February 13, 2026

Corsair fights back against RAM scammers and thieves with packaging shift — ditches iconic yellow boxes for transparent plastic and anti-tampering labels

If you’ve purchased one of the best RAM kits on the market, specifically a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory kit, and noticed the packaging looks dramatically different, there's no need to panic. Corsair has recently revamped the packaging across its Vengeance DDR5 lineup, adopting a new approach to combat retail scams and theft.
February 2, 2026

AMD adopts FRED together with Intel for Zen 6 architecture — replacement for decades-old IDT can improve performance and stability

AMD appears to be fundamentally redesigning its CPU architecture for the upcoming Zen 6 chips, rather than making it a subset of Zen 5. As a part of those improvements, thanks to X user InstLatX64, we now know that AMD has finally adopted Intel's FRED instructions for its new silicon, along with fresh matrix multiplication and bit reversal instructions.
January 19, 2026

Benchmarks of Performance-core only Bartlett Lake CPU emerge, 10-core offers 26% faster multithreaded performance than 14-core i5-14400 — 12-core version launch could be imminent

The first citing of a 10 P-core Bartlett Lake sample has emerged, with benchmark numbers giving us an idea of its potential performance. "X86 is dead&back" on X shared performance numbers of the new 10-core chip, allegedly dubbed the Core 7 253PE, compared to the Core i5-14400 featuring 26% greater multi-threaded performance despite having fewer cores.
January 5, 2026

Corsair cancels $240 48GB DDR5 memory kit orders due to pricing error — company’s blunder ignites shopper uproar over botched RAM deal

A couple of days ago, Corsair's webstore listed a 48GB kit of Dominator Titanium DDR5 RAM for just $239.99 — a price too reasonable to be true given the worldwide shortage. Naturally, many people swept up this deal, but instead of receiving a confirmation, they got a different message after checkout. Corsair cancelled all the orders, citing a listing error while apologizing for the inconvenience via email.