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The Samsung Galaxy Book6 Series of laptops that launched earlier this year with Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs is welcoming a new Qualcomm-powered model, the Galaxy Book6 Edge. The 16-inch laptop is powered by a Snapdragon X2 Elite chip, and it also offers 16GB of memory and 1TB of storage for $2,099.99. The Galaxy Book6 Edge is the successor to the Galaxy Book4 Edge from 2024, which used Qualc

Microsoft has just announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, which will be powered by Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip for premium ARM-based laptops and mini PCs. The Surface Laptop Ultra will start shipping later this fall alongside other RTX Spark-powered devices, and Microsoft said that it’s “the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built.” Surface devices have never shipped with the latest and greatest spe

Nvidia just revealed at its GTC conference in Taipei the RTX Spark, a new family of superchips that will power premium laptops and PCs from Microsoft, Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo, and MSI later this fall. Nvidia has teamed up with Microsoft to optimize its RTX Spark chips for efficiency and power management, and Nvidia promised industry-leading performance for AI-powered workloads and PC gaming. The N

Multiple leaks point to a Monday reveal of new Nvidia chipsets that will power Windows 11 on Arm-based PCs this year. Nvidia has allegedly created multiple chipset tiers, and Dell, Microsoft, and other hardware makers will allegedly announce new PCs, all timed for the opening day of the Computex conference in Taiwan. Rumors about Nvidia’s re-entry into PC chipsets–the firm powered the first Arm-b

Well, that was quick: Qualcomm is expanding its Snapdragon chips for PCs with a new low-cost entry called Snapdragon C that’s designed for PCs that cost $300 and up. And it’s partnering with Acer, HP, and Lenovo to bring new PCs to market soon. And no, “C” doesn’t stand for cheap. It stands for “Compute,” the name of the business within Qualcomm that makes its PC chips. “As costs rise and custom

Discord is now available as a native app on Qualcomm-powered PCs. As spotted by Neowin, an ARM64 installer is now available from Discord’s website as an alternative to the x86 version. The company has yet to communicate the public release of this new ARM64 version, which was said to be in the early stages of development last year. Discord could already run through emulation on Windows on ARM, but

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