AMD has detailed its Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series mobile processors for business laptops and mobile workstations at MWC 2026. AMD says the first commercial notebook designs with these chips are expected in Q2 2026.
The top two SKUs are the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475 and Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 470. Both are listed as 12-core, 24-thread parts with up to 5.2
A larger iGPU has to wait.
AMD has expanded its Ryzen AI 400 lineup to cover both laptops and AM5 desktops. At MWC 2026, the company confirmed Ryzen AI 400 Series and Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series desktop processors, alongside Ryzen AI PRO 400 mobile parts for business notebooks and mobile workstations. AMD expects the
And we thought memory was getting more expensive.
A Redditor says Silicon Power reduced their RMA refund for a defective memory kit by applying a 15% “depreciation fee.” The post, shared on Pcmasterrace, claims the user expected a like-for-like replacement but received a reduced refund instead.
According to the user, the kit was purchased for $54.97 and Silicon Power’s message listed a refund
Intel is now expected to officially unveil its Core Ultra 200K Plus desktop refresh, often referred to as “Arrow Lake Refresh”, on Wednesday, March 11. As we have learned, Intel has also confirmed a second NDA is listed for Monday, March 23 . The March 23 date has been circulating for weeks, but the March 11 timing
AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500X3D has appeared in China through a recent retail listing priced at 1,199 RMB. That works out to about $175 using a mid-market USD to CNY rate shown on March 1, 2026.
The Ryzen 5 5500X3D is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 3 desktop
NVIDIA has shared a fresh status update on bringing GeForce NOW to India. In a reply on X, the company said servers are currently being built and it now expects the service to go live during Q1 2026. NVIDIA also told users to follow its channel for further updates.
GeForce NOW is NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service that streams PC games to supported devices. It connects to PC game stores so users can stream
This update follows the Agility SDK 1.619 release that brought Shader Model 6.9 to the release runtime, which we covered separately.
© INTEL Microsoft has published a DirectX Developer Blog post confirming the official release of Shader Execution Reordering (SER) for DirectX Raytracing. Microsoft describes SER as an addition to DXR that lets shader code signal how hardware can find coherence across
© console-classics.com Myrient is a public “video game preservation service” that hosts a large set of curated collections for download. Its own front page describes the library as “over 390 terabytes of organized collections.”
The site’s file index shows it was not just one console set. It grouped content into large preservation-style categories such as No-Intro (cartridge and digital ROM sets),
© INTEL Intel has published new “ Granite Rapids-WS ” turbo-frequency tables for its Xeon 600 workstation lineup, splitting expected boost behavior by instruction set. The tables cover non-AVX (SSE), AVX2, AVX-512, and AMX , and they map clock targets against active core count.
Xeon 600 for workstation is Intel’
© AYN AYN has confirmed a new price increase for its Thor dual-screen Android handheld, and it will happen sooner than previously reported. Instead of an April change , AYN now says the updated pricing takes effect on March 8.
The company shared the update via its Discord, and it points to ongoing DRAM and storage cost pressure. AYN also says it will honor all existing orders at the original price.
For Thor, the Lite model stays at