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Sony unveils 27‑inch PlayStation monitor with QHD 240Hz, VRR and a built‑in DualSense charging hook

Sony unveils 27‑inch PlayStation monitor with QHD 240Hz, VRR and a built‑in DualSense charging hook

Announced around State of Play Japan, the PlayStation‑branded desktop display targets PS5 and PC with 1440p visuals, HDMI 2.1/DisplayPort 1.4, Auto HDR Tone Mapping, and a nifty fold‑down controller charger. It’s slated for a 2026 launch in the U.S. and Japan. Gadgets 360+1 The short version (5 key takeaways) What Sony announced—and why it matters Sony Interactive Entertainment has taken the wraps off a PlayStation‑branded 27‑inch gaming monitor built expressly for the growing number of players who prefer a desktop setup for PS5. The screen pairs a sharp QHD IPS panel with Auto HDR Tone Mapping that calibrates HDR automatically
12 November 2025
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NVIDIA’s $4 Trillion AI Revolution: How the Chipmaker Overtook Apple and Microsoft

Nvidia Just Hit $5 Trillion—But Can AMD or Intel Finally Crack Its AI Chip Moat?

The state of play: Nvidia’s grip on AI compute Nvidia’s AI accelerators built on Hopper (H100/H200) and now Blackwell (GB200/B200) remain the default choice for training and serving the largest AI models because they pair raw throughput with a full‑stack advantage—CUDA software, NVLink/NVSwitch interconnects, and networking that plugs into hyperscale data centers. Bloomberg’s explainer today makes the point starkly: investors pushed Nvidia past $5 trillion in late October, and the company is “on course to report more net income this year than its two main rivals will chalk up in sales, combined.” Bloomberg That valuation surge has a geopolitical shadow.
5 November 2025
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Apple Vision Pro 2 Leak Reveals M5 Chip Upgrade and Big Changes Coming Soon

Apple Vision Pro 2 Leak Reveals M5 Chip Upgrade and Big Changes Coming Soon

FCC Leak Confirms Apple’s Next Vision Pro Headset Apple’s next-generation Vision Pro headset has effectively been revealed through a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing. The FCC published documents in late September describing an Apple “Head Mounted Device” with model number A3416, which eagle-eyed observers quickly recognized as a new Vision Pro model notebookcheck.net. This kind of regulatory filing typically surfaces shortly before a product launch, suggesting that an updated Vision Pro could be imminent. In this case, the filing even included a simple diagram of the device, essentially confirming it looks just like the current Vision Pro headset notebookcheck.net.
5 October 2025
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Fastest PC Chip Ever? Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon X2 Takes Aim at Apple and Intel

Qualcomm’s 5GHz Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Obliterates Apple M4, Intel & AMD in Early Benchmarks

Sources: Coverage from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit (Sept 2025) and hands‑on tests windowscentral.com windowscentral.com. Benchmarks reported by Windows Central windowscentral.com tomshardware.com, Wired wired.com wired.com, Tom’s Hardware tomshardware.com tomshardware.com, Tom’s Guide tomsguide.com tomsguide.com, NotebookCheck notebookcheck.net notebookcheck.net, PCWorld pcworld.com pcworld.com, and expert commentary (Reuters) reuters.com wccftech.com. These sources detail the Snapdragon X2 Elite family specs, performance claims and comparisons.
29 September 2025
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AMD’s Explosive DDR5 Patent Could Double Your RAM Speed – But Don’t Hold Your Breath

AMD’s Explosive DDR5 Patent Could Double Your RAM Speed – But Don’t Hold Your Breath

In-Depth Report: Double DDR5 Bandwidth on the Horizon? 1. The patent and how it works. Late September 2025, AMD was spotted filing a patent for what it calls a “High-Bandwidth DIMM” for DDR5 memory pcgamer.com tech4gamers.com. According to the filing, each HB-DIMM has extra buffer chips plus a smart controller (an RCD) on the DIMM. The RCD decodes addresses and commands, and uses a chip-identifier bit to steer signals into two separate pseudo-channels of DRAM on the same module tech4gamers.com pcgamer.com. Because of this, the module can transmit data at twice the normal per-pin rate. In practice, AMD’s example shows
27 September 2025
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Xbox’s New Handheld Costs $1,000 – Why the ROG Ally X Has Gamers Talking

Xbox’s New Handheld Costs $1,000 – Why the ROG Ally X Has Gamers Talking

Xbox Joins the Handheld Gaming Race For the first time, Microsoft is officially putting the “Xbox” name on a handheld gaming device. In partnership with Asus’ Republic of Gamers division, Microsoft announced the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X – two portable gaming PCs that integrate tightly with the Xbox ecosystem. Unlike a traditional console, these devices are essentially mini Windows 11 PCs with gamepad controls, but they come pre-tuned for a console-like experience. Microsoft touts that you can “power on directly into the Xbox full screen experience”, a custom Windows interface optimized for handheld gaming news.xbox.com. In
26 September 2025
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Groq’s $6.9 B AI Chip Surge: Inside the Inference Revolution

