Panther Lake to Launch at CES
Published in PC Hardware


18A Architecture Revealed 50 percent faster CPU and GPU 

Intel’s Vice President and General Manager of PC Products Dan Rogers has shared with the audience at the Intel Technology Tour 2025 in Arizona that Panther Lake products will launch at CES 2026.

OpenAI cheers for TSMC
Published in News
09 October 2025

OpenAI cheers for TSMC


OpenAI boss warns

OpenAI, CEO, Sam Altman, has poured cold water on swapping to Intel’s foundry, saying he’d rather the Taiwan giant simply built more.

Ubisoft binned post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed because it was ‘too political’
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Leadership wanted to avoid US culture-war pile-on

Ubisoft canned a 19th-century Assassin’s Creed in 2024, set after the American Civil War because it would tackle issues like slavery, the rise of the KKK and racial prejudice which some US think is "talked up" too much.

Nvidia boss surprised about AMD handing OpenAI 10 per cent
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“Clever” but the deal raises funding questions

Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, said he is surprised Advanced Micro Devices would offer OpenAI warrants worth about 10 per cent of itself.

PC sales surge in Q3 as Windows deadlines bite
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Enterprises rush refreshes while consumers tag along

Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and divided by their collective shoe size and reckons the PC market just clocked its best quarter in years.

Pegatron plants flag in Texas as server chatter grows
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Georgetown site bought for a US build

Pegatron has finally yelled “Made in the USA”, snapping up a factory and land in Georgetown, Texas for production and operations.

ADATA and TEAMGROUP halt memory module price quotes
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DRAM Shortages bite

The world’s second largest memory module maker ADATA and Taiwan’s number two TEAMGROUP have paused quotations, signalling a market hotter than punters expected and rising prices.

TSMC posts record-high revenue amid currency headwinds
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Performance beats forecasts 

TSMC pulled in around NT$330.98 billion [US$11.41 billion] in consolidated revenue in September 2025, down 1.4 per cent from August but up 31.4 per cent year on year, marking a new record for the month.

MSI RTX 5090 user suffers from a melted connector twice
Published in Graphics


16-pin power plug problems continue to plague Nvidia’s flagship GPUs

Another MSI GeForce RTX 5090 owner has reported the familiar smell of burning plastic, after the card’s 16-pin power connector melted not once but twice in just a few weeks.

Intel’s Panther Lake looks surprisingly strong
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Early figures suggest it may have a proper comeback chip

Troubled Chipzilla might actually have something to smile about for once. Early details on Intel’s Panther Lake lineup suggest the new mobile platform could deliver the kind of efficiency and power Intel has been promising for years.