(PR) Samsung Electronics and Broadcom Expand Strategic Collaboration Across Memory and Foundry Technologies
Samsung Electronics and Broadcom today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand their strategic collaboration across memory and foundry technologies, supporting the next generation of AI infrastructure. The MOU was announced during the AI Summit, held at The Midway in San Francisco. Attendees included Jinman Han, President and Head of Samsung Electronics' Foundry Business, Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom, senior executives from both companies and representatives of the Korean government. The companies expect the collaboration to be estimated at more than $

(PR) Siemens Advances Self-verifying Agentic AI Workflows for Semiconductor and PCB Design
Siemens today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with NVIDIA to deliver self-verifying agentic AI workflows to EDA, helping semiconductor and printed circuit board (PCB) engineering teams move from autonomous task orchestration toward more trusted, continuously validated engineering outcomes. The new capabilities build on Siemens' recently introduced Fuse EDA AI Agent system and add new NVIDIA AI technology to help long-running, domain scoped, AI agents reason, act and continuously validate decisions against deterministic, physics-based EDA engines.
The updates to Siemens' Fuse
The updates to Siemens' Fuse

(PR) Synopsys Showcases Comprehensive Autonomous Engineering Workflows from Silicon to Systems, Developed with NVIDIA Technology
Today at the 2026 DAC Chips to Systems Conference, Synopsys, Inc. announced advancements to agentic AI for engineering in collaboration with NVIDIA. Synopsys has developed fully autonomous, long-running agentic capabilities for chip design and electronics system design enabled with NVIDIA Nemotron on NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform and secured by the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime. Demonstrated at DAC for the first time, Synopsys' capabilities promise to be a force multiplier for R&D teams beyond task agents, transforming time-consuming chip verification and thermal

Keychron G6 HE Previewed: 46 g Wireless Gaming Mouse With Swappable Battery and Open-Source Firmware
Keychron already has a number of wireless gaming mice available, including both affordable productivity mice and high-performance gaming peripherals. The latest gaming mouse launch from Keychron appears to be the G6 HE UltraLight. The new G6 HE is a wireless gaming mouse that comes in at 46 g and uses the PixArt PAW 3955 sensor and Nordic 54LM20A MCU. It will be available in seven colors in total, many of which have that translucent retro tech charm.
The G6 HE
The G6 HE

This Week in Gaming (Week 31)
Welcome to the last week of July and this week is packed with new releases. We kick off a major release of what is technically a remake of a 2001 game, but back then it was Xbox exclusive and now it'll be available on PC and Playstation 5 as well as Xbox. We kick off the regular release schedule with a Monday ARPG followed by some problematic Orcs and then a quick detour with a WWII action RTS. This is followed by a misty, online ARPG, before we round

007 First Light Goes DRM-Free After Two Months
IO Interactive released its AAA title 007 First Light on May 26 this year, surprising players with the inclusion of Denuvo DRM. However, after just two months on the market, IO Interactive has officially removed this DRM layer from the game. SteamDB has tracked this change, meaning the official Steam version of 007 First Light is now DRM-free. This is great news for gamers, as Denuvo DRM and similar solutions have been widely criticized by the gaming community for impacting performance and introducing various quirks

Denuvo Removed From 007 First Light After Just Two Months
IO Interactive released its AAA title 007 First Light on May 26 this year, surprising players with the inclusion of Denuvo DRM. However, after just two months on the market, IO Interactive has officially removed this DRM layer from the game. SteamDB has tracked this change, meaning the official Steam version of 007 First Light is now DRM-free. This is great news for gamers, as Denuvo DRM and similar solutions have been widely criticized by the gaming community for impacting performance and introducing various quirks

Blizzard's Battle.net Gets Online Age Verification in UK
Following the recently passes UK Online Safety Act law, everything from Discordto PlayStation Network, and even Roblox, have at least experimented with adding online age verification with systems like Persona and ID.me. Now, it seems as though Blizzard is following suit, locking the social features of Battle.net accounts in the UK behind online age verification.
As explained in a recent Battle.net support article, "To comply with the UK Online Safety Act, age verification may be required for some Battle.net Accounts.
As explained in a recent Battle.net support article, "To comply with the UK Online Safety Act, age verification may be required for some Battle.net Accounts.

Tomb Raider: Catalyst Delayed to 2028
Crystal Dynamics was revealed to be working on two new Tomb Raider games at the December 2025 Game Awards: Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis (a "reimagining" of the first Tomb Raider adventure), announced for 2026, and Tomb Raider: Catalyst, originally slated for launch in 2027. Now, after delaying Legacy of Atlantis to February 2027, Amazon Games General Manager, Jeffrey Gattis, has confirmed in an interviewwith The Game Business that Tomb Raider:

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Beta Crashes PSN Servers for Hours on End
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls officially started an open beta test on the morning of July 24, but shortly after the beta went live, users started reporting that they could not access the game due to a PlayStation Account error. The beta, went live across PC, PS5, and Xbox platforms, has reportedlybeen inaccessible to many players for much of the day, with Downdetector showing between 1,500 and 7,000 error reports every 15 minutes by users since the early
