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- AMD Reportedly Weighs November Radeon Supply Price Increase
The supply-chain forum Botangtang reports that AMD is considering raising prices for Radeon GPU and GDDR6 memory packages supplied to board partners in November 2026, following an October 1 adjustment. The reported change would affect upstream package pricing, not directly increase prices on finished retail graphics cards. AMD has not confirmed the plan, the size of the increase, the models affected, or regional implementation timing. The report attributes continued memory-cost pressure partly to AI server and data-center demand diverting DRAM manufacturing resources toward HBM and server products.
cnBeta · 🔥 7 - ASUS ProArt P16 RTX Spark review: strong local and hybrid AI performance
TechRadar’s review found that the ASUS ProArt P16 RTX Spark handled local and hybrid AI workloads effectively, including Qwen 3 8B model inference and agentic tasks using the open-source Hermes tool. The laptop also delivered strong creative-workflow and gaming performance, with a 16-inch OLED display rated at 1,100 nits peak brightness and 120Hz VRR. The reviewer noted that more complex agent tasks required repeated sessions and substantial time, while the lid exhibited noticeable wobble.
TechRadar · 🔥 0 - HP, Asus and Acer reportedly shift some PC production back to China
Nikkei Asia reported that HP, Asus and Acer are moving some PC production from Thailand and Vietnam back to China as AI demand strains memory and storage supply and raises component costs; Dell is considering a similar move. The brands are reportedly working with Chinese contract manufacturers including Luxshare, Huaqin Technology and Longcheer Technology, while traditional Taiwanese assemblers such as Foxconn, Quanta, Compal and Inventec focus on higher-margin AI data-center servers. Omdia data cited in the reports put the bill of materials for mainstream PCs priced at $500 to $699 at $435 in the first quarter of 2025 and $699 in the third quarter of 2026. TrendForce expects notebooks made outside China to account for about 21% this year, down from roughly 24% in 2025. HP, Dell and Asus did not respond to requests for comment, while Acer said it would adjust its supply chain dynamically.
The Next Web · 🔥 4 - Video shows RTX 5090 game cards converted into server AI accelerators
Video footage shared by HKEPC appears to show a Chinese workshop removing GB202 GPUs and GDDR7 memory from retail GeForce RTX 5090 cards and transferring them to custom dual-slot blower-cooled boards for servers. The modified cards are reportedly tested before packaging, while the visible hardware includes PNY, Gigabyte, ASUS and NVIDIA Founders Edition models. Reports claiming thousands of daily conversions, 64GB or 96GB configurations, and effects on global supply remain unverified.
cnBeta · 🔥 0 - Nvidia DGX Spark 64GB Arrives Oct. 23 at $4,999
Nvidia’s new 64GB DGX Spark arrives Oct. 23 with a starting price of $4,999 and is available through manufacturing partners Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI. It retains the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, DGX OS, and Nvidia’s AI software ecosystem, including Ollama, vLLM, PyTorch with CUDA, Nemotron models, and the Nvidia Agent Toolkit. Nvidia says the system supports models with up to 100 billion parameters, but TechRepublic notes that this vendor claim is not a guarantee for every model or workload. The 64GB configuration has not been independently benchmarked for the report, and its reduced memory may constrain model size, context length, and concurrent workloads. Buyers should confirm final configuration and regional pricing with the manufacturer.
TechRepublic · 🔥 0 - RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti prices rise in China amid tighter GDDR7 supply
NVIDIA partners and retailers in China raised prices for the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB, according to Wccftech. Board Channels reported that the RTX 5080 16 GB moved from roughly 12,700–13,500 RMB to 14,500–15,000 RMB, while the RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB rose from about 9,000–9,150 RMB to 9,650–9,850 RMB. Wccftech attributed the increases to tighter GDDR7 supply as memory manufacturers prioritize higher-margin HBM for AI markets.
Wccftech · 🔥 0 - ASUS sponsors edge AI hackathon with Ascent GX10 and PE3000N
TechNews reports that the 2026 Agentic AI on the Edge Hackathon, sponsored by ASUS, took place October 21–22 at the Bottle Cap Factory in Nangang, Taipei; the same report also describes three days of development, an inconsistency it does not resolve. The report says 15 teams proposed solutions for smart manufacturing, automated services and smart retail. ASUS supplied its Ascent GX10 desktop AI supercomputer, described as based on the NVIDIA DGX Spark architecture with a GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, and its PE3000N rugged edge system built on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor module. According to ASUS, the GX10 supports NVIDIA's NemoClaw open agent blueprint for sandboxed, access-controlled on-device inference, while the PE3000N supports hardware sensor fusion and NVIDIA Isaac and Metropolis software stacks.
