BIOSTAR launches budget DDR5 16GB UDIMM at 4800 and 5600 MT/s

BIOSTAR targets mainstream PCs with DDR5 16GB UDIMM 4800 and 5600 MT/s

BIOSTAR is a company that advertises itself as a ‘motheboard’ brand is slowly expanding into new markets, including industrial PCs, graphics cards, and storage. They also have memory products, but their lineup is quite limited.

The company has just announced new DDR5 16GB UDIMM modules in 4800 MT/s and 5600 MT/s variants, positioning them as

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Samsung Display brands five-layer QD-OLED “Penta Tandem” for monitor panels up to 1,300 nits

QD-OLED Penta Tandem, Samsung Display brands five-layer organic light-emitting structure

Samsung Display has announced “ QD-OLED Penta Tandem”, a new technology brand for its QD-OLED panels. The company says the branding covers a proprietary five-layer organic light-emitting structure used in QD-OLED panels shipped into monitors and TVs. Samsung Display also says it has completed trademark registration for the new name.

The difference between QD-OLED, Tandem OLED and Penta Tandem OLED

QD-OLED, tandem

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MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING officially priced at $5090.99, but to buy one gamers need to enter a draw

MSI teaser points to February 13 update for GeForce RTX 5090 LIGHTNING

MSI’s UK social account has posted a teaser on X saying “ The wait is almost over. Tomorrow.” alongside lightning emojis and a prompt asking followers to guess what is coming. The post strongly points to an update on the GeForce RTX 5090 LIGHTNING line on February 13

LIGHTNING is MSI’s halo-class graphics card line, built as a showcase product rather than a mainstream retail model. MSI has

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Iraqi customs reportedly detain Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 art book as “possibly ancient”

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Monolith Collectors’ Edition art book seized by customs

That’s not something you read every day. A Reddit user in Iraq claims customs detained a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 collector shipment after officials flagged the included art book as “possibly ancient,” based on posts shared on Reddit.

The claim comes from Ahmed15252 on the Expedition33 subreddit. The user posted photos of the package and paperwork and said the book was forwarded to an Iraqi museum technical committee

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AMD surpasses 40% server CPU revenue share for the first time

AMD now owns 40% of server and desktop CPU revenue share, according to Mercury Research

AMD shared a summary of Mercury Research data for Q4 2025, showing the company reached 41.3% server CPU revenue share. It is the first time AMD’s server revenue share has been reported above 40% in this dataset.

In servers, AMD reported 28.8% unit share and 41.3% revenue share for Q4 2025. That is

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Samsung begins HBM4 mass production and customer shipments up to 3.3 TB/s per stack

Samsung projects HBM sales to more than triple in 2026 on HBM4 ramp

Samsung Electronics says it has begun mass production of HBM4 and has shipped commercial products to customers, marking what the company describes as a first for commercial HBM4 shipments.

In its announcement, Samsung says HBM4 delivers a consistent 11.7 Gbps transfer rate per pin and can be tuned up to 13 Gbps. The company positions 11.7 Gbps as about 46% higher than an 8 Gbps “industry

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Mesa 26.0 open-source graphics library for Linux releases, significant imporvmenets to raytraicng on Radeon GPUs

Mesa 26.0.0 ships Vulkan 1.4 targets and RADV ray tracing performance work

Mesa 26.0.0 is now available as the latest feature release of the open-source graphics stack used on Linux and other environments, including within Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux. The release announcement lists support targets that include Vulkan 1.4, OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 3.0, alongside the usual driver updates across the project.

Raytracing improvements for

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HP offers OMEN laptop subscription with up to RTX 5080 tier at $129.99 per month

HP OMEN Gaming Subscription: monthly gaming laptop rental with early cancellation fees

Linus Tech Tips recently highlighted a new laptop rental program from HP. The company’s “OMEN Gaming Subscription” is a monthly plan that lets you use a gaming laptop and optional accessories, but unlike business lease plans it does not include a buyout path. The whole idea isn’t bad, but it is not a deal for every user.

On HP’s product page, the subscription auto-renews monthly unless cancelled. HP says you

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(Driver) AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 26.2.1

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Fortnite expands PC anti-cheat requirements to all tournaments: Secure Boot, TPM and now also IOMMU

Fortnite adds IOMMU to PC tournament security requirements, builds on Secure Boot and TPM

Epic Games says it will expand Fortnite’s PC anti-cheat requirements to all tournaments starting February 19, 2026. Players will need three security features enabled: Secure Boot, TPM, and IOMMU.

This is a Windows security baseline move as much as it is an anti-cheat change. Secure Boot helps protect the boot process from low-level tampering, TPM is used to attest trusted system state, and IOMMU

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