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The God of War TV show was first announced two years ago, and now the showrunner, Ronald D. Moore, has shared new details on the upcoming show, revealing that the director of the God of War games is actively involved in the TV show's creation.

Moore recently sat down for an interview with Collider at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, where he said the show is currently in the "scripts phase," and that the more work that is done, the more he is fascinated with the world of God of War. Moore added that he has never done an adaptation of a video game before, and the deeper he got into the adaptation, "the more impressed I was with the breadth and depth of the mythology."

Additionally, Moore said that he had several meetings with Cory Barlog, the director of the God of War games, and described Barlog as a "genius" as he holds the entire mythology and backstory of the God of War games in his head.

Samsung Electronics has secured a $16.5 billion contract to make 2nm chips for Tesla, which will be made at Samsung's new semiconductor fab in Texas, and will be produced for Tesla at a loss.

The new order for Tesla has been analyzed as a "loss-making order" that prioritizes securing references over profitability, and that Samsung looks to be taking the $16.5 billion order as a reference point to make a "blessing in disguise" for its foundry business.

Furthermore, the completion of its new Taylor semiconductor fab, collaboration with Tesla is expected to strengthen, and that there's anticipation growing that the Tesla order will lead to increased transactions with big tech companies like Google and Qualcomm.

ASUS has been celebrating 30 years in the graphics card business, and will be unveiling a new ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card at Gamescom 2025 on August 19.

The company has been teasing new product launches and a bunch of giveaways ahead of the event, with ASUS preparing to unveil a new graphics card teased as a "30th Anniversary Edition" release. The folks at VideoCardz looked into the page's source code on the ASUS website and found some placeholder data, commented out, with references to the ROG Astral RTX 5080 Hatsune Miku, but that card was unveiled just over a week ago now.

We were expecting to see a new RTX 5090 design from ASUS, but it looks like the company will be unveiling a new RTX 5080 design as the AI TOPS performance numbers match the 5080, and that the Hatsune Miku variant is probably just a temporary placeholder.

It appears that WB Games Montreal is spinning up a new project as it seeks to make high-profile hires for a new game.

WB Games Montreal is hiring an executive producer for what appears to be a new live service game. All-told, the WB Games subsidiary is hiring 12 people across multiple disciplines, including two producers and three programmers.

The executive producer job will oversee a DC game, and the studio wants applicants to have a "deep understanding of the full game development lifecycle, including live services."

Samsung has secured a huge $16.5 billion foundry contract to make Tesla's next-gen AI6 chip at its new Texas fab, with Elon Musk saying that the strategic importance of this is "hard to overstate".

In a new post on X by the SpaceX and Tesla boss, Elon Musk said: "Samsung's giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip. The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate. Samsung currently makes AI4. TSMC will make AI5, which just finished design, initially in Taiwan and then Arizona".

Samsung Foundry will be making next-gen AI6 chips for Tesla at its Texas semiconductor facility, with Musk adding that Samsung "agreed to allow Tesla to assist in maximizing manufacturing efficiency. This is a critical point, as I will walk the line personally to accelerate the pace of progress. And the fab is conveniently located not far from my house".

Krafton has acquired another independent studio as it faces a lawsuit with ousted Subnautica 2 developers.

South Korean games giant Krafton has expanded its pool of game studios with the acquisition of Eleventh Hour Games, the team behind the popular Last Epoch action RPG. Krafton notes that it spent $96 million acquiring 100% of the studio's shares.

The buyout will help fund new content for Last Epoch, as well as a fully-fledged console port. Krafton intends to make Last Epoch an enduring, evergreen franchise with long legs.

Inno3D has launched its new GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 iCHILL Frostbite Pro graphics cards, featuring a sleek single-slot design and pre-installed water block. Check them out below:

Inno3D partnered with Alphacool, which developed the single-slot water block for the new cards, with the big difference here being that the new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 iCHILL Frostbite Pro graphics cards sport a single-slot display bracket, making this an actual, true single-slot graphics card solution.

Inno3D explains: "Today we're launching the INNO3D GeForce RTX 5090 & 5080 iCHILL Frostbite Pro! Both GPUs are equipped with full water block coverage, with reinforced carbon fiber backplate to ensure maximum thermal efficiency with minimal footprint in the latest NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. Making them perfect for compact, high-performance setups".

AYANEO has just announced its new NEXT 2 gaming handheld powered by AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU. Check it out:

The founder of AYANEO said that this is what the peak x86 platform looks like in a gaming handheld, with the NEXT 2 featuring AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU, while the company has been leveraging the experience it has gained since designing Mini-PCs using the Strix Halo APU.

