AMD wants to patent a new DDR5 memory standard with double the bandwidth but we’re not expecting to see it in PCs any time soon

An AMD patent application for a new spin on DDR5 PC memory has been spotted. The so-called high-bandwidth dual inline memory module or HB-DIMM is designed to boost memory bandwidth courtesy of pseudo channels, buffer chips and intelligent signal routing. It looks very fancy, but we’ll take some convincing it’ll appear in PCs any time…

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Remember that great Friday the 13th game that got shuttered? The same studio is doing it all again, except this time it’s Halloween

Developer Illfonic last month announced a game based on 1978 horror classic Halloween, and now we’ve got a look at it. The game looks a lot like the studio’s own (excellent) Friday the 13th adaptation and is set in the small town of Haddonfield, recreated with real period style. It’s primarily an asymmetrical multiplayer horror…

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2, the first 5 GHz Arm CPU, its ‘biggest advance in PC gaming’ and the chip that might finally make gaming on Arm an actual thing

Qualcomm has announced its second-gen Snapdragon X2 SoC for PCs and with it come some big claims, especially for gaming performance. The new chip has 18 CPU cores, 50% more than the the OG Snapdragon X, and over double the GPU performance. But will this actually translate into usable gaming performance? First, some more details…

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