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MediaTek Boss Teases AI Takeover at Computex
MediaTek CEO Dr. Rick Tsai will speak at COMPUTEX 2025 on May 20 at 11:00 AM at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. He plans to share how the company is pushing AI forward from small devices to large data centers. Tsai will explain how modern chips deliver both power savings and high performance for future tech needs. The speech is part of the COMPUTEX show, which runs May 20-23 and features about 1,400 companies showing their products. Dr. Tsai brings years of leadership experience to MediaTek. He helped the company become a top maker of mobile chips worldwide. The event features three main areas: AI with robots, upcoming technologies, and transportation of tomorrow. Under Dr. Tsai, MediaTek creates chips for many different...
SIMAGIC Alpha EVO Wheelbase Shakes Up Sim Racing
SIMAGIC created a new Alpha EVO racing wheel series that replaces their old direct drive system. The company rebuilt everything from scratch after four years of working with the previous model. Racers can pick from three versions with different strength levels - the Sport at 9Nm for $399, the standard at 12Nm for $549, or the Pro at 18Nm for $699. The wheels use a special motor, SIMAGIC, made with Zero-Cogging technology for smoother driving. They added a high-resolution sensor, better cooling, and updated software to make racing feel more real. These wheels work with other companies' accessories through standard connections. Barry Li, who started SIMAGIC, said they took what people liked about their old wheels and made everything...
Sapphire PURE B650M WIFI is a White PC Gamechanger
Sapphire Technology showed off its new PURE B650M WIFI motherboard last week. The polar white board matches their graphics cards like the PURE Radeon RX 9070 XT. Sapphire started making motherboards recently with their premium NITRO+ B650M WIFI last year. They released a B850 chipset model in China about two months ago. The company also previewed a budget-friendly PULSE A620AM WIFI in mid-April. The new PURE motherboard looks similar to ASRock's compact Steel Legend boards. Sapphire calls it a mid-tier option with simple, stylish design features. Despite its modest appearance, the board packs powerful hardware inside. It uses a 12+2+1 power supply module with RT3678BE PWM control. The board contains DrMOS components from ALPHA & OMEGA...
Oracle Nvidia Unleashes AI Superfactory Racks
Oracle set up its first batch of water-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks at its data centers. The company placed thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for customers who use NVIDIA DGX Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. These systems help create advanced reasoning models. Oracle equipped these servers with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networks for fast connections. Oracle Cloud is one of the earliest adopters of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems. They aim to build massive Blackwell clusters with more than 100,000 GPUs to meet the growing demand for AI processing power. Several companies, like OpenAI, launched new reasoning models recently, which shows how AI keeps evolving rapidly. The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform combines 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs...
Endorfy Supremo FM6 PSU Hits Platinum at Whisper Quiet
ENDORFY just earned top marks for its Supremo FM6 1000 W power supply. The unit passed all Cybenetics Labs tests with flying colors. It received Platinum certification for power efficiency, an "A" rating for quiet operation, and the Cybenetics 3.1 badge. Tests were run under both American and European electrical standards to prove its performance. The power supply showed 90% efficiency with American voltage and 92% with European voltage across more than 1,450 different load tests. It stays whisper-quiet even when pushed hard, making only about 21 decibels of noise. This makes it perfect for silent computers and professional workstations where noise matters. The latest Cybenetics 3.1 standard checks everything from electrical...
Tainted Grail RPG Takes No Prisoners
Polish game maker Questline Studio will release its dark fantasy RPG after four years of work. Players can become alchemists, berserkers, blacksmiths, or archers in this open-world adventure. The game lets everyone play their way through a world inspired by classic RPGs. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon offers 50-70 hours in a grim version of Arthurian legend. Players travel across Avalon, a land shaped through 600 years under Camelot's rule. The game features three large areas to explore: Horns of the South, Cuanacht, and Forlorn Swords. It has 250 voice-acted characters and more than 200 side missions throughout the world. Gamers will face over 60 different enemies and can discover 70 dungeons full of secrets—the main story...
BIOSTAR Goes Wild With Edge AI at COMPUTEX 2025
BIOSTAR will show off its latest tech at COMPUTEX Taipei from May 20-23 at the Nangang Exhibition Center. The company plans to display edge AI platforms, industrial computers, motherboards, graphics cards, memory, and storage solutions. Their booth will feature real-world AI applications using NVIDIA Jetson Orin technology and systems made with partners DEEPX and MemryX. These products aim to serve industrial automation, smart cities, and human-machine interface needs with high performance at the edge. Visitors can see new industrial motherboards with Intel Q870 and W880 chipsets and EdgeComp MS-series fanless systems built for tough environments. For home users, BIOSTAR will present Intel Z890 and B860 motherboards along with AMD B850...
AMD Readies Six Killer GPUs to Blow Your Mind
AMD plans to release six new laptop graphics cards at Computex based on the RDNA 4 architecture. These cards will use 4 nm "Navi 48" and "Navi 44" chips. The top model, Radeon RX 9080M, features all 64 compute units from "Navi 48" with 16 GB memory across a 256-bit interface. The RX 9070M XT comes next with 48 compute units, 3,072 stream processors, 96 AI accelerators, 48 RT accelerators, 192 TMUs, and 12 GB memory on a 192-bit bus. A step down, the RX 9070M uses smaller "Navi 44" silicon with 32 compute units, 2,048 stream processors, 64 AI accelerators, 32 RT accelerators, 128 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 8 GB memory on a 128-bit bus. For thin laptops, AMD created the RX 9070S with the same specs as the RX 9070M but lower power limits. The RX...
Outer Worlds 2 Lets You Parkour Slide and Crush Foes
The Outer Worlds 2 aims to shake up combat with fresh movement options. Players can parkour through battlefields, grab ledges, slide into cover, and enhance these abilities through character builds. Obsidian designed enemies to challenge players with surprising tactics rather than simple level scaling. The game uses a tiered enemy system instead - tougher foes appear in starting areas, but returning later with higher levels lets players easily defeat them. Developers focused on making all combat approaches viable without forcing players into specific playstyles. The game remains primarily focused on ranged combat with melee as a secondary option. The team studied shooters like Destiny 2 and Call of Duty to improve gunplay, ensuring...
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