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OLED pixel technology is the pinnacle when it comes to gaming monitors, and every year it's pushed to a new limit, whether it be advancements in the sub-pixel arrangement to stamp out common issues such as text fringing, or simply increasing the refresh rate beyond what is currently deemed the maximum. ASUS is working on the latter, at least for now.

ASUS's China General Manager has showcased what the company is currently working on behind the scenes, a new 720Hz OLED gaming monitor that uses LG's latest 4th generation WOLED panel. ASUS unveiled the monitor a few days ago, and it's called the ROG Super Kill 27 Pro. It's a dual-mode monitor, meaning it can switch between resolution and refresh rate at the push of a button. According to the specification slide, the ROG Super Kill 27 Pro is capable of 2560 x 1440p at 540Hz, and 720p at 720Hz.

To push these high refresh rates, ASUS has equipped the ROG Super Kill 27 with DisplayPort 2.1a with UHBR20, providing a total bandwidth of 80 Gbps for uncompressed video output. It should be noted that to take full advantage of DisplayPort 2.1a with UHBR20, an owner will need to have paired this monitor with a graphics card that also supports this bandwidth mode, such as a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series GPU, and also a DisplayPort 2.1a-certified cable.

Battlefield 6 is expected to receive its Battle Royale mode on October 28 as part of the Season 1 content drop, and now we are hearing that it will have proximity chat.

It seems that Battlefield Studios is leaning into the content-generation side of things when it comes to its upcoming Battle Royale mode for Battlefield 6, as prominent Battlefield 6 leaker and first-person shooter leaker ModernWarzone has said the mode will be launching with proximity chat.

For those who don't know, proximity chat has made for some of the funniest moments in Battle Royale games, particularly Warzone, where players are able to communicate over the microphone with enemies when they are within a relatively short distance of each other.

Intel will officially launch its next-gen Panther Lake CPUs for laptops at CES 2026, but its upcoming mid-range Core Ultra 5 338H processor has been spotted on Geekbench with new Arc B370 integrated graphics that keep up with the RDNA 3.5-based AMD Radeon 880M inside of the Strix Point APU.

The new Intel Core Ultra 5 338H processor will feature two clusters of cores with a 4+8 configuration according to recent leaks, with the upcoming 12-core "Panther Lake" processor featuring 4 P-Cores, 4 E-Cores, and 4 LP-E Cores in total. Base CPU clocks on the Geekbench reveal tease 1.90GHz with a boost of close to 3.7GHz -- but this is too low -- previous leaks pointed towards 4.8GHz boost clocks on the 338H.

The Geekbench results tease an integrated Xe3 GPU with 10 cores, with the model number "Arc B370" which was tested inside of Geekbench's built-in Vulkan test, spitting out 39,406 points. This means it's pretty close to the RDNA 3.5-powered Radeon 880M inside of AMD's Strix Point APU, which scores around 42,760 points, and the Radeon 890M inside of Strix Halo is far out and ahead, with 47,227 points.

AMD is reportedly cooking up some rather delicious new CPUs with the purported Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D2 processors, with new rumors suggesting they won't be launching until early 2026.

In his latest video, leaker Moore's Law is Dead has reached out to a few of his sources who have said that the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D2 processors are indeed coming, and that final specs are "very close" to the recent leaks. The sources said that full availability wouldn't happen until Q1 2026, with this particular source saying they'd be "surprised if it even paper launched before December".

AMD's purported Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor would roll-out as a mega version of the current Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (that "2" is important) as it'll feature the same 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, but a larger chunk -- double -- the X3D CCD cache, with a total of 192MB cache. The new 9950X3D2 is also poised to feature a higher 200W TDP, so we should expect some mega overclocks from the new chip when it's released.

NVIDIA will be releasing its Arm-based N1X and N1 processors in 2026, competing directly against CPU giants AMD and Intel, and while the N1X + N1 were meant to be released this year, we can expect a probable launch at Computex 2026.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, who reports from a couple of his sources -- a major OEM and an NVIDIA partner -- N1X and N1 processors will be launched "by the middle of 2026". The first source said: "Just got word (major OEM) that NVIDIA N1X + N1 products will launch by the middle of 2026. Technically, from what I can see in documentation, both products are listed for notebooks... although I was told there could be some form of desktop launch too!"

