It’s not taking long for device makers to embrace NVIDIA’s entrance into the consumer PC market with RTX Spark, an Arm-based chip introduced at Computex and designed to power a new wave of systems for the agentic AI era. Count Microsoft among them, and not just because of its Windows platform. On the hardware side, Microsoft announced an RTX
Our team is on the ground in Taipei for Computex 2026. For the first time, we’re peeling back the curtain to show you exactly how we’re covering it, documenting our trials and tribulations during the massive event.
Microsoft and Nvidia are working together to bring popular anti-cheat software to the new RTX Spark chip, allowing support for all major multiplayer games. So far, Fortnite is the only game that runs on Windows-on-Arm devices with a native ARM64 port for Easy Anti-Cheat, but the precedent is about to change.
Asus has used its Computex press event to showcase a huge celebration of its ROG gaming sub-brand with commemorative gear including the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20.
The BIS just issued a clarification that Chinese-owned subsidiaries are included in U.S. export controls, even if they’re based outside of China. However, one source said that some companies have been using this loophole to acquire AI chips that estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands.
A University of Toronto experiment showing that photons can spend a negative amount of time inside a cloud of atoms has been published in Physical Review Letters.