NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud streaming service is expanding its library with twelve new titles, including the major release Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. The historical city-builder Anno 117: Pax Romana was also highlighted as a new addition optimized for the service's highest performance tier.
The company continues its infrastructure upgrade, activating its RTX 5080 servers in its Phoenix, Arizona data center. Stockholm, Sweden, is scheduled as the next location to receive this hardware enhancement, which is detailed on NVIDIA's official server rollout page.
Other games joining the service this cycle include Surviving Mars: Relaunched, Where Winds Meet, and Possessor(s). This update significantly broadens the available catalog for...
Elon Musk is advancing plans to establish a domestic semiconductor supply chain, with a new advanced packaging facility now under development in Texas. Reports indicate that the plant, managed by SpaceX, has entered the equipment delivery phase. It will utilize fan-out panel-level packaging technology, initially for producing Starlink components.
The Texas facility aims to begin volume production by the third quarter of 2026. This initiative addresses a critical bottleneck in the American chip supply chain. Musk's broader vision includes a proposed Tesla TeraFab for high-volume wafer production. The project represents a significant step toward creating an independent semiconductor ecosystem for the United States, with Tesla also...
During a recent financial presentation, AMD projected that its next-generation Zen 6 architecture would deliver substantial performance and efficiency gains. The company stated that its upcoming EPYC Venice server processors would demonstrate improvements exceeding 70 percent in both performance and efficiency. These processors are also expected to provide a more than 30 percent increase in thread density.
The EPYC Venice lineup, which will utilize TSMC's 2nm process technology, is anticipated to feature up to 256 cores. AMD clarified that its performance estimates are derived from internal SPECrate 2017 integer benchmark tests comparing two-socket platforms. This next-generation server technology is considered a key component in AMD's...
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain has initiated a legal claim against Rockstar Games, alleging the video game developer unlawfully terminated 34 workers for their union activities. The union contends that the dismissals from the Edinburgh and Canadian offices were an act of union busting, coming just as the workers had reached a legal threshold for unionization. Rockstar Games had previously cited information leaks as the reason for the firings.
IWGB President Alex Marshall stated the union would mount a full legal defense, asserting that company contractual clauses do not supersede national law. He described the case as a warning to other employers. The union first sought to have the employees reinstated through...
Intel has expanded its XeSS Frame Generation capability to include Meteor Lake integrated graphics through a new software development kit. The latest XeSS SDK 2.1.1 enables this feature on Meteor Lake's DPAS AI units, which function as simplified tensor engines. This implementation required a smaller, optimized frame generation model to accommodate the less powerful hardware.
While performance may not be fully optimized, the update allows Meteor Lake systems to utilize frame interpolation for smoother gameplay. The new SDK also reportedly removes the previous requirement for dedicated XMX hardware, potentially extending support to other graphics cards. Game developers can now implement this feature, with upcoming Intel drivers expected...
Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Z TriFold is reported to feature a 200-megapixel main camera and a 5,437mAh battery. The device will include two screens, with the outer 6.5-inch display reaching a peak brightness of 2,600 nits and the larger 10-inch inner display rated for 1,600 nits.
The triple-folding phone is expected to be powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor. Its design utilizes two hinges, with one allowing the screens to stack inward for protection. Samsung is reportedly taking a cautious approach to its launch, with initial production volumes estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 units. The company anticipates selling approximately 120,000 units within the first year.
Renesas Electronics has introduced the industry's first sixth-generation DDR5 Registered Clock Driver for server memory modules. This new component supports a data transfer rate of 9600 MT/s, representing a ten percent bandwidth increase over the previous generation.
The Gen6 RCD is engineered to meet the high bandwidth demands of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and large language model workloads. It features an expanded signal integrity architecture for improved power efficiency and includes system-level diagnostics for real-time signal monitoring. The component is also backward compatible with existing Gen5 platforms.
Renesas is currently providing samples to major partners, including DRAM suppliers like Samsung...
A new benchmark leak indicates that Intel's upcoming Arc B390 integrated graphics, based on the Xe3 architecture, delivers competitive performance. The chip, identified within a Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro configuration featuring a Core Ultra X7 358H processor, achieved an OpenCL score of 57,001 points.
This result demonstrates a performance level comparable to a discrete Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPU. The leaked score also shows a seven percent performance increase over the previous result for the same hardware. Final production silicon, along with driver optimizations, is expected to yield further improvements when the Panther Lake processors launch.
Apple is reportedly developing High Mobility Oxide, or HMO, display technology for future iPhones. This new panel type is said to lower power consumption and reduce production costs by improving electron mobility compared to current oxide thin film transistors. The technology would enable faster electrical signal processing.
According to the report, mass-producing HMO displays would require less equipment and fewer manufacturing steps than the existing LTPO technology. However, a commercial launch of iPhones is likely several years away. Apple's previous adoption of LTPO, which took eight years from patent to iPhone integration, suggests a similar lengthy timeline for HMO. The company is also rumored to be planning a separate...
