Kingston Technology Unveils Versatile Storage Lineup to Simplify "Mom Life" in the Digital Age

Kingston Technology has announced a diverse range of tech gifting options for Mother’s Day, catering to the unique digital "personalities" of mothers everywhere. Whether it’s the rugged, portable XS2000 SSD for the adventurous traveler or high-speed internal memory for the professional mom, the new lineup emphasizes reliability and ease of use. By bridging the gap between sentimental preservation and everyday productivity, Kingston’s latest solutions offer a meaningful way to support the "everyday moments" that matter most.

For the Memory Keeper
Some mothers never let a moment pass without capturing it. Whether it is a family celebration, a vacation, a child’s achievement, or a simple everyday smile, they love collecting memories that can be revisited for years. For them, dependable storage is not just useful, it is personal.
Kingston XS1000 External SSD 

The Kingston XS1000 External SSD is a compact and easy-to-carry storage companion for mothers who love saving photos, videos, and important files. Its lightweight design and fast transfer speeds make it ideal for backing up memories without the stress of running out of space.
• Ideal for storing photos, videos, documents, and family memories 
• Speeds up to 1,050MB/s with USB 3.2 Gen 2 
• Includes USB-C® to USB-A cable and USB-A to USB-C adapter for broad compatibility with PCs, Macs, tablets, game consoles, smart TVs, iPhones, and Android smartphones

Kingston XS2000 External SSD 
The Kingston XS2000 External SSD is built for mothers who work with high-resolution photos, videos, and large creative files. Its strong performance and durable design make it a reliable choice for creating, storing, and transferring content on the move.
• A powerful drive to preserve videos, family memories, and creative content 
• Speeds up to 2,000MB/s with USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 
• IP55 rating with removable rubber sleeve 
• Delivers speeds of up to 400 HD photos per second and transfers a 1-hour 4K video in under 30 seconds, making it ideal for high-res image and 8K video editing on the go

For the Mom Who Loves Creating
Creativity today lives across devices, from photo edits and video reels to design projects and digital storytelling. For mothers who enjoy creating, editing, or organizing content, fast SSDs can help reduce waiting time and improve workflow.

Kingston NV3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD 
For mothers who want their laptop or desktop to feel faster and more responsive, the Kingston NV3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is a practical upgrade. It supports everyday productivity, content storage, and smooth performance at great value.
• Robust next-gen storage solution powered by a Gen 4x4 NVMe controller 
• Delivers read/write speeds of up to 6,000/5,000MB/s 
• Compact single-sided M.2 2280 design allows for storage expansion up to 4TB

Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD
For demanding workloads, the Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD delivers the speed required for editing, rendering, multitasking, and managing large files. It is a strong choice for mothers who need professional-grade performance from their systems.
• Compact M.2 2280 form factor 
• Formidable speeds up to 7,000MB/s read/write 
• Low-profile graphene aluminum heat spreader

For the Always-on-the-Move Mom
Between work, travel, family commitments, and personal plans, many mothers need technology that keeps pace with their day. Portable and dependable storage can help them move between devices without worrying about cables, compatibility, or space.

Kingston Dual Portable SSD
The Kingston Dual Portable SSD is designed for mothers who prefer convenience without clutter. With both USB Type-A and USB Type-C connectors, it allows easy transfers across multiple devices, making it a useful everyday storage solution.
• Cable-free portable SSD with dual USB Type-A and USB Type-C connectors 
• USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds up to 1,050MB/s read and 950MB/s write 
• Compact, lightweight metal design for easy carry and everyday use 
• Storage capacities up to 2TB, backed by Kingston reliability and 5-year warranty

For the High-Performance User
Some mothers need more from their systems, whether for gaming, heavy multitasking, demanding work, or creative applications. Kingston FURY solutions are designed for those who want speed, capacity, and dependable performance without compromise.

Kingston FURY Renegade G5 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD (Up to 8TB)
The Kingston FURY Renegade G5 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD is a powerful choice for mothers who use performance-driven systems. With extreme speed and high capacity, it helps manage games, creative projects, work files, and large media libraries with ease.
• PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD with Gen5 x4 controller and 3D TLC NAND 
• Blazing-fast speeds up to 14,800MB/s read and 14,000MB/s write, with over 2M IOPS 
• Massive 8TB capacity to store game libraries, creative projects, and digital memories 
• Backed by a 5-year limited warranty and free technical support for complete peace of mind

Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB Memory
The Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB Memory is ideal for mothers who want a stylish and powerful system setup. It combines next-generation memory performance with attractive RGB lighting for a smoother and more visually striking experience.
• Enhanced RGB lighting with new heat spreader design 
• On-die ECC for improved stability at extreme speeds 
• Dual 32-bit subchannels for increased efficiency 
• Integrated power management for optimal power delivery

This Mother’s Day, Kingston encourages consumers to choose gifts that are not only thoughtful but also useful in everyday life. Whether it is helping a mother preserve her favorite memories, work more efficiently, create freely, travel lighter, or upgrade her digital experience, Kingston’s range of storage and memory solutions offers something for every kind of mom.

