
SK Hynix shows off new Platinum P51 Gen 5 SSD
Coming in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities and reaching 14GB/s
SK Hynix revealed a bit of a surprise at the Nvidia GTC 2024 show, announcing the new PCB01 PCIe 5.0 SSD based on its in-house controller, its own 238-layer 3D TLC NAND flash, and promising rather impressive transfer speeds of up to 14GB/s.

Xiaomi announces Civi 4 Pro smartphone in China
First one to get Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC
Xiaomi announced the new Civi 4 Pro smartphone in China. The new Civi series phone comes with some rather unique features and it is actually the first smartphone based on Qualcomm's recently announced Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC.

Qualcomm officially announces Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 SoC
With Cortex-X4 Prime core and on-device AI
Qualcomm has announced its latest mid-range chipset, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, giving it a single Cortex-X4 Prime core and adding on-device AI capabilities, pushing it much closer to the flagship Snapdragon 8 series SoCs.

AMD releases new AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 driver
One for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Outpost: Infinity Siege
AMD has released its latest AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 driver which adds support for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Outpost: Infinity Siege, new HYPR-Tune support for a couple of games, and fixes several issues seen with earlier driver releases.

Nvidia adds Dragon's Dogma 2 and Alone in the Dark to Geforce NOW this week
More games announced and more get RTX enhancements
Nvidia has announced that Dragon's Dogma 2 and Alone in the Dark are coming to Geforce NOW this week. Previously, Nvidia announced several new big titles that will be coming to Geforce NOW and launching with Nvidia RTX enhancements.

Intel releases ARC 101.5379 Beta driver
Optimizations for a couple of new games and performance improvements
Intel has released the latest version of its Arc GPU driver, the 101.5379 Beta, which brings Game On support for a couple of new games including Diablo IV Ray Tracing Update, Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and The Legend of the Condor Heroes, as well as performance improvements across Intel Arc A-series graphics products and Intel Core Ultra with Intel Arc GPUs.

Nvidia officially unveils Blackwell GPU architecture at GTC
Impressive AI performance, 208 billion transistors, 192GB of HMB3e memory, and more
NVIDIA has officially unveiled its next-generation Blackwell GPU architecture at the 2024 GTC AI conference which kicked off last night with Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang keynote. Built on a 4NP TSMC manufacturing process and using MCM design for unified GPU, the new architecture promises much higher AI performance and plenty of other architectural improvements.

Intel officially launches the Core i9-14900KS Special Edition CPU
Raptor Lake Refresh that boosts up to 6.2GHz
Intel has officially launched its newest Core i9-14900KS Special Edition desktop processor, a flagship 24-core/32-thread Raptor Lake Refresh SKU that is meant to provide the most power possible, all at $689.

Samsung officially unveils the Galaxy A55 and A53 mid-rangers
Both with OLED screens and decent pricing
As expected, Samsung has officially launched the Galaxy A55 5G and the Galaxy A53 5G smartphones. These are quite popular mid-range series smartphones and we are sure Samsung sells more of these than any other smartphones.

Intel Core i7-14700K drops down to $389
Gets you similar gaming performance as the Core i9-13900K
The sub-$400 desktop market is getting pretty crowded these days, and now, Intel's Core i7-14700K has seen a price drop down to $389 in some retail/e-tail shops.