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Asetek claims to bring liquid-cooled GPUs to space-constrained PC cases with the Rad Card, a radiator card customers can simply fit into the motherboard PCie slot, just like any other add-in card.

Described as an industry first by the company, the Rad Card enables a liquid-cooled GPU in a smaller chassis while allowing enough space for a liquid-cooled CPU in the same case. The result, Asetek says, is superior cooling over an air-cooled system, ensuring GPU stability and limiting thermal throttling. In addition, the design eliminates the clutter of tube routing, making for a clean and sparse system environment.

The coronavirus hits Ceconomy, as the MediaMarkt and Saturn owner sees fiscal Q2 (ending March 2020) sales drop by -6.6% to €4.6 billion, mainly due to to store closures brought about pandemic lockdown measures.

The retailer also reports adjusted EBIT for the quarter is down by €157 million to -€131m, while earnings before tax total -€391m, a massive drop from the €33m of the previous year. Profit is down from €20m to a loss of -€309m.

Well connected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says multiple iPads are coming relatively soon, including an "affordable" 10.8-inch model set for an H2 2020 launch and, in H1 2021, a mini-size iPad between 8.5- and 9-inch in size.

Such predictions suggest Apple has at least a few products in the works set for short-term launch. The upcoming iPads, Kuo adds, will follow the iPhone SE product strategy in being affordable options running on the latest iDevice chips. The analyst does not mention any price points, but does point out low-cost models make 60-70% of iPad shipments.

Alienware announces the 2nd generation of Area-51m gaming laptops-- the Area-51m R2, a machine bringing the latest Intel Coffee Lake platform, with processor options reaching up to the Core i9-10900K.

The Area-51m remains an oversized, 17.3-inch machine one can generously describe as "portable." The aforementioned processor found inside is a desktop-class number customers can overclock up to 5.3GHz, and makes the first Alienware laptop with a 10-core chip, at least according to Dell. On the graphics side the company offers a choice ranging from the AMD Radeon RX5700 8GB up to the Nvidia RTX 2080 Super GPU, while the display comes with either a 300Hz refresh rate with Tobii eye-tracking or 4K resolution support. Finishing off the machine are up to 64GB of RAM and 4TB of Raid 0 storage.