With Final Fantasy VII Rebirth , director Naoki Hamaguchi and his development team took everything that made Final Fantasy VII Remake great and upped it to eleven to deliver one of the best entries in the entire series. Topping the second entry in the series will be extremely difficult, but it seems like publisher Square Enix is attempting to do the impossible, and improve the one element of the game which can be truly considered perfect with Final Fantasy VII Revelation launching during Spring 2027 on PC , PlayStation 5 , Xbox Series X
Samsung Eyes An Opening In China’s Dwindling Smartphone Market By Using CXMT Memory, But The Latest Report Has The Completely Wrong Idea About Pricing
As Chinese smartphone brands cut smartphone shipments in the wake of the DRAM shortage , Samsung reportedly targets an opportunity to raise its tally in a market that it has struggled to penetrate for years. To achieve this, a new report states that the Korean giant will resort to using CXMT’s DRAM chips, which are said to be cheaper, but that’s where the misconception should end.
A report from Asia Times claims that Samsung is considering the use of “low-cost” Chinese DRAM as the company aims to
The AI Boom Helped Memory Makers Escape Apple’s Tyranny, But One Supplier Wasn’t So Fortunate; Contract Severance Ends 130-Year-Old Company’s Future
Apple’s aggressive negotiation tactics have allowed it to obtain components at insanely low prices, irrespective of whether it tarnishes the supplier’s future. While this tactic couldn’t faze memory suppliers thanks to AI, German battery manufacturer Varta isn’t so lucky in this regard and is forced to shutter its doors after more than a century of operations.
After 130 years, German firm Varta will be shuttering its doors after a report from Focus stated that the battery maker not only faced a massive setback when Apple
Dan Houser Shrugs off PlayStation’s Disc Phase-out, Yet Insists Companies Should Still Serve Physical Die-Hards
During San Diego Comic-Con 2025, IGN hosted a live video interview with Dan Houser (former Creative Director of most of Rockstar 's games up to Red Dead Redemption 2 ) and asked him about the recent news that PlayStation won't make any more physical discs from January 2028 .
Houser prefaced by saying he personally doesn't care (likely implying he has already fully switched to digital), but added that if people still want the discs, companies should continue making them .
TSMC’s 2nm Production Is In Full Swing, One Plant Has Already Reached 20,000 Monthly Wafers, As Demand Surge Could Eclipse 3nm Requirements Soon
A major milestone has reportedly been achieved by TSMC as the world’s largest semiconductor foundry races to complete its transition from the 3nm process to the 2nm one. One of the company’s plants has reached 20,000 monthly wafers as it prepares to begin shipping chips for a long list of customers.
A total of five fabs located in Taiwan are solely focused on 2nm production, according to Economic Daily News. Out of the five, Fab 20 has obtained the 20,
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro To Boost FPS With Upscaling & Frame Generation Improvements Thanks To Exclusive AI Frame Fusion, But Its Use Case Could Be Limited
Each year, Qualcomm introduces a new upscaling technology that’s marketed as a game-changing feature, with the company now rumored to bring AI Frame Fusion exclusively to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro . While we should be excited for what the feature brings to the table, we’ve also realized that without any meaningful use cases, with the most important one being increased gaming performance, the feature will practically be useless.
Similar to how the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will have exclusive support for LPDDR6
Apple Is Facing A Shift It Never Encountered In Its Two-Decade History; Meeting Customers Wanting The Same LPDDR Memory, But At Higher Margins
The negotiation tactics of Apple were infamous in the industry, largely due to the company’s size and influence amongst supply chain partners, of being able to lock in massive deals by pre-paying sums that other rivals could only manage to fork over a fraction of. Now, the tides have turned, and the Cupertino giant has to deal with customers paying higher sums for LPDDR memory while ordering higher volumes.
Memory buyers like NVIDIA, Micron, AMD, Qualcomm, and others are able to order substantial volumes of LPDDR
NVIDIA Blackwell RTX 50 Hotspot And Per-Memory Temperature Monitoring: Here’s Everything Enthusiasts Have Uncovered So Far
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series has introduced various architectural improvements, but one change that caught the attention of hardware enthusiasts wasn't related to the gaming performance or AI capabilities. Instead, it was related to the temperature monitoring on the RTX 50 series graphics cards. Unlike previous-generation RTX GPUs, NVIDIA removed the GPU hotspot measurement from the GPUs, even though the sensor for these cards exists. This prevented monitoring software from displaying the hottest point on the GPU die, which has served enthusiasts, reviewers
NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Card Prices See Massive Increase in China As GDDR6 & GDDR7 Costs Continue To Climb, & Shops Begin Stockpiling GPUs As Memory Faces Further Hikes
GPU prices in China have increased massively due to recent adjustments to GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory, affecting AMD & NVIDIA graphics cards.
GPU makers such as NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel have been trying to absorb memory price increases for a while now, but they have gotten out of hand due to persistent shortages, which have raised the DRAM costs for GDDR6 and GDDR7 products 10-fold, resulting in a significant increase in graphics card prices.
And it's not just memory prices; other components
A Modder’s RTX 4080 Was Enough To Play AAA Games, But Not For Running LLMs, So He Integrated NVIDIA’s Tesla V100 At A Throwaway Price To Run 27B AI Models
Running higher-quality AI models means your existing GPU will have to be equipped with a ton of VRAM to make the experience enjoyable. For one RTX 4080 owner, playing the most visually taxing and graphically demanding games might be a walk in the park, but for running LLMs, it’s a Herculean task. Wanting to accomplish both feats in a single gaming PC, a modder successfully ran NVIDIA’s Tesla V100 in his system, but encountered a few challenges along the way.
