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Pearl Abyss introduced its biggest expansion to Black Desert Mobile last month. “Land of the Morning Light” comes to Android September 2023, taking players to a new continent abundant with lore reminiscent of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. With it, players can expect new regions, new storylines and new, powerful gear. Pearl Abyss is promising new landscapes, pulled directly from historical landmarks, just waiting to be explored and appreciated. The update should bring in new quests, lore and storylines built to entice Black Desert Mobile players. Challenging bosses, inspired by Korean mythology, are available to conquer. And the “Calamity Level” difficulty will no doubt keep veteran players engaged as well. Black Desert Mobile also introduces a new character with necromantic powers that can work in close or long-range combat. All of this, of course, comes with new gear awaiting industrious Black Desert Mobile players. All they have to do is respond to the call.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is said to be a step behind the A17 Pro as it is reportedly mass produced on TSMC’s N4P process instead of the Taiwanese’s next-generation 3nm process. Regardless of this difference, one rumor claims that Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship silicon is 30 percent more efficient than what Apple has outfitted in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max this year, but consuming less power can often mean compromising on performance.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is expected to visit Taiwan, where he will reportedly attend Foxconn's yearly "Technology Day" event & expand collaboration with the company.

Apple has grappled with the development of its in-house 5G modem for years now, and even acquiring Intel’s business for $1 billion did not aid the company’s endeavors. Finding negligible success in this area, the California-based giant had little choice but to extend its partnership with Qualcomm for three more years, but there was a slight chance that Samsung would be brought into the fold, too. Sadly, talks of a deal never went past a certain point, with one report stating that the Korean manufacturer was experiencing supply issues.

In a new front in the U.S.-China tech war, President Joe Biden's administration is facing pressure from some lawmakers to restrict American companies from working on a freely available chip technology widely used in China - a move that could upend how the global technology industry collaborates across borders.

The advent of silicon photonics is the next big thing in the semiconductor industry, and it is now being reported that TSMC has joined hands with NVIDIA and Broadcom to accelerate R&D efforts.

The upcoming Exynos 2400 might be the last Samsung SoC that comes outfitted with an AMD GPU, with the latest rumor claiming that the Korean firm wishes to develop its own custom solution. Earlier, it was reported that both companies had renewed a licensing agreement, but the terms may only have been valid for a limited time.

Huawei circumvented the U.S. sanctions and introduced the Kirin 9000S to the industry, but it has broader goals for the future, and to help achieve that, some Taiwanese technology companies are helping the Chinese firm build chip firms all across the region.

MSI has launched a limited edition Nvidia green themed graphics card, the RTX 4060 Gaming X NV Edition. Only 6,000 of the cards will be made, with stock limited to a handful of countries.

Samsung's new laptop memory range promises upgradeable memory without the performance glass ceiling of SO-DIMMs. Its newly announced range of Low Power Compression Attached Memory Modules (LPCAMMs) will dramatically shrink the amount of space normally given over to traditional laptop memory modules, but don't expect that to mean a reduction in the number of soldered-on solutions.

NVIDIA has reportedly finalized a deal with TSMC to utilize its 3nm process node for the creation of its next-gen Blackwell B100 GPUs for AI.