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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.

Lenovo G02 retro handheld allegedly comes preloaded with thousands of copyrighted games, including Nintendo ROMs β€” company confirms that it’s an officially white-labeled device meant for the Chinese market

Lenovo confirms that it partnered with a third-party manufacturer to build, sell, and market the G02 retro gaming handheld in China. However, it allegedly contained thousands of gaming ROMs, many from Nintendo, right out of the box, raising questions about the validity of the licenses of these titles.

Save over $1,120 on this 4K-ready RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC with 32GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD β€” score a big discount on this ABS Kaze II rig from Newegg with a 24-core Intel CPU and powerful Nvidia GPU

This Newegg deal on an ABS Kaze II Aqua gaming PC drops the price down to just $2,175.49 with discount code ABSGAMER5, netting you a PC with a 24-core Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, a 2TB SSD, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.

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

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.

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