NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090D from GALAX (HOF OC LAB) has become the first Blackwell GPU to hit an overclock of 4 GHz. Team OGS Pushes NVIDIA's "GALAX HOF OC LAB" RTX 5090D To A Record 4 GHz Overclock It was going to happen sooner or later, but a year and a half after launch, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090D has been able to set the fastest clock speed ever recorded on a Blackwell GPU. Team OGS from Greece was able to post the spectacular overclock record at HWBOT. The session featured a GALAX GeForce RTX 5090D graphics card, not the […]

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AMD is releasing its first-ever SoCs with an on-package memory solution, the Versal Gen 2, which offers 10x compute uplift. AMD Versal Gen 2 Ditches HBM For LPDDR5X On-Package Memory, 15-Year Lifecycle & PCIe Gen6 Support [Editor's Note] The release of Versal Gen 2 marks the first SoC from AMD to feature an on-package memory solution. Compared to Versal Gen 1, the move to LPDDR5X memory comes at a time when the entire tech industry is facing DRAM shortages, and with the prices of HBM products spiraling out of control, AMD is offering LPDDR5X memory on the package itself. There […]

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Yesterday, with reports of mass layoffs at Xbox looming and set to happen late this week, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) hosted a press conference, where current employees at studios under Microsoft's gaming portfolio spoke out to make it clear they will be fighting these layoffs as much as possible. Though a report today from Kotaku, which spoke to CWA members who attended the conference and presented their own statements reveals yet again how Microsoft has been dragging its feet on negotiating with the unions, leaving developers in a "maddening" state of uncertainty. Seeing Xbox and Microsoft drag their […]

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The rumored Xbox cuts are underway, with at least five first-party studios potentially closing: Double Fine, Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, and Arkane Lyon. But Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is also trimming Xbox's funding for third-party studios: today, they officially pulled out of funding Project Fantasy, IO Interactive's fantasy online action RPG announced in early 2023 and still largely under wraps, given that the Danish developer was busy making 007 First Light. IO Interactive revealed the news in a tweet, confirming that Xbox's decision inevitably forces the studio to lay off staff. However, they also made it clear that […]

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Once again, the video game industry is caught in a limbo state, waiting for the hammer of more mass layoffs to fall, and once again, it's Xbox and Microsoft bringing its gavel down. While Asha Sharma and the rest of Team Green's leadership position these cuts as a "reset" for the company, the CWA and its members point out that the company has tried mass layoffs, multiple times in recent years. Clearly, attempting to 'reset' the business like this hasn't been working, and now, Microsoft is poised to lose what veteran analyst Joost van Dreunen rightfully calls the gaming industry's […]

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The entire video game industry is in a tense state this week. After Bloomberg reported that Xbox planned massive layoffs following the close of its current fiscal year (which ends today, June 30), we've seen multiple reports suggest that this could be one of the worst mass layoffs the industry has seen in recent years. A high bar to hit, but one that Xbox seems poised to clear. Now, as we're surely only hours away from official confirmation of the cuts, a new report suggests that the layoffs could involve shuttering "at least five studios," including Arkane Lyon, which would […]

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With GTA 6, Rockstar Games is set to raise the bar for what is possible to achieve on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, much like the studio did with Red Dead Redemption 2, but this is likely coming at a price. Although the highly anticipated next entry in the series is rumored to feature a performance mode running at 60 FPS, the tech experts at Digital Foundry believe it to be highly unlikely, as the level of detail shown in the latest footage would make it very difficult to scale everything down to allow for 60 frames per second […]

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It's hard to believe, but it seems like even State of Decay 3 developer Undead Labs may be in danger of being closed by Microsoft in the imminent round of Xbox layoffs. The studio recently kicked off Alpha testing and even nailed down a 2027 launch window across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X, and yet it may still face closure (or they may be sold or go independent, in the best-case scenario) as Microsoft trims its first-party studio roster in an attempt to restore profitability. The news came from the press conference held yesterday by the Communications Workers […]

