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BenQ, a global leader in visual display solutions, today announced its LK830ST, a powerful yet accessible 4K short throw laser projector engineered for mapping, immersive experiences, and corporate applications. Designed to bridge the gap between high-end simulation projectors and affordable mainstream models, the LK830ST delivers premium performance at half the cost of competing solutions.

Compared to high-cost large-venue projectors, the LK830ST provides a unique balance of performance, portability, and affordability, offering a powerful option for system integrators, educators, attractions, and businesses looking to create immersive experiences without overspending, making it ideal for making it an ideal fit for haunted houses, holiday mapping, indoor playgrounds, holographic exhibits, immersive training facilities, and more.
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GL.iNet introduces the Comet PoE (GL-RM1PE) KVM over PoE. Now featuring Power over Ethernet (PoE) connectivity and increased eMMC capacity to 32 GB, giving extended capabilities to IT professionals.

With PoE capability, the Comet PoE offers simplified, single-cable installation for power and connectivity, enabling deployment in hard-to-reach locations without the need for separate power sources. The upgraded eMMC storage of 32 GB compared to the Comet (GL-RM1)'s 8 GB supports local logging, image/video capture, firmware backups, and custom applications, significantly enhancing the flexibility and performance of remote access setups.
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HAVIT is proud to announce the grand opening of its first HAVIT Listening Audio Experience Center in Taiwan, bringing immersive sound experiences directly to music lovers.

At the new Audio Experience Center, visitors can enjoy an interactive audio journey. The store is equipped with specialized demo stands, allowing customers to personally test HAVIT's full range of headphones and experience the clarity, depth, and comfort of HAVIT sound before purchase. Whether you're into creation, commuting, or enjoying music every day, the store offers a hands-on way to discover your perfect headphone.
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BenQ, a global leader in display innovation, unveils unprecedented artistry and depth in gaming with the launch of the new MOBIUZ EX Series monitors. The lineup includes the EX271UZ (£849.99, available Q1 2026), the EX321UZ (£1,149.99, available Q2 2026), and the EX271QZ (£799.99, available Q2 2026). Purpose-built for open-world game explorers, the EX Series introduces Smart Game Art, a BenQ-exclusive technology that intelligently adapts to different art styles, along with Spectral Color Refinement and High Pixel Contrast technologies for breathtaking immersion in story-driven and open-world games.

"Our research shows that today's gamers want more than action—they're drawn to atmosphere, detail, and artistry," said Ajen Liao, Head of IT Display Products at BenQ Corporation. "We see gaming as a visual journey across beautifully crafted worlds. That is why the new MOBIUZ EX Series is designed to bring those aesthetic elements to life. We analyzed games in depth, fine-tuned color details based on game art books to reflect creators' artistic intent and players' immersive expectations. This launch marks a major step in BenQ's ongoing commitment to enhancing gaming experiences through color expertise. With a deep understanding of game art and advanced display technologies, we connect gamers and creators, helping them fully embrace and express their creative spirit."
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GMKtec today announced the global availability of its latest high-performance Mini PC, the NucBox M5 Ultra, on the Global website and European website. Designed for professionals, creators, and everyday users seeking performance in a compact form, the M5 Ultra delivers cutting-edge specifications with flexible configurations and worldwide power compatibility (Japan, US, EU, UK, AU).

The NucBox M5 Ultra is available in multiple configurations - Barebone, 16 GB RAM + 512 GB SSD, and 32 GB RAM + 1 TB SSD - allowing users to choose the ideal setup for their specific performance needs.
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When the announcement of NVIDIA-Intel collaboration hit, it hinted at the future of NVIDIA RTX GPUs integrated inside Intel SoCs. That left us wondering if Intel's own Arc lineup of GPUs—already planned up to Xe4 "Druid"—will continue to be used, or if they will be completely scrapped in favor of the RTX GPUs. According to PC World, an Intel spokesperson confirmed, "We're not discussing specific roadmaps at this time, but the collaboration is complementary to Intel's roadmap and Intel will continue to have GPU product offerings." However, this is very vague and non-specific. If using NVIDIA RTX iGPU in Intel SoC, that will leave only discrete Intel Arc designs to be sold independently. Additionally, maintaining a GPU driver and general support stack is an extremely resource-demanding thing. Intel's active company restructuring could ultimately decide the fate of the Arc graphics division.

As a reminder, Intel currently ships Arc "Battlemage" GPU generation, with the higher-end Arc B770 reportedly planned for the holiday season. The company plans to use a part of its Xe3 "Celestial" for graphics rendering and Xe4 "Druid" for media and display duties in its upcoming "Nova Lake" SoCs scheduled for 2026. We are yet to see when, or if, the Xe3 "Celestial" will make it into the hands of consumers, in any form besides "Nova Lake." For discrete GPUs, maybe that can be the appearance of Arc "Celestial" dGPUs in 2026, but that is all a huge question mark.

