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Nintendo's 'Summoning' Patent Faces Reexamination as USPTO Director Flags Prior Art

Nintendo's 'Summoning' Patent Faces Reexamination as USPTO Director Flags Prior Art

Nintendo's controversial patent for summoning monsters in games—central to its legal battle against Palworld—is now under reexamination by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The move, initiated by USPTO director John A. Squires, cites prior art and marks a significant setback for Nintendo's aggressive IP enforcement.
AMD Zen 5's Gaming Paradox: Frontend Latency Holds Back a Wider, Deeper Core

AMD Zen 5's Gaming Paradox: Frontend Latency Holds Back a Wider, Deeper Core

AMD's Zen 5 architecture delivers impressive gains in productivity benchmarks but struggles to translate that dominance to gaming performance. A deep technical analysis reveals frontend bottlenecks, including instruction cache misses and branch prediction challenges, as the primary culprits—outshining even backend memory latency issues. This exposes the inherent trade-offs in modern CPU design when balancing peak throughput with real-world gaming demands.