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Qualcomm's Computex event is all about AI. Is that a mistake?

As Qualcomm gears up for its big Computex keynote, it may be putting its focus in the wrong place, overlooking the star feature that makes Snapdragon-powered laptops great.

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AMD's RX 9000M-series mobile GPUs are rumoured to top out with an RX 9080M featuring 64 CUs and 16 GB of VRAM

The desktop cards certainly caused a splash, so what do we make of the mobile variants?

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AMD RX 9060 XT GPUs reportedly target a May 18 launch — RX 9070 GRE tipped for a Q4 release

Sources suggest AMD's RX 9060 XT GPUs will allegedly launch on May 18, while the RX 9070 GRE has reportedly been pushed back to October or November.

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Noctua's pumpless 'thermosiphon' liquid cooling unit is expected to be released in 2026 and has already given me a free lesson in basic thermodynamics

Turns out you don't need a pump after all.

PC Gamer

Shhhhh, Noctua confirms its first ever decibel-dampening power supply will launch this year

The Noctua Edition PSU should be whisper quiet.

PC Gamer

Intel's Lunar Lake is here to change how we think about AI PCs because "an NPU isn't enough for the AI Market"

Intel has launched the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" series of processors today, September 3, 2024, in Berlin, Germany just ahead of the IFA Berlin trade show.

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Silicon Motion SM2508 PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe SSD Controller Set for Mass Production

Silicon Motion has been teasing their SM2508 client SSD controller for more than a year now at various trade shows. The controller is finally set for mass production, just in time as the mainstream segment of the Gen 5 SSD market is poised to take off. Silicon Motion expects SSDs…

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Intel to Launch "Lunar Lake" Core Ultra Chips on September 3rd

Intel’s next-generation Core Ultra laptop chips finally have a launch date: September 3rd. Codenamed Lunar Lake, Intel has been touting the chips for nearly a year now. Most recently, Intel offered the press a deep dive briefing on the chips and their underlying architectures at Computex back in June, along…

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Micron Expands Datacenter DRAM Portfolio with MR-DIMMs

The compute market has always been hungry for memory bandwidth, particularly for high-performance applications in servers and datacenters. In recent years, the explosion in core counts per socket has further accentuated this need. Despite progress in DDR speeds, the available bandwidth per core has unfortunately not seen a corresponding scaling.…

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SK hynix Wraps up Dev Work on High-End PCB01 PCIe 5.0 SSD for OEMs, Launching Later This Year

SK hynix early in Friday announced that the company has finished the development of it's PCB01 PCIe Gen5 SSD, the company's forthcoming high-end SSD for OEMs. Based on the company's new Alistar platform, the PCB01 is designed to deliver chart-topping performance for client machines. And, as a sign of the…

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I brought a mini PC with me on my last trip and I'd do it again in a heartbeat

Traveling for work can be disorienting as you have to leave your monitor and desktop at home, but you can get a similar experience with a mini PC and a portable monitor.

Tom’s Guide

CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust

While the new CAMM and LPCAMM memory modules for laptops have garnered a great deal of attention in recent months, it's not just the mobile side of the PC memory industry that is looking at changes. The desktop memory market is also coming due for some upgrades to further improve…

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I made my own all-in-one computer with a mini PC last year but I wish I had waited for one of MSI’s new monitors

MSI has added a built-in mini PC mounting bracket to several of its new monitors to make building your own all-in-one computer even easier.

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Forget all the AI fluff—some serious next-gen CPUs are on their way, praise the sun

Yeah yeah, NPUs etc. I wanted proper next-generation CPU announcements at Computex, and I got some.

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Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles' Heel of Qualcomm's new PC chips when it comes to gaming

In a result that should shock no one, gaming performance comes off worst in the world of x86 emulation.

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DeepCool Adds Vapor Chamber to an Air Cooler: AIO-Like Performance at Air Cooler Reliability

While the market for high-end CPU coolers has decidedly shifted towards closed-loop all-in-one liquid coolers over the last several years, air cooling remains alive and well. Even at the high-end, there are still further improvements and innovations being made, such as DeepCool's vapor chamber-based tower cooler, which was demonstrated at…

Tom’s Guide

Apple’s cheapest accessory helped me get through a 13-hour flight — this is a life saver

Wireless headphones are great if you remember to charge them before a long trip but wired headphones will never let you down, granted you have the right adapter to use them.

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Silicon Motion Demos Low-Power PCie 5.0 SSD Controller: SM2508

Rounding out our Computex 2024 SSD controller news, let's talk about the final major controller vendor at the show: Silicon Motion. Silicon Motion has been somewhat late to the PCIe Gen5 SSD party, as its rival Phison has been offering their high-end PS5026-E26 controller for almost 18 months now. But…

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GPU-boosting GDDR7 memory coming this year — SK hynix retracts comments, launching in Q4

SK hynix retracts comments made by booth rep, claims its GDDR7 memory is on track for mass production in Q4 this year.

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Antec's 'Performance 1M' Mini-ITX Chassis Can House a GeForce RTX 4090

With the highly integrated nature of PCs these days, the Mini-ITX form-factor has become a very viable option for high-performance gaming system. With plenty of motherboards available for both AMD and Intel's latest platforms, equipping an ITX system with a CPU is easy enough. But the small size of the…

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Realtek Outlines SSD Controller Roadmap: High-End PCIe 5.0 x4 Platform in the Works

While Realtek is best known in the enthusiast space for for its peripheral controllers such as audio codecs and network controllers, the company also has a small-but-respectable SSD controller business that tends to fly under the radar due to its focus on entry-level and mainstream drives. But Realtek's stature in…

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16TB Portable SSD devices in the pipeline as key component vendor debuts world's first native USB4 controller — with 4GB/s read/write performance, it may even outperform your system SSD

Phison debuted its first native USB4 controller at Computex, with 4GB/s read/write SSD performance.

Tom’s Hardware

The coolest case mods of Computex 2024

From battle robots to beer and coffee servers, these chassis wowed us.

AnandTech

Qualcomm: Some Snapdragon X Elite Laptops Will Come with 5G Modems

One of Qualcomm's indisputable strengths are its 5G modems – something which even Apple has yet to successfully ween itself from. And while Qualcomm is not integrating a modem into its first-generation Oryon-based Snapdragon X chips, the company is still looking to leverage that technology advantage via discrete modems that…

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The MSI Prestige A16 AI+ is a next-gen update to one of our favorite AI PCs

MSI may be best known as a gaming company, but we’re seeing some impressive laptops come through on their business and creator sides as well.

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