… By Devindra Hardawar June 1, 2026 12:42 am EST It was only a matter of time before NVIDIA released a powerful system-on-a-chip SOC to take on AMD's Ryzen AI Max and Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 chips . …
… As for potentially cheaper alternatives, MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+ will see competition from the Acer Predator Atlas 8 and a handheld from OneXPlayer, both of which also feature the Arc G3 Extreme chips.
… The only competition for NVIDIA's hardware on the PC side is AMD's Ryzen AI Ultra lineup, which are also complex system-on-chip designs with powerful CPU cores, built-in graphics, a powerful NPU and integrated memory. …
… Earlier in April, Amazon announced that it would invest $5 billion in Anthropic, with an additional $20 billion in payments available if certain milestones were met. Anthropic also agreed to use Amazon's Trainium chips for its AI models. …
… NVIDIA claims its offers 1 petaflop worth of AI performance including its GPUs, CPU and NPU , and says its graphics performance is similar to the RTX 5070 laptop GPU but with a power draw between single-digits and 80W . …
… Agentic AI will undoubtedly still be part of Microsoft's pitch, but the models the company uses and where its features are available could look very different. …
… That's a tough sell, unless you're planning on pairing it with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse and asking it to pull double duty as your main PC. …
… It has spent more than a decade designing its own chips. Since 2024, Microsoft has mandated 16GB of RAM — and 256GB of solid-state storage — for PCs that are part of its Copilot+ AI program . …
… If retailers can actually keep its price close to $549, it's one of the few semi-affordable options for decent 1440p gaming with a dash of ray tracing . But if that price still sounds too steep to you, it may be worth waiting until next year to see how the hardware market fares. …
… I certainly wouldn't recommend the XPS 14 for heavy gamers. But if you're forced to choose a new non-gaming system for work or school, it's certainly nice that it can play some modern titles well. …