Groq’s $6.9 B AI Chip Surge: Inside the Inference Revolution

Groq’s History and Mission Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, Groq was born when a team of engineers from Google’s Tensor Processing Unit project left to pursue a bold idea en.wikipedia.org. CEO Jonathan Ross, one of the TPU’s designers, believed that as AI models grew, the real bottleneck would shift to inference – the process of running those trained models in real time medium.com medium.com. Groq’s core mission became delivering fast, affordable AI inference at scale, encapsulated in Ross’s vision to “drive the cost of inference toward zero” medium.com. Groq’s philosophy is rooted in first-principles thinking. Rather than repurpose existing
18 September 2025
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Borderlands 4 PC Performance Uproar: Gamers Fume as Gearbox Boss Insists It’s “Pretty Damn Optimal”

Borderlands 4 PC Performance Uproar: Gamers Fume as Gearbox Boss Insists It’s “Pretty Damn Optimal”

The PC Performance Complaints: Low FPS, Stutters, and Crashes Borderlands 4’s much-anticipated release quickly turned sour for many PC players due to technical issues. Reports poured in about frame rates tanking well below 60 FPS even on powerful setups, along with frequent stutters and hitching during combat. In one test, an elite gaming rig (Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU with an RTX 5090 GPU) barely hit ~40 FPS on average at 4K max settings, and even crashed to desktop during a session pcgamer.com. Indoors or outdoors, the game struggled, prompting disappointment given the hardware involved pcgamer.com pcgamer.com. Early adopters described the PC version as “a
16 September 2025
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Photonic AI Accelerators vs. GPUs – The Battle for AI’s Future in Efficiency, Cost, and Scale

Photonic AI Accelerators vs. GPUs – The Battle for AI’s Future in Efficiency, Cost, and Scale

1. Performance per Watt: Photon vs. Electron Efficiency One of the biggest promises of photonic AI accelerators is superior energy efficiency. By using light to perform computations (especially matrix multiplications at the heart of AI models), photonic chips can potentially execute more operations per joule than electronic GPUs: Bottom Line: On raw efficiency, photonic accelerators can theoretically leave GPUs in the dust, performing AI computations with 10× to 1000× less energy. Early evidence (both academic and startup) backs significant gains – e.g. >10× energy reduction for optical matrix math earlybird.com. However, achieving these gains outside the lab will require overcoming
28 August 2025
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August 2025 Tech Tsunami: AI Breakthroughs, Hardware Surprises & Security Shocks

August 2025 Tech Tsunami: AI Breakthroughs, Hardware Surprises & Security Shocks

OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7 with a 256,000-token context window. OpenAI released open-weight GPT-OSS models GPT-OSS 120B and GPT-OSS 20B under the Apache 2.0 license on August 5. Anthropic expanded Claude’s context window to 1,000,000 tokens in August. NVIDIA announced the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, a CPU+GPU combo designed for AI workloads and set to ship soon. NVIDIA allowed sales of its H20 AI chips to China only if the U.S. government takes a 15% cut of those sales. Apple pledged $600 billion in U.S. investment over five years to boost domestic manufacturing, including TSMC’s Arizona chip fab for
21 August 2025
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NVIDIA 2025: Dominating the AI Boom – Company Overview, Key Segments, Competition, and Future Outlook

Nvidia’s New China-Only AI Superchip Outguns H20 Amid U.S.-China Tech Showdown

Nvidia is developing a China-only AI chip named B30A, based on the Blackwell architecture, designed to outpace the current H20 while complying with U.S. export controls. The B30A will be a single-die design and is expected to deliver roughly half the raw computing power of Nvidia’s dual-die B300 accelerator. The B30A will include high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and NVLink interconnect, matching the H20’s interconnect capabilities. Nvidia hopes to ship sample B30A units to Chinese companies for testing as early as September. Analysts say the B30A could be 30-50% less powerful than Nvidia’s top-end hardware but still faster than the H20 in
19 August 2025
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NVIDIA RTX 5090 vs AMD RX 9070 XT vs Intel Arc A980: Ultimate GPU Showdown

NVIDIA RTX 5090 vs AMD RX 9070 XT vs Intel Arc A980: Ultimate GPU Showdown

RTX 5090 uses Blackwell on a 5nm process with 21,760 CUDA cores across 170 Streaming Multiprocessors, 32 GB GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus, and a Total Graphics Power around 575–600 W. At 4K, RTX 5090 typically posts 30%+ higher frame rates than the RTX 4090, with examples like 86 FPS average in Black Myth: Wukong at 4K Ultra. RTX 5090 has a reported 575–600 W TGP, idle around 46 W, and requires robust cooling and a 1000 W+ PSU. RX 9070 XT is based on RDNA4 on a 5nm process, with 64 CUs (4,096 shaders), 16 GB GDDR6 on a
14 August 2025
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