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Gateron Magnetic Jade

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Spec sheet

Type: Linear
Top housing: PC
Bottom housing: Nylon
Stem: POM
Spring: 30g actuation · 50g bottom-out
Travel: 3.5 mm
Factory lubed: yes
Released: Sep 1, 2022

Hall-effect magnetic linear using a rare-earth magnet in the stem rather than a physical leaf spring for actuation sensing. The linear travel is smooth and the actuation point can be adjusted digitally in supporting keyboards; the jade coloring mirrors the Box Jade but the mechanism is entirely distinct. Suited to rapid-fire gaming and endurance typing where metal-contact fatigue matters.

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A row of five switch stems rising out of coiled springs of increasing thickness, each paired with a small force-gauge dial marking its actuation weight, rendered in a warm coral line-drawing style.

Guides

What a switch's gram number actually tells you before you buy

Every switch spec sheet carries two gram numbers — actuation and bottom-out — and treating them as one number is the most common mistake in a first switch purchase. Here's what each one measures, what ranges actually suit typing versus gaming, and why the same number can feel completely different depending on switch type.

thockOct 1, 20268 min read

Deep Dives

What a TMR sensor is actually measuring under a magnetic switch

Keychron's Q16 HE 8K and Cherry's XTRFY TMR boards get covered as a new switch generation. The real change sits a few millimeters below the magnet — a tunnel junction reading field strength through resistance instead of voltage, with a noise floor low enough to matter at the shallow end of the stroke.

thockSep 27, 202611 min read

A coral sparkline climbing steadily from 40 to 80 across eight data points, plotted against a warm-grey keyboard silhouette with a split spacebar and a tuning knob outlined at its base, and a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Trends

Hardware caught up to Wooting. Firmware hasn't.

Wooting's 80HE+ preorder is the top mover on thock's 2026-W39 trends tracker, climbing from a score of 40 to 80 over eight weeks. The switch hardware behind it isn't the reason — Hall-effect sensing is table stakes across the category by September 2026. The firmware behind it still isn't matched.

thockSep 19, 20266 min read

A single warm-grey stroke diagram of a key's downward travel plotted as a distance-over-time curve, with a coral line tracking the deepest point reached on each stroke and a stepped bracket marking a reset distance trailing behind that peak, a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Deep Dives

Rapid trigger is a firmware algorithm, not a switch spec

A rapid-trigger switch is not a special switch. It is an ordinary analog sensor wired to a polling loop that redraws its own actuation point every cycle — and that loop, not the sensor, is where the real engineering happens.

thockSep 2, 20269 min read

Cross-section of a Gateron Magnetic Jade switch drawn in a single warm-grey stroke — polycarbonate top housing over a closed nylon bottom, a POM stem with a small rare-earth magnet seated in its base, descending toward a Hall sensor pad on the PCB below. A coral callout line picks out the magnet and the sensor, with faint coral field lines tightening between them, and a small warm-bronze theme dot sits in the upper-right margin.

Deep Dives

Gateron Magnetic Jade: the Hall-effect linear built to be argued about like a mechanical one

Pull a Magnetic Jade apart and the parts list reads like a mid-tier mechanical linear: polycarbonate top, nylon bottom, POM stem, factory lube. Where the leaf would be, there is a magnet. That one substitution explains the feel, the sound, and why it will not fit half the Hall-effect boards on the market.

thockAug 21, 202611 min read

A coral sparkline climbing steadily across six data points before leveling into a flat plateau across the final two, plotted against a warm-grey keyboard silhouette, with a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Trends

Hall-effect stopped climbing. That's not the same as cooling off.

The Hall Effect/Rapid Trigger category has held flat at 97 on thock's trends tracker for two straight weeks, after climbing from 82 in late June. A flat line at the top of the chart looks like fading interest if you're reading it as a stock ticker. Read as a market snapshot, it says something closer to the opposite.

thockAug 12, 20266 min read

Annotated cross-section of a Hall-effect key position — a stem with a small embedded magnet descending toward a Hall sensor on the PCB, with four labeled callout lines (magnet, Hall sensor, analog voltage, firmware threshold) and an ochre accent on the sensor pad, drawn in a single warm-grey stroke on a warm-paper field.

Guides

Hall-effect keyboards: a practical buyer's guide

Rapid trigger, per-key actuation depth, analog axis output — Hall-effect keyboards deliver all three, but only if the firmware matches the hardware. Here is what to look for, what to pay, and who should skip the category entirely.

thockMay 30, 202610 min read

A hall-effect keyboard silhouette with a glowing sensor illustration against a warm show-floor background

News

Computex 2026: hall-effect keyboards enter the enthusiast conversation

Computex 2026 (May 20–24) was the week hall-effect stopped being a gaming-peripheral curiosity and walked into the same room as enthusiast-grade chassis. Two boards made that argument concrete.

thockMay 25, 20268 min read

Gateron Magnetic Jade appears in editor-curated build sheets.

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