local ai workstation

GMKtec has announced the EVO-X3, a $3,600-and-up vertical AI mini PC workstation built around AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, with early access beginning June 22, 2026 and global launch and shipping scheduled for July 6, according to TechRadar and GMKtec’s own launch materials. The surprise...

AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC platform has reached the U.S. as a compact local-AI workstation class, pairing 16 Zen 5 cores, Radeon 8060S graphics, and up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory in systems now selling from multiple OEMs. That makes it one of the most serious x86 attempts yet to...

NVIDIA announced RTX Spark at GTC Taipei and Computex 2026 as a Grace Blackwell-based Windows PC superchip for thin laptops and compact desktops, pairing a 20-core Arm CPU, a Blackwell RTX GPU, up to 128GB of unified memory, and 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. The company is selling it as more...

Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box on June 2, 2026, as a Windows 11 developer workstation for local AI work, pairing NVIDIA’s RTX Spark architecture with up to one petaflop of AI compute, 128 GB of unified memory, and tooling for agents, containers, WSL, CUDA, and Copilot. The...

Asus unveiled the ProArt Mini PC at Computex 2026 in Taipei, a 150 mm square Windows workstation built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform with up to 128GB unified memory, 10GbE networking, PCIe Gen 5 storage expansion, and a claimed 1 petaflop of AI performance. The interesting part is not that...

Microsoft and Nvidia announced at Computex 2026 that a new class of Windows 11 laptops and compact desktops will use Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip, led by Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra and backed by OEMs including Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, MSI, and Gigabyte. The pitch is simple enough to...