Hundreds of layoffs and many cancelled projects later, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reportedly says ‘we will not survive’ without new IPs

Thousands of layoffs, a couple of booted studios, and a re-organisation of Obsidian away from its newer projects and onto Fallout later, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has reportedly taken to an internal town hall and talked about the importance of new IP. The transcript, as shared by Windows Central, goes as follows: “We’re backing our…

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AMD has reportedly already raised GDDR6 prices for its graphics card partners, so you’ll find no solace from spiking GPU prices with Team Red

We all know RAM and SSD prices have been significantly impacted by the memory supply crisis. But it’s easy for some to forget just how much dedicated memory modern graphics cards rock these days. And when I say ‘some’ I mean those not still trying to hunt down a reasonably priced Nvidia RTX 5090. Alas,…

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Gigabyte deletes blog post on Intel LGA1700 chips in early 2027, but it can’t put the cat back in the bag

Last week, Gigabyte suggested Intel was working on a new wave of LGA1700 processors—likely a Raptor Lake refresh for expanded DDR4 support during these memory-constrained times. It has even been busy releasing BIOS files for B760 and H610 motherboards to ensure full compatibility once those chips arrive, which it expected was around “early 2027”. This…

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Museum strings together 30 old Mac minis for replica of most successful supercomputer, builds something more powerful than the original

What’s better than giving the hardware you already own a fresh lease on life? Dedicating your older tech to resurrecting even older supercomputers. At least, that’s if you ask the Museo de Historia de la Computación in Spain. The hardware history museum recently used 30 Mac Minis dating between 2012 and 2014 to resurrect the…

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