Gigabyte today announced the launch of AI TOP AERO, a new AI desktop powered by the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform. Positioned as a Personal AI Studio, AI TOP AERO combines an NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPU, up to 128 GB of unified system memory, and Gigabyte's cooling and compact chassis design. The new desktop expands Gigabyte's AI PC lineup, bringing local AI development, content creation and gaming to personal workspaces.

NVIDIA RTX Spark unites NVIDIA AI, RTX graphics, and unified memory in one slim, powerful Windows PC. Designed to run larger AI models locally--without cloud dependency--and move between creative work, development, and immersive gaming without missing a beat. Connect apps, tools, and workflows into one seamless experience. Private by default. RTX Spark brings NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform, ready for the AI workloads of today and whatever comes next. Delivered on the familiar, trusted Windows platform.

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 "Blackwell" workstation card has shown up at a US retailer, and it surprisingly costs more than the flagship RTX PRO 6000. As spotted by Alex Ziskind on X and corroborated by Videocardz, SHI Government Solutions listed the PNY-built model (VCNRTXPRO5500B-PB) with an MSRP of $17,999 and a discounted price of $17,408.63. NVIDIA's own US marketplace, on the other hand, lists the RTX PRO 6000 for $16,000, even though that card has more CUDA cores (24,064 vs. 21,760) and more memory (96 GB vs. 84 GB). So even at SHI's discounted price, the cut-down card costs around $1,400 more. NVIDIA hasn't announced official pricing since it quietly added the RTX PRO 5500 to its lineup in September, so it isn't clear whether the $17,999 figure comes from NVIDIA or PNY.

Videocardz points out that Chinese demand is probably a big factor behind the RTX PRO 5500's price. According to Reuters, ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have ordered over 3 million RTX PRO 5500 cards at roughly $11,400 each, with total orders from China reportedly topping 6 million. One source said NVIDIA can make no more than 3 million of them in 2027. With the B300 barred from China and the H200 reviewed case by case, the RTX PRO 5500 is one of the strongest NVIDIA GPUs Chinese firms can still buy. The card also packs 28 GDDR7 modules at a time, even as memory prices keep climbing. With orders far ahead of supply, it's reasonable to expect RTX PRO 5500 pricing to stay high for a while.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50-Series "Blackwell" gaming graphics cards are expected to see significant price adjustments this week. According to Chinese ChannelGate, add-in card (AIC) partners have confirmed that price hikes are scheduled due to the ongoing demand for these GPUs outstripping supply. Some major AIC partners, like Colorful and Galax, have reportedly already started sharing information about these price increases. The most significant example is expected to be for SKUs based on NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 DV2, which will see an increase of up to 3,300 RMB, translating to nearly $500. Even entry-level GPUs are not exempt, as the GeForce RTX 5060 is expected to see around a $30 price increase on existing models. These changes are anticipated to be implemented this week for retail partners, meaning that consumer prices might take a week or two to reflect the new listing prices.Below is the list of price hikes in China, expected to be the norm.

GPU makers across Asia, particularly in China, are reportedly redirecting their sellers to older graphics cards as an alternative due to the low supply of NVIDIA's latest GeForce RTX 50-series "Blackwell" graphics cards. They are focusing on the recently resurrected GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3050, which are entry-level graphics cards from two generations ago, reminiscent of the "Ampere" generation. A ChannelGate report notes that some add-in card partners are already running out of GeForce RTX 50-series inventory due to cryptocurrency mining and e-commerce promotions in China, which are significantly draining the supply of these GPUs across retailers.

In June, NVIDIA reintroduced its GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB edition. This SKU features 3,584 CUDA cores and 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. For this, NVIDIA has once again used Samsung's 8 nm DUV node, as it did in the past. The entire NVIDIA "Ampere" architecture lineup was produced on the 8 nm DUV node. Reportedly, retailers are forcing sales of RTX 3060 and RTX 3050, in addition to some AMD Radeon SKUs, to offload demand for GeForce RTX 50-series designs. Below image is EVGA's older GeForce RTX 3060, not in production anymore.

TSMC is reportedly considering raising prices for its CoWoS (Chip on Wafer on Substrate) advanced packaging by as much as 20%, according to supply chain sources cited by Taiwan's Commercial Times. Foundries and outsourced packaging firms are apparently weighing another round of 10% to 20% increases, as CoWoS demand has spread beyond AI GPUs to server CPUs and custom ASICs, leaving a growing backlog of unfilled orders. TSMC hasn't confirmed anything yet.

