Samsung starts mass production of PM9E1 SSD
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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.

Project Glymur might feature two chips
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Qualcomm’s SoC family might be better than thought

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn, claiming that Qualcomm’s plans to expand upon its SoC family for Windows notebooks might mean Project Glymur is a family of two chips instead of one.

lntel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake-S announcement on October 10th
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Reviews and launch two weeks later

Intel has confirmed that it will officially announce Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake-S desktop CPU series on October 10th, with availability and reviews scheduled for October 24th.

NZXT unveils its flagship N9 X870E motherboard
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Coming next year

NZXT has announced its latest flagship motherboard, the N9 X870E, which is based on AMD's new X870E chipset with support for AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPUs. Packed with high-end features, the new N9 X870E will be coming in Q1 2025.

AMD X870 and X870E motherboards are now available
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Ranging from $699 to $199

Most AMD motherboard partners, including Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI, and others, have already announced their X870E and X870 motherboards, and now, these are finally available in all major retail/e-tail shops. In case you missed it, these support the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 series, as well as previous Ryzen 8000 and Ryzen 7000 series CPUs, and are aimed at enthusiasts bringing better VRM, WiFi 7, and USB 4 support.