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MSI and Blizzard Partnership as Official Monitor and PC Hardware Partner

MSI and Blizzard Entertainment® expand their partnership, officially naming MSI as the Official Monitor and PC Hardware Partner for two highly anticipated expansions: World of Warcraft®: Midnight and Diablo® IV: Lord of Hatred™.

As players prepare to face the encroaching darkness in Sanctuary and the epic clash between Light and Void in Azeroth, MSI’s gaming systems and displays are built to ensure every spell effect, shadow surge, and critical battle is experienced in stunning clarity.

A Collaboration Worthy of Azeroth

Launching in March 2026, World of Warcraft: Midnight brings players back to Quel’Thalas and introduces the long-awaited Player Housing feature, turning Azeroth into a place to build roots. Whether engaging in day-one dungeon runs or late-night raid progression, reliability matters. MSI gaming desktops, paired with MSI’s QD-OLED gaming monitors, deliver consistent performance and long-session stability.

Hardware Forged in the Fires of Sanctuary

Set in the dark and unforgiving world of Sanctuary, Lord of Hatred—the new expansion for Diablo IV—you must be willing to risk it all for the fate of humanity against Mephisto. The expansion introduces two new ways to confront the growing corruption: the Warlock, commanding demonic forces and forbidden knowledge, and the Paladin, channeling Holy Light to defend the innocent. To mark the arrival of this new chapter, MSI is equipping players with MSI gaming desktops paired with MSI's QD-OLED gaming monitors. Because when the Prime Evil’s influence spreads, players need high-performance hardware and crystal-clear monitors ready for the fight.

A Unified Vision for Epic Gaming

The expanded partnership between MSI and Blizzard Entertainment connects premium PC hardware directly with these iconic game worlds. By bringing MSI systems to World of Warcraft: Midnight and Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, both companies ensure players get the exact performance these games demand. Gamers battling through Sanctuary or settling in Azeroth can count on MSI gaming desktops and QD-OLED gaming monitors for reliable, high-quality gameplay. Ultimately, MSI and Blizzard are teaming up to give players the exact gear they need to experience these major releases at their absolute best.

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Cadence and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Reinvent Engineering for the Age of AI and Accelerated Computing

At CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2026, Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to deliver accelerated solutions across agentic AI, physics-based simulation and digital twins to unlock new levels of productivity and accelerate next‑generation engineering design flows across semiconductor design, physical AI systems and hyperscale AI factories.

By combining Cadence’s leadership in agentic AI-driven design, electronic design automation (EDA) and system design and analysis (SDA) with NVIDIA CUDA-X, AI physics and Omniverse libraries for industrial digital twin solutions, the two companies are redefining engineering productivity across three critical design domains—accelerating innovation at true agent speed.

“Agentic AI and digital twins are reshaping the entire engineering landscape—from semiconductor design to planetary‑scale AI systems,” said Anirudh Devgan, president and chief executive officer, Cadence. “Our expanded collaboration with NVIDIA accelerates the convergence of design and physical realization, connecting the Cadence AgentStack, Physical AI Stack, and AI factory digital twins with NVIDIA’s breakthroughs in accelerated computing to deliver unprecedented speed, accuracy and trust in simulation and system development.

“We are at an inflection point in computing—CUDA-accelerated computing and AI are reinventing the engineering process,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “For the first time, we can innovate in the digital world—exploring, testing, and optimizing ideas at unprecedented speed and scale—by building everything as full-fidelity digital twins first. Together, NVIDIA and Cadence are bringing this vision to life—transforming how engineers design, build and operate the world.”

Accelerating Cadence Tools for EDA and SDA

Cadence and NVIDIA are accelerating Cadence EDA and SDA solutions with NVIDIA CUDA-X, AI-physics, Omniverse libraries and the Cadence® Millennium™ M2000 Supercomputer, powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure. As part of this expanded collaboration, Cadence will accelerate its wide range of principled solvers and leverage AI physics models to deliver engineering workflows up to 100X speedup.

