Acer’s value-tier Nitro 16 is its first gaming laptop to run AMD’s Ryzen 9 9955HX3D, paired with up to an RTX 5070 Ti and a 16-inch 240Hz screen; North America and EMEA arrive August 2026.
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Asus has announced the 2026 ROG Strix SCAR 18, a flagship gaming laptop built around what it calls the world’s first 18-inch 4K 240Hz mini-LED display, with up to an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and 320W of total system power.
AMD’s $329 Ryzen 7 7700X3D and a relaunched 5800X3D arrive with the AM5 socket now guaranteed through 2029 — a longer upgrade path for anyone building on the platform.
Intel’s Arc G3 and G3 Extreme are its first chips built for handheld gaming PCs, debuting in the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ on June 23 — and breaking AMD’s lock on the category.
Nvidia’s RTX Spark is a Windows laptop and desktop chip with a Blackwell GPU that can game at 1440p or run a 120B AI model on-device — with machines from six OEMs due this fall.
Dell revived the XPS 13 at Computex from $599 (students)/$699, with a 13.4-inch 2.5K 120Hz screen, a 6-core Intel chip, and full x86 Windows. Philippine pricing is still to come.
The Surface Laptop Ultra pairs Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip with a 15-inch mini-LED screen and up to 128GB of memory for on-device AI; no price has been announced.