Samsung, Micron expand Vera Rubin ecosystem

Samsung and Micron used NVIDIA GTC 2026 to outline their latest memory and storage products for the Vera Rubin platform. Samsung said its sixth-generation HBM4 is now in mass production and designed for NVIDIA Vera Rubin, while Micron said its HBM4 36GB 12H has entered volume shipment in the first quarter of 2026 for the same platform. Both companies also used the event to position SOCAMM2 memory modules and PCIe Gen6 SSDs as part

Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition launched with NF-A14x25 G2 fans, up to 8 dB(A) lower noise

Antec and Noctua have announced the Flux Pro Noctua Edition, a modified version of the existing Flux Pro chassis with a focus on lower noise operation. This is the first PC case to carry Noctua branding, combining Antec’s enclosure design with Noctua’s latest fan hardware.

The case ships with Noctua NF-A14x25 G2 and NF-A

RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is a slimmer, passively cooled workstation card

NVIDIA has just announced the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition, a new single-slot accelerator designed for data center, edge, and cloud deployments. The card is aimed at AI inference, data processing, video workloads, and visual computing, all within a lower-power server form factor.

The new server model uses the same core count as the standard RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell workstation card. Both

Intel announces Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus for gaming laptops

Intel has announced its new Core Ultra 200HX Plus series for high-performance laptops. The new lineup adds two SKUs to the Core Ultra 200 family, the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus . These processors target gaming, streaming, content creation, and mobile workstation systems.

According to Intel, the Core Ultra 9

ASRock Industrial reveals AI BOX-A395 edge AI workstation in 200 x 100 x 232mm chassis

ASRock Industrial has announced the AI BOX-A395 , a compact workstation-class system based on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor. The company positions the system for local AI inference, model development, engineering, 3D design, and media workloads. It supports up to 128GB LPDDR5x-8000 unified memory

DLSS 5 will let developers tune lighting, color, and masking, says NVIDIA

NVIDIA says DLSS 5 is not meant to replace a game’s art direction. According to the company, the new neural rendering system is built to work from the game’s original scene data while giving developers direct control over how the effect is applied.

The company says DLSS 5 takes each frame’s color and motion vectors as input. NVIDIA says this keeps the model anchored to the source 3D content instead of generating output without

NVIDIA Announces Vera CPU With 88 cores, Rubin Platform follows

NVIDIA has announced the Vera CPU alongside its Vera Rubin platform at GTC 2026, combining new CPU, GPU, networking and storage hardware into a rack-scale design aimed at agentic AI, reinforcement learning and inference. The company describes Vera as its first CPU built specifically for these workloads, while Vera Rubin packages seven chips and multiple rack types into one modular platform for AI factories.

NVIDIA unveils DLSS 5 with neural rendering for photoreal lighting and materials

NVIDIA has announced DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, marking a shift in DLSS from a performance-focused feature set toward image generation aimed at visual fidelity. The company says the new version uses a real-time neural rendering model that adds photoreal lighting and material detail to game frames, with support planned for this fall.

According to NVIDIA, DLSS 5 takes color and motion vector data from each frame, then applies an AI model that enhances lighting

NorthridgeFix shows ASUS TUF RTX 5070 destroyed by liquid metal spill

NorthridgeFix has posted a new repair video showing an ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 5070 that arrived with liquid metal spread across a large part of the PCB. The card was sent in after ASUS reportedly refused warranty service, with the customer note shown in the video saying the board appeared physically tampered with, had a serial number mismatch, and showed PCB damage caused by liquid metal.

According to the technician, the problem was far beyond a simple