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AMD Radeon GPUs have now gained support for NVIDIA's PhysX with the ZLUDA v6 release, providing a massive boost in PhysX games. NVIDIA's PhysX Can Now Be Enjoyed on AMD Radeon GPUs At A Playable Frame Rate with ZLUDA ZLUDA, an open-source library, has been in the headlines for bringing NVIDIA CUDA support to Non-NVIDIA GPUs. The team behind the library has been working hard on adding new features, but at the same time, they have faced crackdowns for not complying with legal terms. Due to the nature of ZLUDA's work, the team is no longer receiving commercial assistance, but […]

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When Xbox was looking to complete its purchase of Activision Blizzard King, one of the factors that helped get it over the line was agreeing to a neutrality framework with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Ensuring that game developers under Microsoft and Xbox could unionize without fear or opposition from management. Thousands of workers have unionized since, though that hasn't stopped mass layoffs at Microsoft following the closure of the ABK deal. Now, as yet another case of mass layoffs looms over Xbox, the CWA held a press conference today, June 29, to make it clear they are ready […]

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We're still months away from GTA 6, but pre-orders for what's been called the most anticipated singular entertainment release in history have gone live, and the game is living up to its given title by already dominating industry conversation. Rockstar and Take-Two's approach to its pricing, its digital-forward launch, and now the split over which console scoops up most of the launch sales for a new third-party AAA single-player title are all being contested. Which, perhaps unsurprisingly, seems to fall in PlayStation's favour. This began with IGN surveying its community through its IGN Finds and commerce affiliate linking program, and […]

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With modern PC games becoming increasingly heavy — especially open-world titles built on Unreal Engine 5 — default graphics presets rarely (if ever) provide the best balance between visual fidelity and performance. Gothic 1 Remake is no exception to that rule. Alkimia Interactive’s remake of the cult-classic RPG is clearly much more visually ambitious than the 2001 original, with a fully rebuilt Valley of Mines, dense settlements, physically richer materials, dynamic lighting, more detailed characters, thicker foliage, and a far more cinematic presentation. However, that jump in visual ambition also comes with a fairly steep hardware cost, and frankly, the […]

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CXMT has reportedly signed a long-term agreement to supply memory worth almost $3 billion to Tencent. CXMT & Tencent Lock-In $3 Billion Worth of Memory, Signaling That China's Premier Memory Maker Is No Different Than The Rest Memory shortages are sky-high, and they are affecting regional markets, including China, which is going through a revolution in the adoption of AI as it races with the United States to secure the lead in the segment. This has created a boom in the number of AI firms that are showing up, leading to massive demand for compute, memory, and AI-related infrastructure. To […]

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The Elder Scrolls VI was announced back in 2018 during that year's Bethesda E3 showcase, and it may well be over a decade until it is released on PC and consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. While the long absence of the series has unnerved fans, the game taking so long to release may not be a bad thing, as Bethesda Game Studios veteran and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith warned that faster development times could lead to reduced features and polish. "There is an old adage in software development about the process […]

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is widely considered as one of the best entries in the entire series to date, but this doesn't mean the game is without flaws. The most evident is the flat lighting which has a significant impact on the visuals of the game's open world, and a far cry from the significantly better lighting used for interiors. Although there was an attempt to fix the issue in places, it was never truly addressed, but this is now no longer an issue in the PC version of the game, as a Shader Injector mod has been released online […]

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Samsung, SK Hynix & Micron are facing a class action lawsuit in the US as memory prices spiral out of control due to persistent shortages. Consumers File A Class Action Lawsuit Against Samsung, SK Hynix & Micron Alleging That The Memory Trio Restricted DRAM Supply To Inflate Prices Memory prices have reached a historical high due to ongoing shortages as demand continues to outstrip supply. The worst is yet to come, but as the situation continues to evolve, consumers are getting fed up and have filed a private class-action lawsuit in the US against the three big DRAM manufacturers. The […]

