Asus re-enters tablet market with the new 12.2-inch Pad

Last month, a rumor suggested that Asus was preparing to re-enter the tablet market. Now, the company has officially confirmed its return to the category with the announcement of the new Asus Pad. The Asus Pad features a 12.2-inch dual-layer OLED display that offers a refresh rate of 144Hz, a 3:2 aspect ratio, 600 nits of brightness, and 2,800 x 1,840 pixels resolution. Under the hood, the tablet is powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 8300 chipset, paired with 8GB of LPDDR5X RAM and up to 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. Asus has also included a microSD card slot for storage...

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Nvidia claims its new Vera ARM CPU is 80% faster than leading x86 CPUs

Nvidia just announced the RTX Spark – this is AI server tech trickling down to the consumer space with a Grace CPU (20 cores), a Blackwell GPU (6,144 CUDA cores) and 128GB of LPDDR5X. Now here’s what’s next for servers – and maybe one day consumer devices too. The new Vera CPU is the CPU half of the Vera Rubin platform – the other being the Rubin GPU. Vera promises a 1.8x average speedup over “leading x86 CPUs” (Nvidia didn’t name them explicitly). Vera is massive – it has 88 Olympus cores (based on the ARM instruction set) with Spatial Multithreading for 176 threads per socket. The...

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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's RTX Spark is coming this fall

Microsoft's next Surface will be its most powerful yet. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra was just announced at Computex 2026, and it's taking the MacBook Pro head-on. The Surface Laptop Ultra packs the just-announced Nvidia RTX Spark system on a chip. It packages up to 20 ARM CPU cores, up to 128GB of LPDDR5X unified RAM, and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, which Microsoft says roughly translates to an Nvidia RTX 5070. The power draw is expected to reach up to 80W, so a low-powered 5070. Microsoft says the thermal headroom of the new Surface Laptop Ultra is 2.5x that of the...

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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's RTX Spark is coming this fall

Microsoft's next Surface will be its most powerful yet. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra was just announced at Computex 2026, and it's taking the MacBook Pro head-on. The Surface Laptop Ultra packs the just-announced Nvidia RTX Spark system on a chip. It packages up to 20 ARM CPU cores, up to 128GB of LPDDR5X unified RAM, and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, which Microsoft says roughly translates to an Nvidia RTX 5070. The power draw is expected to reach up to 80W, so a low-powered 5070. Microsoft says the thermal headroom of the new Surface Laptop Ultra is 2.5x that of the...

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Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 unveiled with larger 7.4" OLED screen, new TMR joysticks

The Steam Deck used to be the go-to x86 gaming handheld, but after the recent ridiculous price hike, it’s hard to recommend. There are alternatives like the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X, which launched last year at $1,000 (24GB/1TB). This used to be a lot of money, except the 16GB/1TB OLED Deck is $950 now. In our review of the Xbox Ally X, we pointed out some major cons for such an expensive handheld, e.g. having an LCD instead of an OLED panel and the iffy analog sticks. We have some good news and some bad news – the new Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle solves both issues. Wait, a bundle? Well,...

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vivo X Fold6 reportedly coming this month, specs tipped again

While a previous rumor pointed to an April-to-June launch window for the vivo X Fold5's successor, a new leak has now provided a more specific timeframe for the debut of the vivo X Fold6 in China. According to tipster Digital Chat Station, vivo is preparing to unveil the X Fold6 in China towards the end of June. vivo X Fold5 vivo’s upcoming foldable is said to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chipset. In terms of design, the device is expected to retain much of the look and feel of its predecessor, including a large circular camera module on the rear. However, it is tipped...

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vivo X Fold6 reportedly coming this month, specs tipped again

While a previous rumor pointed to an April-to-June launch window for the vivo X Fold5's successor, a new leak has now provided a more specific timeframe for the debut of the vivo X Fold6 in China. According to tipster Digital Chat Station, vivo is preparing to unveil the X Fold6 in China towards the end of June. vivo X Fold5 vivo’s upcoming foldable is said to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chipset. In terms of design, the device is expected to retain much of the look and feel of its predecessor, including a large circular camera module on the rear. However, it is tipped...

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