LIAN LI Industrial Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of chassis and PC accessories, announces the Vector V100, a sleek mid-tower chassis designed for builders seeking elegance and performance. Featuring pillarless front and side tempered glass panels, the Vector V100 showcases internal components with uninterrupted clarity. Its slanted front PSU shroud conceals a display platform, perfect for personalizing builds with collectibles. With support for back-connect ATX and microATX motherboards, robust cooling options—including up to a 360 mm radiator and 9 x 120 mm fans—and compatibility for large 415 mm GPUs, the Vector V100 is engineered for both style and capability. The case includes a GB-001 GPU anti-sag bracket and is available in black and white, with options for a barebone configuration or four pre-installed 120 mm ARGB/PWM fans.

Sleek Design with Showcase Potential
The Vector V100 is designed with modern aesthetics in mind, featuring pillarless tempered glass panels at the front and side that create a clean, unobstructed view of the internal components. Adding to its distinct style, the slanted front PSU shroud introduces a concealed display platform, perfect for showcasing collectibles or unique hardware. Complementing its modern look, the Vector V100 also includes a diffused addressable 26-LED strip along the PSU shroud, providing vibrant and customizable lighting, compatible with all motherboard software, that accentuates the build's aesthetics.

Lian Li displayed its upcoming PC cases at the Computex 2025 show in Taipei, including the Lancool 217 INF, Lancool 4, Vector 100, Vector 200, O11D Mini V2, and the DAN Case B4. The Lancool PC case series from Lian Li is quite popular, and the company is updating its iconic Lancool 217 by replacing the wood panel with an Infinity Mirror front panel with integrated fans. It will also include built-in lighting controls with wireless functionality thanks to integrated L-Wireless receiver, dual PSU support, as well as support for back-connect motherboards. Lian Li also unveiled the Lancool 4, with three sided glass design and precision cut openings at the front for fans, as well as vertical PSU and bottom chamber design for better GPU cooling. The Lancool 217 INF comes in October with price set at $119.99 for the black and $124.99 for the white version, while the Lancool 4 will be available in black and white color options and is also expected in October 2025 with price set at $129.99.

Lian Li also showcased its new O11D Mini V2, a successor to the currently available O11D Mini, and although it is a small PC case as the name suggests, it supports standard ATX motherboards (including back-connect ones). The rest of the features include support brackets for the GPU and 24-pin motherboard cable for a cleaner layout, bottom openings for optimized cable routing, and a slanted bottom for better GPU cooling.

The 63rd edition of the TOP500 reveals that Frontier has once again claimed the top spot, despite no longer being the only exascale machine on the list. Additionally, a new system has found its way into the Top 10.

The Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA remains the most powerful system on the list with an HPL score of 1.206 EFlop/s. The system has a total of 8,699,904 combined CPU and GPU cores, an HPE Cray EX architecture that combines 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for HPC and AI with AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators, and it relies on Cray's Slingshot 11 network for data transfer. On top of that, this machine has an impressive power efficiency rating of 52.93 GFlops/Watt - putting Frontier at the No. 13 spot on the GREEN500.

It's an exciting time in AI for business. As we apply the technology more widely across areas ranging from customer service to HR to code modernization, artificial intelligence (AI) is helping increasing numbers of us work smarter, not harder. And as we are just at the start of the AI for business revolution, the potential for improving productivity and creativity is vast. But AI today is an incredibly dynamic field, and AI platforms must reflect that dynamism, incorporating the latest advances to meet the demands of today and tomorrow. This is why we at IBM continue to add powerful new capabilities to IBM watsonx, our data and AI platform for business.

We have announced our latest addition: a new family of IBM-built foundation models which will be available in watsonx.ai, our studio for generative AI, foundation models and machine learning. Collectively named "Granite," these multi-size foundation models apply generative AI to both language and code. And just as granite is a strong, multipurpose material with many uses in construction and manufacturing, so we at IBM believe these Granite models will deliver enduring value to your business. But now let's take a look under the hood and explain a little about how we built them, and how they will help you take AI to the next level in your business.