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Some AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs Allegedly Suffering The Same Fate As Intel's 13th, 14th Gen CPUs

23 hours ago | lowyat.net | John Law

It’s been well over a year since the dreaded voltage spike issue plagued Intel’s top-tier 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors and caused irreversible damage pre-BIOS patch.
NVIDIA Announces Partnership With HUMAIN; Will Build AI Factories In Saudi Arabia

1 day ago | lowyat.net | John Law

NVIDIA announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, to invest in the latter’s HUMAIN AI value chain subsidiary. The GPU brand will provide the hardware needed for the AI computing infrastructure, as well as to help Saudi Arabia to become a global leader in the AI and GPU cloud computing sector.
Kingston Launches Fury Renegade G5 PCIe 5.0 SSD

1 day ago | lowyat.net | John Law

Kingston recently launched its new Fury Renegade G5 NVMe SSD. The SSD is the memory maker’s latest PCIe 5.0 SSD and offers ultra-fast average sequential speeds. Specs-wise, the Fury Renegade G5 can achieve average sequential read and write speeds of up to 14,800MB/s and 14,000MB/s respectively, depending on the storage configuration. On that note, Kingston is offering three storage options for the SSD: 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB., with the last option obviously offering peak performance.
This Gold-Plated ASUS ROG RTX 5090 Astral Dahab Costs More Than US$7,000

1 day ago | lowyat.net | John Law

It’s no secret that ASUS has been working on creating NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs for the Middle Eastern market with the Dahab series, and one such card that is now available in that region’s market is the RTX 5090 Astral Dahab. Built with 6.5g of real gold, the card costs more than US$7,000 (~RM30,201). The card is obviously an exercise in excess and luxury, clearly aimed at the Middle Eastern gamer that is both wealthy beyond belief and has the disposable income to burn.
Malaysia Sees A 3,400% Increase In GPU Imports This Year

2 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

3,400%. That’s how much the GPU importation volume has increased in Malaysia since 2023, with US$6.45 billion (~RM27.86 billion) worth of GPUs having been imported into our country since the start of this year, and we haven’t even entered into the month of July. According to X user Kakashii, the month of April saw Malaysia’s importation of GPUs hit US$2.74 billion (~RM11.84 billion).
Samsung Launches Odyssey OLED G6 Gaming Monitor

2 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

Samsung recently announced the Odyssey OLED G6, a gaming monitor that it is touting as the world’s first OLED gaming monitor with a 500Hz refresh rate. “Samsung continues to lead the gaming monitor industry with breakthrough innovations that redefine how games are experienced,” said Hoon Chung, Executive Vice President of Visual Display (VD) Business at Samsung Electronics.
Sony Officially Announces The Xperia 1 VII

2 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

Sony has ended its silence and officially announced the Xperia 1 VII. The phone is the direct successor of the Xperia 1 VI we reviewed last year and features some year-on-year update to its hardware. Starting with the internal specs, the Xperia 1 VII is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, has 12GB RAM, and an internal storage capacity of 256GB UFS with the option of expanding it by up to 2TB via microSDXC.
Alleged AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Specs And Prices Revealed

4 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

With Computex 2025 just around the corner, rumours about the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT have increased in frequency. The most recent ones to spring from the chipmaker’s rusty pipes address the card’s alleged specifications and pricing. According to a couple of articles from Videocardz, an XFX 9060 XT will start from US$449 (~RM1,929) for the 8GB variant and US$519 (~RM2,230) for the 16GB variant.
Nintendo Updates User Agreement; Reserves The Right To Brick Your Switch Console

4 days ago | lowyat.net | Heirul Kamel

Nintendo has quietly introduced sweeping changes to its user agreement, giving itself the right to permanently disable user accounts and consoles found to be engaging in hacking, piracy, or other unauthorised activities. First spotted by Game File, the new terms – effective on 7 May 2025 – mark the most substantial update to the agreement since 2021 and reflect the company’s increasingly aggressive stance on protecting its hardware and software ecosystem.
Samsung Announces New Neo QLED 8K TV With Vision AI

5 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

Earlier yesterday evening, Samsung formally announced that its Vision AI would be shipping out with its updated Neo QLED 8K TV lineup. But the lineup’s greatest selling point is perhaps the fact that Samsung is going completely, if not nearly, wireless with the lineup. The Neo QLED 8K TV will not ship out with a new box that wirelessly connects other devices to the TV.