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After ripping Nvidia for the company's attempts at controlling the narrative, Gamers Nexus has announced that it is opening a full investigation into Team Green's business practices. Describing them as "shady" and "underhanded", Gamers Nexus aims to understand the extent to which Nvidia has engaged in such business malpractices.

The fact that the AI ​​bubble is slowly approaching its peak is evident in a recent acquisition made by OpenAI, as the company behind ChatGPT is reportedly paying $6.5 billion for the new startup of Apple's former chief designer Jony Ive, even though the startup has neither products nor revenue to show.

Despite Microsoft's focus on other platforms, Xbox console sales surprisingly rose in April. At the same time, revenue from PS5 and Switch hardware continued to fall off. Microsoft also found success with top-selling Xbox games on multiple systems.

A dozen of Epson's latest projectors are compatible with Apple AirPlay 2 and Apple HomeKit. In a recent announcement, the company stated that models in its PowerLite EB-L8, EB-L7 and EB-L6 series would come with these features pre-installed. They are also available on other projectors for business use, like the EB-994F. 

SpaceX introduced a cheaper Starlink Residential Lite plan not long ago, but with limited coverage in 15 states. The availability of the cheaper satellite Internet plan has now been greatly expanded to more than twice the number of states.

An ex-SK Hynix engineer has been formally indicted for allegedly stealing next-generation high-bandwidth memory packaging processes and attempting to transfer them to Huawei-affiliated HiSilicon.

Next month, the OpenWebSearch.eu consortium opens its federated Open Web Index pilot, granting researchers and developers access to almost one petabyte of European web data.

Ventiva has showcased its fanless ICE9 thermal management system at Computex 2025, enabling quieter, slimmer laptops with efficient cooling through electrohydrodynamic airflow.

A new report from Taiwanese media outlet Ctee says TSMC could increase the cost of its 2 nm wafers even further.

Doral Renewables has greenlit Bechtel to build three phases of the 1.3-gigawatt Mammoth Solar project in Indiana, adding 900 megawatts and two million PV modules, while creating 1,200 construction jobs, pioneering agrivoltaics, and boosting Indiana’s solar capacity by over 20 percent.

Nvidia will lease new office space in Shanghai to house a research-and-development hub focused on chip verification, product optimization and sector-specific work such as autonomous-driving research.

The company had presented the H20 as a less powerful version that could be exported to China, however, it was curbed as well. The company analyses how to move forward.

SpaceX has finally cut the Starlink Mini dish price to correspond to the levels that Elon Musk envisaged while teasing it last year. The Starlink Mini dish is no longer more expensive than the Standard Kit.

OpenAI's Codex is an AI-powered coding assistant designed to streamline programming tasks, improve code quality, and enhance developer efficiency. Its answers are not always perfect, and its safeguards are still evolving.

Taiwan’s GlobalWafers is boosting its U.S. investment by $4 billion to a total of $7.5 billion, unveiling its first 300 mm silicon-wafer line in Sherman, Texas—the first new U.S. facility in two decades. Backed by $406 million in CHIPS Act funds, the plant aims to create over 600 jobs by 2028.

TSMC will open nine advanced plants and a CoWoS packaging line in 2025 backed by a record $38–42 billion capex. The expansion spans Taiwan, Arizona, Japan and Germany, driven by surging demand for high-performance computing and AI packaging

The PD1810 is a projector touted to handle enterprise-grade presentations as well as a home cinema session with its 4K/UHD resolution and up to 240Hz refresh rate. It also boasts Acer's football mode, USB-C and dual HDMI ports. The new projector also has in-built dual speakers and will become available later in 2025.

March smartphone deliveries climbed 6.5 percent year-on-year to 22.73 million units, yet Chinese brands now control 92 percent of the market. Apple’s shipments fell over 25 percent in Q1, prompting talks of deeper Pro-model discounts ahead of the 618 shopping festival.

Acer's new PD163QT looks like a 15.6-inch laptop when closed, but reveals itself to be a portable monitor with two equally-sized screens connected by a hinge when open. It has USB-C and onboard speakers, although the rest of its specs have been chosen to support an attractive starting price.

SiCarrier is raising roughly $2.8 billion at an $11 billion valuation by offloading 25 percent of a non-lithography subsidiary to fund R&D.

Space Forge has closed a record $30 million Series A to build ForgeStar-1 and ForgeStar-2, satellites that will manufacture advanced materials in microgravity.

Former Tsinghua Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo received a capital punishment with a two-year reprieve for diverting roughly $65 million in state assets and saddling the company with about $124 million in losses.

Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, has now announced the imminent arrival of Xiaomi's self-developed smartphone chipset "XRING O1". XRing O1 is scheduled to debut later this month, with the rumor mill revealing further information on the SoC.

The system drops a vehicle's fuel consumption anywhere between 4%-26%, depending on the driving mode and traffic. It is, however, controversial among drivers, as it has to be turned off every time.

Intel’s foundry business continues to post heavy losses, but CFO David Zinsner says the unit should reach break-even in 2027. The plan hinges on bringing the 18A process into volume production this year, moving key client and server CPUs onto it, and winning more external orders for the 14A node.

