From January to March

According to the information coming from the Board Channel, it appears that Nvidia plans to launch most of its new Geforce RTX 50-series Blackwell graphics cards in Q1 2025.

Trailer, system requirements, and pre-load times announced as well

Activision has released the new launch trailer for its new Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 game developed by Beenox for PC. The announcement also includes details about AMD FSR 3.1 support, 4K/UHD and Ultrawide support, full system requirements, pre-load info, and more.

Trading firms, market makers, and financial institutions

AMD has announced its newest AMD Alveo UL3422 accelerator card, which is the latest addition for ultra-low latency electronic trading applications. Based on a slim form factor, it makes the Alveo UL3422 optimized for rack space, and suitable for deployment in a wide range of servers.

For enterprise and datacenter implementation

KIOXIA America has announced the availability of its new KIOXIA XD8 Series PCIe 5.0 Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S SSDs.

With plenty of big names to back them up

Intel and AMD have both announced the creation of an x86 ecosystem advisory group, which is meant to bring together technology leaders behind this computing architecture and focus on "identifying new ways to expand the x86 ecosystem by enabling compatibility across platforms, simplifying software development, and providing developers with a platform to identify architectural needs and features to create innovative and scalable solutions for the future."

Remedy Entertainment, Sega, 505 Games, and many more

Microsoft and Xbox have scheduled the next Xbox Partner Preview, promising some great game announcements and updates from partners like Remedy Entertainment, Sega, 505 Games, and others.

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.