NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform pairs a 20-core Arm CPU with 6,144 Blackwell CUDA cores and up to 128GB of unified memory, arriving in Windows laptops and mini PCs this fall.
Sixfab's new HAT pairs the Raspberry Pi 5 with a DEEPX DX-M1 accelerator delivering up to 25 TOPS for local vision AI, starting at $63 for the 13 TOPS variant.
Armbian 26.5.1 lands with broader ARM board coverage, Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute' integration, AX210 wireless support, and a modernized build framework for custom SBC images.
Waveshare's RP2350B-Plus-W shoehorns the bigger RP2350B chip into the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W footprint, delivering 41 GPIOs, 16 MB of flash, and a USB-C port.
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
The best handheld gaming PCs for Bazzite in 2026, with updated prices, the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, Legion Go S tariff price notes, and Valve confirming Steam Deck 2 is years away.
NixOS 26.05 'Yarara' makes systemd-based initrd the default and drops future support for Intel Macs, while shipping GNOME 50 'Tokyo' on the desktop.
Dell's 2026 XPS 13 starts at $599 for students and $699 for consumers, with Intel Wildcat Lake or Panther Lake chips in a 1 kg aluminum chassis.
Radxa unveiled the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3-based Dragon Q8B and Dragonwing QCS6690 Q5E SBCs, plus DragonStation and DragonBay NAS systems, as part of a 22-product Qualcomm roadmap for 2026.
M5Stack's pocket-sized Cardputer now runs full Linux, swapping its ESP32 for a Raspberry Pi CM0 with a quad-core Cortex-A53, HDMI, Ethernet, and a built-in keyboard and display.
Acer's Swift Air 14 is among the first Wildcat Lake laptops, and Intel has already upstreamed the CPU, Xe3 graphics, and NPU support into mainline Linux and Mesa.
Acer's Veriton RA110 squeezes AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395, a 40-core Radeon 8060S, and up to 128GB of LPDDR5x-8533 into a 160mm chassis capable of 126 TOPS.
MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+ packs Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme, 32GB LPDDR5X, and an 8-inch 120Hz VRR display, joining Acer and OneXPlayer in challenging AMD's handheld dominance.
Valve's SteamOS 3.8.6 beta lands native HDMI VRR support and adds controller compatibility for the MSI Claw and OneXPlayer APEX and X1 handhelds.
Beelink's modular ME Pro mini PC/NAS hybrid is gaining Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, Ryzen 7, and Core i5 chip options, bringing a 50 TOPS NPU to a storage-focused box.
Wine 11.10 ships with VKD3D 2.0 for improved Direct3D 12 over Vulkan, native XPath support without libxml2, VBScript fixes, and 17 bug fixes.
