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Thermalright had something that really caught my eye in the halls of Nangang at Computex 2025, a new Mini-PC that isn't just powered by up AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU, but the new Mini-PC has an AIO liquid cooler. Check it out:

The new 1-liter Mini-PC has a red-and-black themed open-frame design, which looks fantastic in the flesh, with a screen on the front of the system that can display stats from your system (CPU, GPU temps, the date and time, and more). The open-frame design features a large-ish (for a Mini-PC) copper radiator, a fan, and a motherboard. Inside, the system on the show floor featured an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU.

Inside, we've got t e AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU with 12 cores and 24 threads of Zen 5 processing power, 16 cores of RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S GPU, as well as easily-upgradeable RAM and SSD options with accessible M.2 SSD and SO-DIMM memory slots on the back.

Corsair had so many cool things to check out at Computex 2025 this year, and one of those was its Multi Frame Pegboard PC: where everything is attached to the Pegboard at the back, including your monitor, gaming PC, spare screens, Elgato streaming hardware, cabling, and more. Check it out:

As you can see in the images above (and below) the Corsair Multi Frame Pegboard has your entire setup on the desk, and behind the monitor. This includes your gaming PC, the monitor, tons of fans (AIOs, etc), spare screens, and more.

Better yet, you can 3D print parts and accessories for the Pegboard including an ATX tray, ATX tray split, ITX tray, ITX dual-slot GPU I/O bracket, vertical mount bracket, a vertical mount bracket extender, dual-slot GPU I/O bracket, triple-slot GPU I/O bracket, GPU support bracket, 120mm/240mm/360mm mounts, a cable holder, as well as ITX and ATX PSU mounts! All the stuffs!

ASUS announced its ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet earlier this year, packing AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU, up to 128GB of RAM, and a 13-inch 2.5K 180Hz display, and more. Check it out:

It's like a Microsoft Surface but on serious steroids -- firstly, from the new Strix Halo APU that packs 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, a heavily beefed-up 40-core RDNA 3.5-based GPU, up to 128GB of RAM, and that gorgeous ASUS ROG aesthetic the company is known for.

I've been eyeing it off for many months now, but today in the halls of Nangang here in Taipei for Computex 2025 was my first chance to go hands-on with it, and it's an incredible "gaming tablet" to say the least. The big winner here is the Strix Halo APU, which increases the CPU core count, but seriously boosts the GPU core count over the Strix Point APU that is inside of laptops and Mini-PCs today.

Ever since ASUS announced its ROG NUC 2025 earlier this year, I've wanted to go hands-on -- but after hurting my back and not going to CES 2025 earlier this year, I had my chance at Computex 2025 this week -- and what an awesome little gaming PC it is. Check it out:

The ASUS ROG NUC 2025 packs some decently fast PC hardware inside of its small 3L chassis, with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, the system ships with 16GB of RAM but supports up to 96GB of DDR5-6400 memory, and rocks a 1TB Gen4 SSD (which can be upgraded to a 2TB Gen4 SSD).

ASUS had its ROG NUC 2025 mini-PC plugged into their new ROG Strix OLED XG32WG gaming monitor, which rocks along at 4K 165Hz, running DOOM: The Dark Ages smoothly (considering this is a tiny 3L chassis).

MSI has collaborated with popular "VTuber" and member of the popular VShojo group "IRONMOUSE" for a special-edition IRONMOUSE-themed gaming PC at Computex 2025, and it is the most amazing system for the girl-gamer in your life.

We have a fully custom motherboard, liquid cooler, and monitor that is built around the VTuber star "IRONMOUSE" who is known for her "dynamic streams" and "powerful vocals" with MSI saying the "VTuber" has a passionate global following.

IRONMOUSE's signature colors are pink, peach, and purple which are all flowing throughout the custom MSI system, with iconic elements like heart motifs, devil horns, magical bells, and her mischievous demon mascot are woven throughout each of the products aesthetics, and it looks oh-so-good.

