TheMinisforum V3tablet is the latest Ryzen 7 Hawk Point-powered PC to join the market. This time, it breaks from Minisforum’s usual Mini PC flair in favor of the 3-in-1 tablet form factor popularized byMicrosoftSurface and Lenovo Yoga tablet PCs. The Minisforum V3 has a 14-inch screen that can operate in a standard handheld tablet mode, a solo kickstand, and an included magnetic attachable keyboard for more laptop-typical use. Most of the Minisforum V3’s specs are somewhat standard for Ryzen 7 8840U devices, but there are some highlights here....

MozillaFirefox 139.0.1includes a crucial fix for an irritating bug that caused artifacts with Nvidia GPUs in certain setups. This bug was introduced with version 139.0, likely because Mozilla disabled a blocklist that prevented DirectComposition from being used with Nvidia GPUs, and multi monitor setups with different refresh rates. Mozilla launchedFirefox 139.0on May 27th, introducing a slew of new features, such as custom new tab backgrounds, full-page translation for supported extensions, just to name a few....

MSI brought its first gaming handheld with an AMD chip inside, the Claw A8 BZ2EM, toComputex. The company also used Taipei tradeshow to launch the latest versions of its Crosshair and Cyborg laptops. MSI’s previous gaming handhelds, like its Claw 8 AI+, used Intel’s Core Ultra processors — the only mainstream gaming company to do so. It doesn’t seem that MSI is abandoning Intel, but is now making systems with chips from both partners....

MSI has confirmed it will take the covers off a host of exciting new products atComputex2025 later this month, including a brand new desktop AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia’s DGX Spark platform. The company confirmed in apress releasethat it will unveil its EdgeXpert MS-C931, a new desktop AI supercomputer built on the Nvidia DG Spark platform. The MS-C931 is powered by Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and is capable of 1,000 AI TOPS FP4 performance....

Last year, Canonintroduced its first nanoimprint lithography (NIL) tool, which could compete against ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and advanced deep ultraviolet (DUV) litho systems. This week, the company said that the first customers are set to receive the first NIL machine this year or next, though this will be used for trial runs, reportsFinancial Times. The new machines work by stamping an imprint onto the wafer, rather than etching on features with typical lithography techniques, and purportedly uses 90% less power than competing EUV machines from industry stalwart ASML....

A group of researchers has discovereda new attack called GPUHammer that can flip bits in the memory of NVIDIA GPUs, quietly corrupting AI models and causing serious damage, without ever touching the actual code or data input. Fortunately, Nvidia is already ahead of the bad actors and has put out guidelines on how to mitigate the risk involved in this situation. Regardless, if you’re using a card with GDDR6 memory, this is worth paying attention to...

As announced byMicrosoft, the latestWindows 11Insider Preview Build,23615, has been introduced to the Windows 11 Dev Channel. This Insider Preview comes with some improvements and fixes, as well as testing autostart functionality forCopilot, the AI assistant in Windows 11. Since Microsoft is going as far as adding an entireCopilot keyto Windows 11 PC keyboards— the first new key since 1994— adding autostart functionality to Copilot makes sense, though fortunately you may also disable the feature if you don’t have the key or just don’t care for it....

We already know that the next-generation Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) specification is not meant to improve performance, but rather toboost reliability of wireless connectionsas they become even more ubiquitous. Since improving reliability is a pretty vague description, the IEEE has issued a scope document that quantitatively defines these enhancements. According to a new post byQualcomm(which is a contributor to the standard), the IEEE wants Wi-Fi 8 devices to offer a 25% improvement across a number of metrics, under the umbrella of Ultra High Reliability, or UHR....

Japan-based SSD maker Nextorage has unveiled an all-new PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSD aimed at handheld gaming PCs. Dubbed the “G Series ME,” the new drive is a 2230-class M.2 drive with no DRAM caching, and a blisteringly quick 7,400 MB/s read speed. Nextorage’s new handheld-friendly SSD features sequential read speeds of up to 7,400 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 6,200 MB/s. The random read speed is rated at 750,000 IOPS, and the random write speed is rated at 850,000 IOPS....

Nvidia is rumored to be working on a new RTX 3050 A laptop GPU powered by an AD106 (Ada Lovelace) die. It departs from the usual Ampere chip used by all other GPUs in the RTX 30-series lineup. The RTX 3050 A doesn’t have an official release date, nor did Nvidia announce it. However, the GPU is already included in Nvidia’s latest driver release and appears as the “NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU” in thePCI ID database....

Nvidia’s release notes forCUDA 12.8revealed that Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs will likely transition to the legacy driver branch. The document states that “architecture support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta is considered feature-complete and will be frozen in an upcoming release.” This move represents the beginning of the end for all remaining GTX-era Nvidia architectures. While CUDA support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta remains, the legacy GPUs will not receive any new features Nvidia might provide in the future....

Nvidia’s forthcoming GeForce RTX 4070 Super seems to have what it takes to rival thebest graphics cards. A pair of RTX 4070 Super benchmark results were leaked onto the Geekbench browser, illuminating the GPU’s potential performance. The benchmark results were published byBenchleaks, showing RTX 4070 Super results in Geekbench 6’sCUDAand OpenCLbenchmarks. The new GPU is swift, featuring benchmark scores close to Nvidia’s outgoingRTX 4070 Ti. But being Geekbench 6, take the results with a pinch of salt and wait for the full review....

A semiconductor-focused market intelligence firm has charted the rise of the Arm architecture in the notebook market up to 2030. In a new research bulletin, TechInsights predicts that 40% of notebooks sold by the decade’s end will be based on SoCs using the Arm architecture (viaITHome). This would mark a massive shift away from the x86 architecture. Moreover, TechInsights' presumably independent research partially validates Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas' bold claim that the Windows-on-Arm device market share “could be better than 50%” in the next five years....