
Asus slaps new GPUs into old laptops and calls it a day
Computex brings keyboard vents, ancient chips and a lonely dock
Asus turned up to Computex with a pile of gaming laptops barely changed from last year, now dressed up with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 and not much else to show for it.

Asus crams Nvidia's petaflop monster into a dull PC
ET900N G3 is a supercomputer with a DVD player
Asus has pulled a fast one on the performance PC world by hiding Nvidia's GB300 Ultra chip in a chassis so dull it is like watching paint dry on a beige wall in an insurance office while listening to someone explain how envelopes are made.

Equal1 unveils plug-and-play silicon qubit system
Quantum power into a standard rack server
Boffin's from Equal1 have just emerged from their smoke filled labs with a box which can use both quantum and traditional computing.

AMD unloads 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX
Zen 5 monster aims straight at Chipzilla's Xeons
AMD took to Computex to unveil its new Zen 5-powered Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, and it's going for the throat. The show's star is the Threadripper Pro 9995WX, a hulking 96-core, 192-thread silicon slab aimed squarely at the workstation elite.

Apple blocking Microsoft's Xbox store attempts
Vole backs Epic in its scrap with the Fruity Cargo Cult
The software king of the world Microsoft has complained to a court that the fruity cargo cult Apple has been doing its best to stop it launching an Xbox-branded mobile game store.

Intel's Maxsun monster: dual Arc Pro B60 GPU with 48GB
Chipzilla slaps two GPUs on one card, hopes someone notices
Troubled Chipzilla and board partner Maxsun showed off a curious slab of silicon at Computex 2025, unveiling the Arc Pro B60 Dual GPU 48GB card.

Nvidia boss says US chip ban is shooting itself in the foot
Export controls are fuelling China’s AI boom
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has laid into the US government’s AI chip export bans, branding them “a failure” that’s doing the opposite of what Washington claims it wants.

OpenAI teams up with Sir Jony Ive
Former Apple designer likely to cook up an expensive mystery box
OpenAI has confirmed it’s entering the hardware game, teaming up with former Job’s Mob design messiah Jony Ive to birth a new line of AI gadgets, though no one’s quite sure what they’ll do yet.

Signal slams Windows 11 Recall App
Blocking screenshots by default
Signal Messenger has fired a broadside at the software king of the world, Microsoft's new AI tool recall and is blocking its use by default.

Dell teams up with Nvidia to box up AI
Dell AI Factory with Nvidia goes semantic and agentic
The Grey Box Shifter, Dell has teamed up with Nvidia to peddle the latest iteration of its AI in a box.