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Microsoft marked the 10-year milestone for DirectX 12 on December 18, 2025. The API itself shipped with Windows 10 on July 29, 2015, after a public reveal at GDC 2014 that framed D3D12 as a lower overhead, more explicit successor to D3D11.
DirectX 11 launched with Windows 7 in
A compact mini PC called the MV10 is starting to show up in retail listings in the US. The boxy chassis looks more like a power supply than a typical small form factor desktop.
Notebookcheck reports the MV10 is available to order on Amazon in the US, but there is no word on other regions yet. The system is built around
G.SKILL has published a short statement addressing why its DRAM memory pricing has climbed sharply since Q4 2025.
G.SKILL says the whole DRAM market is tight right now, with supply shortages across the industry, and that AI demand is pushing things up. The company also says its own sourcing costs have risen, so its prices follow higher DRAM IC costs from suppliers and may still change depending on market conditions.
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Intel’s bigger Battlemage GPU, codenamed BMG-G31 , just showed up again in software. The latest Intel XPU Manager 1.3.5 changelog adds explicit support for it, which suggests the chip is in active testing.
XPU Manager is Intel’s own tool for monitoring and diagnosing GPUs and accelerators, often used in data center or power user setups ( more about the software here )
MaxSun has introduced its MS-PC Farm motherboard lineup at a special event with Intel in China, positioning the series for “cloud esports” style deployments. The model that caught our attention is the MS-PC Farm B860I for Intel’s LGA1851 platform . Despite using an ITX form factor, it reportedly includes four DDR5 memory slots and supports up to 256GB, which targets
SK hynix says its 256GB DDR5 RDIMM server memory module has passed Intel’s “Intel Data Center Certified” compatibility process for the Intel Xeon 6 platform, which the company calls an industry first for this capacity using 32Gb “1b” DRAM.
This is registered memory (RDIMM), the buffered module type used in servers and some workstations, not typical desktop DIMMs. Testing and validation
Featuring 8-core Panther Lake chip.
A fresh retail listing suggests HP is preparing another Intel Panther Lake laptop, days after early European listings hinted at a wider wave of Core Ultra 300 systems.
Walmart currently lists the HP OmniBook X Flip 16 inch 2K Touch with Core Ultra 7 355 , 16GB RAM , and a 512GB SSD for $999 . The
Microsoft used the word “revolution” to describe a new “Native NVMe” path in Windows Server 2025, announced on December 16, 2025. The timing is funny, since NVMe has been mainstream long enough that plenty of admins no longer remember their first NVMe drive.
Microsoft says Windows Server has long routed NVMe I/O through a SCSI-shaped storage path, which adds translation and kernel overhead. Native NVMe is meant to remove that translation and
Featuring the flagship Core Ultra X9 SKU as well.
Not one but four MSI laptops appeared today in French retail listings. The entries point to Intel Core Ultra 300-series parts, including the X variants that are expected to ship with stronger integrated graphics. Hardware detective momomo_us spotted multiple MSI model codes starting with 9S7, which often maps to MSI’s internal SKU system, and the 14i and 16i naming