Testing is turning into a bottleneck of its own. Nomura estimates, via Seoul Economic Daily, that NVIDIA's Blackwell takes roughly four times longer than Hopper in final testing, while Rubin could need seven times as long. Packages keep growing too, with TSMC already mass producing CoWoS-L at 5.5 times the reticle limit. Tool lead times have reportedly stretched from three to six months to as long as eight months. TSMC, which usually negotiates for discounts or extra features, apparently placed this year's equipment orders at existing prices instead, which says a lot about how tight things are.

Thermaltake, a leading brand in gaming PCs, AI workstations, and gaming PC components, offering a comprehensive portfolio of PC cases, power supplies, cooling solutions, gaming peripherals, memory, and racing simulators, today announced its complete lineup of AI workstations and gaming PCs. The new lineup includes the A1500 Dual Enterprise Flagship AI Workstation, A750 Professional AI Workstation, A550 Developer AI Workstation, CAPO X Dual AI Gaming PC, and View 380 XL Gaming PC, delivering versatile solutions for enterprise on-premises AI applications, AI developers, content creators, and gamers.

The A1500 Dual enables enterprises to bring large language model (LLM) applications on-premises while running enterprise AI workloads and professional content creation simultaneously. The A750 features a quad-GPU configuration designed for team-based AI development and professional computing, while the A550 allows individual developers and studios to test AI models, generate images, and produce content locally. The CAPO X Dual AI Gaming PC offers two system configurations for pairing AI agents with AI application workloads or gaming with livestreaming tasks, while the View 380 XL Gaming PC balances gaming performance with everyday creative applications. By combining high-wattage power supply technology, advanced cooling solutions, and years of expertise in hardware development, system integration, and testing, Thermaltake continues to expand its portfolio of purpose-built AI workstations and gaming PCs.

Earlier this month, leakers claimed NVIDIA had stopped allocating GB202 silicon to the GeForce RTX 5090, effectively discontinuing the Blackwell flagship. NVIDIA denied it a few days later, with SVP Jeff Fisher saying the RTX 5090 hasn't been discontinued and will keep shipping. Now, Moore's Law Is Dead (MLID) says the plans are still in place, and the RTX 5080 is part of them too. In the latest Broken Silicon episode, MLID read out a message from what he calls one of his oldest sources, apparently a major retailer, saying NVIDIA has set discontinuation dates for both cards in the first half of January 2027.

According to that source, the last RTX 5090 shipments arrived in September, while the final RTX 5080 batch should land by the end of October and sell through Thanksgiving. We recently reported that Micro Center has already marked its RTX 5090 listings as "Not Carried," which could be further evidence of the RTX 5090 leaving shelves. The retailer from MLID's video also says its system already has a placeholder SKU for an RTX 5080 24 GB, which aligns with BenchLife's earlier report of a Q1 2027 launch.

NVIDIA today announced the availability of NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops, bringing together RTX graphics and NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform in slim, premium Windows PCs for accelerated creation, immersive gaming and powerful local AI—rolling out from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.

Combining decades of NVIDIA innovation into a single superchip, RTX Spark delivers up to 128 GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance to run large language models and AI agents locally. On a single device, creators, developers and gamers can move seamlessly between their everyday workflows and emerging AI agents on the familiar Windows platform.

NVIDIA today announced that its new RTX Spark superchip that will power the next-generation of AI-native PCs, will be Game Ready for dozens of AAA games at launch on Windows 11, providing an uncompromising gaming experience that's maxed out for 1440p. The RTX Spark superchip features a 20-core Grace CPU and a GeForce RTX Blackwell iGPU featuring 6,144 CUDA cores. NVIDIA is closely collaborating with Microsoft and the various game developers to ensure not just Spark-native ports of popular titles, but also seamless translation of games to the RTX Spark platform for both the system- and graphics APIs.

A key announcement here is that NVIDIA is working with developers of competitive online games to ensure that their anti-cheat solutions work seamlessly with RTX Spark. Modern anti-cheat solutions rely heavily on kernel-mode interactions with hardware to ensure trust, something that has the potential to break in scenarios where games originally developed for Windows x64 machines are made to run on Windows Arm64 machine through translation layers. NVIDIA's developer collaboration ensures that the hardware-end of the anti-cheat trust-chain remains intact, and you should be able to play your favorite online games such as Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Fortnite, Marvel Rivals, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, Rocket League, RUST, THE FINALS, War Thunder, World of Tanks, and more.

INNO3D announces the AGS-4UMGX-R1 NVIDIA MGX 4U GPU Server, a high-performance platform built for AI training, AI inference, large language models (LLMs), digital twins, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.

