You know, the signs have been there. At Computex AMD mentioned having working samples of 7nm chips, meaning things are progressing faster than expected. Much like moving 14nm towards 12nm there, however, is more behind the horizon, and TSMC just made it clear, 5nm wafer and chip fabrication will start in mass production at the end of 2019.

It's the weekend, game time! And since the Steam holiday sales really disappoint price wise this year, here are some games you can pick up for free. 

Well, we know it's coming, it's more a question of when? Intel has been working on a Coffee lake based 8-cores and a 16-threads processor for ages now. Yet still hasn't released it. Some had hoped it would be released during Computex, but that was a no-go. However, an 8c/16t processor entry surfaced in the SiSoft Sandra database.

Netgear is introducing the Nighthawk X6 Tri-Band WiFi Mesh Extender (EX7700) as the latest member to the Nighthawk family of WiFi Mesh Extenders. With a dedicated 866Mbps 5GHz band for extending internet speeds to all of your connected devices, the EX7700 is one of the most advanced Tri-Band WiFi mesh extenders available.

EK is expanding its portfolio of kits with two new RGB versions. The EK-KIT RGB 240 and 360 are fully RGB customizable liquid cooling kits that are built on the existing Performance line of kits with a good price-performance ratio.  The kit contains everything you need to assemble your custom liquid cooling loop.

Military Operations has released a benchmark tool for its latest game, Military Operations. According to the press release, Military Operations: Benchmark is a performance and stability Benchmark utility that can be used to test your gaming system for compatibility with the upcoming “Military Operations” (MilOps) real-time strategy game and the “Metis Simulation Technology” (Metis engine) it is developed with. This benchmark tool performs a number of tests to measure your system’s capability for running the “Metis engine”. Besides its profiling purpose, MilOps Benchmark is also a fully functional interactive visualization that allows you to roam the globe without limits. Players can interact with units, follow their movements or watch combat up close.

NEC announced the MultiSync PA271Q today, it is a professional 27-inch wide color gamut monitor, perfect for color-critical applications like photography, graphic design, print, video and more. It covers 98.5% of the AdobeRGB color space and 81.1% coverage of Rec 2020.

So you know when you purchase a car and like you know the motor of three different models is the same, aside from software engine management making a series 160, 180 or 200 model? See it's much cheaper to produce one product as opposed to three different ones. The same with CPUs, which are binned but really inside it's all the same?

The Chinese authorities have been investigating the DRAM market for a while now. We've reported on this topic several already. From the looks of it, things are about the get worse for the big three Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix. The manufacturers would have made price deals and agreements with each other.

At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City Wednesday, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang told top AI researchers he wanted to help them achieve a very different kind of peak performance — before unveiling a big surprise, a 32GB CEO edition Titan V.

So yes, you'd think he would have stepped down after the Intel mess with all Vulnerabilities. Then again, it's kind of a vulnerability for the company. CEO Krzanich steps down as chief executive officer after the chipmaker learned he had previously had a "consensual relationship with an employee". Which is a violation of company policy.

A bit belated, as the Corsair crew likely had a bit of a rest after Computex. Corsair announced the release of the new Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 (read our review here) and Corsair STRAFE RGB MK.2 range of mechanical gaming keyboards. 

As the title states, AMD will be renaming FreeSync 2 towards FreeSync 2 HDR. Admittedly a good move. FreeSync (the original one) and FreeSync 2 often got confused, as what the revision 2 exactly means and does. FreeSync 2 really is LFR and HDR compatibility added to what FreeSync 1 offers. 

Basemark launched Basemark GPU, a graphics performance evaluation tool for systems with Vulkan 1.0, OpenGL 4.5 or OpenGL ES 3.1 graphics APIs. This tool enables the industry to objectively and reliably quantify and compare graphics performance of next generation mobile, automotive and desktop processors.

Samsung today announced that it has launched the industry’s highest capacity NVMe solid state drive (SSD) based on the incredibly small Next-generation Small Form Factor (NGSFF) – an eight-terabyte (TB) NF1 SSD. The new 8TB NVMe NF1 SSD has been optimized for data-intensive analytics and virtualization applications in next-generation data centers and enterprise server systems.

TeamGroup gaming brand, T-FORCE releases VULCAN DDR4 3600Mhz memory module exclusively for gaming laptop. The clock frequency is as high as the maximum performance of DDR4 3600MHz.

It's probably one of the best value for money SSD series we're reviewed here at Guru3D.com, the MX500 series from Crucial. The new firmware update is available for all form factors and offers some improvements.

For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 it won't be possible to trade from loot boxes in the Netherlands. With this, developer Valve is taking measures to comply with a new Dutch law on games and gambling legislation.