AYANEO's new NEXT 2 gaming handheld sports what looks to be an 8-inch display, while the Strix Halo APU features the 16-core, 32-thread Zen 5-based CPU and powerful 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU. This is a big upgrade in GPU performance for gaming as the other gaming handhelds from AYANEO feature just 16 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers continues to court controversy over its performance levels, with the latest twist being accusations of a sneaky fix for poor frame rates.

If you missed the fuss around Wuchang: Fallen Feathers when it launched, the PC version didn't go down well at all in terms of FPS, and that was plainly clear from the Steam reviews. Complaints about sluggish performance were plentiful, as we highlighted at the time.

Since then, a patch has improved matters, but a YouTuber, Daniel Owen, has been delving into the source of these faster frame rates and his contention is that the gains aren't what they seem at first (as noticed by Tom's Hardware).

Halo Infinite is being retired from esports tournaments, which means one of two things: A new Halo game will be ready in 2026 to replace Halo Infinite's place in esports, or Halo Studios could shut down the Halo Championship Series altogether.

The devs at Halo Studios are moving on from Halo Infinite, at least in the official capacity for esports tournaments. While the studio will continue supporting Halo Infinite, the game will be pulled from Xbox's Halo Championship Series (HCS) competition.

"Once a world champion is crowned in October, the HCS will be retiring Halo Infinite from Official HCS Competition," the studio writes in an update.

Battlefield Labs is scheduled to unveil the multiplayer for Battlefield 6 on July 31 officially, and ahead of the unveiling, 2 minutes of gameplay footage have been posted to X.

The footage is among the other small clips that have surfaced throughout Battlefield Labs' playtests of Battlefield 6, but this time, we have a lengthy video to dive into. The Battlefield franchise began to experience a steady decline after the release of Battlefield 3, with EA releasing constant misses and players leaving the game over small changes. Now, with Battlefield 6 on the horizon, many longtime fans of the franchise are excited to see if that Battlefield feel has been reanimated in Battlefield 6. Judging by the gameplay, it has, but it also hasn't.

The gameplay shows intense gunplay in what appears to be a small city map, with extremely tight corners, high buildings, and fast movement. These aren't the hallmarks of classic Battlefield, which was known for its wide-open maps and lengthy skirmishes. At least on this map, and I really hope there is some variance in map size, it appears Battlefield 6 is leaning more toward an arcade experience akin to Call of Duty.

Intel is currently undergoing a significant transformation as it seeks to improve its financial performance under the guidance of CEO Lip-Bu Tan. With a $2.9 billion quarterly loss and 15,000 jobs set to be cut so the company can focus on core products and AI, we now have confirmation that Intel is planning to spin off its Network and Edge Group (NEX) into a standalone business.

This new information arrives via CRN, which obtained a memo addressed to its partners stating that it's looking for outside investment for its networking group. "We plan to establish key elements of our Networking and Communications business as a stand-alone company, and we have begun the process of identifying strategic investors," Intel said in a follow-up statement confirming the plan.

In addition to the news that Intel's next-gen 14A process node is currently on the chopping block if it can't find major customers, this is the latest move to streamline Intel, signed off by CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su attended the recent 'Winning the AI Race' summit, where she talked about how artificial intelligence and AI will be leveraged to design the company's next-generation graphics cards. With AMD moving to a unified architecture for both data center and consumer products, this presumably includes Radeon GPU hardware for the PC and console market.

However, it's worth noting that Lisa Su's remarks refer to GPU hardware and architecture designed with the help of AI, not GPUs designed solely by AI. This means that human engineers at AMD are still in charge. "We think about how AI will design future chips, and it will design pieces of it," Lisa Su said. "But there's still a creativity of bringing it all together that I think humans are still absolutely at the centre of."

"I don't necessarily see the AI designing our next-generation GPU," Lisa Su adds. "But I do see it helping us design the next-generation GPU much faster and more reliably." This isn't a new development, as NVIDIA has already stated that it uses AI to help speed up chip design, which appears to be what AMD is aiming for.

AI is everywhere you look in the tech space, and other spaces for that matter, so it didn't come as a surprise that the current administration held a 'Winning the AI Race' summit in Washington. With all the big players in the AI space attending and speaking at the event, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, President Trump also took the time to discuss AI. Specifically, what he thought about the name.

It turns out that President Trump is a big fan of U.S. leadership in all things artificial intelligence, but he has one glaring issue that he'd like to have resolved. No, it's not news that NVIDIA and TSMC were planning on manufacturing the next generation of Vera Rubin chips in America. It's the name.

"Around the globe, everyone is talking about artificial intelligence," Trump said. "Artificial, I can't stand it. I don't even like the name. I don't like anything that's artificial, so could we straighten that out, please? We should change the name. I actually mean that."

Over the past couple of months, we've seen specs and details emerge for NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 50 SUPER Series refresh. With an RTX 5070 SUPER, RTX 5070 Ti SUPER, and RTX 5080 SUPER on the way, the big takeaway is that there will be a massive 50% increase in VRAM capacity for all RTX 50 SUPER GPUs. Only the RTX 5070 SUPER is expected to receive a minor increase in CUDA Core count.

