomas Mahler, the responsible party is the Xbox Series S. As spotted by VGC after the […]

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Phison has demonstrated its next-gen PCIe Gen6 technologies, including its latest SSD controllers, and the full ecosystem driving future AI platforms. Phison's X3 Is The Company's First PCIe Gen6 SSD Controller That Doubles The Transfer Rates Versus Existing Solutions At Computex 2026, Phison is introducing its next-gen SSD controller called PS5303-X3-66. This controller is designed for SSDs and conforms to the upcoming PCIe Gen6 protocol that drives up transfer rates by 2x. The company also showcased the first products to utilize its next-gen controller, the Pascari PCIe Gen6 SSDs, coming in E3.2 and E1.S form factors. The SSDs make use […]

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