GIGABYTE Pushes Into The AI Assistant Race With GiMATE, Powering Three New AORUS And AERO Laptops Built Around RTX 50 Series GPUs

The company has launched two high-end products in its laptop category, coupled with its latest AI Assistant for more control.

Popular hardware and laptop maker GIGABYTE has debuted its latest lineup of gaming laptops under different families at the Computex 2026 event. With the introduction of these laptops, GIGABYTE has also introduced its proprietary AI Assistant called GiMATE . It's similar to how other vendors are rolling out their own AI Assistants for their devices to give users more control over their systems for effortless interactions.

Through GiMATE

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iPhone 18 Pro To Feature A Small Battery Capacity Bump Compared To iPhone 17 Pro, But It’s Not The Only Reason Why You’ll Get Better Runtimes

Apple is slowly bumping up the battery capacities of its top-end smartphones, and earlier this year, there was a rumor doing the rounds that the iPhone 18 Pro Max would offer the largest capacity upgrade in this particular space. Thankfully, the smaller iPhone 18 Pro isn’t being left out because Apple is said to bring a battery bump to this model, but it might not be much. Luckily for you, there will be other changes inbound to increase the flagship’s endurance.

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iPhone 18 Pro to receive a minor battery capacity bump over iPhone 17 Pro

GIGABYTE Launches ‘AI TOP’ Desktop Ecosystem, Featuring Radeon AI PRO R9700 Workstation For Up To 405B LLMs

At its 'ENTER INFINITY' press event, GIGABYTE unveiled its AI TOP ecosystem of desktop workstations, with three new prebuilts targeting various segments of the market.

Presumably using the B850 AI Top Motherboard, this workstation pairs a Ryzen 9 9950X with 128GB of DDR5 memory, and your choice of either an RTX 5090 32G, or a Radeon AI PRO R9700 32G. All of this compute is fed by the UD

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Crimson Desert’s Story, Its Weakest Link, to Get a Fix as Pearl Abyss Lines Up DLC and New Combat Content

Today, South Korean developer Pearl Abyss outlined the future roadmap for its highly successful open world action/adventure game Crimson Desert .

First and foremost, the studio confirmed that it is working on a DLC , which players can expect to be a "meaningful addition" to the player's journey in the world of Pywel . They didn't specify, but the implication is that this will be premium DLC rather than free. There's no timeline yet, and it will likely take a while, but in the

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Intel’s EMIB-T Packaging Pulls Two More Taiwanese Suppliers Into Google’s TPU Orbit as TSMC’s CoWoS Strains

With aggressive AI demand burdening TSMC's packaging resources, supply chain reports from Taiwan continue to suggest that Intel's EMIB-T packaging technology is gaining traction with Google. Intel has marketed EMIB, short for Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge, as an alternative to TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Surface (CoWoS) technology to assemble AI GPUs with components such as memory. Google is expected to be a major EMIB customer, and today's report suggests that additional firms might also be

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MSI Adopts Diamond-Laced Cooling, Safe 16-Pin & Resettable Fuses to Tame NVIDIA’s Next-Gen RTX GPUs

MSI has unveiled its next-generation cooling solution and power design that will be used on future NVIDIA RTX GPUs.

Although this year isn't bringing any major GPU launch for gamers, MSI decided to showcase some of its own innovations that it might incorporate into future GPUs, mainly NVIDIA's RTX series.

MSI is showcasing three key design features that cover the cooling, the power delivery, and the PCB. Let's start with the cooling solutions.

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NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Is a Direct Shot at the PC Market, Backed by a Multi-Gen Roadmap That Past ‘Windows on Arm’ Bids Never Had

NVIDIA has announced RTX Spark, its brand-new PC platform, designed in collaboration with Microsoft, as it starts a new chapter of its client brand.

Today at GTC Taipei 2026, a conference hosted by NVIDIA and presented by CEO Jensen Huang, the company unveiled its brand new chip for the PC segment, which they are calling RTX Spark. According to NVIDIA, the RTX Spark reinvents the PC. This project was initiated three years ago with Microsoft , Arm , MediaTek , and other ecosystem partners.

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More Monster Energy and Omega Watches in Games Could Help Open a New Support Stream for Studios, Argues BioWare Vet

BioWare veteran Mark Darrah , who we recently saw put out a defence of Anthem , has also potentially found a solution for the issue of video game budgets reaching unsustainable levels that isn't just 'hope you have a hit live service game to keep paying everyone.' It's a solution taken from the film industry, which basically points to something game creators like Hideo Kojima were already doing, and argues that more creators should take note.

Spotted by Eurogamer , Darrah believes that game publishers and developers can help get

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Quantic Dream’s Star Wars: Eclipse Drags Toward 2028 as Backup MOBA Collapses and NetEase Looks for the Exit

The road to launch for Star Wars: Eclipse is still very much uphill, according to new rumors. Speaking on the Insider Gaming Weekly podcast ( Ep. 64 ), Mike Straw mentioned that the game is still in development hell, and French developer Quantic Dream may soon be sold by NetEase .

Mike Straw: I can tell you one game not to expect. Star Wars Eclipse. I wouldn't expect to see that at all. It is in development hell. Yeah, it ain't going well

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EA Sports F1 25 Adds Enhanced PSSR Support, PS5 Pro Owners Get the Best F1 25 Experience You Can Get on Console Hardware, Says EA

EA Sports F1 25 is adding PSSR support alongside the release of its 2026 Season Pack , which is taking the place of a proper F1 26 release this year after developer Codemasters revealed it would take a year off from a full release to come back with a 2027 game that " looks, feels, and plays differently, delivering more gameplay choices. "

Announced in a new PlayStation Blog post , EA Sports associate brand marketing manager Mark Roberts answered some questions on what went into

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