Intel announced 18 new Raptor Lake Refresh chips today, with the new 65W and 35W models firming up the company’s product stack from the Core i3 models up to Core i9. The higher-end processors square off with AMD’s potentRyzen 7000series, but they’ll eventually face off with AMD’s next-gen Zen 5 models. Meanwhile, the lower-end models will contend withAMD’s new models for the AM4 platform. Intel claims the higher-end Raptor Lake models offer up to 37% more multi-threaded performance than the prior generation....

Shipping documents sourced from NBD.ltd purport that Intel might switch to the LGA1954 platform for its next-generationNova Lakeprocessors on desktop (via Olrak). This is accompanied by PCH tooling likely intended for the 900-series chipsets. Importantly, these listings do not indicate an imminent launch, especially since Nova Lake has officially been confirmed as a2026 product. Nova Lake is officially a part of Intel’s product family, set to supersede Arrow Lake next year....

Secure data solutions provider iStorage has released what itclaimsto be the world’s first FIPS 140-3 Level 3 flash drives. Also sold under its Kanguru brand, the iStorage datAshur PRO+C & PRO+A Encrypted Flash Drives feature PIN protection and military-grade hardware encryption and come in 32GB to 512GB capacities. You can grab theiStorage datAshur PRO+C drivesright now onAmazon.com, starting from $96 for a 32GB model, and up to$259 for a 512GB stick....

The latest addition to the Nvidia R570 branch of GPU drivers,576.02, has resolved many stability problems troubling RTX GPUs for the past three months, including crashes and black screens. Adding to the mix is increased synthetic performance, as reported byComputerBase, whose data suggests an up to 8% performance bump in 3DMark Steel Nomad. Alas, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows, as it appears a new set of stability woes has surfaced with these new drivers, as indicated byuser reports....

LGhas begun mass production of its new Tandem OLED laptop display, according toa press releasepublished earlier today. The panel tech represents a generational step forward in display panels, and LG’s new variant will see its first use in the Dell XPS 13 2024 laptop. Tandem OLED is a panel design that stacks two layers of organic light-emitting diodes on top of one another, creating tandem operation. The pair together can reach higher brightness than traditionalOLEDpanels for much less power draw....

OpenAI made a surprise announcement to its Chinese users that it will leave the market next week, June 27, 2025. Although this move will negatively impact companies relying on access to OpenAI’s API for their products, it will also drive innovation and development in local AI models.DigiTimes Asiareported that local tech companies like Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba are already moving into the market, offering “migration” plans and discounts to affected users....

Today, Maingear has refreshed its North Series product stack and is launching new prebuilts based on the newFractal Design North XLcase. This larger version ofFractal’s original North chassisallows for larger GPUs and up to 420mm radiators. The refreshed lineup doesn’t change component selection or pricing, essentially making the North XL a free upgrade. At first glance, the new North XL doesn’t seem all that different from the original; it still largely retains the same theme and the colors seem more or less identical....

Mehdi also wrote that image creation with Image Creator from Designer (formerly known as Bing Image Creator) will be faster “with 100 boosts per day while bringing you more detailed image quality as well as landscape image format.” Copilot Pro will also let you create a custom Copilot GPT specialized for certain topics with just a few prompts. That last feature, which sounds similar tocustom GPTs that OpenAI just launched, will come “soon” in a Copilot GPT Builder....

As spotted bymomomo_us, MSI has discreetly announced a new CPU air cooler, the MAG Core Frozr AA13. This model, available in black or white, marks MSI’s comeback to the CPU air cooling market after nearly a decade-long absence. MSI is generally recognized for a variety of products; however, CPU coolers are less prominent within its portfolio. Nonetheless, the company launched several models between 2016 and 2019 as part of its Core Frozr series....

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Significant new details of a next-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processor for Windows PCs have been shared Germany’sWinFuture(machine translation). The big news is that the new X2 chips may come to the PC market with up to 18 Oryon V3 cores, that’s 50% more than the current generation Qualcomm chips for PCs. The extra, more powerful, cores will help ‘Snapdragon X Elite Gen 2’ chips in the high-end laptop market and in desktops, reckons the source....

Breaking from other big names in the gaming industry, Nintendo is standing by game development without the use of generative AI shortcuts, per Nintendo President Shuntaro Furakawa [h/tGameWorldObserver]. This is in stark contrast to the1,000+ generative AI games already available on Steam, and comments from other big names in the gaming industry. “Generative AI, which has been a hot topic in recent years, can be more creative, but we also recognize that it hasissues with intellectual property rights....

Nvidia’sGeForce RTX 5070will launch on March 5; however, the Founders Edition model will not be available for purchase until later this month. The development has been confirmed byAndreas Schillingat Hardwareluxx, who shared that Nvidia informed him of the delay just hours before the scheduled reviews were published. Despite the delay in the availability of the Founders Edition, it is expected that third-party versions from board partners such as Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI will be available on launch day....