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Colorful Shows Mini PCs and New Laptops at Computex 2025
While Colorful is usually known for its GPUs, the Computex 2025 booth was populated with some interesting mini PC designs and laptops. First on the menu are Colorful’s new laptops. The new EVOL G16 Pro and P16 Pro laptops arrive powered by NVIDIA’s latest RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti mobile GPUs. Under the hood, they can be configured with up to a 14th Generation Intel Core i9-14900HX processor, which boasts 24 cores, 32 threads, and a maximum P-core turbo clock of 5.8 GHz, and thanks to Intel’s Application Performance Optimization technology, demanding applications and games run more smoothly and responsively. Both models sport a 2K QHD display (2560 × 1600) that refreshes at 300 Hz, while full 100% sRGB coverage ensures colors are reproduced with exceptional accuracy and vibrancy.
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Noctua at Computex 2025: Air Cooled Mouse, Low Noise AIO CLC, Co-branded Products
Noctua at the 2025 Computex brought several innovative new products to show us. We begin our tour with the various co-branded products. Noctua and ASUS have been co-branding graphics cards for a few years now, and their partnership continues with the ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition, which comes with a cooling solution that’s been designed and tuned for low noise by Noctua. They’ve done a fantastic job with their RTX 40-series Noctua Edition cards, and we’re confident their excellence will hold with the RTX 50-series, too.
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AMD’s New Threadripper CPUs Have Up to 96 Zen 5 Cores
Threadripper CPUs are not worth putting on a gaming PC most of the time, but if you have a particular use case that can really benefit from having a lot of cores and threads, this is probably the CPU to get. AMD has just refreshed its Threadripper range with the new Threadripper 9000 and Threadripper Pro 9000 series.
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AMD Updates ROCm to Support Ryzen AI Max and Radeon RX 9000 Series
AMD announced its Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) platform with hardware acceleration support for the Ryzen AI Max 300 “Strix Halo” client processors, and the Radeon RX 9000 series gaming GPUs. For the Ryzen AI Max 300 “Strix Halo,” this would unlock the compute power of the 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, with their 80 AI accelerators, and 2,560 stream processors, besides the AI-specific ISA of the up to 16 “Zen 5” CPU cores, including their full fat 512-bit FPU for executing AVX512 instructions. For the Radeon RX 9000 series, this would mean putting those up to 64 RDNA 4 compute units with up to 128 AI accelerators and up to 4,096 stream processors to use.
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AMD Announces Radeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics Card
AMD at Computex 2025 announced the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card. This card is being launched to cover a wide range of use-cases from professional visualization to AI acceleration at the edge. The card is a beefed up variant of the desktop Radeon RX 9070 XT, and maxes out the 4 nm “Navi 48” silicon, enabling all 64 compute units, for a total of 128 AI accelerators. It also gets 32 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory across the chip’s 256-bit wide memory interface for 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The card is rated for a total board power of 300 W. At its given specs, AMD claims up to 96 TFLOPs of FP16 throughput, and up to 1,531 AI TOPS (INT4 sparse).
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AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 “Shimada Peak” HEDT Processors
AMD at Computex 2025 announced the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series processors targeting high-end desktops (HEDT) and workstations. These processors are codenamed “Shimada Peak,” and are based on the “Zen 5” microarchitecture. “Shimada Peak” is a variation of the EPYC “Turin” MCM, designed for Socket TR5, with slightly modified I/O. The chip puts out up to 128 PCIe Gen 5 lanes but lacks CXL capability on these lanes, and the memory I/O is set to 8-channel DDR5 (16 sub-channels), down from 12-channel DDR5 on “Turin” (24 sub-channels).
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AMD Announces Radeon RX 9060 XT Graphics Card, Claims “Fastest Under $350”
AMD at Computex 2025 announced the new Radeon RX 9060 XT mid-range graphics card. The card is designed to offer maxed out gaming at 1080p, with ray tracing enabled, and lets you take advantage of new features such as FSR 4 and the upcoming FSR “Project Redstone” feature-set. The card comes in two variants, the RX 9060 XT 16 GB, priced at $350, and the RX 9060 XT 8 GB, priced at $300. Both models are based on the 4 nm “Navi 44” silicon, which they both max out in terms of on-die components. The GPU is based on the RDNA 4 graphics architecture, and comes with 32 CU (compute units), which works out to 2,048 stream processors, 64 AI accelerators, 32 RT accelerators, 128 TMUs, and possibly 64 ROPs. The chip features a 128-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface, the company didn’t reveal memory speeds. Both models come with a total board power value of 180 W. The company claims that the RX 9060 XT 16 GB offers up to 821 peak AI TOPS (INT4).
