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Micron (NASDAQ:MU) just took a major step to significantly elevate its US-based chip fabrication footprint by announcing a mammoth-sized investment in the New York state over the next two decades in what is increasingly mothballing into a production onshoring trend across the wider chip manufacturing sphere. As per the reporting by New York Times, Micron has now pledged to spend up to $100 billion over the next 20 years or so to establish a gigantic memory chip fabrication unit in upstate New York....

The Top Gun: Maverick experience is taking off 5/25 in Microsoft Flight Simulator! Don’t have your own call sign yet? Create one today! https://t.co/HbJBpVgIPD pic.twitter.com/3i7Chp336l — Xbox (@Xbox) May 9, 2022 It isn’t entirely clear at this juncture what’s actually included in the Top Gun: Maverick expansion, with Microsoft and developer Asobo Studio merely promising that players will get to “experience first-hand what it’s like to be a U.S. Navy Top Gun....

Minisforum Elitemini HX90H Mini PC Launched: Packs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU, RX 6600M GPU, $799 US Base Price Press Release: After the first glance 4 months ago, MinisForum finally launches the pre-sale campaign for its HX90G mini PC today. One of the most powerful mini PC they ever made with an AMD discrete graphics card. Powering the beastly HX90G is the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX. This chip is powered by the Zen 3 core architecture, crafted with TSMC’s industry-leading 7nm process....

MSI’s First 1000W PSU Launched: MPG A1000G 80 Plus Gold Certified With 12V & 83.3A Output As the demand for power continues to increase in the high-end PC segment, MSI has decided to launch its first 1000W PSU, the MPG A1000G. This PSU is designed with core enthusiasts & high-performance gamers in mind. For starters, the PSU is 80 Plus Golde Certified & comes equipped with 100% Japanese capacitors that are rated to run optimally up to 105C....

Apple to Launch 15-Inch MacBook Air and 12-Inch MacBook Next Year, M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips Might Arrive Later This Year According to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro would be close to the size of the larger 16-inch MacBook Pro. It would mark the first time for the MacBook Air to feature a screen this size. At this point, the latest M2-powered MacBook Air features a 13....

The new update will be deployed later today for the Nintendo Switch, while those on PC will have to wait until tomorrow. On Switch, players are required to download 10GB of data, where PC players will be presented with a 22GB download. The new update contains content that requires the purchase of the Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion in order to access, as well as content that only requires players to install this new update....

As reported by Game Reactor, four reliable sources at Sony and one outside the company revealed that a new State of Play event is planned for this week. Due to the current events, however multiple developers, including some at PlayStation Studios, have asked for the event to be delayed. With Sony having released some high-profile games like Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7, the time is definitely right to reveal more on what’s to come to PlayStation consoles later this year with a new State of Play....

The feature was missing on Microsoft’s console since the game’s launch, although it was present on PlayStation 5. Luckily, those playing on Xbox Series X can now also benefit from ray-traced reflections. In addition to enabling this feature, this new update packs various bug fixes and improvements. Exact details about these bug fixes and improvements haven’t been provided. — The Callisto Protocol (@CallistoTheGame) December 9, 2022 On Twitter, Striking Distance Studios CEO Glen Schofield explained that aside from ray-traced reflections, the Xbox Series X version now also benefits from various tweaks....

Following the explosive launch, New World experienced a rapid decrease in players due to the lack of content and the excessive bugs and exploits. The latest Heart of Madness update attempted to address some of those issues by adding a new endgame Expedition, Tempest’s Heart, and a new weapon, the Blunderbuss. CAN I PURCHASE ITEMS FROM THE IN-GAME STORE DURING THE FREE WEEKEND EVENT? In-game purchasing will not be available until you purchase the full game (either the Standard or Deluxe edition)....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Class Graphics Cards Might Become The First Gaming ‘AD102’ GPU To Break Past the 100 TFLOPs Barrier Currently, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti offers the highest compute performance amongst all gaming graphics cards, hitting anywhere between 40 to 45 TFLOPs of FP32 (Single-Precision) GPU compute. But with the next-generation GPUs arriving later this year, things are going to take a big boost. — kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) April 29, 2022...

