MSI has revealed a new gaming desktop with a holographic AI assistant built right into the front of the PC. The AI appears as a virtual avatar inside MSI’s new “AI Holostage” display and can help users monitor system performance, switch performance modes, control RGB lighting, adjust monitor settings, and use AI features using voice or commands. Specs: - Intel Core Ultra processor - Up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics - DDR5 memory - PCIe 5.0 SSD storage - Wi-Fi 7 connectivity - 5G Ethernet - Thunderbolt 5 support - 360mm liquid cooling system - Up to 3400 TOPS AI performance - MSI AI Holostage holographic display with AI avatar The desktop is designed for high-end gaming and AI workloads. MSI has yet to announce official pricing, but I think it will be very expensive.

FOR 40 YEARS YOU LAUNCHED APPS. Click. Type. Wait. NVIDIA and Microsoft just ended that era. RTX Spark is a 1-petaflop superchip built into a laptop thin enough to be 14mm and light enough to be 3 pounds. Not a data center. Not a cloud subscription. A laptop that runs 120-billion-parameter models with 1 million token context locally, privately, and offline. Hermes Agent and OpenClaw are already building native Windows apps for it. Adobe is rearchitecting Photoshop and Premiere from the ground up for it. Jensen Huang called it the new PC. 128GB unified memory. Full Blackwell GPU. All-day battery. The PC just stopped being a tool. It became a teammate. Available this fall from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI. Follow @neil_xbt for more AI and hardware intelligence.

Microsoft just dropped the most powerful laptop EVER. Surface Laptop Ultra is a 15-inch NVIDIA-powered laptop built to run local AI models, creative work, and gaming. NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Arm superchip: 20 Arm cores + Blackwell GPU (6,144 CUDA) 128GB unified memory Runs 120B models locally All packed into a thin laptop that barely throttles when you unplug it. But the specs aren't the story. The story is what it's built for. Running AI agents locally. On your machine. No cloud. No internet. 24/7. Your personal AI doesn't live on someone else's server anymore. It lives inside your laptop. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI are all shipping devices with this chip. Microsoft just put their name on the flagship. Coming Fall 2026. The laptop hasn't changed in three decades. This is the moment it finally did. This is the future of agentic PCs. Big win for creators and devs.

🚨do you understand what just happened with NVIDIA RTX Spark.. Jensen Huang walked on stage and pulled an entire gaming PC out of his pocket. NVIDIA merged the CPU, RTX GPU, AI hardware and up to 128GB of memory into one Windows-on-ARM superchip and called it the end of the PC as you know it. > 20-core Grace CPU plus a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores - RTX 5070-tier graphics in a 14mm body. > NVIDIA claims 100+ FPS at 1440p in 007 First Light and Forza Horizon 6, on battery. > It runs a 120-billion-parameter AI model locally, no cloud needed. > ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Microsoft already have 30+ laptops lined up for this fall. The whole internet has two questions: is it real, and how much. Nobody's asking the third - what happens to every other chipmaker if it is. FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

Riot Games has released a new update for Valorant’s Vanguard anti-cheat system aimed at stopping advanced DMA (Direct Memory Access) cheating hardware. Vanguard anticheat now damages the firmware of these devices upon detection. It can be repaired, but bricking a person's hardware without their consent or knowledge is highly illegal The update targets certain SATA and NVMe firmware setups commonly used in expensive DMA cheating devices. These cheats rely on external hardware to read game memory while bypassing traditional anti-cheat detection methods. Some users claim Vanguard now triggers IOMMU-related warnings that can temporarily block affected hardware until system settings or firmware are updated. These DMA cheats have become popular in competitive games because they bypass many kernel-level anti-cheat systems. Riot has worked with motherboard manufacturers including ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, and ASRock to address firmware vulnerabilities related to DMA access.

Motherboard manufacturers are facing a crisis in 2026 as PC builders delay or skip new system builds. A Digitimes report describes the situation as a collapse in the sector, worse than previous financial crises or the early COVID-19 period. Asus, the market leader, shipped 15 million motherboards in 2025 but only 5 million units in the first half of 2026. It is now targeting around 10 million for the full year, its lowest total in over a decade. MSI, Gigabyte, and ASRock are also projecting sharp declines, with some estimates showing drops of 25% to 30% or more compared to 2025 levels. The main reasons are higher prices for RAM and SSDs As a result, many builders are holding off on new rigs entirely. I expect a drop on the price so will be a good time to upgrade

NVIDIA is reviving the 2021 GeForce RTX 3060 12GB for a 2026 return. According to consistent supply chain reports, production of the RTX 3060 12GB is restarting. GPU supply is expected to resume in June 2026, with add-in-card partners ASUS, MSI, Colorful, and GALAX receiving new chips and beginning mass production of cards around July. So whats going on: >NVIDIA has reportedly delayed its planned RTX 5050 9GB model due to memory shortages and shifting production priorities. >The older 8nm Samsung process and GDDR6 memory used by the 3060 make it simpler and more cost-effective to ramp up quickly right now. >The card is positioned to serve both the budget gaming segment at 1080p and 1440p as well as local AI inference tasks that benefit from its 12GB of VRAM. The 3060 12GB will be very similar: >No major spec changes, same 3584 CUDA cores, 12GB GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, and around 170W TDP. >Price: new cards are rumored 200 to 300 dollar range >It will still lack the latest features such as DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation The details come from consistent leaks reported So yeah, welcome back old friend, the GPU market in 2026 is wild enough that we are time-traveling to 2021 for affordable 12GB cards.