ProArt, the ASUS sub-brand created by creators, for creators, today announced its participation at Adobe MAX 2026, where it will showcase a complete ecosystem of AI-powered creator solutions designed to accelerate content creation, streamline workflows, and empower the next generation of creative professionals. Event attendees can experience hands-on demonstrations of the ProArt GR1X, a new agentic AI mini PC, and ProArt P16 & P14 laptops, bringing powerful on-device AI capabilities directly to creators, as well as ProArt OLED monitors featuring exceptional color accuracy and HDR performance. The demos will span AI content creation, visual effects production, professional photo editing, and color-critical workflows.

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HARMAN Professional Solutions, the global leader in audio, video, control and lighting systems, today announced the JBL Professional 3 Series MkIII powered studio monitor family. Representing the most extensive redesign of the 3 Series platform to date, the new lineup includes the JBL 305P MkIII, 306P MkIII and 308P MkIII powered studio monitors, along with the JBL 310S MkIII powered subwoofer.

Building on the legacy of the JBL Professional 3 Series, the MkIII family introduces redesigned acoustic systems, new Class D amplification, simplified room optimization and integrated mounting options to support workflows ranging from compact stereo production setups to 2.1, surround and immersive monitoring.

Intel has added its highly anticipated "Crescent Island" Xe3P GPU IP as a supported platform to its Media Driver in the 2026Q3 release. This confirms that the company is working on bringing another GPU generation to the masses soon. With the Intel Media Driver 2026Q3, we learn that the GPU will support video acceleration as well. This means that video editing, video decoding and encoding, and processing will all be available on "Crescent Island," which we initially believed to be a GPU dedicated solely to AI inferencing. However, Intel will also power media processing workloads for workstations, and we expect to see similar features in video standards, like AV1 decode, as seen in "Panther Lake" and the upcoming "Nova Lake" with their respective integrated graphics.

If readers recall, Intel unveiled more details at Hot Chips 2026. Based on the Xe3P GPU IP, the graphics card is designed as a 350 W, air-cooled, PCIe format compatible with any configuration. The GPU itself features 32 Xe3P cores, 256 XMX engines, 32 MB of unified L2 cache, and 160 GB of LPDDR5X memory. This memory configuration is exclusive to Intel-branded "Crescent Island" graphics cards, while the company allows its ODMs to equip the card with up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X memory for maximum VRAM capacity.

AMD today announced the AMD Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package (MoP) adaptive system-on-chips (SoCs). The MoP architecture integrates up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X into a single package, delivering up to 288 GB/s of bandwidth in up to 60% less board area, letting engineers build high-bandwidth systems without the risk and time of board-level memory design. As physical AI, networking, and aerospace and defense workloads push more data through ever-tighter space and power budgets, MoP targets the designs that need it most: test and measurement, professional video editing, and VPX systems for secure communications and defense acceleration.

"For years, system architects had to choose between the memory bandwidth they wanted and the space, power and longevity their programs could actually live with. Memory on Package removes that tradeoff. Our customers can design for the system they want to build, not the one their memory constraints allow, and bring it to market faster."—Sumit Shah, head of product management and marketing, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, AMD

Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 21, a significant update introducing the new Photo page, which enables colorists and photographers to use Hollywood's most advanced color tools for still photos. Other updates include new AI tools such as IntelliSearch for fast content searching, CineFocus for focal point adjustment, tools for facial refinement, and more. The Krokodove toolset adds over 70 new graphics to Fusion, Fairlight folders simplify audio track management, plus there are improvements to keyframing, MultiMaster trim passes, layer list node graphs and more. DaVinci Resolve 21 public beta is available for download now from the Blackmagic Design web site.

DaVinci Resolve's powerful post-production workflow now fully integrates photo image editing. The new Photo page lets customers import and manage photographs, integrating with the color page for node based grading. Now colorists and photographers can use Hollywood color grading tools on still images. Use primary color correction, curves, qualifiers, power windows and node editor to adjust color in artistic ways across an entire project. Plus, customers can use a DaVinci color panel to adjust multiple parameters at once.