Tom's Hardware spotted Kioxia's huge LC9 Series 122.88 TB NVMe SSD at NVIDIA's GTC 2025. This monster drive comes in a 2.5-inch package with BiCS FLASH 8th generation 3D QLC tech featuring 2 TB die density. The drive connects through PCIe 5.0 and offers unmatched storage space for business data centers. When hooked up, this SSD pushes data at 128 GT/s using PCIe 5.0 in either 1x4 or 2x2 setups.
The design meets NVMe 2.0 standards and fits perfectly with AI tasks thanks to its CMOS directly Bonded to Array flash structure. Its specs show 0.3 drive writes daily with 67,000 TBW stamina, making it great for reading data but less ideal for heavy writing jobs. Tests at the event showed it reads data at about 15 GB/s, pretty fast even for...
The game Kaiserpunk just came out on Steam for $29.99 from Overseer Games and Elda Entertainment. Players build cities, run factories, and lead armies during a different version of 1918-1945 history. You can create huge cities, manage complex supply chains, and fight wars across the world map. Your choices between fighting or making friends with other nations will change how your city grows and survives.
Danijel Mihokovic from Overseer Games said they wanted players to build cities and shape world history simultaneously. Sandra Neudinger from Elda Entertainment added that they love working with small teams to create deep, creative games that keep people playing for hours. Kaiserpunk became their first published title, and they feel...
Nightdive Studios just finished their System Shock 2 project after six years of hard work. They renamed it System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster, hinting at the launch date before the game turns 26 on August 11. During the MIX Spring Showcase, they announced the game arrives June 26. Fans waited a long time, but many ask why it took six years to complete.
The team tackled this remaster alongside other projects, facing unique problems along the way. Alex Lima from Nightdive pointed out they lacked the full source code, requiring extensive reverse engineering. The code mixed various old libraries from Looking Glass with newer parts from Irrational Games. Without standard coding rules, they relied on debugging to figure out how...
Seagate has started adding NVMe tech to large hard drives as AI systems demand more storage space. AI works with massive data sets these days—petabytes or even exabytes. Current storage options fall short of these needs. Fast SSDs cost far too much when storing large AI data. Cheap SAS and SATA drives use odd chips and adapters that fail to keep up with AI data speeds.
The company plans to add NVMe tech to large hard drives. This keeps costs down and space high but helps them perform better with AI programs. These new drives skip all those extra parts that traditional drives require. You can easily expand by combining large hard drives with fast SSD cache drives under a single NVMe system. These drives need almost no setup because they...
Raijintek just released their Cyclops Lite liquid CPU coolers for your computer. These come in black or white colors with either 360 mm or 240 mm radiator sizes. They look cool with a fancy propeller design on the pump that lights up with ARGB colors. You'll find either two or three 120 mm fans included, depending on which size you pick.
The fans hook together easily to keep your case tidy without extra wires hanging around. The main cooling block uses copper to pull heat from your CPU, and the pump inside, thanks to its ceramic parts, should last about 50,000 hours. The radiator itself is made from aluminum to keep things lightweight.
Each Ageras Xtreme fan spins between 800 and 2,200 RPM using a reliable hydraulic bearing that...
CHERRY just launched its first wireless gaming headset. The CHERRY XTRFY H3 Wireless connects without cables and pumps out game-focused sound. It also comes with audio modes for everyday listening and links up wirelessly in different ways. Pro gamers and casual players will both love what this headset offers.
The H3 Wireless is a brand-new addition to the CHERRY XTRFY gaming lineup. Pro gamers helped craft its sound, making it better than the old H1 and H2 models. The big 53mm speakers make important game sounds louder, giving players a jump on fast action.
Eight-time Counter-Strike world champ Emil "HeatoN" Christensen says the headset works great with CS2. Thanks to the clear sound direction, he hears exactly where enemies stand. He...
The PCI-SIG group just shared new info about their upcoming PCIe 7.0 connector. This latest version speeds data up to 128 GT/s, pushing bandwidth to a massive 512 GB/s when using all 16 lanes. Data centers need these faster speeds for AI systems that talk to each other across the network. The current 0.9 version should reach the final form by December.
AI systems, cloud servers, quantum computers, and even military tech all benefit from this bandwidth boost. The pattern continues - PCIe doubles its speed every three years like clockwork. What used to need 16 lanes with PCIe 3.0 can run through just one lane with PCIe 7.0. Your old PCIe cards will still work with the new standard.
The engineers improved signal quality and power use...
Microsoft revealed DirectX Raytracing 1.2 at the Game Developers Conference 2025. They fixed two major ray tracing problems and created opacity microamps that save pre-made opacity data. This reduces work when rays pass through see-through objects.
They also introduced shader execution reordering, which groups similar tasks for better graphics card performance. These fixes speed up games beyond what Microsoft claims as 2.3 times and 2 times faster. They mark a change from raw power to smarter resource use. Both features need special hardware support.
NVIDIA announced their RTX cards work with these features, but nobody knows when other companies will support them. Microsoft also launched Shader Model 6.9 with cooperative vectors. This...
NVIDIA plans to buy more than half a trillion dollars of electronic parts in the next four years. The company's boss, Jensen Huang, told the Financial Times they aim to make several hundred billion dollars worth of these parts right here in America. He wants to shift much of their production away from overseas factories to US soil.
Right now, NVIDIA makes its computer chips at TSMC plants and builds its circuit boards and servers at Foxconn. But world politics has pushed them to rethink where they get their parts from. The latest "Blackwell" GPU chips, including the Blackwell Ultra, already come from TSMC's new Arizona factories, where the company has invested $100 billion to grow its American presence.
Jensen spoke at the GTC 2025...
