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DON’T NOD is looking for ways to extend its cash runway after Tencent reportedly decided not to provide additional short term funding for the studio’s next project. The French developer, known for Life is Strange, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and the recently released Aphelion, says it is pursuing several financing and cost management options while trying to adapt to a difficult games market.

Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan says he was close to stepping away from the semiconductor industry before a personal plea convinced him to take on one more challenge: helping save Intel. In a recent podcast interview, Tan described how friends warned him not to accept the job, but one message about Intel’s importance to the industry and the United States changed his thinking. Tan

NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72 AI platform is now reaching major cloud providers for validation, with CoreWeave and Oracle among the first companies to bring up the new rack scale system. The platform pairs 72 Rubin GPUs with 36 Vera CPUs in a massive AI rack designed for next generation training and inference workloads. The rollout marks the next stage after Grace Blackwell, which has

Google is reportedly evaluating memory chips from China’s CXMT as the global DRAM market faces rising pressure from AI demand. The claim is still a rumor, but if true, it would show how seriously large technology companies are looking for alternatives to the dominant memory suppliers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. The report does not confirm which Google products would use CXMT memory. Possible

SK Hynix has started shipping samples of its next generation HBM4E memory to major customers, offering up to 48GB capacity in a 12 layer stack and speeds of up to 16Gbps per pin. The new memory is aimed at future AI accelerators and data center platforms that need higher bandwidth, better efficiency, and larger memory pools. The timing matters because AI chip demand is

The first consumer devices with HDMI 2.2 support are not expected to arrive until 2027, even though the HDMI Forum has already introduced the new standard. HDMI 2.2 doubles the maximum bandwidth of HDMI 2.1 from 48Gbps to 96Gbps, giving future displays more room for high resolutions, high refresh rates, and full quality video output without relying as heavily on compression. The new interface

Apple has reportedly agreed to work with Intel on future chip production in the United States, according to comments from the US President. The reported partnership would mark a major moment for Intel’s foundry ambitions and could give Apple another advanced manufacturing option beyond its long running reliance on overseas production. The details are still limited, and neither company has shared a full technical

MSI says 2026 will be a difficult year for gaming handheld makers and players, as rising RAM and SSD costs continue to push hardware prices higher. The company’s latest Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld already costs far more than the previous Claw 8 model, and MSI now suggests another price increase could happen later. The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ is listed at $1,699

AMD has worked with HandBrake to fix performance bottlenecks that were limiting high core count Threadripper CPUs, leading to major gains in video transcoding. With newer HandBrake versions, AMD says Threadripper PRO chips can see up to 181 percent higher performance, while Ryzen Threadripper HEDT CPUs can see gains of up to 215 percent in some workloads. The problem was not that Threadripper lacked

GMKtec has announced the EVO-X3, a compact workstation PC built around AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128GB of LPDDR5X memory. The system is designed for local AI work, creative production, and edge computing in a chassis that is much smaller than a traditional desktop workstation. The EVO-X3 follows GMKtec’s earlier EVO-X2 mini PC, but it adds a larger chassis, stronger cooling, upgraded connectivity,