A component as insignificant as a water-resistant adhesive for the iPhone can make the difference between a functional device and a non-functional one. Usually, companies would cut corners by opting for less quality-controlled parts and still have the confidence to give their products an IP rating, but that’s what separates them from Apple.
On the Cupertino firm’s website, a single back glass adhesive for the iPhone 17 Pro Max costs $1.62, making it twice as expensive as those affordable
At GDC 2026 , NVIDIA and CD Projekt RED showed a demo of the Polish studio's The Witcher 4 using NVIDIA's RTX Mega Geometry to path trace forests for the first time.
Now, NVIDIA has the full video replay of the GDC 2026 session ' The Future of Path Tracing | Best Practices, Optimizations & Future Standards ', which includes lots of interesting details on that The Witcher 4/RTX Mega Geometry demo.
Martin Stich , Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA, introduced
Today, NVIDIA announced the planned GeForce NOW games lineup for the month of April 2026 . This week, the library of the cloud gaming service is expanding with the following twelve PC games :
The leak suggests Intel's enthusiast-grade Nova Lake-AX lineup will use a much larger platform than expected.
A new shipping manifest has unveiled some crucial details about Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-AX series , which is expected to go against AMD's Strix Halo. Unlike the current enthusiast-grade lineups, Nova Lake-AX ( also mentioned as Razer Lake-AX ) is set to deliver a far superior SoC with a massive iGPU tile that hosts up to 384 Execution Units or 4
In a new video shared by a Chinese media account, the current situation in the memory industry appears to be causing panic among DDR sellers, who are now 'begging' for prices to rise again.
We have reported on DDR5 prices dropping aggressively across retail markets in recent times, and, interestingly, the situation in China appears to be the most surprising of all. A has shared with what appears to be a RAM vendor in the local market, who is showing his stockpile of DDR modules, and interestingly,
The Nintendo Switch 2 price has remained stable since its launch last year, but it will eventually go up according to a former Nintendo sales lead, as hardware production costs are skyrocketing due to high oil prices amidst a situation already made challenging by high RAM prices due to the AI boom and tariffs.
"Unfortunately, I think eventually the hardware price is going to have to go up," said former sales lead Sean during the latest episode of the . "We've seen inflation, you know, being a problem
Reputable AMD leaker Kepler_L2 reports that Valve is targeting a 2028 launch window for the Steam Deck 2 , though that might change depending on the duration of the ongoing RAM and NAND component crisis. On the upside, since it's not going to be based on a semi-custom SoC like Sony's PlayStation 6 or Microsoft's "Project Helix" Xbox Next , a delay could also be used to improve its specifications .
In a post , the leaker wrote:
They were targeting
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was already a significant upgrade over the Snapdragon 8 Elite, offering 12MB of shared L2 cache between the two CPU clusters. Now, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is expected to kick it up a notch, with a tipster hinting that the triple ‘2 + 2 + 3’ cluster will allow the upcoming flagship chipset to flaunt the highest L2 cache for any smartphone silicon out there.
Some extra specifications shared by Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station share several cache details surrounding
A new Gears of War game will be released later this year, seven years after Gears 5 , but it won't be Gears 6 . Instead of ending the series' second trilogy, Vancouver-based developer The Coalition chose to create a prequel called Gears of War: E-Day , which centers on the very first day the Locust Horde emerged from the planet's underground to overwhelm the surface of Sera. According to the studio, this will be their most ambitious game yet .
Earlier this week, Microsoft
Not every Wi-Fi 7 router is manufactured the same, and if you’re spending less money on this upgrade, then you’re making an even bigger compromise than you realize. Instead of getting a throwaway deal, these ‘affordable’ devices are limited to dual-band connectivity, meaning that these routers cannot help in reducing the wireless congestion that will eventually compromise the performance. TP-Link’s Archer BE600 is one of the company’s first tri-band routers that goes hard