MLID's second source said: "Yes, I (NVIDIA partner) can confirm that NVIDIA will launch their APUs to consumers by Q2 for sure because Alienware is targeting Q1 for the launch of a 16-inch laptop that utilizes them!"

Battlefield 6 is getting a Battle Royale mode, and now data mining has revealed when Battlefield Studios will be making it public.

Previous leaks from ModernWarzone pointed to the Battlefield 6 Battle Royale mode arriving on the 28th of October, and now data mining has backed up that date, with strings of code found within the games API indicating the upcoming mode is scheduled to release during Season 1 on October 28. Notably, the code states the mode "Granite," which Insider Gaming has verified as being the Battle Royale mode.

Notably, for those who don't know, the Battlefield 6 Battle Royale mode is going to be free-to-play, and feature one of the deadliest ring ever released in a Battle Royale game. Touch it and you will be instantly dead. Despite multiple sources now pointing to the release of the Battlefield 6 Battle Royale mode being part of the Season 1 content update scheduled to release on October 28, take this information with a healthy amount of skepticism until the news is officially confirmed by Battlefield Studios.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has responded to a question about AI being used in the development of titles under the Xbox banner.

Spencer was on a panel with Double Fine Studio Head Tim Schafer at the Paley International Council Summit in Palo Alto, where he was asked about the involvement of AI at Xbox. Spencer confirmed that the new technology is in use at the publisher, but not in the way that you may think. According to Spencer, Xbox "mostly" uses AI for security purposes, specifically for moderating voice and text chat on Xbox Live, as the service has grown too large for humans to feasibly moderate.

The Xbox CEO did touch on the use of AI in game development, saying there isn't a "top-down mandate" that development studios operating under the Xbox banner must use AI throughout the creation of their game. Recent reports claimed the new Halo game is being developed with AI, which has also been refuted by insiders.

Twitch streamer Emiru was sexually assaulted at TwitchCon this year, resulting in a slew of backlash for the company over its lacklustre security protocols during meet-and-greets.

Emiru was conducting a meet-and-greet with fans when a male fan, who had jumped over multiple barriers, approached her and attempted to kiss her before her security stepped in and removed the individual. Emiru, along with multiple other streamers at the event and fans, has called out Twitch for its lacklustre security protocols for protecting its streamers at the company's own event, as well as the repercussions for people who violate the rules and guidelines for attending it.

Now, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has acknowledged the situation publicly in a recent statement posted to the official Twitch X account. According to the CEO, "we take our responsibility to keep you safe seriously. We know that TwitchCon means a lot to a lot of people, and it means a lot to us." Clancy also recognized what happened to Emiru, and acknowledged the company "failed" in both "allowing it to occur, and in our response following." Clancy also apologized to Emiru for everything that took place.

Apple's new M5 MacBook Pro laptop is severely overheating in new tests, with the new M5-powered MacBook Pro only cooled by a single fan, the M5 chip is hitting 99C under load.

This isn't out of nowhere as Apple's previous-gen M4 MacBook Pro can easily pass 100C+ under loads, but the new M5 MacBook Pro has the same thermal solution as its predecessor. In a new video, YouTuber Max Tech takes a deeper look at both the 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro and the 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro, with some rather surprising results.

While running Cinebench 2024, Max Tech discovered that the thermal solution inside of the new Apple M5-powered MacBook Pro couldn't keep the M5 cool enough. However, the M5 version of the MacBook Pro runs cooler than the M4 version of the MacBook Pro, but we're talking 1-2C which is really nothing at the end of the day.

Intel will have depleted its CPU inventory in the next few months, running out of processors to sell, as demand right now is reportedly higher than anticipated.

Intel CFO David Zinsner spoke with Barron's after its Q3 2025 earnings call, saying that the company is facing a "chip supply" shortage, for both consumer and data center processors. This isn't expected to stop and will continue rolling into Q1 2026, where by then, "chip inventories" will have been depleted -- zilch, nada, gone -- which is a major concern.