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AMD Announces FSR 4 Availability Date and Project Redstone
AMD in its Computex 2025 keynote address announced the availability date of FSR 4. The company will release the feature to users of Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards by June 5th, 2025. FSR 4 introduces a new AI Machine Learning-based super resolution algorithm that’s more accurate, and vastly improves image quality at every performance preset of FSR 4. AMD also announced FSR “Project Redstone.” This is a future version extension of FSR, and “Project Redstone” is its working title. “Redstone” combines the AI ML super resolution introduced by FSR 4, with three new features—neural radiance caching, an AI ML-based Ray Regeneration, and AI ML-based Frame Generation. The company plans to launch “Redstone” in the second half of 2025.
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AMD unveils Radeon RX 9060 XT at Computex 2025
AMD has unveiled its 9060 XT GPU at Computex 2025. The midrange GPU will be the clear competitor to Nvidia’s 5060 Ti and goes toe-to-toe with it on almost every spec. Built on AMD’s 4-nanometer RDNA 4 silicon, the 9060 XT will pack 32 compute units, along with 64 dedicated AI accelerators and 32 ray-tracing cores.
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AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 9000 chips have up to 96 cores, just like the last bunch
Not many people need a 96-core processor. But for creative professionals, engineers and AI developers who do, AMD has a new batch of chips on display at Computex 2025. The company announced its new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series on Tuesday, with bonkers specs to power pro-level workstations and ultra-high-end prosumer desktops.
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KFA2 GeForce RTX 5070 1-Click OC Review @ Hardware-Mag.de
We have just released a review of the KFA2 GeForce RTX 5070 1-Click OC graphics card, equipped with 12 GB GDDR7 memory and Nvidia Blackwell-based GB205-300-GPU, including lots of benchmarks in different presets (e.g. Raytracing, Full- and Ultra-HD) and many more details.
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Fortnite is finally back in the US App Store
Fortnite is back in the US App Store. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney announced that he intended to relaunch the game in late April, following a court order that demanded Apple stop collecting a 27 percent fee on app transactions that happen outside of its in-app purchase system. The company finally amending its rules to remove that additional commission is why Epic moved forward with the relaunch.
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Solar trade association warns of ‘devastating energy shortages’ if incentives are cut
The Solar Energy Industries Association released an assessment of how the budget reconciliation bill currently under review in Congress would have a negative impact on the economy. The legislation cuts incentives around solar power investment and adoption, such as the Section 25D residential tax credit.
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Google XR glasses hands-on: Lightweight but with a limited field of view
One of the biggest reveals of Google I/O was that the company is officially back in the mixed reality game with its own prototype XR smart glasses. It’s been years since we’ve seen anything substantial from the search giant on the AR/VR/XR front, but with a swath of hardware partners to go with its XR platform it seems that’s finally changing.
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Google Now Has a $250/month ‘Ultra’ Subscription
Google has announced its newest subscription plan called Google AI Ultra. This is the new highest tier for the Google AI service that gives users access to all of Google’s AI models and features, much like OpenAI’s newest plan.
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I’m Tired of NVIDIA Shadowplay—Here’s What I Use For Clips Instead
NVIDIA Shadowplay may seem like the only application available for clipping gameplay, but there is a better solution.
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Synology’s BeeStation Plus Might Be the Easiest Plex NAS
Synology just launched the BeeStation Plus, an upgraded version of its easy-to-use NAS device. It features 8TB of storage, a Celeron J4125 CPU, and curiously, it can function as a Plex Media Server.
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Jwno: a highly customisable tiling WM for Windows built with Janet
Jwno is a highly customizable tiling window manager for Windows 10/11, built with Janet and ❤️. It brings to your desktop magical parentheses power, which, I assure you, is not suspicious at all, and totally controllable.
Jwno: a highly customisable tiling WM for Windows built with Janet
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US libraries cut ebook and audiobook lending programs following Trump executive order
In the latest episode of How to Dismantle Public Services in 12 Easy Steps, a Trump executive order targeting libraries has real-world consequences. The AP reported over the weekend that libraries across the country are cutting programs that offer ebooks, audiobooks and other loan programs. These initiatives exploded in popularity following the pandemic, with over 660 million people globally borrowing them in 2023 — a 19 percent annual increase.
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An animated Clash of Clans series is coming to Netflix
The latest video game to be getting the TV show treatment is a pair of hugely popular mobile titles. Developer Supercell is partnering with Netflix for an animated series based on the world of its games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. Fletcher Moules, who directed the original Clash of Clans animated videos on YouTube, will be the showrunner for the Netflix project and Ron Weiner, who has worked on Silicon Valley, 30 Rock, Futurama and Arrested Development, will be the head writer.