Powered by dual Intel Xeon 6 processors and supporting up to 32 DDR5 RDIMMs, the AGS-4UMGX-R1 delivers the scalability required for modern AI deployments. The system supports up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and features the NVIDIA ConnectX -8 SuperNIC with eight 400 Gbps QSFP ports for ultra-fast AI networking.

NVIDIA has reportedly stopped allocating GB202 silicon to the GeForce RTX 5090, according to leaker MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) on X. "No more GB202 for 5090, confirmed," the leaker posted, adding in a follow-up that "all future GB202 supplies are RTX Pro exclusive." GB202 is the largest "Blackwell" graphics chip, and the RTX 5090 doesn't even max it out. The same chip powers the 96 GB RTX PRO 6000 with 24,064 CUDA cores, as well as the recently unveiled RTX PRO 5500, which pairs the RTX 5090's 21,760 CUDA cores with 84 GB of memory. Apparently, NVIDIA would rather put every GB202 it gets into those far pricier workstation cards. The company hasn't confirmed any of this as of the time of writing.

A second leaker, hongxing2020, posted "5090 EOL, 5080 24GB ready" alongside an apparent factory notice saying NVIDIA will no longer sell any RTX 5090 model, China-market D variants included. The same notice says an RTX 5080 24 GB will become the top GeForce card and the 16 GB version will be discontinued. That sounds a lot like the RTX 5080 SUPER, which was rumored with 24 GB of GDDR7 on the same GB203 chip, although it isn't clear if the two are the same card. SUPER cards reportedly reached board partners in July, only to be put on hold over GDDR7 pricing. As for the RTX 5090, I doubt NVIDIA would formally call this an end-of-life (EOL) move, since the chips are simply being redirected to a more profitable product line.

Frore Systems today announced LiquidJet Diamond, a new AI Factory liquid cooling coldplate featuring an integrated diamond spreader. The accelerating demand for AI Tokens, coupled with energy scarcity, is spurring hyperscalers to find new ways to increase the efficiency of AI Factories. LiquidJet Diamond Coldplate boosts AI Tokens/Watt and revenue by 35% compared to traditional skived coldplates, with the increased revenue flowing directly to profit.

LiquidJet Diamond builds on the previously announced Frore Systems LiquidJet coldplate. LiquidJet coldplate employs a unique 3D ultra short-loop multi-stage design which can be precisely customized to the power map of each GPU, including extreme hotspots. This precision is critical as GPUs grow in complexity and power draw to meet AI demand. LiquidJet delivers 12°C reduction in GPU die temperature which directly translates to 25% higher tokens/watt efficiency. LiquidJet Diamond adds an additional spreader with integrated diamond wafers to the coldplate bottom, positioned precisely at the hotspot locations. LiquidJet Diamond delivers an additional 10 °C reduction in hotspot die temperature, boosting increase in Tokens/Watt to 35%.

Alphacool International GmbH, based in Braunschweig, Germany, is a pioneer in the field of PC water-cooling technology. With one of the most comprehensive product portfolios in the industry and more than 20 years of experience, Alphacool is expanding its professional GPU cooling lineup with new high-performance water coolers designed for NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell and AMD Radeon AI PRO graphics cards.

The new ES GPU coolers are available for the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell, RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, and AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700.

ASUS today announced the global launch of the new ProArt P16 and P14 laptops, along with the compact ProArt GR1X mini PC, all powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark. Purpose-built for creators, AI developers and workflow builders, these systems boast high-capacity unified memory, a powerful NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and an ultra-efficient NVIDIA Grace CPU. The NVIDIA CUDA ecosystem and an expanding ASUS-exclusive agent-and-application solution make sophisticated local AI easier to deploy, personalize and use. NVIDIA RTX Spark unites NVIDIA AI, RTX graphics, and unified memory in one slim, powerful Windows PC. Designed to run larger AI models locally—without cloud dependency—and move between creative work, development, and immersive gaming without missing a beat. Connect apps, tools, and workflows into one seamless experience. Private by default, RTX Spark brings NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform, ready for the AI workloads of today and whatever comes next. Delivered on the familiar, trusted Windows platform.

Together, Hermes Agent and ComfyUI deliver a compelling local-first, cloud-flexible AI experience. By bringing industry-validated workflows and agent-connected creative tools to users' own PCs, they enable generative AI creation and AI-assisted development, with the flexibility to integrate cloud services when needed.

MSI, a global leader in high-performance and AI computing, today announced that the Prestige N16 Flip AI+ is now available for pre-order through MSI-certified partners in select markets.