For a few brief moments among the final hours of Summer Game Fest, we had the pleasure of sitting down with him once again to obtain a little more insight behind the velvet curtains of Nightingale as it gets closer to the estimated early access release date of Q4 2022 on Steam and the Epic Games Store. First and foremost, the realms will be the core of what players would experience in Nightingale....

Nintendo today published its latest earnings results, and despite not being able to meet demand due to shortages, it managed to sell 10.67m Switch units over the holiday period, thereby bringing total global Switch sales to 103.54 million units sold since the platform’s launch back in 2017. With the Switch now passing the 100 million units sold mark as of December 31, 2021, Nintendo’s platform has become the company’s best-selling home console to date, and also the fastest-selling home console in video game history....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Seemingly Greenlit For 29th March Launch, Reviews Land The Same Day Too In the latest report by Videocardz who managed to acquire the internal GeForce RTX 3090 Ti embargo schedule, it is mentioned that the NVIDIA flagship is going to be announced with its reviews and retail availability the same day on 29th March. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti will undoubtedly go in the history for its long delay, spanning almost four months since its teaser introduction at CES 2022 in early January....

Here’s how Cyberpunk 2077’s Ray Tracing: Overdrive mode works in a nutshell, per NVIDIA. NVIDIA RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) gives each neon sign, street lamp, car headlight, LED billboard, and TV accurate ray-traced lighting and shadows, bathing objects, walls, passing cars, and pedestrians in accurate colored lighting; Ray-traced indirect lighting and reflections now bounce multiple times, compared to the previous solution’s single bounce. The result is even more accurate, realistic and immersive global illumination, reflections, and self-reflections; Ray-traced reflections are now rendered at full resolution, further improving their quality; Improved, more physically-based lighting removes the need for any other occlusion techniques....

The renders are coming as a courtesy of 91mobiles, and showcase the Galaxy Z Fold 4 in three colors starting with the phantom black, beige, and grey-green. Even though the renders only show the main screen of the device, a closer look does confirm that the upcoming foldable will have a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, along with a volume rocker on the right edge, with the SIM card slot being on the left side....

Steve ‘OnLeaks‘ Hemmerstoffer and Smartprix posted renders of the OnePlus 100 Pro today, and this shows the phone with its rather interesting rear camera housing. Expect a circular housing this time around, and well, I am not sure if I like the design. OnePlus 11 Pro Has the Alert Slider and a Strange, Circular Camera Cutout However, the star of the show is the fact that the OnePlus 11 Pro is bringing back the alert slider on the right side of the device....

ONEXPLAYER reveals the OneXfly handheld gaming console, premium cost with new AMD Ryzen 5 7520U “Mendocino” APU We reviewed the Onexplayer Mini with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800U APU three months ago. After several months of use, the system has shown to be a serious contender in the handheld game system marketplace, offering one of the best experiences compared to Valve’s Steam Deck. Not much is known about the new OneXfly system....

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Unnamed Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro Chipset to Feature the Same 5G Modem as Tensor G2 Publicly available code sources reveal that the potential codenames of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro are ‘Husky’ and ‘Shiba.’ While no design details were shared by WinFuture, the chipset will likely be developed by Samsung in collaboration with Google. There is a possibility that the advertising giant now selects the Korean giant’s 3nm process....

Starting off with the news regarding the showcase, this new video was made in celebration of the new milestone for the handheld. The latest Playdate Update has plenty of information for those interested in developing games for Playdate and other interesting news for soon-to-be Playdate owners. You can watch the video showcase below: The showcase includes updates on the publicly-available Software Development Kit (SDK), the web-based game-making tool Playdate Pulp, the capture software Playdate Mirror, and the development announcement of Catalog....