Choking down the reviews
Nvidia won't be releasing the RTX 5060 driver before the launch day, which means we won't be having any reviews of the Geforce RTX 5060 before the launch.
Compact and ergonomic mouse and keyboard
Razer has unveiled the new Basilisk Mobile mouse and Joro keyboard, aiming at compact and ergonomic aspects and convenience, without compromising performance.
Looks impressive
Rockstar has confirmed that its latest Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 was actually captured on Playstation 5 hardware rather then being a pre-rendered cinematic teaser trailer.
New game support for FSR4
AMD has released the latest Radeon Software Adrenalin 25.5.1 WHQL driver update, adding support for the recently released Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card and FSR4 support for new games.
HarmonyOS laptops get serious
Huawei is gearing up to drop its first proper in-house silicon for desktop-class machines with the Kirin X90, and if the tipsters are right, it’s a winner.
Strong CPU and datacentre wins
AMD has just posted the strongest first quarter in its history, pulling in $7.438 billion in revenue for Q1 2025. That’s a 36 per cent surge year-on-year, driven by robust sales of high-margin Ryzen client CPUs, booming datacentre demand for its EPYC server chips, and growing adoption of its Instinct MI300-series AI accelerators.
Chipzilla returning to greatness with 18A node
Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft sniff around Intel’s foundry comeback
Troubled Chipzilla might finally be catching a break. After years of being flattened by TSMC’s relentless march and its own comically late roadmap slips, Intel’s foundry arm may have stumbled onto its redemption arc with the 18A process.
Microsoft axes cheaper Surface configs
It’s not a price hike, just a price “clarification”
Software King of the World Microsoft has quietly booted the 256GB versions of last year’s 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 and 13-inch Surface Pro 11 off its store, leaving only pricier 512GB and 1TB options starting at $1,199.
Linux finally kills off the 486
Torvalds flushes ancient x86 silicon down the kernel loo
The Linux kernel is finally putting the 486 processor out of its misery, ending decades of backward compatibility that even Microsoft ditched with Windows XP back in 2001.
Stimulus and stockpiling drive gains, but hangover looms
China’s top foundry, SMIC has seen its quarterly net profit more than double to $188 million, thanks to a mix of Beijing’s largesse and geopolitical panic buying.