Following the big Xbox reset enacted by division Chief Executive Officer Asha Sharma , which laid off 1,600 employees (with another 1,600 jobs to be cut later ), there was a lot of curiosity about Microsoft 's quarterly earnings report.

Unsurprisingly, while Microsoft as a whole beat forecasts and recorded its strongest year yet, with revenue rising 18% to more than $331 billion and operating income increasing 21% to more than $155 billion , Xbox'

Chip manufacturer Intel is providing its Atom chip technology to a startup run by a former associate of CEO Lip-Bu Tan, says a report from Reuters. Tan, along with having significant experience in the semiconductor industry, is also a well-known venture capital investor. The startup, called Rosaic, is run by Amarjit Gill, who invested with Tan in high-performance chip startup Nuvia and worked together in establishing RISC-V chip company Rivos.

Intel's Atom chips are designed to cater to low-power

By setting Grand Theft Auto VI for a November 19 release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S , Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive forced every publisher to move their games as far as possible from this date, resulting in some of the most game-packed September and October of recent memory. Previously planned for a generic late 2026 release, GPTRACK50 's Stupid Never Dies now joins a packed October release schedule, launching on the same day as Square Enix 's Final Fantasy

Microsoft is moving aggressively to expand its compute footprint, and hedging its bets on the way by tapping rack-scale systems from both NVIDIA and AMD in what is an echo of its AI model-agnostic approach within Azure and Copilot.

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Intel has overcome one big challenge that will lead to the creation of hyper-large chips beyond 12x reticle size through advanced packaging technologies.

Modern-day chips don't rely on a single piece of silicon, and instead utilize a range of silicon dies, interconnected together using the latest packaging solutions. The terminology used for such designs is chiplets, and chiplets were made to overcome scaling bottlenecks and the growing demand for compute.

Inside Intel's Rio Rancho, New Mexico facilities, advanced packaging technologies are expanding

If you think NVIDIA's margins are obscene, you haven't seen anything yet, quite literally. After all, Precigenitics, a biotech company that focuses on live-cell drug discovery, has just inked a $2.3 million deal at a potential margin of over 95 percent!

For the benefit of those who might not be aware, instead of analyzing traditional, static cellular snapshots, or destroying cells during testing, Precigenetics uses a photonic-AI platform - called Cell Cinema - to continuously image and

An MSI Raider GE77HX 12UHS sporting an Intel Core i9-12900HX and an RTX 3080 Ti might be considered aged at this point, but the gaming laptop can still hold its own in a truckload of titles, assuming it still works. One Redditor has shared evidence that the company refused to honor a motherboard replacement for the machine, simply because it would have been too expensive for them. Talk about a punch in the gut for the customer who spent

We have one more Zen 5-based mini PC, but this time it's the Gorgon Point system, delivering high memory and storage capacity.

Popular mini PC maker GMKtec is constantly expanding its catalog with newer mini PCs. The company has introduced its first-ever Gorgon Point mini PC called the EVO-X1 Pro mini PC, which uses the latest Zen 5 Refresh SoC for powerful computing performance. The EVO-X1 Pro utilizes the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 CPU, which offers 12

Today marks the official theatrical debut of Spider-Man: Brand New Day , the fourth film in the MCU Spider-Man series starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker, in much of Europe plus China and Brazil (US theaters are getting it on July 31). As part of the final press interviews, IGN spoke with Holland himself on the red carpet, and the actor revealed that a lot of the movie's fight scenes were heavily inspired by Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man 2 .

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