Electronic Arts quietly announced in an SEC filing that it has obtained all necessary regulatory approvals for the planned $55 billion buyout by a Consortium of investors, including PIF , Silver Lake Group , and Affinity Partners , with the following planned stakes: 93.4% PIF, 5.5% Silver Lake Group, and 1.1% Affinity Partners. The plan is to go forward with the closing on Tuesday, August 4, 2026 .

As previously disclosed, on September 28, 2

A decent cooling system sometimes isn’t enough to run Intel’s Core i9-13900K at full tilt, especially knowing that these desktop processors were not only power guzzlers, but reached toasty temperatures. One user showed that the exact same CPU reached an uncomfortable 155°C when running a load of just 93W. Thankfully, here’s why you shouldn’t fret over these numbers.

Incorrect temperature readers are some of the more common occurrences you’ll notice

In what might well be the most significant statement from its latest earnings call, Apple has conceded that it's continuing to evaluate various memory sources, including Chinese vendors, despite the emerging strong opposition from the US lawmakers.

Apple gave two very important pointers on the ongoing memory dynamics in its latest earnings call. First, it said :

"We paid more for memory in the March quarter than the December quarter. We expected to pay significantly more in the June quarter than the March quarter. And that is what happened

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus realized that there’s massive potential for Apple to launch an affordable notebook for the mass market, which is why he kept pushing for the MacBook Neo to materialize. While analysts and critics alike assumed that a low-cost machine would introduce a ton of compromises, the sales tell another tale, and during Apple’s Q3 2026 earnings call , the company reveals that Mac sales grew more than 25 percent compared to Q2 2026, and it’

Apple has just disclosed the earnings for its fiscal third quarter of 2026, delivering on heightened expectations with a strong print albeit marred by weakness in its services segment.

Here are the key highlights from Apple's latest quarterly earnings release:

1. Total Sales - $109.42 billion, up 16.3% year-over-year (YoY)
   • iPhone Sales - $54.252 billion, up 21.7% YoY
   • Mac Sales - $10.

AMD has started adding Ryzen Zen 6 "client" CPU support for its HSMP driver, spanning Olympic Ridge & Medusa Point families.

With the launch of the first Zen 6 CPUs in the EPYC 9006 family , AMD is now gearing up to bring the same architecture to its client-based lineups.

As per the latest Linux Kernel patches, AMD has enabled support for several Zen 6 client families, which will be part of the Ryzen product portfolio. There are three families listed, which include:

• Olympic Ridge

The Ryzen lineup of X3D desktop processors should be your next purchase if your primary goal is to get the most out of your framerate. As it so happens, the older-generation Ryzen 7 7800X3D has dropped down to $339.99 on Amazon after a 24 percent discount, making it the lowest price we have seen to date. However, if you would much rather have AMD’s latest and greatest, the Ryzen 7 9800X

Let the AI price wars begin. OpenAI has just fired a veritable volley across the bow of China's growing number of AI labs, sacrificing its sky-high margins to try to starve the budding open-weight AI economy.