Xbox President says next-gen console will be “very premium”

Xbox consoles going premium

I hope your $1000 gaming console purchase goes well.

As if Xbox hadn’t already faced enough bad news in recent weeks, Xbox President Sarah Bond has now confirmed that the next-generation hardware will target the premium market. Over the past week, Bond has been addressing rumors suggesting Xbox might cancel its hardware plans. These rumors followed recent price increases for current-generation consoles and the Xbox Game Pass service, which went up just weeks before one of this year’s


Intel

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, first Arrow Lake Refresh SKU leaks out

Intel Core Ultra 200K PLUS Arrow Lake Refresh starts to leak

You might have seen rumors about Intel’s upcoming refresh of desktop CPUs known as Arrow Lake. The supposed refresh is said to arrive around Q1 next year, but it has not been confirmed by the company.

Earlier this week, we started receiving tips about the potential naming of the new Core Ultra 200 series. Apparently, Intel is making some cosmetic changes to already launched SKUs. One of these CPUs is the Core Ultra 7

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ASUS to launch Radeon RX 9070 XT TUF Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Edition, only 1000 units to be made

ASUS to Launch Limited Edition TUF RX 9070 XT Card Dedicated to Call of Duty Series

ASUS has confirmed a limited run of 1,000 units for its new Radeon RX 9070 XT TUF Gaming graphics card themed around Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

AMD rarely receives custom designs from major board partners, many of whom already maintain extensive GeForce lineups. The good news is that ASUS remains an exception, and this latest special edition continues that trend.

The TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9

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Intel

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 with dual 3D-VCache and Ryzen 7 9850X3D with 5.6 GHz boost reportedly in the works

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

AMD is set to launch two X3D CPUs, claims leaker

According to “chi11eddog”.

So we finally have an update on the old rumor (if we can consider August old) about potential updates to the Ryzen 9000X3D family. As a reminder, the leaker previously claimed that AMD would launch two new SKUs with higher TDP and clocks. However, as quickly as those rumors appeared, others dismissed them as


ASUS confirms new AM5 APU support with AGESA 1.2.7.0

New AM5 Ryzen APUs incoming, ASUS confirms

I know this is a bit of a formality at this point, but we always provide the latest information, whether it comes semi-officially or directly from board partners. The newly released AGESA microcode for AMD 800-series motherboards is already known to add support for new silicon, the Krackan Point (2) APUs based on Zen 5. While neither AMD nor MSI, who were first to release the firmware, have confirmed support for these APUs, their names

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AMD Releases ROCm 7.9 Technology Preview with “TheRock” build system

AMD introduces The Rock for ROCm

AMD has released ROCm Core SDK 7.9, skipping versions 7.1 to 7.8 to introduce a separate technology preview branch. This version is designed for developers to test a new build and release infrastructure called TheRock (which actually stands for “The HIP Environment and ROCm Kit). It will later replace the current system used in production releases.

ROCm 7.9 runs alongside the existing ROCm 7.0 production stream until mid-2026. Both versions share

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NVIDIA quietly launches RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell workstation card with 72GB of memory

NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 gets a high memory variant

NVIDIA has quietly added a 72GB version of the RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell to its lineup. The product page for the 48GB model has been updated to include the new version with increased memory capacity, but there has been no formal announcement so far.

The 72GB version is listed with a 512-bit memory bus, the same as the 48GB model. The 48GB variant uses 16

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JEDEC nearing completion of SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory standard

JEDEC nears completion of SOCAMM2 standard for LPDDR5X memory modules

JEDEC has announced it is finalizing JESD328, the new Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module (SOCAMM2) standard designed for next-generation AI and data center platforms. The standard defines a low-profile, serviceable LPDDR5/5X-based module intended to deliver high bandwidth, low power consumption, and modular scalability for AI servers.

SOCAMM2 targets dense, high-efficiency configurations used in data center AI workloads. It supports

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Intel

Intel Core Ultra X7 358H Panther Lake leak reveals Xe3 Arc GPU performance in Geekbench

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 gets Intel Panther Lake Ultra X7 358H

Finally, we have the first actual leak featuring Intel’s next-generation Core Ultra 300 series. This leak not only confirms the name of the new CPU but also reveals its configuration, clock speeds, and, most importantly, GPU specifications.

Starting with the name, the leak shows a Core Ultra X7 358H CPU , which belongs to the new Panther Lake series. As previously reported , the

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ZOTAC launches world’s smallest PC with RTX 5060 Ti desktop GPU, just 2.65 liters

ZOTAC has a Mini-PC ‘smaller’ than external GPUs

MAGNUS EN275060TC is a new small form factor barebone system from ZOTAC that packs high-end desktop-class hardware into a compact 2.65-liter chassis.

It is powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 7 255HX, a 20-core (8P + 12E) Arrow Lake processor that sits near the top of Intel’s new lineup. While it’s not the

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