Microsoft’s DirectStorage is based on development done for the “Velocity Architecture” in the Xbox Series family of consoles. The intention is to drastically improve performance under a “sustained random” I/O workload such as that used by a game streaming assets. Forspoken is the first video game to support DirectStorage, and benchmarks of

Leaked images of a purported Intel Granite Rapids Xeon 9000 CPU socket have been put under close scrutiny. It is estimated that the socket is a massive 1.7X larger than the current gen Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon 8000 CPU socket, but this is understandable given that the new socket has 61% more pins.

Next gen Granite Rapids Xeon (left) will