You know it, in my reviews I have been complaining for a year or so now that the developments for the SATA interface are not progressing. Most SATA3 SSDs these days are limited by the more narrow bandwidth the interface offers. As a result, we've seen SSD NAND storage in the form of M.2. on the rise for a year or two already. 

A new update for Battlefield 5 is live, Chapter 3 for the WW2 shooter. The first patch for Trial by Fire not only prepares the Battle Royale mode Firestorm, but also changes some game elements such as the dogfight. Also in the much-criticized AA-edge smoothing DLSS there should be improvements in sharpness.

The credit for c***up of the year goes to Facebook. The company keeps promising things but as it now turns out it stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users completely unencrypted, yes that would be plain text on internal servers readable to anyone who had access to the server and files.

We've all been accustomed to Valve's Steam layout (GUI) for many years now and little has changed. Well, that is about to change as over at GDC Valve has announced with is going to overhaul the GUI. 

The ViewSonic XG240R has been announced a while ago and was available in selected regions. The company just announced it is now globally available including the Asia region. This screen has a 24" Full HD panel (TN) offering a 144 Hz refresh rate and 1 ms response time at a more affordable 269 EUR / 259 USD price marker. 

TP-Linkunveils a full product line of Archer A Series Wi-Fi routers, the latest additions to TP-Link's lineup of affordable, cutting-edge networking solutions. Priced from 20 to 30 percent lower than other brands, the new line of Archer A series Wi-Fi routers offers unbeatable value and is one of the most complete Wi-Fi offerings in the marketplace.

To expand the FLUID line of products, EK adds one aluminum water block that is cross-compatible with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080Ti cards which use the reference PCB and layout.

Epic will add real-time ray tracing to its Unreal Engine 4.22 starting March 26, the company announced at the Game Developer Conference. Starting March 26 the support for DXR DirectX12 will be complete opening up a new set of tools to the six million developers using the engine. Together with the announcement, the company unveiled a new demo made with Unreal Engine 4.22, called Troll, have a peek below. 

Intel quite silently published a paper that details the 11th generation graphics architecture for their integrated GPUs. With Skylake came Gen9 graphics, with Kaby Lake Gen9.5 and with the upcoming 10nm Ice Lake processors (late this year) you may expect integrated graphics with Gen11 iGPUs.

ZOTAC today announced the launch of the super-compact gaming desktop, MEK MINI. Boasting a mere 9.18 liter, MEK MINI packs an Intel Core i7 processor, a discrete ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX graphics card, and SPECTRA 2.0 lighting system.

NVIDIA has released a driver specifically intended for content creators. We now have Game Ready, Creator Ready, DCH, Beta, Quadro, Vulkan and Hotfix drivers. What did ever happen with the universal driver program NVIDIA? This new update offer increase perf in titles like Blender, Adobe Photoshop CC and CINEMA 4D.

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Samsung announced that it has developed a 3rd-generation 10-nanometer-class (1z-nm) eight-gigabit (Gb) Double Data Rate 4 (DDR4) DRAM for the first time in the industry. Development of 1z-nm 8Gb DDR4 without the use of Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) processing has pushed the limits of DRAM scaling even further.

Intel is on a journey to improve the graphics experience for over a billion consumers worldwide. The first step in that is to update their software, which now has been redesigned with new features and better user experience.

For this first time ever (that we know of) ASUS has reported a loss in the last quarter of 2018, mainly due to its struggling smartphone business. Asustek has already begun reorganizing and adjusting its smartphone strategy in the first half of 2019.

Download Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.3. This release adds support for the launch of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Generation Zero. 

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Microsoft has started notifying users of Windows 7 that support will be halted next year. A patch was released on Wednesday that will continue to remind users of that happening next year.

MSI announced Tom Clancy's The Division 2 game bundle started from March 15, 2019, and continues till April 15, 2019. Users who purchase selected MSI gaming monitors can get a digital standard edition of Tom Clancy's The Division 2 for free.