AMD Zen 6 Gains a New Low-Power Core Beyond Zen 6 and Zen 6C, Surfacing in Linux Kernel Patches

AMD's next-generation Zen 6 CPUs will include a brand-new core type, which will aim to bring low-power mode to several platforms.

AMD's current Zen 5 lineup includes two major core types based on the same ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). These include the Zen 5 and Zen 5C variants. The Zen 5 is the standard variant, and the Zen 5C focuses on higher core densities but with optimized clocks/power characteristics. We have seen the inclusion of these two Zen

A slide comparing the Zen 4c Core Architecture shows a Zen 4 core at 3.84 mm² and a Zen 4c core at 2.48 mm², highlighting '~35% less area' for the Zen 4c core.

Super Micro Insists Cooperation as Taiwan Authorities Storm Offices in NVIDIA GPU Smuggling Crackdown on China Exports

Computer hardware firm Super Micro Computer's offices were raided by authorities in Taiwan as part of an investigation regarding GPU smuggling, says a report from Bloomberg. The publication quotes a statement by Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors' Office, which notes the locations of several offices that were raided as part of an investigation into the smuggling of NVIDIA's chips into China. A Super Micro office was also present in the list, but the statement did not directly address the firm.

According to Bloomberg's report, corroborated


AMD Radeon GPUs Can Now Run NVIDIA PhysX Games With 3x Boost Thanks To ZLUDA, Without Requiring A Dedicated PhysX GPU

AMD Radeon GPUs have now gained support for NVIDIA's PhysX with the ZLUDA v6 release , providing a massive boost in PhysX games.

ZLUDA , an open-source library, has been in the headlines for bringing NVIDIA CUDA support to Non-NVIDIA GPUs . The team behind the library has been working hard on adding new features, but at the same time, they have faced crackdowns for not complying with legal terms .

Due to the nature of ZLUDA's work, the team is no longer receiving commercial assistance

A benchmark results screen shows an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor with AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT achieving an average of 26.2 fps, ranking 'D,' on Windows 7 Business with a resolution of 2560x1440 at 480Hz.
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Supermassive Games CEO Steps Down Months After Directive 8020 Launch

Supermassive Games, the studio behind games like Until Dawn, The Quarry, The Dark Pictures Anthology and most recently, Little Nightmares 3 followed by Directive 8020 is officially going through a bit of transition. Robert Henrysson, chief executive officer of the studio and partner to its parent company Nordisk Games , is stepping down from his role, Nordisk Games announced today. He's being replaced by Graeme Law in the interim while Supermassive looks for its next leader.

Nordisk shared the news on LinkedIn , where Henrysson soon

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An Apple Watch Ultra Protected Its Owner’s Arm From “Road Burns Or A Dislocated Elbow” Because Of A Sidestepped Car, But Sustained Irreparable Damage In The Process

A road bike owner was doing his usual rounds around the Golden Gate Bridge when a separate car “sideswiped” him, turning the incident into a “hit and run” case. Thankfully, had it not been for the Apple Watch Ultra, the bike rider’s arm would have been filled with a multitude of cuts and bruises. The only downside is that the smartwatch bore the majority of the damage and is now rendered useless.

The build quality of Apple products goes all the way to 11, and the


NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra GB300 Now Powers Anthropic’s Claude Models on Microsoft Azure, Targeting Autonomous Enterprise Agents

Anthropic has announced the general availability of its Claude AI models on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GPUs .

As Agentic workloads continue to drive the AI segment, NVIDIA is working with leading firms to deliver faster and expanded capabilities to end-users. Today, NVIDIA partnered with Anthropic to deliver Claude models on Microsoft Azure.

With the general availability of Anthropic's Claude models, Microsoft Azure provides billing, authentication, and governance controls. The two models that are available today are Claude Opus 4.8

Microsoft Azure Gets An Ultra Upgrade With NVIDIA's GB300

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced to Support PSSR 2.0 on PS5 Pro, with Ray-Traced Specular Reflections and Global Illumination Enabled for all Graphics Modes

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is days away from launch at the time of this writing, and ahead of its arrival Ubisoft has just showcased what PS5 Pro players can expect when they load up this reimagined and remade seventh-gen adventure.

A new trailer and PlayStation Blog post outline features that Black Flag Resynced will support, including ray-traced global illumination, ray-traced specular reflections and PlayStation's recently released and improved upscaling technology, PSSR 2.0 .

" We rebuilt the game from the ground

A specification chart for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced shows PS5 and PS5 Pro performance modes, detailing 'Resolution' as '2160P UPSCALED,' 'Target Performance' from '30 FPS' to '60 FPS,' and different 'Ray Tracing Usage' levels.
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Apple’s Bid to Source Memory From China’s CXMT May Collapse as Beijing Prioritizes its Own Chip-Starved Firms

Korea's Korea Investment & Securities (KIS) believes that China's CXMT will be unable to make a definitive impact on the global memory market. The memory shortage, spurred by high demand from AI chips, is once again in the spotlight after consumer electronics giant Apple raised prices for several of its products and cited a memory shortage. Following the price hike, reports have claimed that Apple is requesting the US government to allow it to buy memory chips from China's CXMT.

China's CXMT has been


The CWA and 3,500+ Unionized Xbox Employees Are Ready to Fight Back Against Xbox’s Reported Imminent Mass Layoffs

When Xbox was looking to complete its purchase of Activision Blizzard King , one of the factors that helped get it over the line was agreeing to a neutrality framework with the Communications Workers of America (CWA ) . Ensuring that game developers under Microsoft and Xbox could unionize without fear or opposition from management . Thousands of workers have unionized since, though that hasn't stopped mass layoffs at Microsoft following the closure of the ABK deal. Now, as yet another case of mass layoffs looms over Xbox, the CWA held a press

A Zoom conference call shows participants with a red background displaying 'NO LAYOFFS AT MICROSOFT' and 'CWA'.
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No Rest for the Wicked 1.0 Interview: ‘We Ran the Baldur’s Gate 3 Playbook with Early Access’

Earlier this month, Ori developer Moon Studios announced the 1.0 launch date of No Rest for the Wicked , its isometric Soulslike fantasy action RPG. The Austrian studio's new project will exit early access in October on PC and PlayStation 5, while Nintendo and Xbox fans will have to wait longer , primarily due to ongoing optimization on the weaker Series S and Switch 2 consoles.

Following the release news, we had the opportunity to interview Moon Studios CEO and Creative Director Thomas Mahler . Throughout the conversation, we delved

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