Prestige N16 Flip AI+ is powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark, uniting NVIDIA AI, RTX graphics, and unified memory in one powerful and efficient thin-and-light Windows PC. Designed to run larger AI models locally—without cloud dependency—and move between creative work, development, and immersive gaming without missing a beat. Connect apps, tools, and workflows into one seamless experience. Private by default. RTX Spark brings NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform, ready for the AI workloads of today and whatever comes next. Delivered on the familiar, trusted, and secure Windows platform.

ASUS today announced a new 64 GB configuration of ASUS Ascent GX10, expanding the lineup alongside the existing 128 GB model. This compact AI supercomputer is designed to bring local agentic AI development within reach of more developers, researchers and data scientists. Based on the NVIDIA DGX Spark platform and powered by the full NVIDIA AI software stack, ASUS Ascent GX10 64 GB delivers the same petaflop-scale architecture found on ASUS Ascent GX10 128 GB in a memory configuration built for today's efficient open-source models—enough to build and run today's most capable 30-35B class models and autonomous agents. When workloads grow, two systems can be clustered with the NVIDIA Sync Cluster Assistant for 128 GB of pooled memory and around 1.7X the throughput.

Ubiquitous AI, engineered for more builders
Guided by its Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities. strategy, ASUS is working to put agentic AI within reach of every builder, empowering not only the early professional AI teams already running frontier-scale models locally, but the much larger early-majority audience of developers, researchers and AI-curious teams who are ready to start experimenting hands-on.

Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally.

Coming this month, NVIDIA DGX Spark will be available with 64 GB of unified memory from top manufacturer partners—Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI—giving developers, researchers and AI enthusiasts a new configuration with DGX OS and the NVIDIA AI software stack ready to use from day one.

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces two new rugged laptops, Dell Pro Rugged 13 Extreme and Dell Pro Rugged 14, purpose-built for field workers who need technology that performs in the harshest conditions. From utility technicians troubleshooting infrastructure in extreme weather to public safety officers coordinating response efforts in the field, both devices are designed to keep workers productive when conditions are most demanding.

Why It Matters
Managing a fleet of devices across distributed field operations demands technology that won't let workers down. Dell Pro Rugged 13 Extreme and Dell Pro Rugged 14 give IT teams a standardized, manageable platform that combines field-grade durability, AI-ready performance and advanced connectivity for large-scale field deployments.

Walmart's GeForce Week promotion briefly listed MSI's GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB Gaming Trio OC at $4,299.99, and it sold out after showing up in roughly 10,000 shoppers' online carts. The listing has since gone out of stock, according to Videocardz, who first spotted it. That price sits about $2,300 above NVIDIA's $1,999 MSRP, a premium of roughly 115 percent. On paper, that looks steep, but RTX 5090 prices have been climbing hard lately, with some cards reportedly passing $9,000 to $10,000 on the secondary market. Against that, $4,299 from a major retailer apparently looked like a decent option.

It says a lot about how tight the RTX 5090 market has gotten that 10,000 people still added it to their carts. Part of the shortage seems to come from AI firms reportedly picking up RTX 5090 stock in bulk before it reaches gaming-focused retail, though it's hard to say how much of the scarcity traces back to that versus general Blackwell supply limits. The MSI Gaming Trio OC itself is a solid variant, with 21,760 CUDA cores, 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, a 2,482 MHz boost clock, and a 575 W power draw. NVIDIA hasn't announced a successor to the RTX 5090 yet, so anyone chasing the fastest consumer GPU right now has very little room to negotiate on price.

Kopite7Kimi, a leaker with a strong track record on NVIDIA hardware, says the company's next-generation GeForce RTX 60-series based on the Rubin architecture is a 2028 product. "Unfortunately, GR20x is a product from 2028. That means they have postponed again," the leaker posted on X. Their earlier estimate was the second half of 2027, so this is another "delay," if you can even call it that. NVIDIA hasn't said anything official about RTX 60-series timing, so treat it as a rumor for now.

Interestingly, this new leak seems to align with what prominent leaker Kepler_L2 claimed a few days ago: that Rubin gaming GPUs would only arrive in 2028. It also goes against leaker Moore's Law Is Dead, who said about a week ago that an NVIDIA source told them gaming Rubin was greenlit for the first half of 2027. Two leakers against one doesn't settle anything, and we don't know who is right yet, but the 2028 timing does seem more likely given the current industry conditions. Of course, these plans can change before 2028, as the memory supply situation is currently very volatile, and hardware roadmaps are changing almost on a weekly basis.