科技新报 · 🔥 0 - ASUS ExpertBook Air hands-on: Intel Core 7 350 benchmarks and AI apps
IT之家 published a hands-on review of the ASUS ExpertBook Air, a 14-inch premium thin-and-light business laptop ASUS announced on September 21 as part of a three-tier ExpertBook lineup. The machine uses Intel's third-generation Core 7 processor 350, built on the Wildcat Lake architecture and Intel 18A process with 6 cores and 6 threads, 2 Xe3 graphics cores supporting XeSS, and an NPU 5 rated at 17 TOPS. In IT之家's tests, CPU-Z scored 744.1 single-threaded and 3725.1 multi-threaded, Cinebench R23 scored 2003 single-core and 7838 multi-core, and a 65Wh battery lasted 19 hours 28 minutes in PCMark 10; ASUS also bundles the 小硕知道 ×WorkBuddy special edition and ExpertMeet AI meeting tools.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - Hands-on: Nvidia's RTX Spark SoC packs AI, creative and gaming power
TechRadar's reviewer spent over a week testing Nvidia's ARM-based RTX Spark, which the report describes as the company's first System on a Chip: an 18-core CPU paired with a 5,120-CUDA-core Blackwell RTX GPU, or a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core GPU in the higher tier. In the reviewer's own Geekbench 7.1 runs, the RTX Spark N1X scored 2,623 single-core, below Apple's M5 at 4,288, but its 21,899 multi-core score exceeded the M5's 17,926. Local agentic tests using Qwen 3 8B ran MLPerf Client data-analyst and SWE workflows in 63.7 and 50.8 seconds, processing up to 14,005 and 10,238 tokens; the reviewer also highlighted the chip's hybrid workflow, which keeps chosen local models on-device while offloading demanding tasks to cloud frontier models.
TechRadar · 🔥 0 - Four-year-old Yuan Tai breaks into Nvidia supply chain with liquid-cooling CDUs
A Business Weekly feature republished by TechNews reports that Yuan Tai Technology, a four-year-old startup based in Xizhi, Taiwan, specializes in coolant distribution units (CDUs) and can integrate a data center's entire cooling system, making it one of the few one-stop liquid-cooling infrastructure and system integrators in Taiwan; it has won orders from Wistron, Realtek and Faraday and entered Nvidia's supply chain. The report says first-half revenue exceeded NT$970 million, nearly triple the year-earlier figure, with after-tax profit up more than sixfold and EPS of NT$4.35, beating all of last year. Chairman Chen Mao-chin, a veteran of the cooling industry, founded Yuan Tai in 2022, first making a water cold plate for an Asus motherboard before exiting that segment over leak risk and focusing on CDUs; shareholder Wen Wei's CEO Wang Yu-wen said one semiconductor customer cut electricity costs by 20% with its solution. The report also quotes an unnamed server-ODM vice president saying competitors are catching up.
科技新报 · 🔥 0 - ASUS launches first Intel Arc Pro B70 card: 32GB ECC VRAM, 367 TOPS
ASUS has introduced its first Intel discrete GPU, the UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB GDDR6, aimed at AI inference and workstation workloads — marking the vendor's return to Intel's add-in card lineup after skipping several generations. The card uses the Xe2-based Big Battlemage GPU with 32 Xe cores, 256 XMX AI engines, 32GB of GDDR6 ECC memory, 608GB/s bandwidth, PCIe 5.0 x16 and a 310W typical board power; ASUS rates INT8 throughput at up to 367 TOPS. ASUS says it supports frameworks including vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, PyTorch, OpenVINO, oneAPI and Vulkan, and that up to four cards can be combined for 128GB of total memory to run larger models. ASUS has not published a price; IT之家 notes comparable Arc Pro B70 cards typically sell for about $1,299 to over $2,000.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - ASUS ProArt P16 review: first NVIDIA RTX Spark laptop arrives
The ASUS ProArt P16 is among the first laptops to ship with NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, built around the N1X SoC — a 20-core Arm CPU plus a 6,144-CUDA-core Blackwell GPU, both on TSMC 3nm — supporting up to 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, roughly 300 GB/s of bandwidth and 1,000 TOPS of NVFP4 AI compute. Wccftech's early benchmarks show class-leading memory bandwidth but multi-core and single-core 3DMark CPU Profile scores behind x86 rivals such as the Core Ultra X9 388H and Ryzen AI MAX+ 395. NVIDIA claims the laptop can sustain full performance on battery, pricing has not been announced, and further benchmarks are still pending.
