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Keychron launches Q16 HE 8K with ceramic-TMR magnetic switches

Keychron's Q-series just picked up a Kickstarter campaign, a ceramic-housed TMR magnetic switch, and an 8000Hz polling claim in one launch. It's the brand's first bet on tunnel-magnetoresistance sensing rather than the Hall-effect tech it already made the category default.

thockSep 7, 20266 min read

Trends

Cherry's tracker slide continues. Keychron's Kickstarter delivered.

Three weeks ago thock closed a piece with two open questions: would Cherry's brand line keep closing the gap toward positive territory, and would Keychron's V6 Ultra HE Kickstarter give the tracker something new to climb on. Both questions have answers now, and they point in opposite directions for a related reason.

thockAug 30, 20267 min read

Overhead illustration of a keyboard hot-swap socket footprint split down the middle, one half seated with a standard mechanical switch stem, the other half seated with a magnet-and-sensor TMR switch stem, both sharing the same four-pin socket outline.

Trends

Nova Socket: Keychron's bet on not choosing a switch technology

A single hot-swap socket that accepts a standard mechanical switch or a TMR magnetic switch, decided per key, is a strange thing for a mainstream prebuilt brand to ship. It's also exactly the move Keychron has been building toward all year.

thockJul 8, 20268 min read

Trends

Keychron's Quiet Takeover: How One Brand Became the Mechanical Keyboard Default

Ask almost anyone — a forum regular, a YouTube comment section, a Discord server for people who just bought their first mechanical keyboard — what board to get, and you'll hear the same answer. This is how that happened.

thockJun 15, 202610 min read

News

Keychron's Q Ultra ZMK series brings 660h battery to the prebuilt-premium tier

Keychron used CES 2026 to announce the Q Ultra line — five prebuilts (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q5, Q6) running ZMK rather than QMK/VIA. The 660h battery claim is the headline; the firmware swap is the actual story.

thockMay 10, 20264 min read

A coral sparkline climbing steadily across five data points toward a flat warm-grey ceiling line near the top of the frame, the gap between the two narrowing from left to right, plotted beside a muted cross-section motif of a magnet over a sensor pad, with a small warm-bronze theme dot in the upper-right margin.

Trends

TMR is closing the gap on Hall-effect. It hasn't caught it.

TMR switches have climbed every week on thock's trend tracker from W38 through W42 — 55, 63, 71, 85, 90. That's the second-highest score on this week's board, and the gap behind Hall-effect's ceiling has gone from 42 points to 10 in five readings.

thockSep 30, 20266 min read

Stylized firmware-stack silhouette rendered as three layered horizontal slabs in 2px warm-grey stroke on a 1200x750 transparent canvas, with a coral wireless-signal arc radiating from the top slab and a warm-bronze board-edge highlight running along the lower edge of the bottom slab — accent dot at the apex of the coral arc.

Trends

ZMK is becoming the wireless default for premium prebuilts

A five-board flagship lineup running ZMK isn't a niche move; it's a market signal that an open-source firmware that lived in DIY-wireless territory for half a decade has crossed into mainstream-prebuilt anchor status. The vendor side has finally caught up with where the cohort already was.

thockApr 15, 20269 min read

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