With VRAM capacity being a hot topic for both high-end PC gaming and AI workloads, a GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER with 18GB of fast GDDR7 memory, and a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SUPER and RTX 5080 SUPER with 24GB sound pretty good. The increased memory will also be accompanied by an increase in power draw, indicating that the SUPER series will ship with higher boost clock speeds than their non-SUPER counterparts.

There has been some speculation and rumor that NVIDIA was planning on releasing them in early 2026 with a big CES 2026 reveal. However, based on information obtained from sources, the RTX 50 SUPER Series refresh is actually on track for a holiday 2025 or Q4 2025 release.

Intel will be reintroducing SMT or Hyper-Threading to future-generation CPUs says its new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, in the middle of laying off 15% of its overall staff and 50% of its management layers.

We don't know if the return of SMT will be for data center CPUs, but it would be nice to see the reintroduction of Hyper-Threading to consumer gaming processors to increase its competitiveness against CPU rival AMD. Intel began moving away from Hyper-Threading (or SMT) with its 12th Gen Core CPUs, as it started moving toward asymmetrical CPU designs.

Intel first enabled SMT on P-Cores and then after a while, completely eliminated Hyper-Threading on its 15th Gen Core CPUs. Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs will NOT feature SMT, or even the generation after that, with rumors that we'll see "Unified Cores" with its future-gen Titan Lake CPUs.

KIOXIA has announced a milestone in the development of its 9th Gen BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory technology, with mass production set to commence in fiscal year 2025. This is the successor to the 8th Gen BiCS FLASH technology that we wrote about last week, which is featured in the company's impressive 245.76 TB NVMe SSD, designed for the enterprise data center market.

9th Gen BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory technology is all about delivering "high performance at reduced production cost," thanks to CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology that brings performance, efficiency, and density. And on that note, KIOXIA has announced that it has begun shipping samples of 512Gb Triple-Level Cell (TLC) memory devices featuring 9th Gen BiCS FLASH technology.

KIOXIA notes that these devices are built for applications that demand high-performance and "exceptional power efficiency," with low to mid-level storage capacity requirements. KIOXIA added that these devices will also be integrated into future enterprise SSDs from the company, targeting the AI market and those looking to boost GPU efficiency.

TEAMGROUP has just announced the launch of its new ultra-capacity 256GB DDR5 memory kits (4 x 64GB) under its gaming brand T-FORCE and creator brand T-CREATE.

TEAMGROUP closely collaborated with leading motherboard manufacturers and validated on AMD's latest X870 platform, with the new ultra-capacity 256GB memory kits providing stable and high-efficiency upgrade paths for users who want the "perfect balance between speed and capacity".

The TEAMGROUP T-FORCE LAB continues to strengthen its high-performance gaming memory portfolio with the launch of the new T-FORCE DELTA RGB DDR5-6000 CL32 256GB (4 x 64GB) quad-channel kit, which has been designed to reinforce the brand's leadership in the high-end gaming market.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 graphics card launches in China on August 12, with reports that the new made-for-China variant will be $830 cheaper than the RTX 5090 D.

The $380 price reduction is a good thing to see, but gamers in China will be losing 12GB of VRAM as the RTX 5090 D V2 comes with 24GB of GDDR7 compared to the RTX 5090 D which packs the full 32GB of GDDR7 memory. The RTX 5090 D was already cut down from the RTX 5090, but the new RTX 5090 D V2 is cut down again.

When it comes to availability, it seems that the RTX 5090 D is mostly sold out and it is the last batch on Chinese shores. According to a post on Chiphell, "sthuasheng" writes: "now the flagship stores of various platforms are on sale, basically 19999 (yuan), the same as H20, the 5090D sold this time are the batch of goods produced before the new regulations came out, because the ban on sales was forced to become inventory after the new regulations came out".

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has signed a new $16.5 billion contract to supply semiconductors to a "major global corporation" which is rumored to be Tesla for FSD chips.

Tesla needs as many FSD (Full Self-Driving) chips that it can get, with reports that the Elon Musk-led company secured orders for its latest Tesla FSD chips with TSMC on its 4nm/5nm process nodes in March 2025. The new $16.5 billion contract started on July 24, 2025 and runs through to December 31, 2033.

The "major global corporation" hasn't been disclosed, but insider @Jukanrosleve on X says it's "presumed to be with Tesla" which makes sense. Samsung is also fabbing NVIDIA's new custom Tegra T239 SoC for Nintendo and its new Switch 2 gaming handheld, but a huge Tesla contract would be a big win for Samsung Foundry which has been struggling in the semiconductor business against TSMC for many years now.