1TB model rises by up to 51%.
KOMODO, the official distributor of Valve hardware in Asia, has updated Steam Deck OLED pricing in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The change is effective today, June 1, and applies to both OLED models sold through the official distributor for these markets.
The new prices are JPY 137,980 and JPY 167,980 in Japan, KRW 1
Noctua has announced a long-term partnership with Carbice, a U.S.-based company focused on vertically aligned carbon nanotube thermal interface materials. Under the deal, Noctua will become the exclusive retail distributor of Carbice pads for the DIY PC market.
The first product will be the Noctua NT-CP1 AM5/4, a thermal pad designed for AMD Ryzen processors. Noctua says the pad has been tuned and validated for both AM5 and
Translucent chassis, gold accents and Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme.
ASUS has announced the ROG Ally X20 at Computex, a special 20th anniversary edition of its gaming handheld series. The device keeps the AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU used by the ROG Xbox Ally X, but changes the screen and exterior design.
The biggest upgrade is the display. The
15-inch Surface uses NVIDIA’s Arm-based PC processor.
Microsoft has revealed the Surface Laptop Ultra, a new 15-inch laptop built with NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform. The device was shown in official images and later pictured by The Verge, giving the first look at Microsoft’s highest-end Surface Laptop so far.
The Surface Laptop Ultra is the first Surface Laptop to combine an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 1
NVIDIA has announced DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, a new version of its AI-based denoising and reconstruction model for ray-traced and path-traced games.
The update is coming this August and will be available for all GeForce RTX GPUs through the NVIDIA App. This means RTX 20, RTX 30, RTX 40 and RTX 50 series users should all have access to the new Ray Reconstruction model.
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NVIDIA confirms RTX Spark roadmap through Rubin and Rosa Feynman
NVIDIA has confirmed that RTX Spark and DGX Station for Windows are not one-off products. During its GTC Taipei keynote, the company showed a roadmap that places both product lines under a new long-term Windows AI PC and workstation strategy.
The first generation is based on Blackwell and launches in 2026. NVIDIA lists RTX Spark laptops and compact desktops next to DGX Station for Windows. RTX Spark uses Grace Blackwell
NVIDIA is turning RTX Spark into a Windows PC platform
NVIDIA has officially announced RTX Spark, a new Windows PC platform built around a Grace Blackwell superchip. The announcement confirms that NVIDIA is entering the consumer PC processor segment with a full system-on-chip design, not just a discrete GPU.
The chip was announced with Microsoft at GTC Taipei. NVIDIA says RTX Spark is designed for AI agents, content creation and gaming.
LG Display has announced a new Gaming OLED roadshow in Taipei, scheduled for June 4 to June 10. The company says it will show its latest monitor panels to around 20 global gaming monitor manufacturers during the event.
The main part of the roadmap is a new Gaming OLED panel that LG Display says reaches the level of the VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1000 standard. The panel is
Intel has shared more details on Crescent Island at Computex 2026. The GPU is based on the Xe3P architecture and is aimed at AI inference workloads rather than gaming.
Intel previously confirmed Crescent Island with 160GB of LPDDR5X memory. According to the latest report from Computex, this is the reference configuration. Board partners may be able to build cards with up to 480GB
First Intel 18A data center CPU launches June 1.
Intel has launched its Xeon 6+ processor series, also known as Clearwater Forest. This is Intel’s first data center CPU built with compute tiles on Intel 18A, and the new family focuses on high core density rather than P-core performance.
The top SKU is the Xeon 6990E+ , a 288