IBM’s 0.7 Nanometer “Nanostack” Chipmaking Technology Shows America’s Semiconductor Innovation Still Leads The World

In a surprising announcement, IBM introduced its 0.7-nanometer chip technology today to make it the first firm to have unveiled a manufacturing process smaller than the 1-nanometer technology node. The firm claims that the technology will enable chips to contain as much as 100 billion in an area the size of a fingernail. To achieve this, the technology relies on IBM's nanostack technology, which relies on nanosheets for chip fabrication.

According to IBM, the 0.7-nanometer chip has nearly twice

An IBM infographic titled 'Sub-1nm Chip Technology' shows a magnified view of silicon (Si) atom rows, labeled with '15 rows of Si atoms' and 'Silicon (Si) atom.'
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FromSoftware’s Parent Company Kadokawa Keeps Its CEO After Investors Tried to Replace Him, Claiming “Material Profit Leakage” for not Capitalizing on Elden Ring’s Success

FromSoftware's parent company Kadokawa Corporation just nearly missed going through a major transition period. Kadokawa's chief executive officer, Takeshi Natsuno , has been able to keep his job as CEO , after some of the company's investors tried to have him replaced due to their claims that Natsuno has failed to properly capitalize on the success of Elden Ring .

This comes from a report from Reuters (via GamesIndustry.Biz ), which also adds that while Natsuno is staying in the CEO chair for now, he's

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Micron Blames Apple For The Ongoing Memory Crisis, Says It “Took Advantage” Of The Last Down Cycle To “Pay Rock-Bottom Prices,” Deterring Capacity Expansion

Apple has been loudly and forcefully complaining of the sky-high memory prices for the past few months, using its soaring cost of key components as a cudgel to implement sweeping price hikes . Now, however, memory chip makers such as Micron are pushing back by blaming Apple's penny-pinching ways for years of under-investment and the resulting dearth of capacity.


The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, Dark Scrolls, Empulse, and More Join GeForce NOW as the First Wave of Steam Summer Sales Kick Off

It's Thursday, which means it's also another GeForce NOW Thursday , with a new batch of games getting added to NVIDIA's cloud streaming service. Notable titles include Empulse , the Titanfall-like shooter from 1047 Games , a new action roguelike called Dark Scrolls from developer doinksoft and publisher Devolver Digital , and The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales . But what's just as important is that they're all arriving on the service just as the first wave of Steam summer sales

The NVIDIA GeForce NOW 'Thursday' image features game titles including 'Have a Nice Death,' 'Deadzone Rogue,' 'Predator Hunting Grounds,' 'Cult of the Lamb,' and 'Battle Shapers' with accompanying Steam logos on a graphic background.
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Apple’s Most Expensive Mac Will Now Set You Back By $14,299, And It Only Has 96GB Of Unified Memory

Apple has succumbed to the inevitable by hiking the prices of most of its products in one fell sweep, leading to aberrant pricing outcomes, such as the one pertaining to the M3 Ultra chip-equipped Mac Studio (16TB) and its sole 96GB unified memory variant, which now sells for over $14,000.

Apple laid the groundwork for these sweeping price hikes a few days back, when Tim Cook had declared that memory prices had become "unsustainable ," and that "


Bungie Announces Layoffs in the Wake of Destiny 2’s Final Update as it “Could Not Continue Operating at our Previous Size”

The final update for Destiny 2 went live a little more than two weeks ago, on June 9, 2026 . Today, in the wake of Bungie putting the game and franchise it had been working on for over a decade down, the studio announced its latest round of layoffs , as a statement shared on its official X (formerly Twitter) account reads " we unfortunately could not continue operating at our previous size. "

This is, unfortunately, exactly what was expected to happen with Destiny 2's

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The Nintendo Switch 2 Led US Physical Games to a YoY Spending Increase for the First Time in 17 Years

Sales for physical video game releases have been declining for over a decade now due to the rise in digital game sales, and with the revelation that GTA 6 will arrive as a code in a box in November for the few players who still head to brick-and-mortar retail stores to buy their games, physical sales are poised to decline even further. But for the first time since 2009 , physical game sales have actually seen a year-on-year increase between 2025 and 2

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Apple Announces Massive Price Increases Across The Board, With Up To $1,300 Premium Being Charged As The Memory Crisis Claims The Trillion-Dollar Giant

CEO Tim Cook had already warned that memory prices had become unsustainable , which only meant that Apple was running on borrowed time in keeping the MSRP of its products as low as possible. Unfortunately, the Cupertino firm has thrown in the towel and has announced price bumps across its entire product family, with up to a $1,300 premium being stamped on the more expensive hardware when shopping for the base models.

For those who were wondering why Apple’s online store was down earlier today, it was due


Enshrouded Locks October 15 1.0 Launch for PC and PS5, yet Xbox Players Must Wait Until Spring 2027

Today, independent German developer Keen Games announced the release date of Enshrouded 1.0. The game will be released on October 15 for PC and PlayStation 5 , but the Xbox version has been delayed to next Spring.

Jan Jöckel , CEO of Keen Games, said in a statement:

Our team worked tirelessly to launch Enshrouded 1.0 and its exciting new content simultaneously across PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, and Xbox Series S|X. Enshrouded combines large-scale voxel building, fully

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AMD Slashes 9600X And 7600X Below $180 And $150 As AM5 Builds Get Dramatically Cheaper to Enter

More processors are getting a discount on this Prime Day deal, and you shouldn't miss these Ryzen CPUs if you want to build a powerful gaming PC on a budget.

There are some excellent deals on Amazon at the moment, ranging from PC components to pre-built systems, but the processor deals are particularly irresistible. We have just published Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus deal post that gives you the chance to buy the processor at just $264, making it one of

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core, 12-Thread unlocked desktop processor visible on an Amazon page, priced at $179.99, showing a 35% discount from the original price of $279.00.
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