Samsung dropped the first trailer for its Exynos 2600 chip, and it looks like the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Dimensity 9500, and A19 Pro might finally have real competition. The Korean company is bringing back Exynos chips to the Galaxy S26 lineup after three years of Snapdragon-only releases, but there is a catch: only South Korea gets the Exynos version while everywhere else sticks with Qualcomm's silicon.
CTT Research pointed out three reasons why Samsung keeps Exynos chips at home: kernel security holes, heat problems, and terrible manufacturing yields. The company claims it fixed the overheating with Heat Pass Block tech that supposedly cuts temperatures by 30 percent and switched to better packaging methods. Manufacturing yields...
Microsoft is moving Xbox production to Vietnam through Foxconn's Fushan Technology, which wants approval to make 4.8 million units per year. The shift helps dodge tariffs and component price spikes hitting consoles made in China, and it covers everything from the actual boxes to controllers and headsets.
Luxshare-ICT also plans a Vietnamese factory cranking out 4.5 million consoles annually starting in 2026, though nobody knows which brand yet. Trade wars keep jacking up prices for RAM and other parts, and AI data centers are eating up supply, so getting production out of China makes sense for everyone.
The timing matters because next-gen consoles are coming, and keeping prices reasonable is basically the whole point of choosing a...
Intel's VP of Corporate Planning, John Pitzer, hit up the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference to gas up the foundry business, saying their 18A process yields are getting better every month since CEO Lip-Bu Tan showed up. The company is cranking out Panther Lake chips right this second, and external customers are checking out both the 18A-P and 18A-PT nodes after seeing decent progress with the PDK stuff.
Advanced packaging is apparently blowing up for Intel Foundry because TSMC's CoWoS capacity was super tight, and companies started looking at EMIB and Foveros as backup options. Pitzer admitted they fumbled the ball a bit when the spillover demand first hit, but it got customers through the door for bigger strategic talks instead...
Bethesda pushed out the Burning Springs update for Fallout 76, and it unlocks a whole new chunk of Ohio that wasn't in any previous game. The expansion brings Walton Goggins back as The Ghoul from the show to hand out bounty contracts, with basic Grunt Hunts targeting legendary enemies and harder Head Hunts going after named targets for cosmetic drops. Download sizes hit around 29GB on Steam and balloon up to 42GB on Xbox.
The new region west of Point Pleasant adds creatures like the Radhog that you can keep as a camp pet, plus two public events and a questline centered around Highway Town. Bounty hunting replaces the Milepost Zero caravan system that got shut down in Skyline Valley, and the devs claim it delivers better legendary...
Nubia dropped their first foldable phone, and it's packing a 6,560mAh battery into a device with 35.7 square inches of screen space. Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold has way more display at 52.8 square inches, but only manages 5,600mAh despite being barely thinner when opened up. The Nubia Fold runs on Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with 12GB RAM and costs about $1,145 in Japan, while Samsung's triple-folder hits South Korea at $2,447 with 16GB RAM and the regular 8 Elite chip.
The battery gap is wild considering the thickness difference is only 1.2mm to 1.5mm when unfolded, and Samsung seems to be ignoring what people actually want after the iPhone Air mess and their own canceled S26 Edge showed everyone picks battery life over being super thin.
Jensen Huang showed up on Joe Rogan's podcast and dropped a story about how nobody wanted NVIDIA's first DGX-1 AI system back when they launched it. The CEO said Elon Musk was literally the only person who stepped up to buy one, and Jensen personally drove the machine to San Francisco to deliver it to OpenAI in 2016.
At the time, the tech world was still stuck on CPU-based computing, so the AI-focused hardware didn't get any traction. Elon basically validated NVIDIA's whole compute strategy before anyone else saw where things were heading.
The company went from zero purchase orders on that first system to dealing with massive demand for everything from Ampere to Blackwell chips, and they're already prepping the Vera Rubin lineup for...
Blizzard is dropping Season of Divine Intervention for Diablo IV, and it brings monster AI upgrades, a complete itemization rework, and new defense mechanics. The update adds evolved enemies with smarter behavior, over 20 fresh elite affixes, and less clumping in champion packs. Items get four base affixes instead of three, and Sanctification lets players lock in a final upgrade that can add legendary powers or make gear indestructible.
The crafting system got simplified, where Tempering lets you pick exact affixes instead of gambling on random rolls, and Masterworking uses a Quality stat that boosts everything by 1% per level. Defense stats were equalized across classes with rating-based Armor and a unified Toughness number, while...
Pathea Games showed off The God Slayer, and their Business Development Director, Aaron Deng, spilled details about the open-world steampunk RPG. The team switched from their previous engine to Unreal Engine 5, but Deng said their experience making the My Time games helped them handle the planning and art pipelines. They went with a fixed protagonist instead of character creation because it makes storytelling tighter and lets them polish relationships better.
The game has two difficulty modes, with story mode letting players overlevel to crush bosses easier and challenge mode scaling enemies to your level. Side quests affect the main campaign, like befriending an NPC who might pull their guards from a building you need to infiltrate...
Pathea Games dropped a trailer for The God Slayer, an open-world steampunk action RPG set in Zhou, a fictional Ming-inspired Asian city. Business Development Director Aaron Deng said the team has been working on it for about a year and a half. The story follows Cheng, whose family gets wiped out when powerful beings called Celestials destroy the strongest kingdom in one night after humans start using Qi energy for themselves instead of just harvesting it for the gods.
The campaign is around 40 hours long, with seven chapters that each end in a boss fight. Players can tackle missions however they want, like bribing guards, setting up bombs as diversions, or poisoning enemies before the actual fight. Combat mixes Chinese martial arts...
