Sapphire launches Edge AI Mini PC series, featuring Ryzen AI 340/350 and HX 370 variants

Edge AI from Sapphire powered by Zen5 and RDNA3.5

Still, the main feature is XDNA2 NPU with 50 TOPS.

Looks like we finally have a new contender in the Mini-PC market. Sapphire has officially launched its EDGE AI series, first shown earlier this year at several trade events. The systems match what was already expected in terms of design and specifications, featuring Ryzen AI 300 processors based on Strix Point or Krackan Point.

The company has released full details but forgot to include

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WireView Pro II launches at $140 with color display and cooling fan for 12V-2×6 GPUs

Thermal Grizzly launches preorders for WireView Pro II, costs $140

Making profit from NVIDIA connector issues or actually giving gamers a chance to prevent them?

Thermal Grizzly has announced and opened preorders for the WireView Pro II, a connector adapter designed to detect and monitor power issues on 16-pin GPU cables. However, it won’t support Founders Edition cards due to their angled connectors. The device fits only custom models and is available in a 90-degree version, with a 180-

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AMD confirms focus shifts to RDNA3 and RDNA4, RX 6000 and RX 5000 lose day 1 game optimizations

Goodbye Radeon RX 6000/5000?

AMD launched the Radeon RX 5000 series in 2019 and continued releasing new models the following year. The RX 6000 series, which arrived during the peak of GPU shortages caused by the pandemic and cryptocurrency boom, received updates until 2023, when the last GRE models were released. It now appears both architectures are entering maintenance mode.

Following an earlier story and the latest driver update, AMD has confirmed

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Intel

Alleged Intel Core Ultra X7 358H and Ultra 5 338H Cinbench R23 score leaks online

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Core Ultra X7 358H and Ultra 5 338H score 20K and 16K points, respectively, in Cinebench R23

A site called Laptopreview Club has already leaked 3DMark Time Spy performance figures for Intel’s next-gen Core Ultra 300 series, but it appears they have more data to share, this time involving a CPU benchmark.

Although rumors about the Core 300 series naming have been

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GTBOX launches Ryzen Mini PC that looks like a speaker (and actually has one built in)

GTBOX T1 Mini PC launches with built-in stereo speakers

What will be louder, fan or the speaker?

GTBOX has launched a new Mini PC called the T1, powered by AMD’s Ryzen 7 8745HS processor with 8 Zen 4 cores and Radeon 780M graphics. The specs are fine, but the real highlight is something you don’t usually see in this category: built-in stereo speakers.

According to GTBOX, these speakers are designed for voice calls, chatting

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GeForce RTX 5090 prices rise again as custom models exceed €2,600

Gold hits all-time high and RTX 5090 prices follow

It’s that time of year when we look at the latest price cuts for top-tier graphics cards. Most RTX 50 models and even AMD’s Radeon RX 9000 series have seen price drops, except for the RX 9070 XT. Yet one card continues to resist any reduction, the RTX 5090.

NVIDIA priced its flagship Blackwell card at $1,999, a figure

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AMD disables USB-C power on Radeon RX 7900, moves RDNA2/RDNA1 GPUs to sub-branch in latest driver

AMD Radeon RX 7900 reference cards lose USB-C power delivery

Yesterday, AMD released a new graphics driver for its Radeon GPUs. Although AMD releases drivers less frequently now, this update did not go smoothly. Someone at AMD apparently uploaded the wrong version of the driver, causing confusion until the correct version appeared about an hour later.

The issue affected Radeon RX 6000 and RX 5000 series support. Back in 2023, AMD moved older architectures such as Vega and

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Nintendo “monster capture” patent rejected in Japan

Nintendo’s anti-Palworld patent rejected in Japan, prior games like ARK and Monster Hunter already had such mechanism

I think we all agree that some patents should never be granted. Nintendo, known for its extremely strict corporate culture that goes after anyone and anything involving its money-making franchises like Pokémon and Mario, has been known to take down YouTube videos and emulators.

If fans make their own Mario or Zelda games, Nintendo usually sends legal notices asking them to stop or remove the files. Even free

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Gigabyte’s flagship X870E AORUS XTREME X3D AI TOP motherboard ships with a knife, cup, and ugly memory cover

Gigabyte now has a proper flagship board for AMD AM5 CPUs

Comes with a bit unusual accessory set.

Benchlife has published what appears to be the world’s first unboxing of Gigabyte’s upcoming X870E AORUS XTREME X3D AI TOP motherboard, a flagship model that’s not yet listed on Gigabyte’s own website, but was revealed during a Computex press event.

The first thing that stands out is the packaging. The box is massive, even larger than the one used for the

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Intel

AMD confirms Zen6 Ryzen “Medusa” CPUs during OCP Global Summit

AMD Venice and Medusa appear on an official AMD slide

AMD engineers have officially confirmed the long-rumored codenames Medusa and Venice for upcoming Zen 6 processors during their session at the OCP Global Summit 2025. The confirmation appeared on an openSIL roadmap slide presented by Raj Kapoor, AMD Fellow and Chief Firmware Architect, and Srini Narayana, AMI Vice President of Boot Firmware.

The session, titled “Building Open Firmware for Open Platforms: openSIL & The Road to Full Silicon Transparency,” outlined AMD’s plan to

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