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JEMC said:

I'm not naive enough to not realize that this will also affect the rest of us, it's already happening with Sony's move to raise the PS5 price in other countries to offset part of the losses driven by the tariffs in the US, but there's no f*cking way I'll watch a 3 hours video about it.

Thanks for the effort and patience.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Since the 9060XT will have launched already by then, I wonder what key gaming products they want to announce?

Maybe an official announcement of the GRE? or the specs of the 9060 non-XT? Or maybe something with Strix Halo?

It can be the Z2 chips we've heard rumors about that will power a few of the new handheld PCs.

Ah, you mean those AI versions of the current lineup? Well, let's see what we got there:

1. The Z2 AI Extreme is most probably just a Z2 Extreme, which is just a Ryzen AI Pro 360 with a fully unlocked GPU (16 instead of 12CU), but this time with it's NPU not deactivated. AMD could opt for a stronger CPU version, but in a handheld environment, that isn't very useful.
2. Meanwhile, the Z2 A is probably just a Z2, a rebranded Ryzen 7 8840U, with it's little NPU activated this time around - although they could switch to the Ryzen 5 8640U instead for this one, which would probably actually be a better fit for a handheld with it's smaller CPU and GPU.
3. Another rumour that I saw is that AMD is potentially willing to start selling Steam's custom-built Van Gogh to other handheld makers - though it's aging hardware will probably not be too popular amongst OEMs unless it brings them some "Steam Machine" or similar branding in the process.

So yeah, this seems probable to be officially announced there now.