Ex-Xilinx CEO gets well-earned retirement

AMD has announced that AMD President Victor Peng is retiring effective August 30th.

Peaks at up to 7200MB/s

Western Digital has rather silently added an 8GB version of its WD Black SN850X SSD, which now sells in both standard and heatsink options for $849 and $899, respectively.

Scorpion Canyon with Intel Core CPUs and optional RTX 4060/4070 GPU

Simply NUC, a well-known custom computing company, has added the new Scorpion Canyon NUC 14 Performance to its lineup. This small NUC packs a workstation-class performance with Intel's latest Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs with Intel Arc integrated graphics and an optional Nvidia RTX 4060 or RTX 4070 graphics.

Another PRO series motherboard packed with features

MSI has rather silently introduced a new PRO-series motherboard that is based on the AMD B650 chipset, the PRO B650-A WIFI, which packs quite a few high-end features.

One to have for Dungeonborne, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, and Stormgate

Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 560.70 WHQL Game Ready driver which features optimizations for new games, adds several new G-Sync monitors to the support list, and fixes some bugs.

Sleeker phones with better cameras and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC

At its Unpacked event held in Paris, France, Samsung has unveiled its newest foldable and flipable smartphones, the Galaxy Z Fold6 and the Galaxy Z Flip6. With a big focus on AI, both phones promise to "usher a new era of mobile AI with Galaxy AI, and bring updated design and come powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC.

Bundles Black Myth: Wukong with RTX 40 series graphics cards

Nvidia has announced its latest game bundle, pairing up Black Myth: Wukong game with some of its RTX 40 series graphics cards.

With Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 and Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 SKUs

AMD is gearing up to launch its next-generation Ryzen AI PRO 300 Strix APU lineup in October, and the series will include two SKUs, the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 and the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360.

3nm chipset with single Cortex-A78 and four Cortex-A55 cores

Ahead of its July 10th Unpacked event, Samsung has decided to officially announce its new smartwatch SoC, the Exynos W1000. The new SoC is built on Samsung's 3nm GAA process and features a single Cortex-A78 and four Cortex-A55 cores, a new packaging that brings a smaller form factor, better heat dissipation as well as puts both DRAM and NAND flash memory on the SoC.

Ryzen 7 8700G drops to $270

AMD's Ryzen 8000G series got a decent price drop recently, making them quite a catch in case you want to stick with a Phoenix-based APU with up to eight Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA3 Compute Units (CUs). Although it is currently limited to a single retailer/e-tailer, it is possible that the promotion will extend to other stores.