Wccftech · 🔥 0 - First Nvidia RTX Spark laptops go on sale: hands-on with local 27B inference
The first Windows laptops with Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip are on sale, and ifanr tested the 16-inch ASUS ProArt 16 RTX Spark (RTX Spark N1X), priced at 28,999 yuan for 64GB of unified memory and 37,999 yuan for 128GB. It marks Nvidia's first complete Windows compute platform — its own Arm CPU, a Blackwell RTX GPU and unified memory — rather than just supplying graphics cards; the 64GB unit exposes roughly 46.7GB of usable GPU memory with LPDDR5X bandwidth peaking near a theoretical 300GB/s. In testing, a Qwen 3.8 27B model in LM Studio generated about 14.3 tokens/s with a 2.83s time to first token, and handled long contexts without obvious degradation; under sustained local inference the machine drew about 86.5W and its 99.9Wh battery would theoretically last roughly an hour and 15 minutes at ~80W average. WorkBuddy offers a beta for downloading and managing local models on the device; the model's file header indicates a Tencent-optimized 50B-parameter MoE, 16GB in size and CUDA 13 accelerated, and LM Studio's local API can feed other tools.
爱范儿 · 🔥 0 - ASUS donates AI supercomputers to a Taipei junior high school
The ASUS Foundation announced it is working with Taipei City's Department of Education and Taipei Municipal Zhongshan Junior High School to build a "World Labs AI" classroom, donating 70 ASUS Chromebook CM32 laptops and two ASUS Ascent GX10 desktop AI supercomputers so the campus can set up its own on-premises AI computing center. Zhongshan Junior High and Taipei's digital learning center will use the machines to build a local AI teaching platform, letting the school run AI lessons and applications without relying entirely on cloud resources while keeping data on site. The classroom will introduce learning modules including an AI interactive game workshop, an "teach AI to read textbooks" training camp, an AI wrong-answer battle arena and "raise an AI from scratch," with students trying to develop their own AI Gems.
科技新报 · 🔥 0 - Googlebook review: solid hardware, but the OS isn't ready yet
Tom's Hardware tested Googlebooks from Dell, HP and Lenovo and found the hardware generally sound, though it wanted more battery life. Googlebook OS, which Google is pitching as a full PC platform, feels largely like Android with desktop features added on; apps install only through the Play Store and Chrome does not yet support multiple profiles. The reviewer notes Google has packed the system with AI features including Gemini and agents, but found the Debian Linux virtual machine laggy and advised prospective buyers to wait.
Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 0 - Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops launch with up to 128GB memory for local AI agents
Nvidia said on Oct. 16 that RTX Spark Windows laptops are available with up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance, sold by Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI starting at $2,599. Each laptop runs on a single superchip pairing a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU, with native CUDA on Arm; Nvidia says users can install agents such as GitHub Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw and Perplexity from first start-up without a command line. Microsoft, which says it is optimizing Windows for local AI models and a new Search interface, describes Windows as a platform for hybrid intelligence, and Lenovo has begun selling its YOGA Pro 15 RTX Spark in China from 29,999 yuan.
TechRepublic · 🔥 0 - ASUS ExpertBook A7 launches with Ryzen AI 300 chips and a 3K 120Hz OLED
ASUS has launched its 14-inch ExpertBook A7, built on AMD's Krackan Point 2 platform and offered with either a Ryzen AI 5 330 (4 cores/8 threads Zen 5, up to 4.5 GHz, Radeon 820M) or a Ryzen AI 7 345 (6 cores/12 threads, up to 4.6 GHz, Radeon 840M). The laptop comes with 12 GB or 16 GB of onboard LPDDR5X memory, but has only a single M.2 2230 slot and storage capped at 512 GB. Its 14-inch 2880x1800 (3K) OLED panel runs at up to 120 Hz in glare or anti-glare versions, alongside Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.4, dual USB4 Type-C, one USB-A, HDMI 2.1b, a 3.5 mm jack, a 65Wh battery and a 1.2 kg chassis; ASUS did not disclose AMD-model pricing, and the Intel variant is listed at $1,299 on its store.