Cadence EDA and SDA customers and partners, including Ascendence, Argonne National Laboratory, Honda R&D, Samsung and SK Hynix are already leveraging Cadence solutions accelerated by NVIDIA to bring accelerated products to market faster.

AgentStack: Agentic AI for Next-Generation Chip Design

Cadence recently introduced its ChipStack™ AI Super Agent, which applies agentic AI combined with principled EDA tools to transform semiconductor RTL design and verification. Early deployments at more than 10 leading customers have already demonstrated up to a 10X productivity boost in their design and verification tasks.

Building on this foundation, Cadence today unveiled AgentStack™, a head agent designed to orchestrate all aspects of semiconductor and system design. AgentStack extends the ChipStack AI Super Agent’s Mental Model and super-agent architecture beyond RTL and verification into physical design, custom/analog design and migration, to system-level design workflows. AgentStack connects Cadence agents with Cadence EDA platforms that leverage NVIDIA Nemotron and run on NVIDIA accelerated computing for orchestrating long‑running, multi‑agent workflows.

As an early partner, NVIDIA is adopting the AgentStack flow in its semiconductor and system design flows and providing real-world feedback that will help Cadence harden and scale AgentStack for broader industry deployment. This evolution will mark a significant shift from traditional script‑ and GUI‑driven flows to agent‑driven flows that are capable of reasoning over design hierarchies, relationships and protocols, dramatically compressing iteration cycles from days to hours.

Embedded Agentic AI for Physical AI

Beyond semiconductor design, Cadence and NVIDIA are extending their collaboration to embedded agentic AI for physical AI, combining the Cadence Physical AI Stack with NVIDIA robotics simulation libraries and accelerated computing to help close the critical “sim‑to‑real” gap for robots and autonomous machines. By integrating and accelerating Cadence’s high‑fidelity multiphysics simulation and AI workflows with NVIDIA Isaac open-source simulation libraries and Cosmos open-world models, customers gain an end‑to‑end, agent‑orchestrated workflow that links world‑model training, accurate physics, large‑scale scenario testing and continuous real‑world feedback.

At a high level, the joint stack coordinates AI agents across the full lifecycle—from training orchestration, physics surrogate training and policy optimization, to validation and deployment feedback. This workflow spans virtual training in NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, evaluation through detailed Cadence physics models and mission‑scale scenario simulation in VTD (Virtual Test Drive) and VTDx—its extended high‑fidelity simulation environment for complex, real‑world scenarios.

The results are then deployed on NVIDIA Jetson robotics and edge AI systems, where a live virtual twin enables continuous monitoring and refinement. By embedding accurate physics throughout training, validation and inference, the Cadence–NVIDIA flow is designed to greatly accelerate experimentation while improving safety and confidence when physical AI systems are deployed in the real world.

AI Factory Digital Twins to Achieve Lowest Cost per Token

The collaboration also extends to AI factories, where Cadence integrates the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint to enable next-generation AI factory digital twins that will help customers design, simulate and optimize large‑scale Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell AI factories for training and inference. These AI factory digital twins focus on a critical new metric for hyperscale AI: tokens per watt, or the number of model tokens processed per each unit of power consumed.

Using Cadence system analysis and data center simulation tools in combination with NVIDIA DSX libraries and the Omniverse DSX blueprint, customers can explore tradeoffs in GPU power settings, system configurations and cooling architectures before deploying physical systems. In a joint 10-megawatt (MW) AI factory use case, modeling GPU operation at a reduced power (MaxQ) demonstrated up to 17% more tokens per watt and billions of dollars of incremental annual revenue per gigawatt for large‑scale deployments, increasing net annual revenue and underscoring the value of simulation‑driven design for AI factories.

Digital twins of NVIDIA DSX-based AI factories have also demonstrated that combining MaxQ operation with warmer coolant could yield roughly 32% more tokens per watt. By capturing the interactions between IT load, cooling systems, airflow and control logic in a high‑fidelity digital twin, operators can safely push their AI factories toward maximum tokens per watt while respecting power and thermal constraints.

