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Split illustration: on the left, a muted line-drawing of a standard MX-style switch cross-section labelled cooling; on the right, a coral-accented cross-section of a magnetic switch with a stem-mounted magnet over a sensor pad, labelled XTRFY, TMR pivot.

Cherry bets on magnetic: the XTRFY pivot

Cherry's mainline MX switches have spent the better part of a year losing ground on the tracker. On July 3, 2026, Cherry's gaming sub-brand XTRFY answered not with another MX revision but with a magnetic-sensing switch — and gave the parent brand its first positive tracker signal in months.

thockJul 12, 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.

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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

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