Alphacool International GmbH from Braunschweig is a pioneer in PC water cooling technology. With one of the most comprehensive product portfolios in the industry and more than 20 years of experience, Alphacool is expanding its lineup with the new Eisblock Arc Pro B60 Creator GPU cooler. The Alphacool Eisblock Arc Pro B60 Creator combines strong cooling performance with an elegant design and was developed specifically for ASRock Intel Arc Pro B60 24 GB graphics cards. The GPU water block is precisely matched to the card's PCB

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster has confirmed that EPYC "Venice," the company's first Zen 6 server CPU, will be officially introduced at AMD's Advancing AI event on July 22nd and 23rd. In a recent interview, Papermaster described the upcoming CPUs as optimized for traditional x86 enterprise workloads, noting that enterprise customers aren't moving away from x86. EPYC "Venice" is built on TSMC's 2 nm process, making it the first high-performance computing processor

Minisforum showed off a range of new hardware at Computex 2026earlier this year, and one of the new products it announced there was the MS-03 workstation mini PC, a new small form factor workstation PC designed for productivity, NAS, and local AI workloads. The MS-03 is based on the Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra 9 386H, a 25 W (80 W max Turbo) mobile CPU with four P-Cores, eight E-Cores, and

Back in March, I wrote a detailed editorialon how hardware-accelerated audio is possible in Windows 11, and it's possible for sound card manufacturers to put native audio stack processing on the card to overcome issues with DPC latency spikes. Today, I'll talk a bit about USB-based onboard audio codecs, and how the Intel platform is better suited to handle them than the AMD platform, particularly given how motherboard designers handle the latter. The Intel "Azalia" high-definition audio (HDA

AMD has quietly expanded its processor lineup with 11 new "Hawk Point" APUs by adding seven SKUs to the Ryzen 200 series and four to the Ryzen 100 series. In the Ryzen 200 series, the seven new models feature six- and eight-core configurations: Ryzen 3 205, Ryzen 5 216, Ryzen 7 217, Ryzen 5 224, Ryzen 5 225, Ryzen 7 249, and Ryzen 7 253

Forging a new era of PC craftsmanship, MSI unveils its ultimate flagship ecosystem: the MEG MAESTRO 900R full tower case and the MEG CORELIQUID E15 360 AIO liquid cooler. United by premium aluminium craftsmanship, signature diamond-cut detailing, and sophisticated finishing techniques, both products elevate high-performance hardware into a form of industrial art.

Honored with the 2026 Red Dot Design Award, this flagship ecosystem is designed for elite enthusiasts, creators, and premium PC builders who view their

Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today announced it is accelerating its planned U.S. fab and technology investments and increasing its expected spend to more than $250 billion through 2035, driven by surging demand for memory in the AI era. Micron anticipates that the increase in investments will support its long-term goal of producing 40% of its DRAM in the U.S. while creating additional good-paying direct and indirect jobs. The expanded investment reflects Micron'

The XMG APEX 17 is the first laptop in XMG's lineup to feature the 2026 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 with 12 GB of VRAM, up from the previous 8 GB. This new configuration, first announced at Computex 2026, complements the existing APEX 17 with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX and RTX 5060, which remains available as the entry-level option. All other specifications - including the chassis, 17.3-

Global shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations in 2Q26 declined 3.6% year-over-year to 65.7 million units according to the latest research from Omdia. Shipments of desktops (including desktop workstations) hit 13.9 million, falling 1.3% annually, while notebook (including mobile workstations) shipments landed at 51.7 million units, representing a 4.2% decline.

"The sharp increase in memory and storage prices during the first quarter of