Home, office, and other applications

Noctua has announced a whole new HOME product line, which focuses on cooling tasks other than PC cooling, while still using Noctua's fan technology. The lineup includes two complete sets as well as a total of nine modular accessories that make it usable in other applications

Coming in 14- and 16-inch sizes

Since Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X Elite platform, we had plenty of leaks from manufacturers ready to hop on that Windows on ARM train with the new SoC, and the latest one comes from Samsung in the form of Galaxy Book4 Edge, which will be available in 14- and 16-inch sizes.

A big upgrade compared to the 5nm Exynos W930

According to a fresh report coming from Korea, Samsung's Galaxy Watch7 could get the new 3nm Exynos W1000 chipset, which could bring a significant boost in both performance and efficiency.

A larger battery, standard M.2 slot, and fixed microSD slot  

The Asus ROG Ally X handheld console is set to be unveiled on June 2, and the fresh report from a well-known Asus leaker suggests that Asus is also squeezing a bit more RAM in the new ROG Ally X, equipping it with 24GB.

Asus Vietnam jumps the gun

Asus Vietnam has leaked its own version of the laptop that will be based on Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC. Asus decided to go with the Vivobook S 15 OLED design, which puts it in a bit of a premium segment with an OLED screen.

Comes bundled with Frostpunk 2 Deluxe Edition game

Sapphire has unveiled its newest Radeon RX 7700 XT Pure Frostpunk 2 Edition graphics card which comes as a collaboration with 11 Bit Studios, a developer behind the latest Frostpunk 2 game. The card will carry the Frostpunk theme, and includes some goodies as well as the Deluxe Edition of the game.

Support for Ghost of Tsushima and more games

AMD has released its newest AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.5.1 WHQL driver which adds support for Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, and F1 24 games, as well as new HYPR-Tune support for a couple of games, and fixes several issues seen with earlier driver releases.

Want a piece of that market

Nvidia and Mediatek are allegedly working on a brand new SoC for handheld and other gaming consoles, and have quite a few clients already lined up. Nvidia is no stranger to such SoCs, and it has recently teamed up with Mediatek for mobile chips that could use next-gen RTX and AI GPU IP based on the upcoming Blackwell architecture.

One to have for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Homeworld 3

Intel has released the new Arc 101.5518 Beta GPU driver with optimizations for two new big games, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Homeworld 3.

Priced at $269 and $169

AMD has officially launched two new Ryzen 8000 series SKUs, the Ryzen 7 8700F and the Ryzen 5 8400F. Based on the earlier released 8000-series APUs, these two Ryzen F-series SKUs come with disabled integrated graphics and the same 65W TDP.