Wccftech · 🔥 0 - Micron opens second Taiwan advanced packaging and test plant for HBM
Micron held an inauguration ceremony in Taichung on the 15th for its second advanced packaging and test facility in Taiwan, Micron Advanced Assembly and Test Taiwan 2 (AATT2), with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, economics minister Kung Ming-hsin, Micron President and COO Manish Bhatia, and customers and partners including Asus, MSI and MediaTek attending, TechNews Taiwan reported. The site is intended to strengthen Micron's advanced packaging and test capacity for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and AI-driven demand. In its latest financial report, Micron said most of its 2027 HBM capacity has already been booked by customers, expects HBM demand growth to keep outpacing conventional DRAM through 2028, and said its HBM advanced packaging plant in Singapore is expected to begin contributing capacity from 2027.
科技新报 · 🔥 0 - Tom's Hardware tests RTX Spark in Surface Laptop Ultra: strong local AI, weak gaming, $5,899
Tom's Hardware tested Nvidia's RTX Spark platform in Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, a system with the full GB10 Superchip, 20 CPU cores, 6,144 CUDA cores and 128GB of LPDDR5X-9400 memory. Launch embargoes limited this round to platform-wide experience and comparative performance, with battery life, build and display details promised later. For AI, the outlet used Artificial Analysis's AgentPerf-local benchmark, reporting time-to-completion across agentic tasks instead of time-to-first-token and tokens-per-second. In gaming, Gears of War: E-Day averaged 77.7 fps with 39.9 fps 1% lows near 1080p, which the reviewer called not a great experience; Control Resonant averaged 109.2 fps at 2560x1440 but with input latency above what the tester considers acceptable. The tested unit lists at $5,899 with 1TB of storage, with lead times already into late December.
Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 0 - Surface Laptop Ultra hands-on: RTX Spark N1X, 128GB unified memory and local LLM tests
After Microsoft's Windows and Surface event in San Francisco on October 7, ifanr obtained the Surface Laptop Ultra and tested it. The machine runs Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X platform, which Nvidia says offers up to a 20-core Grace CPU, a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores and up to 128GB of unified memory, with a claimed 1 PFLOPS of sparse FP4 AI compute; the Surface Laptop Ultra and the first wave of RTX Spark OEM machines opened for preorder and go on sale October 16. Running Qwen3.5 35B-A3B at Q4 quantization locally via Ollama and Open WebUI, the reviewer measured about 59.65 tokens per second of sustained generation, and about 20.98 tokens per second for the denser Qwen3.8 27B after warm-up; a local version of WorkBuddy can use on-device compute for agent tasks, some of them offline, but it does not yet switch automatically between local and cloud models. The laptop has a 15-inch 3:2 Mini LED touchscreen with 2000-nit peak HDR brightness, is about 18mm thick and 2.0kg, and starts at 21,988 yuan for 24GB of memory and 512GB of storage, rising to 48,388 yuan for the 128GB top configuration; Asus, Lenovo, MSI, Dell and HP also announced RTX Spark models.
爱范儿 · 🔥 0 - NVIDIA RTX Spark AI PCs enter shipping with premium pricing
NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform is moving into its first sales wave, with computers from Microsoft, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI scheduled to ship from mid-October. Technology News reported starting prices of $2,599 for the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra and ASUS ProArt P14, rising to about $3,299 for the MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+. TMTPost said Microsoft opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra, which is scheduled to ship on October 16, while NVIDIA positions RTX Spark systems as PCs for AI development, content creation, and gaming.
科技新报 · 🔥 0 - ASUS launches XA P2N-E2 MGX server with dual RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs
ASUS announced the XA P2N-E2, a 2U server built on NVIDIA's MGX architecture, at the 2026 OCP Global Summit. It pairs a Vera CPU with up to two RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell server-edition GPUs and is pitched by ASUS for agentic AI and reinforcement-learning workloads, including code execution, tool calling and sandboxed compute. ASUS also showed other systems, among them the Vera Rubin NVL72-based XA VR721-E3, the air-cooled-CPU/liquid-cooled-GPU XR R1I12B-M1BHFS, the dual EPYC 9006 1U RS700A-E14B-R16U and the AMD-platform air-cooled AI system ESC8000A-E13P.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - MSI unveils 128GB RTX Spark laptop as NVIDIA readies Oct. 16 launch
MSI launched the Prestige N16 Flip AI+, a 16-inch convertible joining NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptop lineup, with all three configurations using a 20-core RTX Spark N1X processor and a 6,144-core GPU plus a 3840×2400 Tandem OLED touchscreen (30–120Hz variable refresh, 1,000 nits peak HDR). The top model carries 128GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD, while the base version has 32GB and 1TB; pricing starts at $3,299 in the US, £3,099 in the UK for 32GB (rising to £4,099 for 64GB) and €3,899.90 in the Eurozone, with the 128GB/2TB model at €7,999.90. NVIDIA said RTX Spark laptops go on sale Friday, Oct. 16, with up to 128GB of unified memory and a claimed 1 petaflop of FP4 (sparse) AI compute, and it plans to release the agent-focused Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B model on Oct. 15 alongside optimizations for local agents such as GitHub Copilot and Perplexity. A separate TechRadar report notes the current fastest AI laptop, Dell's Pro Max 18 Plus, could be challenged by the new machines.
