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Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit β€” Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortages

Is the answer to the RAM crisis Chinese-made DRAM that's much cheaper to source since those companies aren't tied up in AI data center contracts? It's too early to say yet, but when a manufacturer as big as Corsair starts using DDR5 modules from ChangXing Memory Technologies (CXMT), that notion gains a lot of merit.

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MSI MPG 322UR QD-OLED X24 4K 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Blistering performance with pro-level color

21 May 2026 at 16:00
MSI delivers blistering performance and pro-level color accuracy from its MPG 322UR QD-OLED X24 gaming monitor. It’s a 32-inch 4K QD-OLED panel with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, DisplayHDR 400 True Black, and accurate color to rival any pro display.

AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 β€˜Gorgon Halo’ packs up to 192GB of unified memory β€” refreshed APU uses Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5, and can clock up to 5.2 GHz

21 May 2026 at 04:00
AMD is refreshing its Ryzen AI Max chips with the new 400 series, known as Gorgon Halo, and they’ll show up in the Ryzen AI Halo development box. That box, with last-gen Strix Halo chips, is going up for pre-order in June, starting at $3,999.

Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM β€”non-volatile device switches in 40 picoseconds while generating almost no heat

20 May 2026 at 14:20
Researchers at the University of Tokyo demonstrated a non-volatile Mn₃Sn magnetic switching device capable of flipping bits in just 40 picoseconds while generating minimal heat, potentially paving the way for lower-power AI hardware and memory systems.

New Microsoft Surface for Business PCs pair Panther Lake chips with as little as 8GB of RAM β€” 13-inch Surface Laptop goes light on memory but still starts at $1,299

Microsoft has announced the Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 for Business, both starting at $1,949 and featuring Intel's Panther Lake silicon. There's also a new Surface Laptop 13-inch that comes with as little as 8GB RAM coming later this year and starting at $1,299.

Researchers attack AMD's Infinity Fabric to bypass hardware security protections with 'Fabricked' β€” flaw lets malicious cloud hosts silently read confidential VM memory and forge attestation reports

19 May 2026 at 14:20
ETH Zurich researchers disclosed β€œFabricked,” a software-only attack that manipulates AMD Infinity Fabric routing during boot to undermine SEV-SNP protections on EPYC systems, enabling malicious cloud hosts to read confidential VM memory and forge attestation reports

Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard β€” bespoke "PlayStation 2 Portable" pairs modern features with original silicon

What if you wanted to play PS2 games on the go but didn't want to emulate them? Meet the PS2 Portable: an open-source handheld pieced together with a custom motherboard featuring original PS2 silicon and modern niceties such as hall-effect joysticks. It can play any PS2 game natively for up to 4.5 hours on a single charge, which happens via USB-C.

Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs β€” Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load times

Microsoft is bringing Advanced Shader Delivery to Windows 11 PCs at large, after introducing the tech on Xbox ROG Ally handhelds last year. The company says you can expect up to 95% faster load times in Forza Horizon 6, for instance, going from 90 seconds to just 4 seconds on initial launch thanks to precompiled shaders.

The Core Ultra 7 270K was too good, so Intel scrapped the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus β€” benchmarks of the 290K prototype find slim 2% faster performance in gaming and applications

The Core Ultra 9 290K Plus, which never came out, was only marginally faster than the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, which explains why Intel ultimately chose not to release it. On average across 1080p and 1440p games, it's only about 2% faster, and in synthetic benchmarks and productivity workloads, it's less than 4% ahead.

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D faceoff β€” Battle for the fastest mid-range gaming CPU

We tested both CPUs across gaming, rendering, encoding, efficiency, and pricing to determine whether Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh can finally challenge AMD’s X3D dominance in the mid-range segment.

M5 Max MacBook Pro paired with RTX 5090 in an eGPU dock β€” runs Cyberpunk 2077 at over 100 FPS at max settings with frame generation

A software engineer figured out a way to run an RTX 5090 on an M5 Max MacBook and play Cyberpunk 2077 at over 100FPS. The process required a lot of tweaking, including running a Linux VM and using the FEX translation layer to get games to work.

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