Samsung promised American customers they would deliver cutting-edge computer chips from their massive Texas factory. The South Korean tech giant accepted more than 37 billion dollars from the government to build this facility. Company executives told everyone production would start during 2024 but that deadline has come and gone. The factory sits nearly finished but remains completely empty of workers and machines.
Corporate leaders cannot find enough customers willing to buy chips from their Taylor plant. American companies want the most advanced processors possible for their products. Samsung built their facility to make older chip designs that nobody wants anymore. The mismatch between what customers need and what Samsung can...
MSI dropped their brand new gaming handheld device on Chinese shoppers this month. The portable console rocks AMD's powerful Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor inside its sleek body. Chinese customers can grab the device from JD.com online store right away. The company offers two different pricing options for eager buyers. Regular customers pay 6,999 Yuan but smart shoppers can snag a subsidized deal for just 5,949 Yuan.
The handheld packs serious gaming power under the hood. AMD built the custom Zen 5 chip with eight cores and sixteen threads for smooth performance. The Radeon 890M graphics card delivers crisp visuals on the 1200p touchscreen display. Variable refresh rate technology keeps games running without annoying screen tearing. The...
John Romero and his wife Brenda started their game company ten years ago after creating the famous DOOM series. The couple built Romero Games from the ground up and worked hard on their latest secret project. Microsoft pulled the plug on their upcoming game without warning the team. The gaming giant also killed several other projects at different studios around the same time. Upper management made these harsh decisions without asking anyone at the smaller companies.
The publisher cut funding for Romero Games and many other developers across the industry. Company executives claimed these moves were part of a bigger business strategy. The cancellations had nothing to do with how well the teams were doing their jobs. All the projects were...
Nintendo Switch 2 beats Xbox Series S at graphics thanks to smart DLSS technology. The new handheld console makes games look sharper and cleaner than Microsoft's budget machine. CAPCOM proved this with Street Fighter 6 running on the portable system. Digital Foundry experts tested both versions and found Nintendo's device wins the battle. The fighting game looks better on Switch 2 despite having weaker hardware inside.
DLSS magic transforms blurry 540p images into crisp 1080p pictures when players dock their console. Xbox Series S runs the same game at native 1080p but struggles with image noise problems. Nintendo's system also delivers better textures even though it has just 1GB more memory than the Xbox. The Switch 2 version skips...
Steam gamers are snapping up NVIDIA's newest graphics cards at a rapid pace. The RTX 50 series has climbed to nearly one percent market share within just three months of launch. The RTX 5070 leads the pack with almost one percent of all Steam users choosing this card. Gaming enthusiasts seem happy with the performance these new cards deliver. The RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti follow close behind with decent adoption rates.
Older graphics cards still dominate the Steam gaming landscape. The RTX 4060 and RTX 3060 remain the most popular choices among PC gamers. Laptop versions of these cards perform especially well with budget-conscious players. The RTX 4060 Laptop GPU holds nearly five percent of the total market share. These established...
NVIDIA plans to slash production of their RTX 50 series graphics cards over the next few months. The company wants to keep fewer cards available to stop prices from falling below official retail prices. Team Green already started cutting back last month and will reduce supplies to stores by more than 30 percent during July. Gaming fans struggled for months to find these expensive cards when they first came out.
The graphics card maker does not want their high-end models selling at suggested retail prices anymore. NVIDIA recently released cheaper 60-class and 50-class cards for budget gamers. The company thinks it makes sense to limit supplies of their most expensive models first. Retail stores currently have enough inventory to meet...
Microsoft wanted Game Pass to become the Netflix of video games but the plan crashed and burned. The tech giant spent over 76 billion dollars buying major game companies like Bethesda and Activision Blizzard. Company leaders thought millions of people would pay monthly fees to access hundreds of games. The strategy backfired because gamers behave differently than movie watchers or music listeners. Xbox executives fired hundreds of workers after the subscription service failed to meet expectations.
Game Pass cannot grow fast enough to justify the massive spending spree Microsoft went on. Most players only have time for a few games each month instead of dozens like Netflix shows. Free games already satisfy casual gamers and hardcore fans...
EA wants 100 million people to play Battlefield 6 but workers think this dream will never happen. The video game company spent more than 400 million dollars making the new shooter. Developers tell reporters they face huge problems every day. The money keeps growing and teams cannot work together properly.
European game makers clash with American managers all the time. Different studios try to build one massive game but nobody agrees on anything. The single player story mode falls behind schedule constantly. Ridgeline Games had to hire workers from scratch and missed every deadline.
Criterion, DICE and Motive took over the campaign but it still lags behind other parts. Spring 2025 came and went without the story mode reaching alpha...
ZLUDA developers are back with a game-changing project that could shake up the computer graphics world. The coding library helps people run NVIDIA software on graphics cards from other companies. Computer programmers made big news last year when they figured out how to break down the walls between different types of graphics hardware. AMD jumped on board and helped make the project better before legal worries forced them to quit.
The team behind ZLUDA refuses to give up on their dream of making graphics software work everywhere. Two programmers are putting in serious hours to build a system that works with graphics cards from multiple companies. They want to make NVIDIA's special CUDA code run on any graphics card instead of just...