TechRadar · 🔥 0 - AI memory squeeze drives up device prices as the cheap electronics era ends
An opinion piece argues that AI data centers' appetite for HBM is squeezing consumer-grade memory capacity and passing the cost down to ordinary buyers. Citing TrendForce, it says smartphone LPDDR5X contract prices rose 78%–83% quarter-on-quarter in Q2 2026, with a single 12GB LPDDR5X chip going from $77 in Q1 to $146; Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron control over 95% of the DRAM market, HBM margins exceed 70%, and HBM's share of DRAM wafer capacity has climbed from 8% two years ago to 23%, heading for 30% next year. The article also notes Apple's Mac mini entry price moving from $599 to $799, Microsoft's Xbox Series S rising from $299 to $499, and Nothing scrapping the CMF Phone 2 Pro successor because memory was too expensive, and cites IDC forecasts of 10%–20% higher PC, tablet and phone prices in 2026 with smartphone shipments falling 13%. The author calls these increases a hidden "AI tax" consumers pay without noticing.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Nvidia RTX Spark laptops up for pre-order from $2,599, ship Oct 16
Nvidia's new RTX Spark laptops are now available for pre-order through Best Buy and manufacturer channels, with the first models slated to ship on October 16 and prices starting at $2,599.99, rising for higher-end configurations. The platform pairs a Grace CPU with a Blackwell GPU and unified memory options from 24GB to 128GB; the full chip has a 20-core CPU and 6,144-core GPU, while the lower-end tier uses an 18-core CPU and 5,120-core GPU. TechRadar picked three models for small businesses running local AI — Surface Laptop Ultra (from $2,599.99, up to 128GB), HP OmniBook Ultra 16 ($3,199.99) and Asus ProArt P16 ($3,399.99) — while noting that memory capacity alone does not determine model performance.
TechRadar · 🔥 0 - AI Data Center Demand Drives Global PC Shipments Down About 20%
IDC, Omdia and Gartner reported that global PC shipments fell roughly 20%–22% year over year in Q3 2026, with totals varying by their product definitions and methods. Omdia attributed the downturn to several factors, including AI data centers drawing memory supply away from consumer electronics, sharply higher DRAM and SSD costs, and demand weakening after heavy buying in the first half. Omdia forecast another 24% year-over-year decline in Q4, while Counterpoint Research projected a 27% decline.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - AI's memory squeeze: DRAM prices triple as PC and phone costs climb
Merchants in Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei market say memory module prices have risen more than 300% in a year, with 16GB DDR5 kits going from just over 200 yuan at their cheapest to 1,400 yuan or more, and 16GB DDR4 from about 100 yuan to over 600 yuan. The piece argues that AI servers need 8–10 times as much memory as standard servers, that roughly 70% of advanced memory capacity is being consumed by AI, and that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron keep shifting output to higher-margin HBM, structurally shrinking general-purpose DRAM supply. It also notes DRAM die costs rose only about 30% while end prices climbed 200–300%, attributing part of the gap to channel stockpiling and AI-themed speculation; phone and PC makers have raised prices, and Gartner expects average PC prices to rise 17% by the end of 2026, with sub-$500 entry-level PCs possibly disappearing by 2028.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - Asus ProArt P14 and P16 launch with Nvidia RTX Spark and Hermes agents
Asus announced the ProArt P14 and ProArt P16 laptops, both built around Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip, which Asus says offers up to 1 PFLOP of FP4 AI compute and 128GB of unified memory for on-device model inference and AI agent workflows. Both machines also integrate Nous Research's open-source Hermes platform, which can chain desktop apps, terminals and local files for multi-step tasks with long-term memory and sandboxed environments. Pre-orders are open now, with availability on October 16 at 8pm; starting prices are NT$169,999 (P14) and NT$179,999 (P16), while the 128GB pre-order configurations cost NT$249,999 and NT$269,999. Asus also teased the ProArt GR1X Agent Computer, a desktop on-device AI hub, for launch in Taiwan this month.
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