Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Cherry announced a new member to the MX family

Cherry has just announced a new MX switch, dubbed, the MX Silent.  Here's the announcement video via YouTube.  Given the timing with Gamescom, taking place in Cologne, Germany, one should not be surprised that this is likely a gamer-centric switch.  Indeed, it is their new RGB linear switch like the MX red that is silenced by some technology that Cherry wasn't ready to share in the video.

Not too much known at this time, but Corsair, one of the partners closest to Cherry is supposed to have a keyboard ready for the market soon called STRIFE RGB, retailing for around $150 USD.  STRIFE RGB has the traditional 104 keyboard format.   From the look of it, Corsair is the exclusive customer for the new switch.  I am guessing that this is a timed exclusive agreement, like the MX RGB switches before.  Now that Cherry MX RGB switches are no longer Corsair's alone, Corsair will need something new and this is probably what Cherry came up with to share with Corsair.  On the product website, Crosair specifically named Black Widow Chroma and G910 Orion Spark as competitions.  This should be interesting to watch because I am pretty sure Razer and Logitech, I mean, Logi are not just standing around and let Corsair have all the fun....

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