A shipping manifest leak points to Asus switching away from Intel to power a new NUC mini gaming PC using an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 CPU.

Asus says its new Q-Release Slim graphics cards removal mechanism does not damage graphics cards to a degree that they stop working. The company advises following the official removal guidelines.

ASUS looks to be making a new non-Intel NUC: rumored new NUC has AMD's latest (and kick ass) Ryzen AI Max+ 395 'Strix Halo' APU inside. ASUS is reportedly preparing a new family of NUC Mini-PCs that will be powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" APUs.

Since taking over the NUC line of mini PCs from Intel in 2023, Asus has continued to offer small desktops with Intel and AMD processor options. But so far the company has only used the NUC brand for models with Intel processors, while marketing AMD-powered systems as ExpertCenter systems.

ASUS's new Intel 800 and AMD 800 series motherboards and its new 'PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim' has already damaged NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was literally chuckling when talking to CNBC from Davos about the new rift in Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI. As part of OpenAI’s plans to team up with SoftBank and Oracle on a $500 billion data center project called Stargate, Microsoft is no longer the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI.

Both Asus Chromebook CR11 and Chromebook CR12 variants are available in CPU options of Intel N150 and Intel N250. They come with support for up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, up to 128GB of eMMC onboard storage and Intel UHD graphics. They run on ChromeOS out of the box.

With Asus Rog Zephyrus G16 laptop comes the efficient performance capability of AMD Ryzen and Intel Core Processors and is backed by NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, 4070, 4080 graphics card along with a large enough screen size of 16 inch display.

Intel published a paper by company researchers promoting modular laptop and mini PC designs to reduce e-waste.

Leo takes a good look at the ASUS ROG Z11 Mini ITX Case to find out what it's all about. Would you buy it? it's certainly not a bargain basement price point, so be prepared to dig deep into your wallet.

The mini PC is expected to land sometime this quarter, the barebones ASUS NUC 14 Essential has the remarkable price tag of R3 549, excluding VAT so expect to pay around R3 600 at checkout depending on the retailer. Barebones here means you’ll need to purchase your own SO-DIMM DDR5 memory (supports up to 16GB) and storage (M.2 NVMe or SATA SSD).

Leo takes a look at the new Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS. It is extremely impressive - and today he shows you why. read more here: <a href=" 00:16 Introduction 00:47 Unboxing The G14 01:32 No lighting in the lid - aww 02:37 Ports and connectors 03:06 Four distinct families / pricing / hardware 03:55 KitGuru Technical piece on Ryzen 4000 Mobile ( 04:20 Sampling issues for launch 05:09 The ‘HS’ suffix - 35 watts 05:49 Asus Armoury Crate / clock speeds / package power / temperatures 09:29 The Triangle Discussion 10:00 Ryzen 4900HS - it's impressive!