Firstly, it means Intel is somehow selling every single processor it is having made (by TSMC) and soon in-house (Intel 18A). Secondly, it means that even with AMD kicking its ass on every front, somehow, Intel is selling its processors so fast, it will run out of inventory in the months ahead. It all feels very strange to me, as there are only a handful of Intel products that I can see consumers willingly buying over an AMD processor (like the Core Ultra 9 285K in some scenarios, even then, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D kicks its ass in gaming).

Micron has announced that it is sampling its new 192GB SOCAMM2 memory module to customers, ready for broader adoption of low-power memory for AI data centers.

The new 192GB SOCAMM2 memory module uses Micron's most advanced 1-gamma DRAM process technology which provides over a 20% improvement in power efficiency, which the company says further enables power design optimization in large data center clusters. These savings can become quite significant in full-rack AI installations, where there can be over 40TB of CPU-attached low-power DRAM main memory.

The modular design of SOCAMM2 memory improves serviceability and lays the groundwork for future capacity expansion. Micron is building on a large 5-year collaboration with NVIDIA, with Micron pioneering the use of low-power server memory inside data centers. SOCAMM2 includes the inherent advantages of LPDDR5X memory, with exceptionally low power consumption and high bandwidth, to the main memory of AI systems.

Apple has pledged more than $600 billion in US investments with some of the fruits of that labor now being seen, as the company has started shipping its new American-made AI servers into Apple's data center operations.

In a new post on X, Apple CEO Tim Cook said: "Apple's American-made advanced servers are now shipping from our new Houston facility to Apple data centers! These servers will help power Private Cloud Compute and Apple Intelligence, as part of our $600 billion US commitment".

The new American-made Apple servers will power things like Private Cloud Compute, a computational hierarchy where simple AI tasks are performed using on-device computational resources -- like on your iPhone -- while more complex tasks are offloaded onto Apple's private cloud servers using encrypted and stateless data. Meanwhile, Apple Intelligence handles everything else on your iDevices, including a retooled Siri agent.

Elon Musk has said that Tesla's next-generation AI5 processor is an incredible 40x faster -- yes, not 40% but 40 times faster -- than the current AI4 processor.

Tesla recently inked a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung Foundry to fab its next-next-gen AI6 processor, with reports suggesting Samsung is making a loss on the deal but considers it a "blessing in disguise", with more on that in the links below.

But during Tesla's recent Q3 2025 earnings call, Musk said that both Samsung and TSMC would be fabbing its AI5 chips, where he added that Samsung's new Taylor, Texas semiconductor fab is "more advanced" when it comes to semiconductor fabrication than TSMC's new Arizona fab.

Xbox is officially done with exclusive games, and that includes the once console-defining Halo series.

The newly announced Halo: Campaign Evolved isn't the only Halo game coming to PlayStation. Halo Studios has officially confirmed that future games in the series will also arrive on PlayStation, lining up with previous rumors of a cross-platform Halo live multiplayer game.

"It's really a new era. Halo is on PlayStation, going forward, starting with Halo: Campaign Evolved. We're just kind of knocking down walls. We're going to come together, we're going to sing Kumbaya, it's going to be great--Blue and Great coming back together again," Halo Studios community director Brian Jarrard said during today's Halo World Championship 2025 stream.

25 years after its original release, and after decades of defining core Xbox exclusives, Halo is officially coming to PlayStation.

Today Xbox announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, a fully-fledged 4K remake of the original Halo game that's coming to consoles--including PS5--and PC in 2026. Like the name says, the remake is campaign only and does not include multiplayer.

The remake actually features content not available in the original game, as well as missions that haven't been seen in any Halo game before. Halo: Campaign Evolved has two prequel missions to play, as well as nine additional weapons, including the energy sword from Halo 2, the battle rifle from Halo 3, and the needle rifle from Halo Reach. Gamers can hijack vehicles in the Halo CE remake, pilot the wraith tank, and the game has a ton of extra skulls.

Amazon is reportedly planning to cut as many as 600,000 human jobs over the next 7 years, which will eventually be replaced by robots.

