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NVIDIA, KRAFTON, NC and Reigning ‘League of Legends’ Champions T1 Celebrate RTX Spark at Korea’s PC Bangs

NVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark superchip, designed for Windows PCs in the era of personal AI agents. CEO Jensen Huang introduced it in South Korea, where game developers KRAFTON and NC are bringing titles to RTX Spark systems. The chip enables 1440p gaming at over 100 fps with ray tracing and supports all RTX technologies.

“Gamers can play AAA games at 1440p resolution and over 100 frames per second with NVIDIA ray tracing, DLSS and Reflex technologies.” — NVIDIA

Related: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

What Arm-based innovations happened in May 2026?

Arm's May 2026 updates include Arm Performix for profiling AI and cloud workloads, the Arm AGI CPU for agentic AI, integration of SME2 and KleidiAI into Google AI Edge and LiteRT for on-device generative AI, and the launch of Arm Create, a unified developer experience. These developments aim to improve performance analysis, orchestration, and deployment of AI across cloud, edge, and data center environments.

“more than 2x faster audio generation and roughly 4x lower DiT submodel memory usage” — Arm

Postcard from Computex 2026: New Intel® Core™ Series 3 laptops for Everyday Creation and All-day Productivity

Intel announced six new thin and light laptop designs at Computex 2026, powered by its Core Series 3 processors (codenamed Wildcat Lake). Over 70 design wins are expected from OEMs including Acer, ASUS, Dell, and MSI, with battery life up to 17 hours.

“as much as 17 hours” — Intel

Seoul Purpose: How NVIDIA and South Korea Are Building the Future of AI

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang visited Seoul to meet with partners and discuss AI infrastructure, robotics, and gaming. He highlighted the success of the Grace Blackwell system and the production of Vera Rubin, emphasizing the importance of AI supply chain alignment for the second half of the year.

“Grace Blackwell, our system, is doing very well, and Vera Rubin is in full production — so we are going to be very busy the second half [of the year].” — NVIDIA

Apple and Major League Baseball announce July “Friday Night Baseball” schedule

Apple and Major League Baseball have revealed the July lineup for "Friday Night Baseball" on Apple TV, which includes several high-profile games.

Mini Football Legends, Family Feud Pocket, and seven more hits join Apple Arcade

Apple Arcade is expanding its catalog with nine new games, including My Talking Tom 2+ and Coffee Inc 2+. The service now offers over 200 games.

App Store ecosystem reaches $1.4 trillion as developers thrive globally

Apple reported that the App Store ecosystem generated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025.

“the global App Store ecosystem facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025” — Apple

Forecast: Fun Ahead — 18 Games Join in June to Stream on GeForce NOW

GeForce NOW is adding 18 games to its cloud streaming library in June 2025, including titles like Neverness to Everness, Gothic 1 Remake, and Jurassic World Evolution 3. The service allows members to play these games across devices without downloads or upgrades.

NVIDIA Research Unlocks Advanced Grasping, Smarter Autonomous Driving and Agent Training at Scale

NVIDIA Research presented three papers at CVPR 2026 focusing on physical AI: GraspGen-X, a foundation model for zero-shot grasping trained on billions of simulated grasps; LCDrive, which uses latent representations for faster autonomous vehicle reasoning; and NitroGen, a gameplay AI model for training embodied agents. The company also introduced new physical AI agent skills for autonomous vehicles, robots, and vision AI.

NVIDIA Enables the Next Era Of Physical AI Research With Agent Skills For Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics And Vision AI

At CVPR, NVIDIA introduced new physical AI agent skills for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and vision AI. These skills aim to streamline workflows by integrating scene reconstruction, scenario generation, training, and evaluation. The announcement also includes NVIDIA Cosmos 3, an open model for physical AI, and several tools like Neural Reconstruction, AlpaGym, and OmniDreams.