Anthropic Is Paying Nearly A Million Dollars Per Year To The Engineers Teaching Its AI Models To Design A Chip, But Just $320,000-$485,000 To Those Actually Building Its First ASIC

I guess we are in an era where the zeitgeist is not to teach the man how to fish, but the AI model, ensuring that the AI lab - Anthropic in this case - would then nosh on a lifetime's worth of customized silicon chips.

We reported back in May that Anthropic's passing remarks on "logic chips" in relation to its evolving partnership with Samsung had unleashed a flood of speculation regarding a possible ASIC-related tie-up between the two.

Well, just around two months later


Lenovo Reportedly Preps ThinkBook ‘Aeroblade’ So Thin It Sacrificed Deep Key Travel To Hit The Profile

This might be the thinnest laptop we have ever seen, and according to the images, Lenovo made several adjustments to accommodate USB-C ports.

Thin laptops are trending due to the lightweight and compact design that helps carry them around effortlessly. Vendors have been competing against each other in producing thin laptops, and we have dedicated lineups from various OEMs that bring unmatched thin-profile notebooks such as Dell XPS, Lenovo ThinkBook/ThinkPad, ASUS ZenBook , HP OmniBook, and similar series.

However,

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Take-Two CEO Calls GTA 6 Preorders “Unprecedented,” Explains Why It Won’t Ship on a Disc

During today's Q1 FY 2027 earnings call , Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick confirmed that Rockstar's GTA 6 has made an exceptional and unprecedented start to preorders, although the publisher is refusing to disclose an actual sales figure or treat the early response as a finished victory:

We've received exceptional pre-order reception to GTA 6. I'm not gonna tell you how many units we've sold, or we're selling, but I'd say that the

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Noctua Says Vendor Cooler-Clearance Specs Can’t Be Trusted, So It Hand-Measured Over A Hundred PC Cases

This is one of the most handy databases that lets you know if you can fit even larger CPU coolers in your PC case.

The traditional way to find out whether a CPU cooler will fit inside a particular case or not is to check the official specifications on the product page. Almost every vendor lists the CPU cooler clearance for its PC cases on the specs page, alongside VGA and PSU clearance as well. This is handy when you are shopping for a beefy CPU air cooler that could create a problem during installation.

The image displays a Compatibility Browse By Case page with tabs for 'CPUs,' 'Motherboards,' 'Cases,' and 'RAM,' and text stating, Our case compatibility list helps you to quickly identify which PC cases offer sufficient clearance for which Noctua CPU coolers.
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Microsoft’s Efforts In Making Windows 11 More Efficient Isn’t Just Due To The DRAM Shortage; Analyst Believes MacBook Neo Played A Pivotal Role In This Decision

The DRAM shortage isn’t the only event that’s forcing Microsoft to dive deep into making Windows 11 more RAM efficient for 8GB systems , as an analyst provides his thoughts on the company’s change. Apparently, it was the MacBook Neo that served as the primary reason for this shift. Well, when people clamor that competition always favors the consumer, they are right about something.

Despite Apple’s price hike, the MacBook Neo is still considered to be a value-focused product, with


Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – Everything We Know About Nintendo’s Time-Traveling Switch 2 Strategy RPG

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is Nintendo and Intelligent Systems' next mainline entry in the long-running tactical RPG series, the first since 2023's Engage. Revealed as a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive in September 2025, the game takes the franchise to the divine Dagdan Empire, where a contest promising one wish to its victor becomes the focal point of a war against the revived demon god Balor. While preserving the series' trademark grid-based, turn-based battles, Fortune

AOOSTAR Halves NEX395 Mini PC To 64 GB RAM As RAMpocalypse Starves The Workstation Market

The AI boom has a significant impact on the mainstream market, forcing vendors to cut down on the memory capacity for their devices.

The impact of RAMpocalypse can already be seen on the market once you check the prices for DDR5/DDR5 RAM, SSDs, GPUs, and mobile devices. While some vendors have started price adjustments for their products, there are others who have started to downgrade their products as the existing configurations have become almost unaffordable.

Last year, popular Chinese mini PC maker AOOSTAR launched its most powerful

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CAPCOM’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 Becomes A True Co-Op Monster Hunter Soon, As DD2gether Mod Arrives Before Dark Arisen

With its emphasis on fighting against big enemies like Cyclops and Ogres , the original Dragon's Dogma often felt like a sort of cross between an open-world RPG and the Monster Hunter series. Dragon's Dogma 2 followed in the footsteps of its predecessor (perhaps even a bit too much ), delivering the same feel as its predecessor.

Soon, the two CAPCOM series will get closer than ever before on PC thanks to the Alpha launch of the DD2gether mod, which introduces co-op multiplayer ahead


Chinese CXMT Memory Chips Hit 8800 MT/s On AM5, Signaling A Fast-Maturing Alternative To Established DDR5 Vendors

This time, it's the 2x 16 GB configuration that was pushed to nearly 9000 MT/s on an X870E motherboard.

CXMT DDR5 is maturing fast, and we have seen how quickly the DDR5 memory modules based on CXMT DDR5 chips reached over 8000 MT/s on multiple platforms. As vendors prepare for CXMT-based DDR5 memory modules for their platforms, we see previous records being broken. If you remember, a few weeks

The image showcases the Colorful iGame Shadow II RAM and iGame X870E VULCAN W OC motherboard with DDR5 memory speed of '8800 MT/s,' along with a screenshot showing 'DRAM Frequency' of 4406.0 MHz.
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Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember Goes Open-World With a Dynamic Battlefield, As Team NINJA Ditches The Deflection-Or-Die Playstyle

Wo Long 2: Wings Of Ember was among the many surprise reveals of the non-E3 season, and although the announcement trailer did not show much, it looked clear from the get-go that the new entry in the series would address many of the complaints of the first entry in the series. Ahead of its early 2027 launch on PC , PlayStation 5 , Xbox Series X|S , and Nintendo Switch , Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo revealed that the new entry in the series is going