ASE to bolster North American semiconductor supply chain — new packaging and test facility in Mexico expected to hire 500 engineers and technicians in first year
ASE’s subsidiary, ISE Labs, will build an OSAT facility in Mexico.
Gigabyte’s Sexy X870I Aorus Pro Ice Motherboard Arrives For Compact Ryzen Gaming PCs
Gigabyte has gone and quietly introduced its first mini-ITX form factor motherboard based on AMD’s X870 chipset, and from the renders we’ve seen, it’s quite the looker. As the model name implies, Gigabyte’s new Aorus X870I Pro Ice mostly ditches a darker colorway for a white (and off-white) motif that, in the right build, could make a small
MMO Business Roundup: NetEase stocks dip over internal fraud and corruption investigation
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. This edition is all about money, baby. Well, quarterly financials, anyhow. And also crimes!...
Intel resumes free coffee and tea for its employees — $100-million-per-year program partly reinstated to boost employee morale
Intel is reinstating free coffee and tea for its employees months after it suspended the beverage benefit to save on costs.
MSI Datamag 20Gbps External SSD Review: Super-Fast USB Storage
MSI Datamag 20Gbps Portable SSD: Pricing TBA MSI’s first external SSD offers NVMe-like performance in a compact and attractive aluminum chassis. Solid USB SSD Performance Unique Magnetic Mounting Options Durable Aluminum Chassis 5 Year Warranty No IP Rating MSI’s been selling internal storage for a while now, and its Spatium M580 FROZR was…
Perfect Ten: 10 ways to put your MMO back on players’ radars
Running an MMORPG isn’t like Field of Dreams. You can’t just create a game and expect that everyone will show up because a magic cornfield...
Ryzen 7 9800X3D gutted to get a look inside AMD’s gaming champion — die shot reveals CPU cores and 3D V-Cache
A Bilibili user sacrificed his 9800X3D in order to get a look at the chip’s CCD and 3D V-Cache.
China’s Mars Rover Finds Evidence Of An Ancient Ocean From 3.5B Years Ago
China’s Mars rover Zhurong has found additional evidence to support the theory that Mars was once a vast ocean world. The new findings include tracing some ancient coastlines that may have once experienced lapping ocean waves.
The data collected by the Mars rover was during the Tianwen-1 mission, and shows an ancient sea could have left
TCL’s 98-Inch TV Gets A Monster-Size 47% Discount Ahead Of Black Friday, While Supply Lasts
We’ll go ahead and say it—TCL is already winning Black Friday, or at least that is the case if you’re in the market for a giant-sized TV with out a gargantuan price. While Black Friday is still officially a couple of weeks away, hardware brands and their retail partners are starting to dish up the savings, and TCL just set the bar on what
LOTRO’s Legacy of Morgoth expansion has everyone fretting over the new Elf looks
The initial release of Lord of the Rings Online: Legacy of Morgoth seems to be going generally fine, albeit with a few bumps and bugs....