LG Display’s 1Hz to 120Hz laptop panel enters production, Dell XPS first

LG Display says it has started mass production of what it calls the first laptop LCD panel with a 1Hz to 120Hz variable refresh range . The company says the panel uses its Oxide 1Hz technology, which can drop to 1Hz during static workloads such as email, reading, or document work, then scale up to 120Hz for video playback and gaming.

LG Display, the world’

ASRock motherboards still killing X3D CPUs

ASRock released its latest AM5 BIOS update with AGESA ComboAM5 PI 1.3.0.0a and said it was meant to resolve boot failures on certain CPUs, including cases where systems stop booting after a period of use. Redditor posts now indicate that the update hasn’t completely resolved the problem, at least, it hasn’t stopped new cases from arising.

One Ryzen 7 9800X3D owner reported that an X870

Jensen Huang changes tone on DLSS 5

Jensen Huang has shifted to a softer tone on DLSS 5 criticism, saying he understands why some players reacted negatively to NVIDIA’s new neural rendering push. In Lex Fridman’s podcast episode, Huang said, “ I don’t love AI slop myself,” adding that he is empathetic to concerns that AI-generated visuals can start to look too similar.

This comment comes less than a week after Huang comments from GTC 2026 press Q&A. He

Imagination expands PowerVR PC plans with DirectX roadmap update

Imagination Technologies said on LinkedIn that it is working toward full DirectX support for its PowerVR GPU IP, a move aimed at opening the Windows market to more graphics card and SoC designers. The company said hardware-based DirectX support started with its D-Series generation, where DirectX 11 is now running on real silicon.

The company announced IMG DXD in November 2023 as the first D-Series GPU IP with hardware-based DirectX 11 Feature Level 1

Windows 11 account requirement faces internal push at Microsoft

Microsoft may be reconsidering one of Windows 11’s most criticized setup rules. There is an internal push to relax or remove the requirement for an internet connection and Microsoft Account sign-in during the out of box setup process.

There is no official change to announce yet. In last week’s post outlining upcoming Windows 11 quality improvements, Pavan Davuluri listed updates for taskbar placement, Copilot integration, Windows Update behavior, File Explorer, widgets, and the

Dell’s 2026 XPS 16 is more efficient, but loses discrete GeForce graphics

Notebookcheck says Dell’s 2026 XPS 16 is one of the most power-efficient 16-inch Windows laptops it has tested so far. In a two-minute desktop idle test at the lowest brightness with VRR enabled, the reviewed IPS configuration averaged 1.5 W. That is well below the 3 W to 5 W range Notebookcheck cites for systems such as the Asus ZenBook S16

Intel Wildcat Lake show up in CrossMark and Geekbench

The first public benchmark entries for Intel’s Wildcat Lake series have now appeared. We didn’t actually notice this initially, but thanks to one of our readers we now have some extra information to share. So there are two entries: the Bapco benchmark lists Core 3 310 in CrossMark test and Core 5 320 on the Geekbench site.

That single-core result places Core 5 320 in the same general range as chips such as the

AMD refreshes FSR Redstone SDK

AMD has released FSR SDK 2.2 on GPUOpen, marking the first major update to its FSR “Redstone” stack since the December 2025 launch. The new package updates AMD FSR Upscaling to version 4.1 and AMD FSR Ray Regeneration to version 1.1, while the wider SDK still includes FSR Frame Generation 4.0 and FSR Radiance Caching 0.9 as a technical preview.

The new ML-based features remain tied to RDNA 4 hardware. AMD lists Radeon

Intel refreshes Arrow Lake

Intel’s Core Ultra 200K Plus series is a late Arrow Lake desktop refresh aimed at the unlocked LGA1851 segment. The new chips keep the same platform support for Intel 800-series motherboards, while adding more E-cores than the original 245K and 265K parts, raising official DDR5 support to 7200 MT/s, and introducing Intel’s new Binary Optimization Tool. The launch lineup consists of the