Valve insists that recent leaks and rumors about 89 million Steam accounts allegedly hacked are false. The company clarified that it has examined a sample of the leak and that user accounts were secure and unaffected.

A new report from a South Korean media outlet states Nvidia might partner with Samsung Foundry in the coming weeks. Its 2 nm node could use used to manufacture an unnamed GPU.

Keynote speaker Casey Putsch will speak about manufacturing cars with innovative composite materials at the SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Expo. Such cars are more recyclable and generate less CO₂ during production and use than Teslas.

The industry shouldn't expect many high-profile Ubisoft games to appear in the next year. The publisher has decided to take its time with Far Cry 7 and other projects. Even so, after declining revenue, Ubisoft hopes that a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake will keep it financially stable.

TCL's China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) division asserts that its latest panel type can help make the more color-accurate screens to date, as it made from cutting-edge printed OLED. It is said to be available by mid-2025, and might debut in smartphones of various sizes later in the year.

MediaTek asserts that its latest chipset for fixed wireless access (FWA) or mobile broadband equipment can support upload speeds of up to 2.8 gigabits per second (Gb/s) over sub-6GHz 5G it does connect with. The T930 also boasts multiple "world-first" technologies such as 8Rx for up to 40% stronger signals compared to the previous generation, and might be compatible with Wi-Fi 8 devices as well as those with Wi-Fi 7.

Sony has already increased the price of the PS5 in Europe, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and the US could be next. The company is thinking of strategies to minimize the impact of tariffs, one of which is moving manufacturing to the US.

Nvidia will deliver 18,000 Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs to power a 500-megawatt AI facility under Saudi Arabia’s new $10 billion infrastructure program.

Xiaomi is currently facing the ire of a certain group of buyers, namely owners of a Xiaomi SU7 Ultra, over the carbon fiber hood controversy. According to the official website, the hood is intended to provide better ventilation for the front wheels. Following revelations that the feature appears primarily decorative than functional, 300 customers feel they have been cheated and are demanding a full refund.

The cheapest Tesla Model Y RWD is likely to revert to its $44,990 sticker price next year. The AWD Tesla Model Y variant may start from $48,990 instead of a bit over forty grand.

Nvidia has raised prices on nearly all products—including a 10 percent increase on the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5 to 15 percent hikes across its datacenter modules—to offset a $5.5 billion China loss and higher costs from TSMC.

Corning has announced Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, a new, tougher glass for use in smartphones. The durable glass supposedly can survive repeated drops from 3.3 feet (1.0 meter) onto concrete.

SMIC warns of a second-quarter revenue dip of up to 6 percent after annual maintenance setbacks and new tool performance issues trimmed sellable output.

CATL's new Tener Stack energy storage system breakthrough can supply electricity from renewables to the average home for up to six years, in the first five of which it will undergo zero capacity degradation. It can also charge 150 electric vehicles before its batteries run out.

A new report from South Korean media says Samsung Foundry's 2 nm node has much better yields than reported earlier. It is almost viable for mass production, and will be used to manufacture Exynos 2600 chips for next year's Galaxy S26 series.

PlayStation is expanding its lead over the Xbox in console sales. New 2024 U.S data shows that the PS4 and PS5 encouraged 10 million more adopters than on Microsoft's systems. Game Pass titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 only temporarily boosted player counts on Xbox consoles.

Garmin has revealed plans to place more features behind the paywall it calls Connect+ or Connect Plus. Despite facing public criticism for announcing the service, Garmin's CEO insists that the response from early adopters has been positive enough to expand the service to future' premium offerings', possibly like the rumoured Forerunner 970.

A 98-year-old WWII veteran has decided to see what will happen when a Sherman tank of that era goes over a Tesla Model 3 with somewhat surprising results. The stunt can now serve as a metaphor for Tesla's crashing sales in Europe.

Nintendo saw a dip in sales in FY25 compared to the previous year but it is looking forward to the next one thanks to the Switch 2 and the hype around it. For now, the pricing for the console is holding but it may go up depending on the severity of tariffs.

CheckMag In 2025, customers buying a Windows laptop have as much choice as never before when it comes to processors. Snapdragon X, Krackan Point, Strix Point, Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, it is easy to get confused. Especially confusing this year is Intel's lineup, where customers should avoid a certain type of Arrow Lake CPUs at all costs.

EA will not follow in the footsteps of Xbox, Sony, and Nintendo for game pricing strategy which is great news for fans. The company has stated that it does not have any plans of increasing game prices at this point.

Nvidia has allegedly stopped delivering RTX 5090D GPUs in China and has reportedly canceled existing orders. The GPU, which was launched in January 2025, serves as a China-exclusive RTX 5090 counterpart with lower AI performance.

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has revealed first details about the upcoming Unreal Engine 6 in a recent podcast. Featuring advanced multithreading and an entirely new programming language, the engine promises significant technological leaps for gamers. Despite these exciting developments, the community's initial reaction remains cautious.