UBS Expects AMD To Strike A Foundry Deal With Intel, As It Faces Perennial Underdog Status On Data Center Racks

Hindered by the ongoing capacity constraints at TSMC, AMD will strike up a foundry deal with its arch-nemesis Intel, as per the latest commentary from analysts over at UBS.

Separately, Goldman Sachs seems to have turned sour on the prospects of AMD ever catching up to NVIDIA on data center racks, with the latter likely to ship 10x, 7x, and 9.8x as many racks in 2026, 2027, and 2028, respectively.

AMD appears


Tensor G6 May Be Manufactured On An Older Node, Not TSMC’s 2nm Process; Google Offers No Confirmation Apart From Percentage Improvements

Update - Google's Vice President of Hardware, Peng Yu-Chun, has confirmed to Economic Daily News that all Pixel 11 models ship with the 3nm Tensor G6. Given that the Tensor G5 utilized the 3nm N3P technology, Google likely stuck with this lithography.

It would be considered an achievement of the ages if the Tensor G6 were announced as Google’s and the smartphone industry’s first 2nm SoC. However, even after the Pixel 11 lineup’s

Tensor G6 may not be Google's first 2nm SoC, according to the latest evidence
Continue reading...

Phantom Blade Zero PC Specs Stay Modest, yet an RTX 5080 is the Price of Full Path Tracing at 4K@60FPS

Following the opening of pre-orders , Chinese developer S-GAME has now released the official PC system requirements for Phantom Blade Zero , their much-anticipated action RPG due on October 29. The minimum and recommended requirements aren't too demanding at all , and even the ray tracing and path tracing GPU requirements seem fair, as you can read in the tables below.

RequirementMinimumRecommended
ProcessorIntel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i5-
Alessio Palumbo Photo

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Hands-On Impressions – An Ambitious Campaign, but will it Conquer Fans’ Hearts?

Nintendo is usually pretty good at keeping followers of their various IPs on the same page, but the fanbase for the Fire Emblem franchise is unusually fractious. It's hard to find agreement about what the best game in the series is, with there being a particular friction between fans of 2019's Fire Emblem: Three Houses , with its unique combat mechanics and greater focus on between-battle extracurriculars, and the more traditional Fire Emblems that take a more combat-focused, tactical approach. Enter the

Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave
Continue reading...

ASUS Is Optimistic About RTX Spark, Says Initial Quantities “Have Already Been Fully Pre-Ordered By Our Channel Partners” As First Laptops Set To Arrive This Year

NVIDIA’s laptop partners are preparing a drove of products expected to be powered by the RTX Spark for a launch later this year , with ASUS included in the list by offering its ProArt family of notebooks. During the Taiwanese firm’s Q&A session of its latest earnings call, the company stated that it is highly optimistic about the launch, as the market response has exceeded its expectations.

A specific part of ASUS’ Q&A session was noticed by analyst Bryan Ma , and while we have yet to


Sean Murray Breaks Light No Fire’s 2-Year Silence, Admitting the Radio Blackout Wasn’t the Original Plan and Confirming the Ambition

It's been nearly three years since Hello Games announced Light No Fire at The Game Awards 2023, and we famously didn't get any further trailers or real info. It's been so bad for fans that they have been happy just to read a brief mention of the project in Sean Murray's No Man's Sky 10th-anniversary letter .

Thankfully, Murray did just talk a little more about Light No Fire in an interview with Kotaku . To begin with, he

Alessio Palumbo Photo

Bethesda Quietly Hid The Elder Scrolls VI Subtitle Inside Starfield, and Fans Just Cracked the Code

As mentioned yesterday, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma effectively teased the subtitle of The Elder Scrolls VI by showing eight asterisks in her tweet. In my article , I listed some of the most likely candidates and ranked Sentinel first. Well, the Elder Scrolls community is now adamant that that's the one .

There's a couple of reasons for that. For starters, it turns out that Bethesda Game Studios had been sneakily teasing it for a very long time, even at the Starfield character creation screen. A user quickly

A character customization screen from the game Starfield with the text 'SENTINEL 190514-2009140512' prominently displayed.
Continue reading...

NVIDIA’s Six-Year-Old A100 Defies Deprecation As CoreWeave Rents It Through 2029, Stretching Ampere To A Nine-Year Lifespan

CoreWeave has committed to a rental plan for NVIDIA's A100 GPUs through 2029, highlighting how CUDA upgrades make older platforms viable for extended durability.

The NVIDIA A100 AI accelerators are part of the Ampere GPU generation, which launched back in 2020.

The 2nd Generation Tensor Core chip has been out for six years, and by this time, we would usually expect it to be phased out, but that's not the case as Jensen implies that NVIDIA


Pearl Abyss Is Shifting Personnel from Crimson Desert to DokeV, Planning Demos Next Year and a Launch in 2H 2028

While developer Pearl Abyss is certainly very happy about the commercial success of Crimson Desert and has further plans for it, including an imminent DLC and a Nintendo Switch 2 port, the studio has also begun shifting personnel to DokeV , its next big release.

In the Pearl Abyss Q2 2026 Q&A, the South Korean developer revealed to be targeting a launch in the second half of 2028 , with playable demos (presumably at conventions) available in the second half of next year.

DokeV

Alessio Palumbo Photo

Qualcomm Aims Snapdragon C At $300 Laptops With Up To 16 GB Memory, Claims 67% Faster Speeds And 2x Efficiency Over Intel’s Twin Lake

Qualcomm is finally disclosing the first specifications and performance benchmarks of its entry-tier Snapdragon C SoCs.

Snapdragon C SoCs Are Qualcomm's Bet In The Entry-Tier PC Segment, Leveraging LPDDR4 & LPDDR5 Memory Standards For $300 Laptops

At Computex 2026, Qualcomm unveiled its latest Snapdragon family called Snapdragon C . The SoCs were pitched as an entry-tier PC offering with platforms starting at $300 and offering all-day battery life. During the announcement, Qualcomm was tight

A marketing image for the 'Snapdragon C Platform' showcases a laptop and highlights features such as 'all-day battery life,' 'responsive performance,' 'cool and quiet design,' and 'AI capable,' while emphasizing benefits for various users.
Continue reading...