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As smartphone chipsets get more advanced generation after generation, they’ll also be prone to excessive heat, thanks to packing all that performance under the hood. Looking at the direction that these SoCs are headed, Samsung could define a new packaging standard with the Exynos 2600, as the LPDDR5X RAM chip paired with the latter is half the size of the standard module and comes with no performance loss at all. Custom LPDDR5X RAM size has been made exclusively for the Exynos 2600, but the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro could also adopt the new packaging The older PoP (Package-on-Package), […]

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Apple being forced to raise the prices of its products due to the unavoidable RAM shortage has given resellers an opportunity to squeeze unfair profits from its customers. One person who had already paid for the M5 Max MacBook Pro is now being demanded to fork over the difference, despite the order successfully being placed before the Cupertino giant’s dreaded announcement came through. An M5 Max MacBook Pro with 128GB unified memory was paid in full on June 5, but the reseller is giving the customer two difficult choices In the U.K., a Redditor user with the handle “sw1000” claims that KRCS, […]

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Jim Keller isn't bothered by Cerebras's recent IPO and says that he welcomes it, but Tenstorrent will still beat them on everything. Tenstorrent CEO, Jim Keller, Signals Deal With Intel or Qualcomm While Promising To Beat Cerebras "on everything" Tenstorrent recently introduced its latest BlackHole Galaxy server, a system with which it can disrupt the entire AI segment, with performance levels that crush the competition. We covered the announcement last month when the company demoed its Blackhole server undercutting a NVIDIA GB300 with up to five times better TCO. Keller Accepts The Challenge To Beat NVIDIA, Cerebras & Others At […]

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Memory prices are all set to rise further in the coming quarters of 2026 as persistent shortages continue to grip the market. Memory Prices Will Continue Going Up, Massive 50% Hike In Q3 2026 Followed By Another 40% In Q4 Ongoing memory shortages continue to result in higher prices across the tech industry. With no positive outlook presented by the big three DRAM makers, Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, and China's CXMT not being the savior that the industry hoped for as the "Cheap Chinese Memory" narrative was nothing but a myth, analysts expect the prices to see a sharp increase […]

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NVIDIA has gained the top spot in the datacenter ethernet switching segment for the first time as the market swells to a record $15.4b in Q1 2026. Not GPUs, Not CPUs, This Time NVIDIA Is Topping The Datacenter Ethernet Switching Market With Record Revenue The GPU market, mainly AI accelerators and consumer chips, is dominated by NVIDIA. The green team is also set to post record revenues with its Vera CPUs, making it one of the top suppliers of the current fiscal year. But there's a new market that NVIDIA is topping, & that shows further trust in NVIDIA's ecosystem. […]

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Marvell has set out to utilize every bit of available memory through its Structera CXL, which compresses data to solve capacity & bandwidth challenges. Up To 3.64x Data Compression Is Achieved With Marvell's Structera CXL Accelerators - Boosting Memory Capacity & Bandwidth As AI workloads continue to consume massive amounts of memory, the need for high capacities and bandwidth is ever more important. But at the same time, the AI and tech segment as a whole is facing widespread memory and storage solution shortages. This has prompted tech companies to come up with innovations to mitigate the capacity/bandwidth requirements for […]

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Tis' the season of product recalibration at Apple, with its labyrinthine supply chain now leaking the kind of atypical product specifications that would have attracted a serious flak at any other time. Such is the upheaval currently permeating through the entire global consumer electronics industry, however, that Apple's growing litany of compromises now barely raises any eyebrows. Apple's so-called MacBook Ultra won't launch with a brand-new silicon We reported recently that Apple has significantly revamped its silicon-related plans, settling on the launch of the M5 Ultra and the base M6 later this year, and then jumping straight to the base […]

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