With modern AMD APUs with RDNA 3 and RDNA 3.5 graphics, gaming on a Mini PC has become more viable on compact, palm-sized systems. Go a little bigger, and you can find small SFF PCs with mobile versions of GeForce RTX 40 and now 50 Series GPUs. As great as the performance can be on these systems, there's still no substitute for a desktop GPU doing its thing to deliver a smooth and visually impressive PC gaming experience.

This is where ZOTAC's new ZBOX MAGNUS EN75060TC enters the picture, as it's the smallest PC featuring a desktop GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics card. Paired with a high-end Intel Core Ultra 7 mobile processor, the AI workstation and productivity capabilities offer a big step up over what's possible with a Mini PC, even one with the most powerful APU on the market.

However, the moment I saw ZOTAC ZBOX MAGNUS EN75060TC at Computex 2025, my initial reaction was to see it as the sort of PC you'd easily fit underneath or next to a big-screen TV. With its 2.65-liter form factor, it's significantly smaller than the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. With the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, it's more powerful, too.

With its versatile, compact, palm-sized form factor and striking, minimal energy-efficient design, the GEEKOM A5 2025 Edition Mini PC is built to power and connect your home, office, entertainment, and gaming needs.

The GEEKOM A5 2025 Edition is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 7430U processor with Radeon Vega 7 Graphics, featuring 6 Cores, 12 Threads, and a turbo speed of up to 4.3 GHz. It also has 16GB of DDR4-3200 memory (expandable up to 65GB) and 512GB NVMe PCIe Gen 3 SSD (expandable up to 2TB). There's also room to expand with a dedicated M.2 2242 SATA3 SSD slot and an HDD slot, which can support up to 1TB each of additional storage.

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Beelink has officially unveiled its new GTR9 Pro AI Mini-PC featuring AMD's new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU, supporting up to 96GB of RAM, and so much more. Check it out:

The new Beelink GTR9 PRO AI Mini-PC joins a growing list of Mini-PC systems, such as the recently-unveiled Lenovo ThinkCenter neo Ultra Mini-PC that takes the PC battle against Apple and its Mac Studio systems. Inside, we've got the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor with 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, up to 96GB of RAM, and an RDNA 3.5-powered Radeon 8060S integrated GPU that's good enough for AAA gaming with 60FPS.

Beelink has confirmed that its new GTR9 Pro AI Mini-PC has up to 126 TOPS of AI computing performance, dual 10Gbps ethernet ports for high-speed clustering, dual USB 4 ports with 40Gbps of bandwidth at the ready, and has support for local deployment of 70B+ AI local models. The Mini-PC has been built with industrial-grade components for "enhanced durability".

Lenovo has just unveiled its new ThinkCentre neo Ultra 2025, a new Apple Mac Studio competitor powered by up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285 processor and NVIDIA's desktop GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU.

The company revealed its new fleet of ThinkCentre neo Ultra 2025 systems at an event in China this week, with Intel Core CPU options, Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, and a desktop GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 180W of TGP. Lenovo says its new Mini-PC can handle up to a desktop Intel Core Ultra 9 285 processor, too... no laptop chips here, folks.

Lenovo did say that the base configuration of its new ThinkCentre neo Ultra will feature an unknown CPU model from the Intel Core Ultra 5 family, and a desktop NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060. In the middle, we've got an also unknown CPU, this time from the Core Ultra 7 family, and the higher-end RTX 5060 Ti GPU.

According to a new report at Counterpoint Research, global PC shipments increased 6.7% year-over-year, which is a sizable increase, with shipments from companies like Apple and Lenovo rising by over 10%. However, this data doesn't paint the picture of a PC market that is rapidly growing, but one that has been responding to months of US tariff policy talk and action from the Trump administration.

PC manufacturing, which includes various hardware and components, is heavily centralized in Asia and concentrated within China. Counterpoint Research notes that the impressive growth is due to "PC vendors accelerating shipments ahead of US tariffs" and that the current economic and global trade situation will dampen growth and PC shipment momentum throughout 2025.

