The German keyboard maker Cherry l has its origins way back in the early years of the personal computer market when we were all toiling away on our IBM PC clones. Cherry was the company that made high ...

Cherry introduces new switches for 2025, including the Cherry IK, MX Honey, MX Blossom, and MX Falcon. The Cherry IK switches utilize electromagnetic field detection for contactless actuation with ...

Cherry’s new pre-lubed switches are great…if only the keyboard they were in was as good. You’d be better off buying them on their own and installing them in a ...

For 20 years, Cherry’s patent on mechanical switches made it the only player around. That patent’s expiration around 2014, though, released the floodgates and allowed countless copycats and switches ...

Germany-based Cherry effectively consumed the entire market for mechanical keyboard switches in the 80s and 90s, but its patents expired almost a decade ago. Faced with competition from numerous ...

The new Cherry MX Ergo Clear switch dates back to a modification from 2011, combining a big bump with a light spring. The new Cherry MX Ergo Clear switch dates back to a modification from 2011, ...

For the happily obsessed mechanical keyboard enthusiast, there's no detail too minor on the journey to the perfect switch. Perfect key feel is worth poring over switch specs or even splicing parts ...

Why it matters: As the keyboard space continues to evolve, Cherry's latest innovations show how far switch technology has come. By combining advances in sensing, efficiency, and feel, Cherry is ...

Recap: Cherry has unveiled a new version of a keyboard switch that was produced for a limited time in the 80s and has since developed a cult following. In the 1980s, a German company named Nixdorf ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Mechanical keyboards are a necessary investment if you take PC gaming seriously. They are more reliable than their cheaper membrane cousins, ...