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Apple expands App ‍‍‍Store capabilities to help developers grow their businesses and reach new users

Tech Scene ZA — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:49:18 +0000

Apple continuously invests in new features and services to help developers succeed and users discover their next favorite app. New App Store capabilities rolling out this year will give developers more flexibility to market their apps, acquire new users, and offer brand-new business models for Apple In-App Purchase.

New Ways to Market Apps and Games

This year, developers will have more ways to showcase their apps on the App Store with Creative Assets, rich images and videos that appear in the product page header and search results. In addition to standard screenshots and previews, these assets can be used to highlight a brand, promote seasonal offerings, or showcase new content. They also work with custom product pages and product page optimization, so developers can test and learn what resonates best. App Store Connect also supports a product page preview so developers can see how their Creative Assets, descriptions, and screenshots appear on iPhone and iPad across languages, in Dark Mode, and in portrait or landscape.

The new Asset Library helps developers move faster across marketing workflows, with one place in App Store Connect to manage all Creative Assets, app preview videos, and screenshots. Developers can reuse assets across custom product pages and In-App Events, eliminating redundant uploads and streamlining their promotional campaigns across the App Store. Developers can also submit assets for App Review approval independent of an app update, ideal for rolling out seasonal imagery or coordinating with an Apple Ads campaign without delay.

Enhanced Discovery and Engagement

To complement these new marketing capabilities, the App Store is getting new ways to connect users with experiences they are looking for. To help more people find apps and games they will love, the App Store will introduce new Personalized Collections based on user interests, along with App Notes that explain why specific apps are recommended. These tailored recommendations can appear on the Apps, Games, and Search tabs, evolving over time based on a user’s app usage and downloads. Personalized Collections and App Notes start rolling out this week in English in the U.S., with additional languages and regions coming soon.

To further boost discovery and monetization, game developers will also be able to showcase special offers to attract and engage players on the Apple Games app, using Featuring Nominations to propose plans for an in-game offer or a limited-time discount to the App Store editorial team.

Scaling Businesses with New Subscription Capabilities

The App Store is a powerful engine for economic growth, and Apple is continuously investing in new ways to help developers scale their businesses and reach new audiences. This year, the App Store will enhance Apple In-App Purchase, providing developers with new ways to offer subscriptions at scale. Powered by StoreKit 2, developers will be able to enable subscriptions for groups and organizations within their app using two new configuration options to easily build multi-user in-app purchase experiences.

Volume purchasing through Apple Business and Apple School Manager allows developers to offer subscriptions to enterprise and education buyers who already procure apps at scale. Seat assignments are managed seamlessly through existing device management workflows, which means apps and subscriptions can be deployed across an organization on infrastructure IT already trusts.

Developers will be able to use group purchases to offer their subscriptions to a range of users, from independent creators working together to full production companies. Group purchases let a subscriber buy seats as a single purchase and then invite others to access the subscription. With Apple-provided invite functionality, it’s seamless for people to invite, accept, and join a subscription. Because each subscriber joins from their own account, it’s easy to see and manage who’s in their group. Developers can conveniently set up both options from one place in App Store Connect. Volume purchasing will be available this fall, with group purchases coming this winter.

To help build long-term value and increase subscriber retention, new App Store Bundles will give developers the ability to partner together and offer users more for less. By expanding beyond a single-developer catalog, these new bundles will allow users to subscribe to multiple favorite apps from different developers at a better price. Developers will also be able to create Suites, offering subscription packages that aren’t available as standalone purchases.

Retention Messaging is rolling out to all developers in App Store Connect. These new tools let developers engage subscribers by allowing them to provide additional value during the cancellation process with tailored communications or special offers.

Streamlined Submissions

App Review plays a vital role in keeping the App Store a safe and trusted place for users, and Apple continuously works to make the submission process more efficient for developers. Updates to Apple In-App Purchase submissions will further simplify app management and boost developer productivity, allowing developers to group multiple In-App Purchases and related items into a single, unified App Review submission.

To further simplify the development and submission process, apps and games on the Mac App Store no longer require Intel support. This allows developers to ship Apple silicon-only binaries, eliminating the need to maintain multiple builds.

Supporting New Time Allowance Features

Once apps and games on the App Store are downloaded to a child’s device, parents can use powerful and intuitive tools, like Screen Time, to help manage when a child can use those apps. New Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids and teens spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. Time Allowances are developed based on expert research and tailored to a child’s age range to give parents a helpful starting point. Parents can adjust these settings based on what they determine is best for their child. And new Schedules let parents choose which apps kids and teens have access to at different times of day, making it easier to help keep them focused when it matters.

Developers will also have new ways to ensure their apps are properly categorized for these features within App Store Connect. To support Time Allowances, the age rating questionnaire will be updated in July, allowing developers to indicate if their app includes social media capabilities, such as interacting with user-generated content through a social feed. Apps will automatically be sorted into the appropriate Time Allowance category: Social Media, Entertainment, Games, or Other. This helps ensure that apps with social media features are accurately categorized and age-rated, providing parents with tools they can use to make informed decisions for their families.

The App Store continues to evolve to support a growing developer community while maintaining high standards for user safety and trust. With these updates, Apple is providing developers with the capabilities and flexibility to connect with a global audience, deliver safe experiences, and build sustainable businesses.

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WWDC26: Apple unveils next generation of Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, powerful parental controls, and an expansive set of software improvements

Tech Scene ZA — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:45:05 +0000

At WWDC26, Apple unveiled the next generation of Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, powerful parental controls, and an expansive set of software improvements across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS.

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Today, during the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple previewed its upcoming software releases that will deliver the next generation of Apple Intelligence and introduce Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri that is profoundly more intelligent, knowledgeable, and capable. The releases also bring powerful and intuitive new features to help parents create safe digital experiences for kids, as well as improvements that further elevate the software design and performance of Apple products while making them more responsive, delightful, and easier to use with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27.

“Apple products are an essential part of people’s lives, and this year we’re bringing powerful new capabilities to empower our users in even more ways,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “We’re delivering the next generation of Apple Intelligence across our platforms; introducing Siri AI, a profoundly more intelligent, knowledgeable, and capable Siri; expanding child safety features with intuitive new tools for families; and making our software platforms faster, more reliable, and more delightful than ever before.”

Next Generation of Apple Intelligence and an Entirely New Siri Experience

Leveraging a bold new architecture uniquely designed to protect users’ privacy, the next generation of Apple Intelligence powers Siri AI and brings helpful new features to apps users rely on every day.

Siri AI is an entirely new version of Siri deeply integrated into iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. It can draw on personal context understanding to search across messages, emails, photos, and more, and get things done across apps with even more systemwide app actions. Additionally, Siri AI can answer questions related to the content on a user’s screen or go out to the web to get up-to-date information using broad world knowledge and generate a helpful answer. A dedicated Siri app allows users to revisit a past conversation or kick off a new one — all in one place — and uses iCloud to privately sync conversational history across a user’s products.

The next generation of Apple Intelligence powers tremendous new features in apps across the system. In Photos, Spatial Reframing enables users to improve the composition of a photo after it’s been taken.

In addition to Siri AI, the next generation of Apple Intelligence powers tremendous new features in apps across the system to simplify the things users do every day, like editing images in Photos, browsing across multiple tabs in Safari, expressing creativity with Image Playground, communicating in Messages and Mail, and so much more.

New Parental Controls and Significant Updates to Screen Time

Powerful and intuitive new features that are easy to use help parents manage what their kids can see, who they can talk to, and when they have access to apps. By setting up a child account, parents can immediately enable age-appropriate protections across the system, and with Setup Assistant, parents can choose exactly which apps to make available and stay in control of what gets added over time. With communication safety features, parents can require approval for each new contact their kids connect with and enable automatic interventions if explicit or violent content is being shared.

New tools aimed at building healthier screen time habits make it easy to set daily total time allowances across Entertainment, Games, and Social Media apps, with a daily time allowance recommendation based on guidance from leading clinical and child development experts that gives parents a helpful starting point. Schedules let parents manage which apps their children have access to at different points in the day, and Screen Time has been redesigned to be more intuitive for parents, offering an at-a-glance view of their kids’ average device usage and top apps.

To help parents stay informed and learn more, Apple has launched a dedicated website that features the latest tools, helpful resources, and answers to common questions — like how to get started.

More Responsive, Reliable, and Delightful Experiences Across Software Platforms

The 2027 releases make Apple products even more responsive, reliable, and delightful to use through design refinements, performance improvements, and enhancements to the ways users work, communicate, share memories, enjoy music with AirPods, track their health, and more.

Improvements across platforms push key system capabilities forward so everyday tasks feel faster, smoother, and more enjoyable. For example, iPhone and iPad apps launch up to 30 percent faster,¹ photos load up to 70 percent faster after being taken,² and AirDrop transfers are up to 80 percent faster.³ During network transitions, moving between cellular and Wi-Fi networks is more seamless than ever, and browsing and transferring files between external drives and iPad is up to 5x faster — making it just as fast as Finder on Mac.⁴ In Spotlight, Photos, and Mail, the search experience has been rebuilt to make it more stable and efficient to help users find exactly what they are looking for. And in Mail, a completely new ranking system surfaces even more relevant results in Top Hits.

A new slider in Settings gives users the option to personalize Liquid Glass, adjusting it anywhere from ultra-clear to fully tinted to match their preference.

Refinements to the software design deliver an even more focused and approachable experience across apps and platforms. A new slider in Settings gives users the option to personalize Liquid Glass, adjusting it anywhere from ultra-clear to fully tinted to match their preference, and app icons have been updated to be sharper and more defined. On Mac, updates reincorporate cornerstones of the macOS design that users have always loved, including a more uniform toolbar across the top of apps, edge-to-edge sidebars, colored sidebar icons, and more.

Additional features coming this fall:

iCloud Shared Albums introduce cross-platform photo sharing with full-resolution support.

The Health app brings support for perimenopause and menopause in Cycle Tracking, including notifications about cycle deviations inclusive of perimenopause.⁵

On Apple Watch, a new dynamic app grid features the icons for five Siri-suggested apps, users can open a widget in the Smart Stack with a new tap gesture, and a new Find My app consolidates Find Devices, Find Items, and Find People.

AirPods users can now enjoy custom EQ to further personalize how their AirPods sound. And with expanded Apple GymKit functionality, users with AirPods Pro 3 can sync their heart rate data through iPhone while enjoying incredible audio quality.

Apple Vision Pro users can now turn panoramas into spatial scenes and use them as personal Environments, and connecting to Wi-Fi is up to 3x faster.

Apple Maps brings an enhanced Flyover experience, which combines aerial imagery with AI, allowing users to enjoy even more detailed visuals.

Availability

The new features are available for testing starting today through the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta will be available through the Apple Beta Software Program next month at beta.apple.com. New software features will be available as a free software update this fall. For more information, visit apple.com/ios, apple.com/ipados, apple.com/macos, apple.com/watchos, apple.com/tvos, and apple.com/visionos.

Users who enable Apple Intelligence on supported products set to a supported language will have access this fall with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27.

Apple Intelligence is available with support for these languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese, and Korean. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages. For feature and language availability and system requirements, see apple.com/apple-intelligence.

Apple Intelligence and Siri AI in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 are available on iPhone 16 models or later, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad mini (A17 Pro), iPad models with M1 or later, MacBook Neo (A18 Pro), Mac with M1 or later, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Watch Series 9 or later, Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later, and Apple Watch SE 3 when paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone nearby.

Some Apple Intelligence features, including image generation, have daily usage limits because they rely on powerful server models. Increased access is available with most iCloud+ subscription plans, which also include Apple Intelligence support for compatible Home cameras.

New Siri AI features are available for developer testing starting today across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27. Siri AI will be available for developer testing in a future watchOS 27 beta.

Siri AI will be available as a beta later this year for users with a supported device set to English, and Apple will quickly expand support for more languages.

Mac and Apple Vision Pro users in the EU will be able to access Siri AI when set to a supported language. Siri AI will not be available initially in the EU in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.

Siri AI and the other new Apple Intelligence features will not be available in China while Apple works through regulatory requirements.

Features are subject to change. Some features may not be available in all languages or regions, and availability may vary due to local laws and regulations. For more information about availability, visit apple.com.

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NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI

Tech Scene ZA — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:37:53 +0000

RTX Spark — a 1-Petaflop Superchip, the Full CUDA and RTX Ecosystem, and Windows-Native Agents — a New Beginning for Personal Computers

News Summary:

NVIDIA RTX Spark powers the world’s first Windows PCs purpose-built for personal agents, featuring 1 petaflop of AI performance, industry-leading power efficiency, full-stack NVIDIA AI and graphics technology, and up to 128GB of unified memory.
NVIDIA and Microsoft collaborate to deliver a native Windows experience for personal agents, including new security primitives and NVIDIA OpenShell to run agents securely on primary devices.
RTX Spark lets creators, AI developers and gamers render ultralarge 90GB+ 3D scenes, edit 12K 4:2:2 video, generate 4K AI videos, run 120B-parameter LLMs with up to 1 million tokens context using agents locally, and play AAA games at 1440p and over 100 frames per second.
Adobe is rearchitecting Photoshop and Premiere from the ground up for RTX Spark to deliver 2x faster AI and graphics performance.
RTX Spark-powered slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and premium displays, as well as compact desktop PCs available this fall from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and GIGABYTE to follow.

NVIDIA GTC Taipei—NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA RTX Spark™, a new superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents — offering a new class of computer that moves from tool to teammate.

Designed for AI, creating and gaming, RTX Spark brings together 30 years of NVIDIA innovation — including NVIDIA CUDA®, NVIDIA RTX™, DLSS, FP4, NVIDIA TensorRT™, NVIDIA OptiX™, Reflex and G-SYNC® — to slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and small, ultraefficient desktop PCs.

“The PC is being reinvented,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work. RTX Spark brings everything NVIDIA has built — CUDA, RTX, our AI platform — into a single superchip. Local agents. Frontier models. Creative workflows. RTX games. All on a laptop. This is the new PC. The personal AI computer.”

The RTX Spark superchip features an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores with FP4 precision, connected via the NVIDIA NVLink®-C2C chip-to-chip interconnect to a high-performance, 20-core NVIDIA Grace™ CPU.

MediaTek, a market leader in Arm-based system-on-a-chip designs, collaborated with NVIDIA on the custom CPU design, contributing to its best-in-class power efficiency, performance and connectivity.

Purpose-Built for Personal Agents
AI agents have reached an inflection point, with open source projects such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent achieving record-breaking numbers on developer networks like GitHub and OpenRouter. Yet broad adoption has been limited by the inability to run agents securely and privately on users’ primary PCs.

NVIDIA and Microsoft are partnering to address this challenge by delivering a robust, secure Windows platform for on-device agents.

The collaboration begins with a strong foundation — new Windows security primitives and the NVIDIA OpenShell™ runtime — to ensure agents run safely and under full user control.

The new Windows primitives deliver identity, containment, policy and end-to-end security capabilities to build and run agents natively. NVIDIA OpenShell provides additional policy capabilities for the user to define what agents can and cannot do, the ability to intelligently route queries to local models based on the user’s privacy policies, and the ability to disguise personal information in queries sent to cloud models.

This robust security and privacy layer is being adopted by leading agent developers such as Hermes Agent and OpenClaw in their new Windows apps. These new apps will make it easy and secure for users to access powerful on-device agents that can execute tasks in Windows applications, reason through cross-app workflows, generate images and video, code plug-ins and apps, and semantically search local files.

“We are strong supporters of deploying agents like OpenClaw securely into the Windows ecosystem,” said Vincent Koc, chief architect at the OpenClaw Foundation. “Running solutions like OpenShell and the Microsoft security primitives on RTX Spark will enable users to leverage a fully integrated stack for private, personal agents running on device.”

Powering agents on local devices requires both robust security and performant hardware. RTX Spark features up to 1 petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory to meet the processing demands of on-device agents.

“At Nous, we expect tasks to increasingly run on device as personal agents like our Hermes Agent become more capable and ubiquitous,” said Dillon Rolnick, CEO of Nous Research. “RTX Spark and NVIDIA OpenShell give Hermes users a powerful and secure environment for agents to run and work alongside you. You realize you’re buying a full-fledged assistant, not a typical laptop.”

From this foundation, NVIDIA and Microsoft’s collaboration will expand to new RTX Spark-powered Windows agent experiences accessible from the Windows taskbar user interface.

“Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows,” said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft. “RTX Spark marks a real breakthrough towards that vision.”

Full-Stack RTX Creating and Gaming
RTX Spark delivers the full NVIDIA AI and graphics technology stack to creators, AI developers and gamers.

Users can render ultralarge 90GB 3D scenes with OptiX and DLSS, edit 12K 4:2:2 video with the NVIDIA Blackwell decoder, run 120-billion-parameter large language models with 1 million tokens context, and play AAA games at 1440p resolution and over 100 frames per second with ray tracing, DLSS and Reflex.

In addition to support for existing technologies, RTX Spark will power new RTX capabilities, including DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction featuring a second-generation transformer model — coming to Blender 5.3 and dozens of games — and RTX Video with 4x Frame Generation, coming to ComfyUI.

RTX technology boosts performance, enhances image quality and adds powerful AI features in over 1,000 games and applications. Over 100 Windows software providers such as Adobe, Blackmagic Design, Blender, CapCut, ComfyUI and OTOY, and game developers such as KRAFTON, NetEase, Remedy Entertainment, Riot Games and XBOX are embracing the new RTX Spark platform.

“Blackmagic Design and NVIDIA have accelerated video production for many years,” said Grant Petty, CEO of Blackmagic Design. “Portable, lightweight RTX Spark laptops with fantastic battery life are going to help our customers take the next leap in on-the-go production.”
“Rendering is entering a new era where path tracing, AI and real-time workflows are converging into powerful new neural media artist tools,” said Jules Urbach, CEO of OTOY. “Our work with NVIDIA to bring OTOY Octane with Render Network support to RTX Spark will deliver a new class of portable systems for creators.”
“The combination of RTX Spark’s processing capabilities and large unified memory will make it one of the best-performing laptops to run diffusion models,” said Yannik Marek, cofounder and creator of ComfyUI. “ComfyUI users can now run highly complex, multimodal workflows and generate ultra-high-resolution images and videos with unprecedented speed on a portable device.”
“RTX Spark laptops change the game by multiplying the amount of context processing and putting it directly into a beautiful, portable chassis,” said Georgi Gerganov, founder of llama.cpp. “Highly optimized models running locally through llama.cpp with RTX Spark’s AI performance will unleash the next wave of personal, private agents.”
“We worked closely with NVIDIA to support a great gaming experience and are excited to expand access to XBOX on RTX Spark devices, making it easy for players to discover and play with XBOX on PC,” said Jason Ronald, vice president of Next Generation at XBOX.
“RTX Spark allows even more gamers to experience NetEase titles like ‘NARAKA: BLADEPOINT’ on ultrathin, high-performance laptops the way the developers intended,” said Long Cheng, senior vice president of Thunderfire BU at NetEase.
“Remedy is looking forward to bringing its games together with NVIDIA to these stunning new RTX Spark laptops,” said Mika Vehkala, chief technology officer of Remedy Entertainment.

Delivering Powerful Creative Experiences
NVIDIA is partnering with Adobe to rearchitect Adobe Premiere and Photoshop for RTX Spark. Firefly-powered Generative Fill in Photoshop and Generative Extend in Premiere are among the hundreds of accelerated tools that deliver creative power, precision and control. RTX Spark takes these capabilities further, delivering up to 2x faster AI, editing, coloring and effects across creative workflows.

“The best creative work in the world happens in Adobe tools from Adobe Firefly to Photoshop and Premiere, and the expansion of our partnership with NVIDIA and Microsoft will make those experiences faster and more powerful than ever,” said Shantanu Narayen, chair and CEO of Adobe. “Together, we are building AI-native creative experiences for RTX Spark that deliver the performance, intelligence and responsiveness people need to create at the pace of their ambition.”

Adobe Premiere will feature a new video pipeline that taps into RTX Spark’s unified memory, Blackwell GPU and TensorRT software, delivering real-time performance for editing and color correction, GPU-accelerated AI performance and more efficient rendering of complex timelines. In addition, Adobe’s Substance 3D Painter and Stager will run natively on RTX Spark for smoother and more responsive 3D texturing and scene creation workflows.

Adobe’s next-generation Photoshop engine will be optimized for GPU-accelerated compositing, enabling live filters, high dynamic range and modern natural brushing. The AI-native pipeline is built to harness the full power of RTX Spark, including TensorRT.

Adobe will further extend Premiere and Photoshop to allow users to create, edit and design with Windows agents, providing creators with a collaborative teammate to accelerate their workflows.

Updates to Adobe’s creative apps like Premiere, Photoshop and Substance are expected to start rolling out alongside RTX Spark availability.

Premium Designs in All Sizes
Engineered to be as slim as 14 millimeters and as light as three pounds, RTX Spark laptops will be available in 14- to 16-inch sizes and feature precision-machined aluminum chassis that blends durability with a clean, modern design. Color-accurate tandem OLED displays with NVIDIA G-SYNC technology provide stunning visuals for creative work and immersive gaming.

Small, ultraefficient RTX Spark desktops are built for agents, creative workloads, gaming and everyday productivity. Major hardware makers are rallying around RTX Spark, with many designs already in development.

“The next generation of PCs must be powerful, intelligent, mobile and beautifully designed,” said Jonney Shih, chairman of ASUS. “With RTX Spark, ASUS has the platform to build systems that define the future of personal computing.”
“Creators shouldn’t have to choose between portability and performance,” said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. “With RTX Spark, Dell is delivering RTX performance and massive unified memory in the XPS 16 Creator Edition, a laptop built for people who demand the most from their hardware.”
“Developers and creators demand uncompromising performance wherever they work in the agentic AI era,” said Bruce Broussard, interim CEO of HP Inc. “Our upcoming HP OmniBooks powered by NVIDIA will be one of the thinnest RTX Spark laptops, combining NVIDIA’s RTX performance, the breadth of the Windows ecosystem and the efficiency of unified memory to deliver unprecedented portable power for agentic developers.”
“The NVIDIA RTX Spark represents an exciting leap forward for AI-native computing,” said Yuanqing Yang, chairman and CEO of Lenovo. “Our long-standing partnership with NVIDIA continues to turn breakthrough innovation into real-world impact. With Lenovo’s engineering and design expertise, global scale and comprehensive AI device portfolio, we are delivering a whole new level of AI experiences to creators, gamers and AI developers together, offering more choices to customers to build smarter AI for all.”
“For users who want AI acceleration, advanced content creation and strong gaming performance in a single device, RTX Spark is a compelling new platform,” said Jeans Huang, CEO of MSI. “It has enabled MSI to redefine what a compact, efficient PC can deliver.”
“Surface has always exemplified the best of what a Windows PC can be. With Surface Laptop Ultra, we’re bringing that focus to creators, developers and engineers who need serious performance in a device that is thoughtfully designed, portable and deeply connected to the Windows tools and platform they count on,” said Brett Ostrum, corporate vice president of Surface at Microsoft. “Our work with NVIDIA will deliver a Surface built for the way ambitious work gets done.”

NVIDIA and Microsoft’s collaboration to deliver agents in the Windows experience extends from personal to frontier agents with NVIDIA DGX Station™ for Windows — scaling the Blackwell architecture to enterprise developers by putting an AI supercomputer for running agents deskside.

Availability
RTX Spark laptops and compact desktops will be available this fall from leading manufacturers including ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and GIGABYTE to follow.

Tune in to the keynote at Microsoft Build, running June 2-3, to learn more about Windows agent capabilities for developers, including new Windows security and containment primitives and NVIDIA OpenShell.

Watch Huang’s keynote and learn more at NVIDIA GTC Taipei.

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New Smart City Pilot Network to Bridge Digital Divide for 50 U.S. Cities

Tech Scene ZA — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:23:47 +0000

Powered by Intel edge infrastructure, a local California network demonstrates how micro-servers can deliver high-speed connectivity at a low cost.

BELLFLOWER, Calif. — A young woman unwillingly must leave her disabled mother at home to walk to the local library just to use the public internet to pay the household bills. A few blocks away, a family rations its online time, relying entirely on a son’s cellular data plan to check critical medical updates because traditional broadband is too expensive. At the weekly outdoor farmers market, small business owners regularly turn away customers because weak cellular signals prevent them from accepting credit cards.

These are the everyday realities in Bellflower; a suburb of 75,000 people located just 25 minutes outside of Los Angeles. Despite its proximity to America’s second-largest city, the community has long suffered from persistent cellular blind spots and high telecom costs that have left vulnerable residents behind.

Now, a new municipal network called Bellflower Connect is aiming to bridge this digital divide. By using a private wireless network of solar-powered micro-servers with Intel® Xeon® processors inside, and AI-driven cybersecurity at the edge, the public-private partnership offers an affordable, low-power blueprint for community broadband that organizers plan to scale to 50 additional U.S. cities under 150,000 people over the next few years.

Cutting the Red Tape

To get the network off the ground, the city of Bellflower waived standard permit charges, allowed reception towers to be built on public buildings, and bypassed lengthy request-for-proposal processes. This allowed project partner Tradewinds Networks to enter into a long-term revenue-sharing contract with the city. The funding was split through a public-private agreement, using a $1 million municipal transportation grant alongside $2 million put up by Tradewinds.

The program also includes a workforce development element, training local students to become certified wireless broadband technicians. Having won the 2025 Mobile Breakthrough Award for Social Impact, Tradewinds Networks aligned the Bellflower Connect project to meet sustainable goals, taking into consideration city health, economic development, innovation, and sustainability.

“This model allows us to aggregate services and delivery while making the network self-sustaining,” said Keith Alexis, chief technology officer and founder of Tradewinds Networks. “We then share revenues back with the community, which enables us to keep up a sustainable ecosystem that drives loyalty and usership. Additionally, our AI-based GuardTower solution runs on Xeon to keep the system secure.”

In May 2026, Bellflower, California city officials along with Tradewinds Networks chief technology officer and founder Keith Alexis, center, held a ribbon cutting ceremony officially opening the Bellflower Connect smart city network. One of the newly constructed Intel-based micro-server towers is behind them. (Credit: Tradewinds Networks)

Bringing Power to the Edge

The secret to keeping user costs so low lies in how the data is handled. Traditional wireless networks rely on sending data back and forth to distant, massive cloud data centers packed with expensive, power-hungry graphics processors. That data journey requires heavy infrastructure and immense electricity, costs that big telecom companies pass on to consumers.

Bellflower Connect skips the cloud entirely. Instead, the network uses a fleet of 80 slim solar towers and repeaters placed around town. Each tower backhauls to central locations that feature compact Dell PowerEdge XR8000 series servers running a 4th Generation Intel Xeon processor. This allows data to be processed right there in the city, and in some cases, on the street corner, a concept known as edge computing.

Because Xeon processors are highly scalable and versatile, they “snap” into these lightweight towers easily, operating at a fraction of the cost, power, and space required by a standard cloud setup.

“By having off-the-shelf Intel Xeon system-on- chip processors directly in the towers, street corner or city facilities versus sending information through the cloud, the system is scalable, modular, and information is processed faster, at a lower cost, and using less power,”
–Vijay Kesavan, a principal engineer for Intel’s Network and Edge Group.

This local computing footprint also creates a digital foundation for future municipal upgrades. According to Kesavan, cities can easily snap new services right into the existing Xeon infrastructure, such as smart street lighting, air quality or traffic sensors, and water utility leak detection.

High Tech at Low Cost

While connection to the network is entirely optional, the financial impact on residents who have been using it has been immediate. Qualifying low-income households receive free internet access through a home modem that links wirelessly to the nearest neighborhood tower. Other residents can opt-in for $15 per month, while local businesses can access the network for $39 per month. Alexis notes that’s far below traditional commercial carriers.

As of May 2026, about 60 households are using the service during its early rollout phase. By the time construction finishes in mid-2027, organizers expect 10,000 households connected to the network. Free public Wi-Fi will also blanket local parks, libraries, and the city’s outdoor markets.

Local business owners are already preparing for the transition. Joe Ung, owner of Cassidy’s Corner Café, is opening a new location in Bellflower that will use the network for his operations and customer Wi-Fi.

“Having easy, affordable, accessible internet is a win-win for everyone,” Ung told KTLA-TV in an interview about the new network in May. “A lot of times people don’t see the everyday expenses of running a small business. Anywhere you can save, it’s a huge benefit.”

Scaling the Blueprint

The expansion beyond California is already underway. Wrightsville, Arkansas, is scheduled to begin Phase 1 of its network installation this summer, with eight additional U.S. cities currently navigating the design review and approval pipeline.

Though the yearlong rollout has faced logistical hurdles, project leaders say the community response validates the effort.

“We’ve had many difficulties assembling the model for this network, from rising costs to delayed fiber delivery,” Alexis said. “But residents have testified about the value they’ve gotten from it in city hall meetings. When installers meet residents who tell them how this is changing their lives, it makes it worth finding solutions to this complex problem.”

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SK Telecom and NVIDIA Build AI Infrastructure to Power Korea’s AI Innovation

Tech Scene ZA — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:13:56 +0000

Korea’s Leading Telco to Add NVIDIA-Powered AI Cloud Capacity Built on NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Architecture to Accelerate AI Startups, Robotics and Industrial Physical AI

SK Telecom plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea using the NVIDIA DSX platform, with the first AI factory planned to come online in 2027.
The AI Cloud will support sovereign, physical and agentic AI services for enterprises and industries across Korea, building on SK Telecom’s network, data center and enterprise infrastructure expertise.
NVIDIA DSX will serve as the AI factory architecture blueprint, combining NVIDIA accelerated computing, systems, software and partner technologies to improve time to production and token performance per megawatt.
NVIDIA and SK Group are planning to expand their collaboration from AI infrastructure deployments to joint research on next-generation AI factory architectures.

June 7, 2026 – NVIDIA and SK Telecom today announced that SK Telecom plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea using the NVIDIA DSX™ platform, with the first AI factory coming online in 2027.

An AI Cloud is large-scale AI infrastructure comprised of AI factories that manufacture tokens, building blocks of intelligence, from data. Unlike conventional large-scale providers offering general-purpose cloud services, AI Clouds specialize in GPU-based cloud computing tailored specifically for AI workloads across training, inference and agentic AI.

SK Telecom’s AI Cloud will be built on the NVIDIA DSX full-stack reference architecture of software, hardware and operations producing the lowest-cost tokens at maximum energy efficiency.

SK Telecom’s AI Cloud will power training, inference and agentic workloads including sovereign, physical and enterprise AI services for companies and industries across Korea, with the vision to expand to greater Asia regions.

The initiative reflects Korea’s role as one of the world’s most advanced pro-AI industrial economies. Korean companies lead in telecommunications, memory, semiconductors, manufacturing, robotics, mobility and consumer technology — industries where AI is moving from research labs and chatbots into secure, production-grade deployments.

“Telecom networks are becoming national AI infrastructure,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “They connect people, companies, devices and machines — and now they can become the backbone of new AI clouds. With NVIDIA DSX, SK Telecom can build Korea’s AI cloud at scale and bring agents, enterprise and physical AI to the companies and industries that power Korea and the world.”

“Through our close partnership with NVIDIA, we have now secured full-stack AI infrastructure capabilities, from chips to data center operations,” said Chey Tae-won, Chairman of SK Group. “We will work with NVIDIA to tackle GPU, memory and energy challenges and become a leading AI factory player shaping Asia’s AI ecosystem.”

SK Telecom AI Cloud to Scale Agentic and Physical AI for Industries and Enterprises
The new SK Telecom AI Cloud is designed to serve rising demand for AI infrastructure, as accelerated AI computing growth continues to increase.

The new infrastructure builds on SK Telecom’s leadership in physical AI and agentic AI development. At GTC Taipei last week, SK Telecom announced its latest work in applying digital twins to SK hynix semiconductor fabs using NVIDIA Omniverse™ libraries, optimizing the technology for complex, large-scale manufacturing environments.

In April, SK Telecom revealed that it has adopted open source NVIDIA Nemotron™ datasets to train the A.X K1 model as part of the Korea government’s Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project.

Moreover, as part of this collaboration, SKT will become an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, joining a global program through which participants use NVIDIA’s latest AI infrastructure, software and developer ecosystem to deliver excellent AI performance and economics through AI cloud services.

NVIDIA DSX Platform Delivers Rapid Design, Ultraefficient Operations
The NVIDIA DSX platform is engineered from the ground up with extreme codesign for AI factories, built and operated to drive lowest token cost and accelerate time to first production across NVIDIA chips, systems, software, facilities and partner technologies.

NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS™ software delivers the lowest token cost by maximizing token performance per megawatt. NVIDIA DSX OS™ is the operating layer that helps providers increase revenue and improve margins with open source, modular software for lifecycle management, runtime consistency, health automation, resiliency and multi-tenant AI factory operations.

NVIDIA and SK Group to Pursue Joint Research for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA and SK Group today announced plans to pursue joint research to codevelop next-generation AI factory architecture, extending their collaboration beyond infrastructure deployment.

The companies will focus on silicon-to-grid innovation across accelerated computing, memory technologies and data center operations. NVIDIA and SK Group companies including SKT will also explore projects for full-stack AI factory optimization to drive more efficient, scalable and resilient AI services.

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GIGABYTE Unveils Next-Generation Gaming Peripherals with AORUS K10 INFINITY Keyboard and M10 INFINITY Mouse at COMPUTEX 2026

Tech Scene ZA — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:20:21 +0000

GIGABYTE, the world’s leading computer brand, unveiled its next-generation gaming peripheral lineup at COMPUTEX 2026, led by the AORUS K10 INFINITY gaming keyboard and M10 INFINITY gaming mouse. Built around the pillars of speed, control, and immersion, the lineup extends innovation beyond the system to every player interaction. To support both devices, GIGABYTE also introduced GiMATE Web Edition, a driver-free, browser-based platform that enables easier control, performance monitoring, and lighting customization across the AORUS peripheral experience.

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At the center of the launch is the AORUS K10 INFINITY gaming keyboard, engineered for more precise and flexible control. Built with tactical magnetic switches, it supports 0.1 mm trigger-point adjustment, multi-stage trigger settings, custom macros, an 8000 Hz polling rate, and a 100-million-time keystroke lifespan. A variable tilt system with 6, 8, and 13-degree options further enhances comfort for different play styles. These capabilities reflect the growing demand for more personalized actuation control and faster response in premium gaming keyboards.

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The AORUS K10 INFINITY also expands the keyboard experience with a built-in 3.1-inch full-color, 311 PPI retina-grade OLED touchscreen for instant access to profiles, trigger settings, lighting, audio, and performance functions. Its best usage is the built-in Combat Power feature. This allows users to monitor Actions Per Minute (APM), key mileage, precision, and error count in real time, turning the keyboard into an active interface for gameplay adjustment and self-analysis.

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Complementing the keyboard, the AORUS M10 INFINITY gaming mouse combines optical switches, up to 8K polling rate, providing responsive gameplay with even lower latency based on the latest mouse input. The mouse also features a hybrid structure: an excimer-coated shell to provide extraordinary skin-friendly touching, and an aluminum-magnesium alloy base for refined tactile feel, durability, and glide consistency.

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To complete the experience, the K10 and M10 can be fully operated by the GiMATE Web Edition, as a software-free, browser-based one-stop center that offers controls, monitoring, and lighting customization for a more seamless and portable user experience. Both the AORUS K10 INFINITY and M10 INFINITY will also be available in ICE white editions, giving gamers more options for personalized setup aesthetics.

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Visitors can experience the full AORUS gaming peripheral lineup at COMPUTEX 2026 at the GIGABYTE Consumer Booth, 4F, Booth No. M0520. For more information, please visit the official website.

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GIGABYTE Showcases Industry-leading CQDIMM Performance and Ecosystem Expansion at COMPUTEX 2026

Tech Scene ZA — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:09:57 +0000

GIGABYTE, the world’s leading computer brand, showcases its CQDIMM-enabled Z890 Plus series motherboards at COMPUTEX 2026, led by the Z890 AORUS TACHYON DUO X ICE. Designed for mainstream gamers and performance-focused users, the lineup supports full-capacity 256GB dual-DIMM DDR5 configurations and industry-leading memory speeds up to 10,400 MT/s through GIGABYTE’s exclusive D5 DUO X Technology. At COMPUTEX 2026, GIGABYTE further strengthens the CQDIMM ecosystem through collaborations with leading memory partners, demonstrating the evolution of high-capacity, high-frequency DDR5 platforms.

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At the core of the showcase is CQDIMM Technology, enabling full 256GB capacity with two 128GB CQDIMM modules for uncompromising performance without tradeoffs between capacity and speed. To fully unlock this capability, GIGABYTE integrates its exclusive D5 DUO X Technology, combining optimized motherboard circuit design and advanced BIOS tuning. The refined circuit design reduces memory channel loading and enhances signal integrity, while BIOS tuning intelligently manages timing, signal synchronization, and voltage behavior to ensure stable high-frequency operation. Supported models include the Z890 AORUS TACHYON DUO X ICE, Z890 AORUS ELITE DUO X, and Z890M FORCE DUO X WIFI7.

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To further enhance system performance, GIGABYTE introduces AI-enhanced platform optimization technologies across the Z890 Plus series. Ultra Turbo Mode intelligently optimizes CPU and memory frequencies with a single click, boosting performance by up to 40% while enabling DDR5 overclocking up to 10,400 MT/s. Multiple presets are available for different usage scenarios, including Intel 200S Boost for instant gaming performance improvements, Turbo Mode for higher FPS gains, and Extreme Mode for supreme performance tuning. Combined with AI-enhanced BIOS optimization and EZ-DIY innovations, the platform delivers a more accessible and user-friendly experience for gamers and PC builders.

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GIGABYTE also expands the CQDIMM ecosystem through close collaboration with leading memory brands, including BIWIN, CORSAIR, G.SKILL, KINGSTON, TeamGroup, V-COLOR, and XPG. These partnerships help validate high-frequency DDR5 performance across various memory modules, broaden ecosystem compatibility, and strengthen platform readiness for AI computing, gaming, content creation, and multitasking workloads.

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Experience the CQDIMM showcase at the GIGABYTE Consumer Booth #M0520 during COMPUTEX 2026. For more information, please visit the official website.

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MSI Brings Liquid-Cooled NVIDIA MGX and NVIDIA DGX Station to COMPUTEX 2026

Tech Scene ZA — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:07:16 +0000

Taipei, Taiwan – Jun. 3, 2026 – MSI, a global leader in high-performance server solutions, returns to COMPUTEX 2026 (Booth #J0605a) with liquid-cooled AI platforms built on NVIDIA MGX and NVIDIA DGX Station architectures for large-scale AI infrastructure and deskside AI development. Designed for demanding AI workloads, the CG681-S6093 AI server and XpertStation WS300 based on NVIDIA DGX Station architecture, deliver high-performance AI computing from data centers to deskside AI workflows.

“As AI infrastructure continues scaling in performance and density, liquid cooling is becoming essential for modern AI data centers,” said Danny Hsu, General Manager of MSI’s Enterprise Platform Solutions. “MSI combines liquid-cooled system design with NVIDIA AI platforms to help customers deploy scalable AI infrastructure with greater performance and efficiency.”

CG681-S6093 6U Liquid-Cooled AI Server and NVIDIA MGX Rack-Scale Architecture

Built on NVIDIA MGX architecture, the CG681-S6093 6U liquid-cooled AI server supports dual AMD EPYC™ processors and up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs supporting up to 1200W TDP, delivering the compute density required for AI training and HPC workloads. Equipped with NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs providing up to 8×400Gbps Ethernet connectivity, the platform enables high-bandwidth, low-latency communication for distributed AI environments, with a liquid-cooled architecture designed to sustain peak multi-GPU performance.

At the rack level, the liquid-cooled rack-scale system supports up to 4 CG681-S6093 GPU systems within a 48RU configuration, enabling scalable compute for multi-node AI workloads. NVIDIA Spectrum-4 SN5600 scale-out Ethernet and SN2201 out-of-band switches provide high-performance connectivity across AI clusters, while integrated power and thermal design help sustain performance and streamline deployment for large-scale AI training and inference.

XpertStation WS300 Desktop AI Supercomputer

The XpertStation WS300 based on NVIDIA DGX Station architecture, brings data-center-class AI computing to the desktop for AI development, fine-tuning, and inference workloads. Powered by NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip with up to 748GB coherent memory and 7.1TB/s HBM3e bandwidth, the system supports Windows-based AI development while enabling high-speed CPU-GPU data sharing for large AI models and data-intensive workflows. Dual 400GbE networking powered by NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNIC supports high-bandwidth connectivity for multi-node AI workflows, while the liquid-cooled design helps sustain AI performance within a compact form factor. During COMPUTEX week, the XpertStation WS300 is also showcased in NVIDIA GTC Taipei, at Taipei International Convention Center, which brings together more applications and use cases.

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MSI Triumphs at the 2026 European Hardware Awards

Tech Scene ZA — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:05:06 +0000

June 03, 2026: MSI is thrilled to announce a resounding victory at the 2026 European Hardware Awards, reinforcing its status as a global leader in gaming and technology. Known for pushing the boundaries of innovation and maintaining uncompromising quality, MSI continues to earn the trust of industry experts and consumers alike. MSI dominated key product categories. Award-winning lineups include the Best ATX and Mini-ITX Motherboards for Intel and AMD platforms, Best Graphics Card, Best Overclocking Products, alongside the Best Gaming Desktop and Mini-PC. This remarkable achievement highlights MSI’s dedication to excellence and its ongoing mission to empower gamers, creators, and professionals with cutting-edge solutions. As the industry evolves toward next-generation AI computing and immersive experiences, MSI remains at the forefront, shaping the future of hardware.

MEG X870E GODLIKE X EDITION

Since 2015, MSI’s flagship GODLIKE motherboard series has defined the pinnacle of innovation, delivering cutting-edge technology and uncompromising experiences to enthusiasts worldwide. For ten years, GODLIKE has continuously rewritten the rules of premium hardware. The limited-edition MEG X870E GODLIKE X EDITION commemorates this milestone, securing new overclocking world records and showcasing breakthrough features like Dynamic Dashboard III, EZ Link, and the M.2 XPANDER-Z SLIDER GEN5 with EZ Slide, all highlighted by exclusive X-shaped anniversary accents. Building on this monumental legacy, the MEG X870E GODLIKE MAX steps forward to carry the torch. Poised not only to break existing limits but to completely redefine the future of extreme PC building, it delivers unprecedented power and thermal capabilities for the most demanding users across the globe.

MSI MPG B860I EDGE TI WIFI

MPG B860I EDGE TI WIFI is a premium Mini-ITX gaming motherboard designed for Intel Core Ultra processors. Despite its compact size, it features a robust Direct 8+1+1+1 phase (110A) power design, paired with an Extended Heatsink with heat-pipe, and M.2 Shield Frozr for elite thermal performance. Equipped with DDR5, PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7, and 5G LAN, it delivers ultra-fast connectivity and it is the perfect platform for gamers and creators looking to build compact setups.

MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI

Powered by a 14-phase Duet Rail Power System, 80A SPS, and an extended heatsink, ensuring optimal performance and stability during long gaming sessions with AMD Ryzen™ desktop processors. With 2 x PCIe 5.0 M.2 slots, loading applications or games is seamless and lightning-fast. A front USB 20G Type-C port offers rapid data transfer speeds. At the same time, the PCIe Supplemental Power Connector delivers dedicated power to meet the GPU’s high demands, whether for gaming or AI acceleration, ensuring stable and consistent performance. The motherboard also supports full-speed Wi-Fi 7 and 5G LAN, providing ultra-fast and reliable gaming, streaming, and multitasking connectivity.

Cubi NUC AI 1UMG

The MSI Cubi NUC AI 1UMG delivers AI-ready performance in an ultra-compact 0.51-liter chassis. Powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors with integrated AI acceleration, it enhances productivity while maintaining energy efficiency. Supporting up to four displays via dual Thunderbolt™ 4 and dual HDMI™ outputs, it enables seamless multitasking for modern workplaces. With dual 2.5G LAN, dTPM security, MSI Power Link, VESA-mount support, and MSI Power Meter, the Cubi NUC AI 1UMG provides flexible deployment, enterprise-grade reliability, and intelligent power management for business and professional environments.

MEG Vision X AI 2nd

Powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor and RTX 50 series graphics, it delivers extreme performance. The core highlight is the revolutionary **AI HMI**. Featuring a 13-inch touch screen with intelligent context recognition, the AI HMI automatically optimizes performance and allows for intuitive system monitoring. It perfectly redefines the next-generation desktop experience!

MSI GeForce RTX™ 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z

The return of the LIGHTNING series marks a new chapter in MSI’s pursuit of extreme graphics card performance. Built upon a legacy of overclocking excellence, the GeForce RTX™ 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z brings together advanced thermal engineering, a meticulously crafted power architecture, and a suite of enthusiast-focused innovations designed to unlock the full potential of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5090 graphics. This uncompromising commitment to performance has earned the LIGHTNING Z both the Best NVIDIA-Based Graphics Card and Best Overclocking Product awards at the European Hardware Awards 2026. Featuring an integrated display for real-time monitoring and seamless software integration for precise tuning, the LIGHTNING Z delivers a refined user experience that complements its exceptional performance, setting a new benchmark for enthusiast-class graphics cards.

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MSI Showcases Liquid-Cooled AI Infrastructure, NVIDIA MGX, NVIDIA DGX Station and DC-MHS Platforms at COMPUTEX 2026

Tech Scene ZA — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:28:03 +0000

Taipei, Taiwan – Jun 2, 2026 – MSI showcases a comprehensive portfolio of AI and data center infrastructure platforms at COMPUTEX 2026 (Booth #J0605a), with liquid-cooled infrastructure at the center as increasing compute density drives greater thermal demands across modern data centers. The lineup spans liquid-cooled ORv3 rack-scale architectures for high-density AI infrastructure, NVIDIA MGX platforms for scalable AI training and inference, DGX Station desktop AI supercomputer for local AI development, and DC-MHS multi-node and enterprise server platforms for modular cloud and enterprise deployments.

“Scaling AI infrastructure now requires a balance between compute performance, thermal efficiency, and deployment flexibility,” said Danny Hsu, General Manager of MSI’s Enterprise Platform Solutions. “MSI’s AI platform portfolio is designed to support AI deployment from rack-scale infrastructure to local AI development.”

Liquid-Cooled and Air-Cooled Rack Architectures

MSI expands its infrastructure portfolio with OCP ORv3 liquid-cooled and standard EIA air-cooled rack architectures for modern data centers. The ORv3 platform targets high-density AI and cloud infrastructure, while the EIA architecture supports standardized deployment within existing enterprise environments.

The 21” 44OU ORv3 Liquid-Cooled Rack Architecture supports up to 100kW deployments with an integrated Liquid-to-Liquid Coolant Distribution Unit (L2L CDU). Configured with 28x 1OU2N Open Compute multi-node systems, the wider 21” ORv3 design enables higher compute density, efficient liquid cooling, and 48V busbar power distribution for large-scale AI infrastructure.

The 19” 48RU EIA Air-Cooled Rack Architecture supports standardized deployment within existing data center environments. Configured with 16x 2U2N multi-node systems, the platform enables scalable cloud and enterprise infrastructure integration within standard EIA racks, with both AMD EPYC™ 9005 and Intel® Xeon® 6 platform options for deployment flexibility.

NVIDIA MGX AI Servers and NVIDIA DGX Station

MSI’s NVIDIA-based AI infrastructure portfolio spans both GPU-accelerated AI servers and desktop AI supercomputing platforms. Built on NVIDIA MGX architecture, the AI server portfolio supports scalable AI training, inference, and HPC deployments across air-cooled and liquid-cooled configurations. Built on NVIDIA DGX Station architecture, the desktop platform delivers data-center-class AI computing for local development, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.

The NVIDIA MGX server portfolio includes 2U, 4U, and 6U GPU platforms designed for AI training, inference, HPC, and data-intensive workloads. Supporting NVIDIA H200 NVL, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000, and NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, these systems provide scalable GPU configurations across modern AI infrastructure environments, while extending MSI’s collaboration within the NVIDIA MGX ecosystem toward next-generation Vera Rubin rack-scale platforms.

CG681-S6093: A liquid-cooled 6U dual-socket AMD EPYC platform supporting up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Liquid Cooled Edition GPUs, 32 DDR5 DIMMs, and NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs with up to 8×400Gbps networking for AI training and HPC deployments.
CG480-S5063: A 4U dual-socket Intel Xeon 6 platform supporting up to 8 double-wide GPUs, 32 DDR5 DIMMs, 20 E1.S NVMe drives, and 5 additional PCIe 5.0 expansion slots for storage-rich AI and HPC workloads.
CG481-S6053 / CG480-S6053: 4U dual-socket AMD EPYC 9005 platforms supporting up to 8 double-wide GPUs, 24 DDR5 DIMMs, and 8 U.2 NVMe drives for multi-GPU AI and HPC deployments. The CG481-S6053 features up to 8×400G QSFP112 networking via NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs for distributed AI training and high-bandwidth GPU clusters, while the CG480-S6053 provides 5 additional PCIe 5.0 expansion slots for scalable AI infrastructure configurations.
CG290-S3063: A 2U single-socket Intel Xeon 6 platform supporting up to 4 double-wide GPUs, 16 DDR5 DIMMs, and 4 rear U.2 NVMe drives for inference, edge AI, and space-constrained data center deployments.

The XpertStation WS300 on NVIDIA DGX Station architecture is a desktop AI supercomputer designed for AI development, fine-tuning, inference, and data-intensive workflows with Windows support for local AI application and agent development. Powered by the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, the platform supports up to 748GB coherent memory and 7.1TB/s HBM3e bandwidth for high-speed CPU-GPU communication and large AI model processing. Dual 400GbE networking via NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs and liquid-cooled thermal design further enable data-center-class AI computing within a compact deskside form factor.

DC-MHS Open Compute and Core Compute Multi-Node Platforms

MSI offers both 21” Open Compute and 19” Core Compute multi-node platforms for hyperscale and cloud data centers. Built on DC-MHS architecture, these systems enable modular platform integration, scalable infrastructure deployment, and simplified platform transition across modern compute environments.

The 21” Open Compute portfolio includes air-cooled and liquid-cooled 1OU2N, 2OU2N, and 2OU4N platforms optimized for high-density AI and cloud infrastructure with 48Vdc busbar power distribution.

CD281-S4051-X4 (Liquid Cooling): A liquid-cooled 2OU 4-Node platform supporting a single AMD EPYC 9005 processor, 12 DDR5 DIMMs, and 4 E1.S NVMe bays per node for AI inference and cloud-native infrastructure.
CD281-S4051-X2: A 2OU 2-Node platform supporting a single AMD EPYC 9005 processor, 12 DDR5 DIMMs, 12 E3.S NVMe bays, and dual FHHL PCIe 5.0 expansion slots per node for storage-rich cloud and scale-out deployments.

The 19” Core Compute portfolio spans 2U2N and 2U4N platforms for enterprise and cloud infrastructure deployment within standard 19” EIA rack environments.

CD270-S3071-X4 / CD270-S3071-X2: Intel Xeon 6/6+ based 2U 4-Node and 2U 2-Node platforms with 12 DDR5 DIMMs per node, supporting Intel Xeon 6+ processors with up to 288 E-cores. The X4 supports 3 U.2 NVMe bays per node for compute-focused cloud infrastructure, while the X2 supports 6 bays per node for virtualization and data-centric services.
CD270-S3061-X4: A 2U 4-Node Intel Xeon 6 platform supporting 16 DDR5 DIMMs and 3 U.2 NVMe bays per node for mainstream scale-out and containerized deployments.
CD270-S4051-X4 / CD270-S4051-X2: AMD EPYC 9005-based 2U 4-Node and 2U 2-Node platforms supporting 12 DDR5 DIMMs per node. The X4 supports 3 U.2 NVMe bays per node for compute-dense infrastructure, while the X2 adds 6 U.2 NVMe bays per node for mixed compute and storage environments.

Enterprise Platforms Across DC-MHS and Standard Architectures

MSI’s enterprise platform portfolio spans DC-MHS enterprise servers, modular HPMs, and standard enterprise motherboards for cloud and enterprise infrastructure deployment. The portfolio includes GPU-ready server platforms, modular DC-MHS platform integration, and standard server motherboards designed for flexible deployment across enterprise and workstation environments.

DC-MHS Enterprise Servers

CX270-S5062 (-HE SKU) / CX170-S5062: Dual-socket Intel Xeon 6 based 2U and 1U platforms supporting 32 DDR5 DIMMs. The CX270-S5062 supports 8 U.2 NVMe drives and up to 2 double-wide 600W GPUs for virtualization and GPU-accelerated workloads, while the CX170-S5062 supports 12 U.2 NVMe drives for high-density cloud infrastructure.
CX271-S4056 (-HE SKU) / CX171-S4056: Single-socket AMD EPYC 9005 based 2U and 1U platforms supporting 24 DDR5 DIMMs. The CX271-S4056 supports 8 U.2 NVMe drives and up to 2 double-wide 600W GPUs for AI inference and accelerated computing, while the CX171-S4056 supports 12 U.2 NVMe drives for scale-out cloud infrastructure.
CX271-S3066 (-HE SKU) / CX171-S3066: Single-socket Intel Xeon 6 based 2U and 1U platforms supporting 16 DDR5 DIMMs. The CX271-S3066 supports 8 U.2 NVMe drives and up to 2 double-wide 600W GPUs, while the CX171-S3066 supports 12 U.2 NVMe drives for mainstream cloud deployments.

DC-MHS HPMs and Standard Enterprise Motherboards

Supporting M-DNO Type-2, M-DNO Type-4, and M-FLW form factors, the DC-MHS HPM portfolio provides modular DC-MHS platform integration, while standard server motherboards support mainstream enterprise and workstation platforms.

Dual-Socket Intel Xeon 6 M-FLW HPMs: D5062
Single-Socket Intel Xeon 6/6+ M-DNO Type-2 HPMs: D3071 / D3061
Single-Socket Intel Xeon 6 M-DNO Type-4 HPMs: D3066
Single-Socket AMD EPYC 9005 M-DNO Type-2 HPMs: D4051
Single-Socket AMD EPYC 9005 M-DNO Type-4 HPMs: D4056
Standard Intel Xeon 6 Enterprise Motherboard: D3060
Standard AMD EPYC 9005 Enterprise Motherboard: D4050

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