NVIDIA today quietly added another card to its pro-viz product lineup with the RTX PRO 5500 "Blackwell" workstation GPU edition. Featuring 84 GB of GDDR7 memory, it is equipped with a GB202 die that includes 21,760 CUDA cores. This is the same CUDA core count as the consumer GeForce RTX 5090 SKU, but it is now certified for professional workloads and has a much higher memory capacity. The 84 GB of GDDR7 is connected to the GB202 with a 416-bit memory bus that delivers about 1,398 GB/s of memory bandwidth. This would put each GDDR7 memory chip at about 26 Gbps per pin, which is a standard GDDR7 memory speed, but not the fastest available on the market. Additionally, to achieve the massive 84 GB capacity, there need to be 28 memory modules. NVIDIA placed 14 GDDR7 modules on the front side with the GPU die and 14 GDDR7 modules on the back of the PCB, effectively sandwiching the PCB.

Compared to the rest of the RTX PRO lineup, the new RTX PRO 5500 "Blackwell" sits just a tick below the flagship RTX PRO 6000 SKU, which has a slightly higher CUDA core count of 24,064 and a 96 GB memory capacity. However, the RTX PRO 5500 is also much more powerful than the RTX PRO 5000 in the 5000 tier. The RTX PRO 5000 "Blackwell" has a much lower CUDA core count of 14,080 cores, with up to 72 GB of memory. Technically, the new SKU is much closer to the RTX PRO 6000 than the RTX PRO 5000 SKU, just with a slightly lower core count and memory capacity. The official specification sheet follows, courtesy of PNY.

A repair shop technician has reported another melted 16-pin power connector on an ASRock Taichi TC-1650T PSU, paired with a $15,000 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition GPU. The former ships with native 12V-2x6 cables carrying ASRock's own NTC temperature sensor. According to the technician's Reddit post, the connector failed catastrophically on the PSU side and melted into the socket itself, even though both ends of the cable were fully seated. The GPU reportedly survived, and the damage was confined to the power supply side. The technician also says the sensor is mounted on the wrong side of the cable, on the ground line rather than the 12 V side it's supposed to watch, which would explain why it apparently never caught the rising heat in time.

ASRock added the NTC sensor and TempGuard system to its 12V-2x6 cables specifically to shut a system down before a connector melts. This time the system failed to catch the rising temperatures, but it has worked in the past. TempGuard reportedly caught a shunt-modded RTX 5090 pulling over 1,300 W, saving its power connectors from melting. On the flip side, this isn't the first time this exact GPU and PSU pairing has run into trouble either, as a similar melting incident on the same combo surfaced back in March. If the sensor placement is really off on at least some cables, that's a bigger concern than one bad unit, especially when paired with a card that costs as much as a used car.

A Chinese manufacturer is now selling a modified GeForce RTX 5090 with 96 GB of memory, three times the 32 GB on the retail card. Shenzhen Suqiao Intelligent Technology, an OEM/ODM with over a decade of experience building graphics cards, motherboards, and servers, listed the card on Alibaba for $3,888. That's roughly 35% less than a standard RTX 5090 currently costs in the US, and a fraction of what NVIDIA charges for its RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell. The latter uses the same GB202 die and now starts at a whopping $16,000.

Suqiao likely built this with a custom PCB running clamshell memory, packing GDDR7 modules on both sides of the board to double capacity, the same approach NVIDIA itself uses on the Pro 6000. The GPU die may come from harvested RTX 5090 units, reballed onto the new board and running on leaked or modified firmware, a method Chinese workshops already used to push the RTX 4090 to 48 GB VRAM. The listing does raise some doubts, though, since it mentions GDDR6X memory at 14 Gbps, which doesn't line up with a genuine 96 GB Blackwell build.

System76's high-performance computers have always met the challenges of AI, but with the Sept. 9 launch of the Thelio Mira AI, our customers can now purchase a lower-cost Thelio workstation that's optimized for AI development and local AI workloads.

The Thelio Mira AI - which adds new capabilities to our best-selling Mira desktop - offers a cost-effective GPU workstation solution for AI projects, prioritizing GPU compute. It's powered by dual NVIDIA GPUs and a lower-wattage AMD CPU to free up more power for those GPUs.

HP Inc. today announced a collaboration with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open-source solutions, to give organizations more choice in where AI workloads run, whether locally, in the cloud or across both environments. In collaboration with Red Hat, HP is developing an open, enterprise-grade AI platform to deliver purpose-built AI infrastructure powered by Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA.

HP's open enterprise-grade AI platform aims to help companies maximize local AI inference throughput with up to 20 PFLOPS FP4 AI performance, reduce environment setup time and deployment risk, and improve GPU utilization through optimized CUDA libraries, scheduling, and multi-GPU workload orchestration. Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA is an integrated AI platform, built on the industry-leading infrastructure of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift, for deploying and managing AI models, agents and applications across the hybrid cloud.