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From The Verge via USVI News: Here’s all the highlights from Computex 2026, including Nvidia RTX Spark, new chips from Intel and Qualcomm, new versions of old chips from AMD, and more.
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Computex 2026 is kicking off in Taipei, Taiwan this week, where Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and other tech brands are announcing new laptops, handhelds, chips, and more.
Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, its first family of consumer PC chips, arriving in laptops and mini PCs starting this fall. Intel is launching two new custom chips made for handheld gaming devices, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, which will power the upcoming Acer Predator Atlas 8. Qualcomm is taking aim at the MacBook Neo with its new entry-level Snapdragon C platform. Meanwhile, AMD’s responding to RAMaggedon by launching new versions of its old hardware and promising support for AM5 through 2029.
Follow along here for the latest news and updates.
- These are the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops
- This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark
- Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
- AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it
- Dell is bringing back the XPS 13 as a MacBook Neo competitor — with a temporary discount to $599
- Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of RAM
Today, Two hours ago Sean Hollister
That next-gen MSI Claw handheld apparently costs $1,700 now.
Minutes after I published my story below, eagle-eyed commenter P_Devil pointed out the price is $200 more than journalists were told. $1,699.99 for an Intel Arc G3 Extreme with 32GB of RAM, according to Best Buy. Perhaps an unfortunate typo? The listing does say 144Hz when the screen is actually 120Hz… either way, it’s coming June 23rd.
I held the next-gen handheld
The new MSI Claw with Intel Arc G3 Extreme. Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
Intel couldn’t catch a break. Layoffs. Shakedowns. Crashing CPUs torpedoing its reputation, sending desktop gamers fleeing to AMD. Apple and Qualcomm pushing Intel out of multiple flagship laptops. A gaming graphics card going MIA. But its Panther Lake laptop chip, the first on its all-important 18A process, turned out excellent — and a handheld version might make Intel the leader in portable gaming chips.
On Monday, I spent two hours with an MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus handheld atop Intel’s new Arc G3 Extreme. I walked away thinking that next-gen handhelds have finally arrived. The true leap in performance and battery life we’ve been waiting for, but at a high price. Read Article >
Today, 2:22 PM UTC Emma Roth
Hyte is launching a cheaper version of its popular Y70 case.
The company showed off the Y50 RGB during Computex 2026, which costs just $99.99. It supports an array of motherboard sizes and comes with the same three-piece panoramic glass as the pricier Y70.
Hyte is just one of the PC component makers grappling with the effects of the RAM crunch, and is likely launching this more affordable case to offset surging prices.
Today, 2:14 PM UTC Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The Snapdragon X2 Elite chip is making its way to a mini-PC.
Announced at Computex, Asus’s new Ascent QN10 is the first mini-PC to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite. It has quite the port selection, including three USB4 and four USB-A. And it’s under 0.7L in volume, which is about 0.1L smaller than the tiny M4 Mac Mini. But did I mention its power button is not on the bottom?
Of course, like all of Asus’s Computex announcements, price is TBD.
Today, 1:30 AM UTC Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Asus’ new Zenbook 14 might be another MacBook Neo competitor — if the price is right.
Asus is launching various Vivobooks and ExperBooks at Computex, but I’m most interested in the Zenbook 14 with a base-level Snapdragon X1-26-100. It’ll come in AMD and Intel configs too, but the Qualcomm version will start with a lowly 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD.
Sounds like another Neo wannabe, but we don’t know for certain since pricing is TBD.
Nvidia’s new DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction feature works on all GeForce RTX GPUs.
Along with a new ARM CPU for Windows laptops, Nvidia’s Computex news includes another feature it’s adding to the DLSS 4.5 suite ahead of that other DLSS AI graphics update. Called Ray Reconstruction, it uses a second generation transformer AI model to “generate higher-quality pixels in the noisy parts of a ray traced frame where rays were not sampled.”
They say it will deliver cleaner particle effects plus better lighting accuracy, available on RTX 20 and newer GPUs starting in August.
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