G.Skill has unveiled its new Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-8400 C40 2x24GB memory kit for Intel's latest 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh chips, which compete with the best CPUs. The company also took the opportunity to show off the upcoming DDR5-8600 variant.

As reported by HXL on X (Twitter), Asus has begun to drop BIOS updates for its AMD AM5 motherboards featuring Team Red's latest AGESA microcode update, version PI 1.0.8.0. According to Asus, the new microcode patch supports "upcoming" CPUs, confirming that AMD is adding more Ryzen CPUs to the AM5 platform. The question is, what CPUs?

According to a recent report via TrendForce, the NAND flash market will soon break away from its trend of decreasing prices. According to the market analysis firm, Samsung, the world's biggest NAND manufacturer by market share (31%), has taken a decisive counter against softening demand - and consequent falling prices.

Intel on Wednesday demonstrated advancements of its sophisticated packaging technologies such as EMIB (embedded multi-die interconnect bridge) and Foveros and showed off its upcoming Meteor Lake processor with on-package LPDDR5X memory. It looks like Intel has taken a page from Apple's book as the company has been installing LPDDR memory on its M1 and M2 packages for a while now.