Reaching up to 32TB

Western Digital has announced that it has started shipping the world's highest capacity UltraSMR HDDs, reaching 32TB, and coming with energy-assisted PMR (ePMR) recording technology for hyperscalers, CSPs, and enterprises. In addition, the company is also shipping the world's highest-capacity ePMR CMR HDD with up to 26 TB for enterprise and channel customers.

October 25th announcement with availability in early November

The latest rumor coming from Chinese forums have revealed a possible announcement and availability date for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU. The announcement could happen on October 25th, with availability in early November.

The 3nm CDNA 4-based MI355X with 288GB HBM3E comes H2 2025

In addition to the Instinct MI325X AI Accelerator, AMD also updated its AMD Instinct roadmap and previewed the upcoming Instinct MI355X AI Accelerator at its Advance AI event held earlier. Based on CDNA 4 architecture and made on 3nm manufacturing process, the Instinct MI355X will bring 288GB of HMB3E memory and continue AMD's Instinct push next year, acting as a stepping stone before CNDA Next MI400 Series which comes in 2026.

With 256GB HBM3E memory and 2.6 PFLOPs of FP8 compute performance

At its Advancing AI event, AMD announced its newest Instinct MI300X series accelerator, the Instinct MI325X. The new AI accelerator is based on CDNA 3 architecture, packs 153 billion transistors, comes with 256GB of HBM3E memory on 16-Hi stacks with up to 6TB/s of memory bandwidth, and offering 2.6 PFLOPs or FP8 and 1.3 PFLOPs of FP16 performance.

Five SKUs, all available for pre-order

Intel has officially launched the new Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" desktop CPUs, with five SKUs that are now available for pre-order and will ship out on October 24th. The new Arrow Lake architecture brings Lion Cove P-cores, Skymont E-cores, Xe-LPG GPU, and NPU3, all neatly stacked in tiles. In addition, Intel's Z890 motherboards are also launched and these are available as well.

Rockstar reveals the October 29th launch date and system requirements

Rockstar has made a rather suprising announcement, bringing both Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare to PC, and these will include all PC-specific enhancements like HDR10 support, NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR support, and more.

Graphics card, controller, keyboard, and mouse

MSI has teamed up with GSC Game World for the upcoming S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl game, launching several new products that will follow the theme. The lineup includes the STALKER 2 EDITION of the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER graphics card, the new FORCE PRO WIRELESS gaming controller, the VIGOR GK41 gaming keyboard, and the CLUTCH GM41 gaming mouse.

Entry-level gets a boost with Exynos 1330 or Dimensity 6300

Samsung has officially announced its new Galaxy A16 5G budget smartphone, bringing a larger 6.7-inch screen, Exynos 1330 or Dimensity 6300 SoC, and up to 6 major Android upgrades, which is a rather big surprise.

Possible next-gen GPU announcement

Nvidia has confirmed its CEO, Jensen Huang, will be delivering the CES 2025 keynote on January 6th, with a possible announcement for Blackwell-based GeForce graphics cards.

Claims industry's most powerful PC SSD for AI

Samsung has announced that it has started the mass production of the PM9E1, a PCIe 5.0 SSD. Based on 5nm controller and 8th Gen V-NAND, Samsung is promising industry's highest performance and largest capacity.