Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced. 

The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like tools, plus a Copilot “super app” to go along with some of the major changes to Windows 11 that have already started appearing. Microsoft just announced the new Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark, so there could be more Windows on ARM news in store. 

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Computex 2026 is kicking off in Taipei, Taiwan this week, where Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and other tech brands are announcing new laptops, handhelds, chips, and more. 

Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, its first family of consumer PC chips, arriving in laptops and mini PCs starting this fall. Intel is launching two new custom chips made for handheld gaming devices, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, which will power the upcoming Acer Predator Atlas 8. Qualcomm is taking aim at the MacBook Neo with its new entry-level Snapdragon C platform. Meanwhile, AMD’s responding to RAMaggedon by launching new versions of its old hardware and promising support for AM5 through 2029. 

Follow along here for the latest news and updates. 

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• Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
• Nvidia says ‘CPUs for agents’ are ‘our new major growth driver’.
• MSI put Vincent van Gogh paintings on two limited edition laptops.
• Only MSI could put this much dragon on a laptop.
• The MSI Katana and Venture laptops are getting a fresh redesign, but details are sparse.
• AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it
• The QD-OLED gaming monitor that started it all got a big upgrade
• Dell is bringing back the XPS 13 as a MacBook Neo competitor — with a temporary discount to $599
• MSI stuck a holographic AI capsule to its new desktop.
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• Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors
• Acer’s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games
• Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’
• Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of RAM
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• Qualcomm promises $300 Windows laptops with new Snapdragon C
• Acer’s new convertible laptop houses Snapdragon X2 chips and a garaged stylus.
• Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it
• A roughly $300 laptop? In this economy?