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Yesterday, NVIDIA's $5 billion investment in Intel and joint partnership to develop customized x86 processors made waves, as the biggest semiconductor names are teaming up to create the ultimate high-performance products for every segment. However, we were left wondering how the manufacturing side of things will work out, especially since Intel operates its own fabs and manufactures a great chunk of its products in-house. Intel also uses TSMC for some of its production. On the other hand, NVIDIA uses TSMC exclusively for its contract manufacturing services. That will continue to be the case with the new NVIDIA-Intel venture. During the press conference, Jensen Huang stated, "NVIDIA and Intel are both successful customers of TSMC. They are a world-class foundry and support customers of diverse needs. You can't overstate the magic that is TSMC. But today, our partnership is 100% focused on the custom CPUs we are building for data centers that can connect to the NVIDIA AI ecosystem."

Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan also reiterated the message: "We both still have a lot of respect for TSMC, and we will continue to work with them." Additionally, the Intel CEO mentioned its own 18A and 14A nodes, stating, "We will still work on 14A and 18A and see if that can be used at some point in the future." Rumors from early August seem to be correct, as NVIDIA was indeed evaluating the 14A node for trial production. While trial production differs from high-volume production as a customer, the approach to Intel 14A involves collaboration with customers. Hence, NVIDIA is likely conducting early testing and providing feedback to Intel engineers, who can then enhance the node before volume production. This doesn't affect any NVIDIA product roadmap for datacenters, which are firmly committed to TSMC nodes for the next year or two. However, it might make an impact in the coming quarters on consumer products or components, such as networking ASICs.

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As of January 1, 2026, Steam will stop supporting systems running 32-bit versions of Windows. Windows 10 32-bit is the only 32-bit version that is currently supported by Steam and is only in use on 0.01% of systems reported through the Steam Hardware Survey. Windows 10 64-bit will still be supported and 32-bit games will still run. Existing Steam Client installations will continue to function for the near term on Windows 10 32-bit but will no longer receive updates of any kind including security updates. Steam Support will be unable to offer users technical support for issues related to the old operating systems, and Steam will be unable to guarantee continued functionality of Steam on the unsupported operating system versions.

To ensure continued updates and compatibility, users should update to a 64-bit version of Windows. This change is required as core features in Steam rely on system drivers and other libraries that are not supported on 32-bit versions of Windows. Future versions of Steam will run on 64-bit versions of Windows only. We strongly encourage all 32-bit Windows users to update sooner rather than later.

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AI has the potential to unlock new and exciting possibilities in how we work, learn, and play. At Xbox, we're focused on how our innovations in AI can enhance and create more personalized experiences for players, save them time, and ultimately let them focus more on playing the games they love. Today marks a major step in our journey to bring these AI-powered experiences to players. We're excited to announce that Gaming Copilot, your personal gaming sidekick - which provides recommendations, help, insights, and more - is officially coming to Windows PC and Xbox on mobile.

Starting today, PC players will begin seeing Gaming Copilot integrated directly into their Game Bar experience as the feature rolls out gradually over the next few weeks. It will then come to the Xbox mobile app on Apple and Android next month, where players will be able to access this personalized companion via a second screen without distracting from their gameplay.
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Microsoft announced today that it will bring Fairwater, a purpose-built AI datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, online in early 2026. The new site is designed as the most powerful datacenter on the planet, serving as a hub for next-generation model training and inference. The campus covers 315 acres with roughly 1.2 million square feet across three buildings and will house hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs linked by fiber, which can reportedly circle the globe 4.5 times. While we don't have information on the exact GPU count, Microsoft claims the installation will deliver about 10x the performance of today's fastest supercomputers for frontier AI workloads. With the fastest already deployed cluster being xAI's Colossus 1, this means that this system could have over half a million "Blackwell" and "Blackwell Ultra" GPUs.

Over 90% of compute capacity will use a closed-loop liquid cooling system that is filled during construction and continuously recirculated, backed by what the company describes as the planet's second-largest water-cooled chiller plant. Around 10% of servers will rely on outside air and switch to water cooling only on the hottest days. Storage and I/O are scaled for exabyte-class datasets, and the buildout involved 46.6 miles of deep foundation piles, 26.5 million pounds of structural steel, 120 miles of medium-voltage underground cable, 72.6 miles of mechanical piping, and an external cooling array that includes 172 20-foot fans.
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NVIDIA's surprise $5 billion investment in Intel today came with an unexpected revelation - the two companies have been quietly working together for almost a year on fusing x86 CPUs with RTX and data center GPUs through NVLink. The result? Actual system-on-chip designs that could finally break the PCIe bottleneck that's been holding back AI servers. NVIDIA will handle the heavy lifting on design and manufacturing of these hybrid chips, integrating NVIDIA's NVLink directly into Intel's x86 silicon. It's basically the same approach NVIDIA already uses with their Vera processors (Arm + Blackwell GPUs), except now they're doing it with Intel's x86 cores instead of custom Arm designs. Anyone who's worked with current GPU servers knows the pain points. PCIe connections between CPUs and GPUs create bandwidth choke points, add latency, and make memory management a nightmare for AI workloads. These new chips bypass all that with direct GPU-CPU communication and shared memory pools.

The target market isn't just data centers either. Intel mentioned both server and client applications, which suggests we might see this tech trickle down to gaming laptops and workstations eventually. For now though, the focus is clearly on machine learning clusters and HPC installations where PCIe bandwidth is already maxed out. AMD won't be thrilled about this development. They've been pushing their own CPU-GPU integration story, but this Intel-NVIDIA combo could leapfrog their efforts entirely. The manufacturing question remains murky though. When pressed about using Intel's fabs for production, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gave a diplomatic non-answer about "perfecting the process" first. Reading between the lines, TSMC will probably keep making the actual chips for both companies, at least initially. Jensen said that basically for the start, NVIDIA will buy a CPU chip then sell a unified CPU plus GPU chiplet.

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AMD has released its latest AMD Software Adrenalin 25.9.2 drivers, adding support for the newely introduced Radeon RX 7700 graphics card based on Navi 23 GPU, bringing game support for Dying Light: The Beast, and fixing some issues.

According to the release notes, the AMD Software Adrenalin 25.9.2 drivers add support for Radeon RX 7700. The new Radeon RX 7700, according to AMD's product page, is apparently based on Navi 32 GPU with 40 Compute Units, 40 Ray Accelerators, and 80 AI Accelerators, leaving it with 2560 Stream Processors, 96 ROPs, and 40 Texture Units. It comes with 16 GB of 19.5 Gbps GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit memory interface, leaving it with 625 GB/s of memory bandwidth. In addition to the Radeon RX 7700 support, the new drivers also add support for Dying Light: The Beast game, as well as fixes some issues, including corruption in games based on the Godot engine with Vulkan API, intermittent application crash in Cronos: The New Dawn when Ray Tracing is enabled on Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards, and failure to launch issue when using the Oasis Driver with Windows mixed Reality headsets.

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Corsair, maker of award-winning performance gaming peripherals, today announced the SABRE v2 PRO Ultralight Wireless Gaming Mouse, engineered for professional esports athletes and competitive FPS gamers who demand every possible edge. The lightest Corsair mouse ever, the SABRE v2 PRO weighs just 36 g and combines ultralight design with cutting-edge technology such as 8,000 Hz polling in both wired and wireless mode. It's also equipped with the new Corsair MARKSMAN S sensor that delivers 33K DPI and the highest resolution accuracy of any Corsair mouse yet, for accuracy above and beyond what professional gamers expect.

"Professional gamers operate at a level where every millisecond and every movement counts," said Tobias Brinkmann, Vice President and General Manager of Gaming Peripherals. "That's why the SABRE v2 PRO was designed hand-in-hand with esports players. It's built to win under the most intense conditions. It's our lightest mouse ever, paired with the fastest polling and most accurate sensor we have ever created, giving players a weapon they can trust when the championship is on the line."
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NuPhy's Hall effect gaming keyboards, like the Air60 HE we previouisly reviewed, Halo65 HE, and BH65, are pitched as alternatives to the likes of the Wooting 60HE, but one major concern for a lot of prospective buyers is the lack of support for analog input and controller emulation. A recent post on r/NuPhy on Reddit, however, revealed that NuPhy is currently testing analog input for its entire range of HE gaming keyboards, which would conceivably make them some of the most affordable Hall effect boards with the feature—when it eventually lands. It's still unclear when exactly the feature will launch to NuPhy's keyboards, but NuPhy recently launched a beta version of its NuPhyIO 2.0 web driver to test new features, so it stands to reason that it will be launched in an upcoming update to NuPhyIO.

The idea behind controller emulation is that you can map controller triggers and joystick inputs to specific keyboard switches so that the HE sensors and switches emulate the analog input of a controller instead of the binary input of traditional mechanical switches. The lack of controller emulation isn't a problem unique to NuPhy keyboards, with only a handful of Hall effect keyboards from brands like Wooting and Keychron currently supporting the feature.

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Lenovo recently opened pre-orders for the Legion Go 2, the company's latest Windows gaming handheld, but it looks like the manufacturer underestimated the hype around the Legion Go 2. A number of reports on Reddit indicate that, despite confirming pre-orders, Lenovo has cancelled or delayed pre-orders for the Legion Go in numerous regions. Initially, pre-order confirmations indicated shipping dates in early October, but as the end of September approaches, more and more users have reported that their shipping dates are now closer to mid-November—delays range between five and ten weeks, just based on comments online. It seems as though the majority of the delayed pre-orders have been in the EU, and Lenovo has since had to admit that it will be cancelling some pre-orders in order to meet demand, indicating that it anticipates the stock shortage to last for more than just the immediate future.

Lenovo has admitted to the stock shortage, and it has closed pre-orders on the official Lenovo store and in stores across the US and EU until stock is available. In general, the stock shortage, and what many perceive as a poorly managed launch, has generated frustration in the handheld gaming community, with many prospective buyers going so far as to cancel their Legion Go 2 orders in favor of something like an MSI Claw A8 with the same AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor. Others have opted to wait out the stock shortage, hoping that the five-week delay is the worst of it.

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