On the plus side, with the end of free and official Windows 10 support on the horizon and AI-enabled PCs becoming the norm, consumers and enterprises alike are buying new or replacing older hardware for the AI era. The report notes that the company's AI-capable M4-powered MacBooks drove Apple's impressive 17% year-over-year shipment growth for Q1 2025.

ASUS has just introduced its new ROG NUC 2025 Mini-PC which features up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX "Arrow Lake" CPU and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, all inside of a tiny 3L chassis.

Inside, the ASUS ROG NUC 2025 features a 3-liter design and dual heatsinks, cooled by 3 fans in total to ensure those chips inside stay nice and cool. We have up to the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX "Arrow Lake-HX" processor (24C/24T in total with 8 Performance Cores and 16 Efficiency Cores) at up to 5.4GHz, 76MB of cache, and a maximum turbo power of up to 160W.

On the GPU side of things, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU features 7680 CUDA cores, 16GB of GDDR7 memory, and should feature performance that sits at around the desktop RTX 5070 graphics card.

GMKtec has announced that its new EVO-X2 AI supercomputing desktop PC will up for pre-order on April 7 in China, powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI Max 300 series "Strix Halo" APUs.

GMK has also revealed the pre-order pricing of its new Mini-PC, with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Point" APU packing 128GB of LPDDR5X memory and 2TB of Gen4 SSD storage costing CNY 14,999 (around $2066 USD or so). Inside, the new Mini-PC will feature the Strix Halo APU with the Radeon 890M GPU with 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU cores.

The new EVO-X2 AI supercomputing PC powered by the Strix Halo APU uses a dual-turbo fan, paired with a Vapor Chamber heatsink that handles up to 140W of performance. There are tons of I/O on the Mini-PC as well, with USB-C 40Gbps ports, 2.5GbE ethernet, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort, and more.

AYANEO has upgraded the innards of its new AM01S Mini-PC, with the retro-style design from the 80s and 90s now featuring a beefed-up AMD Strix Point APU, and more.

The AYANEO AM01S Mini-PC will now feature the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU and a new display, with the basic specifications bumped up to DDR5-5600 memory and an M.2 2280 Gen4 SSD slot for storage, and an SDXC card slow on the side for moving over your files and expandable storage.

AYANEO has a 4-inch touchscreen inside of the AM01S Mini-PC as a native horizontal display, versus using a rotated vertical display from its AM02 Mini-PC, which means it shouldn't experience any compatibility issues that ASUS saw with its ROG Ally when it first launched.

Lenovo isn't as well known as other GeForce RTX GPU makers because its custom designs are built for the company's prebuilt Legion gaming PCs. Lenovo Legion is the company's premiere gaming brand. With custom pre-built gaming rigs on offer, Lenovo China has updated its 2025 line-up with new machines with custom Lenovo Legion GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090D GPUs.

The RTX 5090D represents the cutdown variant built for the Chinese market that adheres to specific standards. Both RTX 5080 and RTX 5090D models sport three 10cm fans and a shiny metal look with RGB lighting on the sides and the rear vents. Any quad-slot GPU will always be massive, and these look like futuristic bricks that wouldn't look out of place in Cyberpunk 2077's Night City.

These Lenovo Legion machines also have Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs, custom Legion AIO coolers, and a 360mm radiator. The flagship RTX 5090D configuration has 64GB of DDR5 memory and 2TB of storage - with a hefty price tag of around $5,800 USD.

ASUS has just introduced its new Ascent GX10, its new groundbreaking AI supercomputer, powered by NVIDIA's new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. An AI supercomputer, on your desk, and it can almost fit into the palm of your hand.... check it out:

ASUS's new Ascent GX10 places an incredible amount of AI power at your fingertips, and directly onto the desks of developers, AI researchers, and data centers across the planet.

The new ASUS Ascent GX10 delivers up to 1000 TOPS of AI performance, with 128GB of unified system memory, developers can experiment, fine-tune or inference the latest generation of reasoning AI models with up to 200 billion parameters.

NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) has kicked into high gear with a slew of various announcements, and one that stands out is Dell's new monstrous workstation powered by NVIDIA's latest Superchip.

Dell has unveiled the Pro Max with GB300 at GTC, and the system is nothing short of shocking when it comes to processing power as it is capable of 20-petaFLOPs. What's inside? Almost every bell and whistle you can think of when it comes to a workstation desktop, with the system featuring NVIDIA's latest GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip that features an NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPU with next-generation Tensor Cores and FP4 precision. Additionally, the system features 784 GB of unified system memory - 288GB of HBM3e within the GPU and 496GB of LPDDR5X for the CPU.

As you can probably imagine, this system has been optimized for large-scale AI training workloads, hence the inclusion of the NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNIC, which ushers in support for an insane networking speed of 800Gbps. Dell intends the system to be used by developers who are looking to test prototypes and scale their AI models into production environments. Moreover, the new system is also aimed at engineers looking to run large-scale training and inferencing workloads, which would typically be run on servers.

NVIDIA has just unveiled its new DGX personal AI supercomputers, which are powered by its in-house Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU, which are normally reserved for the data center.

The new personal AI supercomputers were unveiled at NVIDIA's current GTC 2025 event, with DGX Spark -- formerly Proejct DIGITS -- and DGX Station, a new high-performance NVIDIA Grace Blackwell desktop supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra platform.

These new AI systems enable AI developers, researchers, data scientists, and students to prototype, fine-tune, and inference large models on desktops. NVIDIA says that users can run these models locally or deploy them on NVIDIA DGX Cloud or any other accelerated cloud or data center infrastructure.

GMKTec's upcoming Mini-PC powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU has been tested, with the new prototype Mini-PC packing some serious Strix Halo APU power.

ETA Prime has an exclusive first look and benchmark of GMKTec's new Strix Halo APU-powered Mini-PC, with the flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 tested. This APU features 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power with a chunky 40 Compute Units of RDNA 3.5 GPU, providing some serious gaming horsepower than anything the competition has to offer.

GMK's new EVO-X2 Mini-PC will be detailed in length at AMD's upcoming Advancing AI event in Beijing, China, where GMKtec will be detailing its new Mini-PC. In the games that ETA Prime tested, we have Cyberpunk 2077, the just-released GTA 5 Enhanced, Marvel Rivals, Spider-Man 2, DOOM Eternal, Mortal Kombat, and God of War Ragnarok.

Apple's new Mac Studios have been used in a cluster of 4 systems, where they're combined idle power consumption is less than a network switch at around 33W.

Content creator and developer Alex Ziskind deployed his own personal Mac Studio cluster with 4 machines, which are powered by Apple's new M3 Ultra processor. Each of the Mac Studios feature an ethernet port, with Ziskind running all 4 systems into a network switch at the bottom where he runs multiple commands through a single network (and it looks great, too).

When he ran the 4-way Apple Mac Studio cluster, Ziskind noticed that the idle power consumption of the M3 Ultra-powered cluster was sitting between 32W and 34W of power, but noticed that the network switch at the bottom was actually consuming more power than the Mac Studio cluster at idle. Even fully fired up and all threads loaded, the M3 Ultra is an extremely impressive piece of silicon.

A California-based startup has demonstrated quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem, marking a first-of-its-kind achievement within the industry.

The achievement was detailed in a new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Science. The study explains how D-Wave, the California-based startup, has made a scientific breakthrough by solving a problem beyond the reach of classic computers. D-Wave's annealing quantum computer outperformed one of the world's most powerful classical supercomputers in solving complex materials simulation problems. The study validates this achievement as "the world's first and only demonstration of quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem."

How was it done? The annealing quantum computer utilized the power of quantum mechanics to find a solution to the problem in 20 minutes and with just 12 kilowatts of energy. By comparison, for the same problem to be solved by a traditional GPU-cluster-powered supercomputer, it would require more than the world's annual energy consumption and more than a million years of time.