Internal documents obtained by The New York Times show Amazon's plans to automate approximately 75% of all its operational processes, which will result in approximately 600,000 job losses by the year 2033. For those who don't know, Amazon is one of the United States' largest companies by the number of employees it has under its banner, having tripled its workforce since 2018 to a staggering 1.2 million.

However, Amazon's board has reportedly informed management that it will no longer need to hire additional US employees in the future due to advances in automation. The internal documents reportedly revealed that Amazon projects to save as much as $12.6 billion after the 600,000 workers are replaced by automation, and it will reduce the cost to sell each product it ships by approximately 30 cents. Amazon already has more than 1 million robots working for the company, and these robots support the 1.6 million workers.

Nike has announced Project Amplify, which it describes as the "world's first powered footwear system" that is aimed at sliding on the foot of athletes who want a second set of calf muscles.

That last sentence is ripped directly from the Nike press release, which states Amplify isn't designed for pro athletes that are looking to shave a few seconds of their latest record, but instead, it's aimed at athletes that want to move faster and farther with less effort, "in effect, a second set of calf muscles". According to Nike, Project Amplify is best used by someone who is running a 10-to-12-minute mile pace, and the development of the product has come after it was tested on over 400 athletes over the past several years.

Despite Nike unveiling Project Amplify, the company states it isn't ready to bring it to market just yet, and that it will remain in development until its release is ready "in the coming years". Project Amplify is for both running and walking, and is engineered to augment natural lower leg and ankle movement, providing support for wearers and an "unparalleled boost to anyone who wants to move".

Apple's next-gen A20 Pro chip is reportedly called "Borneo Ultra" and its A20 non-Pro is called "Borneo", ready to power the next-gen iPhone 18 and foldable iPhone in 2026, fabbed on TSMC's bleeding-edge 2nm process node.

The codenames are coming from Weibo tipster "Mobile phone chip expert" who claims they had dinner with a friend of theirs, who happens to be the IC design boss at Apple. Over dinner, the two discussed the new iPhone and its A-series processor, where we're finding out that the A20 Pro is dubbed "Borneo Ultra" and the A20 dubbed "Borneo".

The base iPhone 18 should be powered by the regular A20 "Borneo", while the higher-end iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and foldable iPhone, will be powered by the A20 Pro "Borneo Ultra" processor.

Intel will fully release its next-gen Panther Lake CPUs at CES 2026 in just a couple of months' time, with new premium flagship laptop designs shown off in Las Vegas, the first chip Intel will fab and mass produce for consumers on its new in-house Intel 18A process node.

Intel hosted its Q3 2025 earnings call this week with CEO Lip-Bu Tan outlining his plans for the company over the next 18 months or so, with the laptop-ready Panther Lake CPUs dropping at CES 2026 as the new Core Ultra Series 300 family. The first SKUs will be higher-end premium options, but as Intel 18A continues to ramp, Panther Lake will debut in cheaper variants.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan explained: "In addition, and just as important, the group will spearhead the build out of a new basic and design service business to deliver purpose-built silicon to a broad range of external customers. This will not only extend the reach of our core x86 IP, but also leverage our design strength to deliver an array of solutions from general purpose to fixed function computing. In client, we are on track to launch our first Panther Lake SKU by year end, followed by additional SKUs in the first half of next year".

Intel will be launching its next-generation Nova Lake CPUs in 2026, its next-gen processor family for the desktop, with up to 52 cores, its upgraded Xe3 GPU, and fabbed on Intel's new Intel 18A process node.

During the Q3 2025 earnings call, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan talked about his plans for moving the company forward in its client, server, and foundry-side businesses. The CEO reaffirmed some of the things we already know like its new Panther Lake CPUs fabbed on its new Intel 18A node launching at CES 2026 with a full unveiling, unlike the tease and small details from its recent Tech Tour 2025 event.

However, he did say that Intel is reaffirming the high-end processor market is an intense battlefield, but there are things in the pipeline for that. First, the company will be launching its refreshed Arrow Lake CPUs under the Core Ultra 200S Plus processors on its current LGA 1851 socket, but after that comes Nova Lake-S on the new LGA 1954 socket -- meaning new motherboards and CPUs -- in the second half of 2026, with a new architecture, software changes, and more.