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Xiaomi Unveils REDMI Pad 2 9.7 Series tablets

Xiaomi today introduced its latest tablet portfolio, REDMI Pad 2 9.7 Series, including REDMI Pad 2 9.7 and an accompanying 4G variant, REDMI Pad 2 9.7 4G, to its international markets. This all-new compact version of REDMI Pad 2 Series brings a more portable option to users around the world, together with all-round upgrades compared to the previous generation. These include a larger display, higher capacity battery, enhanced performance, and a slimmer design, making REDMI Pad 2 9.7 Series ideal for immersive entertainment on the go.A tablet is facing up, displaying a colorful screen with a white background.High resolution, vibrant visuals, and silky smoothness

Determining the level of entertainment that users can enjoy on their tablet is first and foremost the screen, and with this, REDMI Pad 2 9.7 Series delivers with perfection, offering the ideal blend of crystal-clear resolution, immersive visuals, and true-to-life colors on a large 9.7-inch display.¹ Images are sharp and clear, thanks to a high 2K resolution. Meanwhile, a wide color gamut ensures colors remain true-to-life to reproduce scenes in their original detail and vibrancy.

Also key to an ideal display is assurance, even with long periods of viewing. REDMI Pad 2 9.7 Series comes with triple TÜV Rheinland certifications for eye-care, and up to 600 nits brightness under bright sunlight in Outdoor mode, for reliable viewing whether indoors or out. Meanwhile, scrolling through content feels buttery smooth with the support of an up to 120Hz refresh rate.²

A presentation of a tablet computer, with dynamic colorful wave effects on the screen and a simple white background.High-capacity battery and strong performance for lengthy sessions

Particularly for longer entertainment sessions, endurance is essential. REDMI Pad 2 9.7 Series is equipped with a massive 7600mAh (typ) battery, capable of offering up to 1.7 days of use.³

Alongside the large battery to power entertainment sessions is a powerful Snapdragon® 6s 4G Gen 2 Mobile Platform. Boasting an impressive 34% enhancement in performance and a high AnTuTu score of over 400,000,⁴ this 6nm octa-core processor can achieve a clock speed of up to 2.9GHz, together with improved heat dissipation compared to the previous generation, bringing assurance during long periods of use.⁴

A blue glowing electronic component is located at the top of the device, with a white background showing the internal structure of the device.Refreshed interface design and seamless interconnectivity

Not only does REDMI Pad 2 9.7 Series feature impressive hardware, but it is also equipped with Xiaomi's latest operating system, Xiaomi HyperOS 3, in-box.⁵ With this comes a more intuitive user interface, including a refreshed lockscreen and wallpapers to unlock more customization options. Xiaomi smartphone owners can also enjoy the benefits of Xiaomi Interconnectivity, including a shared clipboard for quicker and easier copying and pasting between their phone and tablet.⁶ Meanwhile, Circle to Search by Google is offered, making image search simpler.⁷

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Cadence and Google Collaborate to Scale AI-Driven Chip Design with ChipStack AI Super Agent on Google Cloud

Cadence, an industry leader in AI-driven computational software for semiconductor and system design, today announced a strategic collaboration with Google to optimize the Cadence® ChipStack™ AI Super Agent with Gemini on Google Cloud. This collaboration positions Cadence at the forefront of the shift toward agentic design automation, creating an agent-driven, scalable, cloud-native platform for next-generation chip design and verification.

The Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent integrates advanced agentic reasoning with Cadence’s EDA solutions, delivering up to 10X productivity improvements across digital design and testbench development, verification planning, regression management and automated debug. By combining AI agents with native EDA execution, the platform enables design teams to compress development cycles, improve efficiency and accelerate time to tapeout.

“Our collaboration with Google Cloud represents a major step forward in scaling AI-driven design automation,” said Paul Cunningham, senior vice president and general manager at Cadence. “By integrating the Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent with Gemini, we’re advancing the next generation of agentic design—combining the reasoning power of large language models with Cadence’s world-class EDA engines to deliver breakthrough productivity and quality of results for our customers.”

At the core of the ChipStack AI Super Agent is its innovative Mental Model technology, which enables sophisticated agentic reasoning through Cadence native skills, driving Cadence EDA tools to improve the quality and correctness of large language model (LLM)-generated content. Through its collaboration with Google Cloud, Cadence is tightening the integration between the Gemini-enabled ChipStack AI Super Agent and Cadence EDA engines, driving significant improvements in both productivity and quality of results.

This collaboration also leverages Google Cloud’s secure, elastic compute infrastructure to deliver the compute needed for Gemini’s LLM reasoning, Cadence EDA tools and the ChipStack AI Super Agent. This enables a “click-to-deploy” end-to-end solution for agent-powered chip design and verification.

The ChipStack AI Super Agent is available now on the Google Cloud Marketplace. 

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