InnoGrit Unveils IG5686 PCI Gen6 SSD Controller With Up To 256 TB Capacities At 28 Gbps, Aims Gen7 SSDs For 2028 With 100 Million IOPS

Chinese manufacturer InnoGrit has unveiled its first PCIe Gen6 SSD controller, while also giving us a look at what its Gen7 SSDs will have on offer.

InnoGrit launches its first Gen5 SSD controller in 2023, marking the entrance of a Chinese brand in the current-gen SSD segments. During Computex, InnoGrit (YingRen Technology) is showcasing its upcoming PCIe Gen6 SSD controller called Crestone "IG5686". This SSD controller is targeted towards Enterprise applications, high-end data centers

INNOGRIT Crestone IG5686 PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSDs are displayed with specifications highlighting 28/22 GB/s speed, 256TB capacity, and support for SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC NAND.
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ZOTAC Marks 20 Years With a Gold-Themed RTX 5070 Ti, Two RTX 5080 Liquid-Cooled Prototypes, & The World’s Smallest PC With A Desktop 5080

ZOTAC has displayed its latest RTX 50 innovations, and the world's smallest PC featuring a desktop-grade RTX 5080 graphics card.

First up, we have the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SOLID SFF OC Edition, which takes the original design and gives it a new gold-themed trim. The card features the same 2-slot design with Icestorm 2.0 cooling, an SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce design, and also comes with a Power safety light that ensures the

A Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX graphics card with a gold-colored design is displayed on a stand, showing three cooling fans in a busy exhibition hall.
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Why PC Game System Requirements Are Often Misleading

PC system requirements should be simple. You look at the minimum, recommended, and potentially higher-tier specs, compare them to your rig, and get a solid idea of what to expect. Easy enough, right?

Well, not anymore, sadly. Over the last decade or so, PC game system requirements (or PC specs) have become incredibly messy, inconsistent, and sometimes borderline useless. We are dealing with vague targets, aggressive temporal upscaling hidden behind an inconspicuous “1080p” or

A chart titled 'Initial PC Requirements' shows minimum and recommended specs for 'Control Resonant,' including Intel i5-8500 or AMD equivalent for minimum CPU and Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel equivalent for recommended CPU.
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Crate Entertainment Opens Up on Grim Dawn: Fangs of Asterkarn’s Massive Scope, Long Development, and What Comes Next

Last week, independent developer Crate Entertainment finally set a concrete launch date for Grim Dawn: Fangs of Asterkarn (the third and final expansion for the hack-and-slash action RPG): July 23 for PC via Steam, GOG, and Humble Store.

The previous expansion, Forgotten Gods, was released in March 2019. In the meantime, the small studio released a fairly successful city builder, Farthest Frontier , and began working on new projects. Even so, they went back to Grim Dawn

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Apple Is Stealthily Sidelining The iPhone 18 Pro Max As The Foldable iPhone Ultra Hogs Its Attention, Leaving The Pro Max With A Familiar Thickness And Iterative Specs

The disparate parts of Apple's sprawling supply chain are gradually coalescing around the final form and specs for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max and its Pro counterpart, with the emerging consensus serving to dampen the prospects of a dramatic overhaul.

To wit, the tipster Ice Universe has now penned a post on Weibo , disclosing that the iPhone 18 Pro Max will sport a thickness of 8.75mm, which matches that of its predecessor, the iPhone 17 Pro Max.

This suggests that not much is


Subnautica 2 Players Can “Get Stompy” in Future Update, as Unknown Worlds Teases the Collector Leviathan’s Home for the Next Region

Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds has released its first Dev Vlog video since the game's early access launch last month, confirming that the game has sold over 4 million copies since launch and thanking players for their support so far. Design lead Anthony Gallegos also reveals a bit about the fixes Unknown Worlds has already made, fixes that are imminently coming, and the game's next big content update, teasing that it'll allow players to " get stompy ."

That tease comes in relation to a new chassis that

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Verizon Allegedly Promised Tickets To The World Cup Through A Reddit DM Then Ghosted, Risking A Customer’s Paid Flight

One typically must double-check for any offers they receive in their DMs, but when it’s one from the official Verizon subreddit, you tend not to ask a lot of questions. This is exactly what one user did when he claimed the U.S. carrier reached out to him through the social network, telling him that he won World Cup tickets. It’s only after he and his brother booked flights that he realized that something was wrong.

Before you immediately conclude that sending offers through Reddit is


AMD’s Frank Azor Pushes Back on FSR 4.1 Cancellation Rumor for RDNA 3.5 iGPUs, Says No Such Decision Has Been Made

Frank Azor, CVP of Client and Graphics Marketing at AMD, took to X to dispel rumors surrounding FSR 4.1 being restricted from RDNA 3.5 iGPU solutions.

The rumor that FSR 4.1 wouldn't be coming to RDNA 3.5 iGPUs started from a conversation Hardware Luxx had with David McAfee, CVP and GM of Client at AMD. Hardware Luxx reported that according to David, FSR 4.1 is not planned for RDNA 3.5 graphics for the time being. However, after the

NVIDIA announces the 'RTX Spark Superchip' featuring a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6144 CUDA cores and 1 petaflop FP4 AI performance, a 20-core Grace CPU custom-built with MediaTek, and 128 GB LPDDR5X unified memory with NVLink C2C.

Gabe Newell Fights Steam Monopoly Claims, Says “Customers Have Enormous Choice” Across Consoles and PC

Valve's digital storefront and quintessential home for PC gamers, Steam , is currently under fire from multiple lawsuits. One aimed at microtransaction practices in games like Counter-Strike , and two more, both aimed at the 30% cut Valve takes with every purchase made on Steam, one in the UK and another in the US . It's the latter of the two that we have an update on, as a deposition of boss Gabe Newell reveals how Newell is trying to argue against Steam being a monopoly,

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Samsung LSI’s Price Gouging Pushes Exynos 2600 To $270/Unit, Forcing Samsung Mobile To Bank On Qualcomm For The Galaxy Z Flip 8

Samsung LSI sought to exploit Samsung Mobile over the past few months by repeatedly hiking the per unit price of its flagship Exynos 2600 chip . Well, Samsung Mobile now appears to be responding to these relentless price gouging tactics by reducing the share of the Exynos 2600 chip within the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8, while increasing its uptake of Qualcomm's more economical Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip .