Computex 2023: all the news from Taiwan’s big PC show – The Verge

I need this display in my house immediately

2023-06-08T15:24:07-04:00

If I made a GoFundMe to buy this, would you all donate? (Don’t answer that.) | Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge

So, look. I understand that Apple just put out some fancy ski goggles, and now everybody and their mother is proclaiming the end of the physical screen as we know it. But like that one guy at the back of your college seminar, I would like to offer a quick counterpoint. It's called MicroLED. Specifically, I would like to discuss the Asus ProArt Cinema PQ07, a gadget that I spent far too long staring at in Asus' show floor booth at Computex 2023.

What is the ProArt Cinema PQ07, you may ask? Thank you for asking. It's a 135-inch MicroLED display. MicroLED is not to be confused with Mini LED - wherein LEDs are arranged into local dimming zones …

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The MSI Prestige 16 Studio Evo could be the most exciting Windows laptop of 2023

2023-06-03T12:00:00-04:00

* rubbing hands together * Yes. Yessssss.

Amid all the excitement over generative AI, valuations, and such, consumer PC news was a bit of an afterthought at Computex 2023. That's why I was so excited to discover this gem buried in the middle of MSI's very loud and crowded show floor booth: the Prestige 16 Studio Evo. This is coming in the second half of this year, with pricing still to be announced, and I am very eagerly waiting.

First things first: This device has received Intel's coveted "Evo" certification. The reason this is exciting is that, to my knowledge, no device with a GeForce RTX GPU has received the Evo certification since the program's inception in 2020. (It's possibl …

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Asus claims that it has totally fixed the ROG Ally’s battery life

2023-05-31T12:50:34-04:00

When Asus seeded the first units of its handheld ROG Ally gaming PC to reviewers back in May, it's fair to say that the results were… not overwhelmingly positive. Some reviewers loved the product, while others were broadly unhappy. But across the gamut, there was one thing that pretty much everyone agreed on: the battery life sucked.

The Verge's Sean Hollister saw a maximum of four hours from the device, whereas his ceiling on the competing Steam Deck (which has a battery of the same size) is closer to seven.

The criticisms rippled through the online sphere. Preorders were canceled left and right - around 10 percent of original buyers, by …

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If you want to be bilingual, try this GPT-trained language-learning Discord bot

2023-05-31T09:00:00-04:00

I am willing to bet that, at some point in your life, you have attempted to learn a new language and given up. Perhaps you took a few classes in high school but never continued. Maybe you downloaded the Duolingo app to your phone but never touched it. Maybe you started Rosetta Stone but lost interest. Discord and the language-learning platform Memrise have a possible solution for you: the Memrise Discord app, a new GPT-3-trained chatbot that can teach you new tongues from the comfort of your Discord server.

The problem with many of today's language-learning methods, in the experience of Memrise co-founder Ben Whately, is that they don't for …

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Nvidia became a $1 trillion company thanks to the AI boom

2023-05-30T19:39:39-04:00

Nvidia temporarily became a $1 trillion company on Tuesday morning, with its rising valuation fueled by tech companies big and small racing to add generative artificial intelligence tools to their products. AI tools made up the vast bulk of recent Google I/O and Microsoft Build presentations, and Nvidia's chips make it a key supplier for companies trying to build something with AI.

Its valuation pushed past the trillion-dollar benchmark as trading opened today at just over $405 per share, putting it in the rarified air previously occupied by only a few large companies such as Apple and Microsoft after they surpassed the significant mark in …

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Nvidia’s new ultra-low motion blur tech lets PC gamers have high refresh rates, too

2023-05-30T18:16:48-04:00

Nvidia is updating its Ultra Low Motion Blur (ULMB) technology, which could make gaming even smoother on high-end monitors. In an announcement on Sunday, Nvidia says its upgraded ULMB 2 feature is capable of providing over 1,000Hz of effective motion clarity with "practically zero" crosstalk - but only on 1440p 360Hz G-Sync monitors for now.

This means you no longer have to choose between having a more responsive refresh rate or reducing motion blur, both of which affect gameplay. Now Nvidia says the effective motion rate for a 360Hz monitor with ULMB 2 enabled is 1440Hz. "That means in order to obtain the same level of motion clarity witho …

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MSI is trying hard to be a premium laptop brand

2023-05-30T01:00:00-04:00

Here’s the new Prestige 16. | Image: MSI

MSI - a brand traditionally known for gaming hardware - has announced a bunch of laptops at Computex 2023, and there's an interesting lack of gamery among them. Instead, the company appears to be focusing hard on the premium lifestyle space with its mid-2023 offerings.

Notable among these releases is the new Commercial 14 series, a line of business laptops intended to compete with high-end enterprise PCs - the likes of the ThinkPad. I conclude this from the fact that MSI's press release highlights its "tailor-made solutions to enterprises through a series of optional security measures, NFC (near-field communication) and built-in Smart Card …

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Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters

2023-05-28T23:15:59-04:00

At Computex 2023 in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just gave the world a glimpse of what it might be like when gaming and AI collide - with a graphically breathtaking rendering of a cyberpunk ramen shop where you can actually talk to the proprietor.

Seriously, instead of clicking on dialogue options, it imagines you could hold down a button, just say something with your own voice, and get an answer from a video game character. Nvidia's calling it a "peek at the future of games."

Unfortunately, the actual dialogue leaves a lot to be desired - maybe try GPT-4 or Sudowrite next time, Nvidia?

Here's the entire conversation I hastily transcri …

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How to watch Nvidia’s Computex 2023 keynote (and what to expect)

2023-05-27T08:00:00-04:00

Computex, one of the biggest trade shows of the year for the laptop and PC space, begins in a couple of days. A number of companies will have big announcements, but the most anticipated event of the week is Nvidia's keynote, which will open the show on Monday morning.

The keynote speaker will be Nvidia's founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who - in case you missed it - added $7 billion to his net worth a few days ago following the company's massive Q1 earnings report.

Nvidia hasn't publicly released much information about the topics Huang will cover; Computex revealed that the talk would include "advanced developments in the fields of accelerate …

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