ASRock's X870 PRO RS motherboard is up on Amazon before the official launch & features a 17-phase VRM with lots of features for $199 US. ASRock X870 Pro RS is a budget motherboard in the X870 "AM5" lineup for the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs We are almost near the official launch of the X870 and X870E motherboards and surprisingly, one of the X870 boards

Chip manufacturer Qualcomm is expected to layoff additional employees later this year as the firm undergoes a "strategic shift" in business and resources. Qualcomm Becomes The New Tech Giant To Get Hit With The Layoff Layer, Firing Over 1,000 Employees This Year Alone The tech industry is experiencing a difficult time regarding financial performance, especially since the global markets are currently positioned in such a way and consumer interest isn't in the best of places. This has ultimately promoted companies like Qualcomm to initiate layoffs across the board

With Wall Street seemingly unimpressed with Intel's latest flourishes to its turnaround strategy, including a jumbo deal with Amazon, the chipmaker might eventually conclude that an outright sale is its only viable exit from the current quagmire. And now, we reportedly have a serious offer that just might tempt Intel. To wit, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Qualcomm has approached Intel with a takeover offer. While the talks remain exploratory for now, any deal would have monumental ramifications for the industry at large. Intel has 1

Samsung is increasingly looking to add more diversity to its product range, not only in terms of the devices it brings about but also in tailoring according to varied user needs. This is the case with the Galaxy Ring, which was released in a range of sizes and became an instant hit among users for being the company's first device in this category and for offering some key health-focused capabilities. While currently, the wearable is available in nine different sizes, the company is expanding more in terms of size range

Palworld was set to be on the exhibitors list at the Tokyo Games Show, but it seems that they have now been removed from the list entirely. This choice possibly comes after Nintendo issued a lawsuit, saying that Palworld was infringing on multiple of Nintendo's patents. On the day that the lawsuit was issued, one of the developers tweeted out an emoji while they were at TGS (as stated in their name on X). Still, an official statement has been released on the Palworld social media and the Pocketpair

As promised yesterday, following our Dragon Age: The Veilguard hands-on preview and exclusive Q&A, here's the full transcript of the longer roundtable Q&A that featured BioWare's Game Directors Corinne Busche and John Epler answering all sorts of questions from the assembled press on the highly anticipated single player action RPG. As a reminder, Dragon Age: The Veilguard will continue the story of Inquisition a decade later (albeit with a different protagonist, although the Inquisitor will still be featured in the new game

Concord is one of Sony's biggest mistakes in game development, with the game being pulled offline and refunded just two weeks after it launched. Concord aimed to be the premium in a sea of free-to-play hero shooters. However, the numbers weren't there, and it received a 1.8 Metacritic User score. In a recent Sacred Symbols podcast episode, Colin Moriarty mentioned that they had spoken to one of the staff members who worked on Concord at Firewalk Studios and spoke "extensively for a

SpaceX is continuing to prepare for Starship Flight 5 in Texas as it waits for the FAA's approval, which should come by late November at the earliest. After testing the tower catch arms yesterday, the firm shared moments back that it had lifted the 232-foot-tall Super Heavy booster at the launch tower to simulate a catch attempt. A tower catch is key for Starship's rapid reusability, and the booster lift is the first time that SpaceX has lifted the massive rocket to the full height

ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant, has reportedly refuted claims of developing its own AI semiconductors, saying that it has no plans to replace NVIDIA. ByteDance Isn't "Ditching" NVIDIA Too Quickly For Now, But The Firm Has Semiconductor Independence In Long Term Goals For those unaware, ByteDance was reported to have contacted the Taiwan semiconductor giant TSMC in an attempt to develop two in-house AI chips based on the foundry's 5nm process. This move by ByteDance was rumored to have been planned to reduce the

Unity has shared a new tech demo called Time Ghost that showcases the Unity 6 Engine. It features some stunning visuals and graphics. The demo is just over four minutes long and was championed by the developer team that created their previous tech demos, such as The Blacksmith, Book of the Dead, and The Heretic. This demo highlights their advancements in visual quality and project complexity while utilizing machine learning. The visual advancements made have allowed for the graphics in Time Ghost to look phenomenal, with the demo leveraging improvements that were