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There’s some new cause for optimism in the struggling CPU market. Just last week I wrote about a hopeful rebound following the release of data by Jon Peddie Research. Now new figures from Mercury Research further point to signs of a market recovery in the second quarter of 2023.

According to Mercury Research (via Venture Beat), Intel gained three percentage points of market share, coinciding with a three percentage point drop for AMD. This includes all CPU shipments, including IoT, SoCs and the custom chips found inside consoles. Overall, Intel still leads strongly, with 68.4% of the overall x86 market share, compared to AMD’s 31.6% share. If SoC and IoT shipments are excluded, Intel leads by a whopping 82.6% to AMD’s 17.4%.

A large part of the recent CPU market woes are a r…

Despite making a strong impression when it debuted in 2021, the peaceful “tiny MMO” Book of Travels struggled to find an audience. Layoffs at developer Might and Delight quickly followed, and while the studio promised that work on the game would continue, it was easy to assume that it would eventually be forgotten, and slide quietly into oblivion.

But it doesn’t look like that’s going to be the case. In August 2022 Might and Delight laid out ambitious plans for the future, and in a recent Steam update the studio said that it’s just about ready to “put out new gameplay content, and expand the world of Braided Shore.”

“We have put a lot of work into our backend, development tools, and improving the game performance overall,” Might and Delight wrote. “This work has enabled us t…

Though you (probably) can’t get the biological kind of infection from your personal sex toy of choice, apparently you can get the virtual kind. Dodgy cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to rip people off, and one of the latest examples comes courtesy of a vibrator. Yes, cyber-STDs are a thing.

A reddit user started a thread (the original post has since been deleted) saying their Malwarebytes app blocked malware from installing after connecting a vibrator to a USB port in order to charge the device. The vibrator in question is a Spencer’s Pussy Power 8-function rechargeable bullet. According to the Spencer’s website, the model in question has over 150 reviews and a near five-star rating, meaning more than a few of these dangerous little kitties are sitting in underwear d…

The chips we know and love are made with some of the most advanced manufacturing methods on the planet. The smallest nodes require billions of dollars in capital expenditures, a big part of which goes to Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography machines manufactured by ASML, the current market leader. But there’s a new challenger and some exciting tech on the horizon that aims to change the status quo, potentially leading to a fall in the cost of chips.

Japan-based electronics giant Canon (via Bloomberg) has developed what it calls Nanoimprint Lithography technology that it claims could scale down to 2nm. That’s small enough to rival EUV lithography, but the more important part of this news is the claim that Canon’s technology will have a price of “one digit less than ASML’s EUV tools”. In…

Update: In an email to PC Gamer, Valve confirmed the website and Valve Prism are fake. Original story below.

Sorry folks, Valve’s not announcing a new VR headset today—or at least not the Valve Prism, despite the surprise appearance of a website, valveprism.com, that very nearly looks like the real deal.

The new site started making the rounds on Wednesday and on first blush very much looks like a Valve production. The page design, fonts, and many of the technical details seem closely in line with the store pages for the Steam Deck and Valve Index. And it’s exciting to imagine Valve having a competitor for the Apple Vision Pro, with an equally impressive display in a wireless headset that no longer requires a PC to power it. T…