AOOSTAR has put its TA95X3D motherboard with a soldered AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D on sale for $749 on its own store. This CPU is a 16-core, 32-thread “Fire Range” mobile X3D chip and mount it on a desktop board. AMD rates the Ryzen 9 9
GIGABYTE has launched a laptop cashback promo across Europe, with refunds up to €400 on select AORUS and GIGABYTE models. The purchase window runs December 22, 2025 to January 18, 2026, and claims open January 5, 2026 to February 15, 2026.
Eligible models and headline cashback amounts (Eurozone pricing) are: AORUS MASTER 18 (€400), AORUS MASTER
ACEMAGIC is pushing its Tank Centre mini PC line with two configs: the M1A PRO+ built around AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 , and the M1A PRO that pairs Intel’s Core i9-13900HK with an Arc A770 in MXM form factor.
For the M1A PRO+, ACEMAGIC is leaning into the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 plus the Radeon
D7VK 1.1 is out. It is a Vulkan-based translation layer for old Windows games that use Direct3D 7 on Linux through Wine. This release also adds an experimental Direct3D 6 front-end.
In case you are not familiar with graphics API translation layers, D7VK takes Direct3D 7 calls and maps them onto DXVK’s Direct3D 9 backend, while
Lisuan Technology’s 6nm “7G100” GPUs are now being described as more than a launch event slide. A report from Chinese outlet Jiemian News says the company has completed its first batch of customer deliveries, with the chips already deployed in the digital twin space.
The same report says 7G100 entered mass production on September 15, 2025, using TSMC’s 6nm node. It also claims at least some customers have received
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A new Insider Gaming report claims that recent RAM price increases tied to AI demand are making console makers rethink next-generation launch timing and pricing . The media outlet says internal discussions are already happening around supply and bill-of-materials pressure.
Insider Gaming says it first mentioned the rumor on its weekly show on December 19, 2025, and describes the issue as both availability and cost
GOG is changing owners. On December 29, 2025, CD PROJEKT co-founder Michał Kiciński acquired the GOG business, including the GOG.com storefront and the GOG Galaxy platform.
CD PROJEKT says the deal covers 100% of the shares in GOG sp. z o.o. for PLN 90.7 million, which multiple reports equate to about $25.2
Windows Latest sources say that these are ‘the best gaming monitors HP has ever created’.
HyperX is preparing a new OMEN OLED monitor lineup for CES 2026, with three models detailed so far: OMEN OLED 34, OMEN OLED 27qs, and OMEN OLED 27q. Interestingly, Windows Latest does not mention resolutions for any of these monitors, which is why we won’t try to guess either.
The OMEN OLED 34 is listed as a 3
The main change is the platform. These systems are listed with unreleased Intel Core Ultra Panther Lake parts, plus AMD options on OMEN 15 and OMEN 16. OMEN 15 goes up to Intel Core Ultra 9 386H or AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 . OMEN 16 goes up to a next-gen Intel Core Ultra processor or
Maxon has released Cinebench 2026, the newest version of its Cinebench benchmarking tool. It uses Redshift, the default rendering engine in Cinema 4D, to measure CPU and GPU performance with 3D rendering workloads.
The update adds Windows support for NVIDIA Blackwell GeForce GPUs (RTX 5000 series) and AMD 9000 series GPUs. It also adds support for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell data center GPUs.