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MediaTek helped Google build the I/O modules for the Ironwood TPU v7, which is apparently the first custom chip that can actually compete with NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs for inference workloads. Google switched things up by bringing MediaTek into the design process instead of just working with...

Cyanide Studio pushed back the Styx sequel from its original 2025 window, and the goblin stealth game is landing next year in mid-February instead. The delay announcement came with a cheeky trailer where Styx says he is not late and just enjoys making people wait. The developer framed it as...

Someone slapped an RTX Remix path-tracing mod onto the unofficial Vice City Nextgen Edition remaster that runs on RAGE Engine, and MxBenchmarkPC posted a video showing how brutal the performance hit is. The mod apparently murders CPUs harder than any other RTX Remix project out there, and even a...

Where Winds Meet just hit 9 million downloads across PC and PS5 since launch, and the mobile version drops next week for iOS and Android. Lead producer Beralt Lyu said the team is hyped about the response, and the mobile port will have cross-platform play with a UI built specifically for phones...

Foxconn just landed orders to build compute trays for Google's TPU racks, and apparently, they are shipping them out at a 1:1 ratio with the TPU racks themselves. Google's 7th-gen TPUs come in these massive Superpod setups that pack over 9,000 chips per pod, and Foxconn is handling the computing...

Black Ops 7 dropped out of the top spot after just one week, getting beaten by EA Sports FC 26 on both revenue and units sold. The CoD game already had a rough launch since it sold 63% worse than Battlefield 6, and Battlefield is still hanging around at number three right behind it. Football...

A Rockstar animator named Benjamin Chue posted a demo reel with what looks like two early GTA VI clips mixed in with older stuff from Red Dead 2 and Max Payne 3. One shows a dude using a bike rental system, and the other has a woman jumping off a truck roof who might be Lucia. The clips are...

Leaker Tom Henderson is saying the Sands of Time remake might drop around mid-January 2026, and apparently, Ubisoft only wants to market it for about a month before launch. That means we could see something at The Game Awards next week, or they might just dump a trailer on YouTube and call it a...

Intel Foundry is apparently farming out some of its EMIB packaging work to Amkor over in South Korea, and people are reading this as a sign that demand for their advanced packaging tech is getting pretty wild. The company has enough capacity stateside to handle things, but outsourcing to Amkor...

Producer Noriaki Okamura says Metal Gear Solid might get more remakes and fresh games down the line, but nothing is locked in yet. He pointed out that each game in the series would need its own remake strategy since the franchise spans everything from old pixel art titles to modern cinematic...

JPMorgan's tracker shows Apple basically crushed it with the iPhone 17 lineup during Black Friday week compared to how the iPhone 16 did around the same stretch last year. Wait times jumped to six days versus just four for the previous generation, and the base model keeps sitting in double-digit...

NVIDIA locked down exclusive dibs on TSMC's A16 manufacturing process for their Feynman GPU lineup that drops after Rubin chips hit the market. The Taiwanese fab is basically building production capacity just to keep Jensen Huang happy, and Apple might skip this node entirely to jump straight to...

Samsung apparently got tired of people roasting them for slow charging speeds, and the Galaxy S26 lineup might actually ship with decent wireless power delivery for once. Someone dug through OneUI 8.5 beta code and found references to super-fast wireless charging, which lines up with rumors that...

Intel's apparently cooking up a refresh for their budget Wildcat Lake chips before the original lineup even drops. Some leaker named Jaykihn says the company plans to drop a beefier config with four performance cores and four low-power efficiency cores, which doubles the P-core count from the...

Samsung's chip-making wing is basically ghosting its own phone division over DRAM supplies because memory prices went absolutely bonkers this year. The semiconductor crew refuses to lock in more than three months of RAM shipments at a time for Galaxy devices, and executives had to step in just...

ASUS dropped another Mini-ITX board for AM5 socket builds, and this one rocks an all-white colorway for people obsessed with matching their entire setup. The ROG STRIX B850-I Gaming WIFI7 W keeps the same specs as the black version but swaps out the paint job. The board packs a 13-phase power...

Sony quietly tweaked the liquid metal cooling setup on newer PS5 and PS5 Slim units after people kept complaining about thermal paste leaking all over the place inside their consoles. The company borrowed the deeper groove design from the PS5 Pro, and the fix showed up on CFI-2100 and CFI-2200...

Moody's just smacked Liquid Intelligent Technologies with another credit downgrade to Caa2, which basically means the ratings agency thinks this massive African telecom company might struggle to pay back $620 million coming due next year. The kicker is that their Zimbabwean operation appears to...

Gambia Ports Authority put out a tender looking for a dredging outfit to dig out the Banjul access channel from 9.3 meters down to at least 11 meters, which would let bigger ships roll through. This marks the first time the port has ever tried something like this, and the authority says deeper...

Jacob Francis Sarr kicked off the Taranga Youth Foundation at a church in Kololi, basically trying to tackle mental health problems and give Gambian kids better options than risking their lives on boats to Europe. The guy got emotional about watching young people back home getting crushed by...