ASUS today announced that the AiO V241DA/M241DA is now available for purchase at US retailers starting at $519.99 USD. The stylish ASUS AiO PCs offer powerful performance in an elegantly designed, space-saving all-in-one desktop PC form factor. Enjoy an immersive, edge-to-edge viewing experience with the 23.8-inch Full HD anti-glare display featuring a near-invisible NanoEdge slim bezel design. The display offers wide 178° viewing angles and 100% sRGB color gamut for vivid and realistic-looking colors enhanced with exclusive ASUS Splendid and Tru2Life Video technologies. The ASUS AiO V241DA/M241DA also includes an optional touchscreen display, available on select models.

Designed for effortless performance and smooth multitasking, the ASUS AiO V241DA/M241DA is powered by an up to AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor with 8 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SSD storage space for superfast data performance. Experience high-speed connectivity with options for dual band 2x2 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 and Ethernet via an RJ45 LAN port, as well as extensive I/O access that includes four USB 3.2 Gen 1 and two HDMI ports (HDMI-in and HDMI-out) on the back of the PC for easy cable management. The V241DA/M241DA also comes with a sleek full-size wired keyboard and mouse (wireless keyboard and mouse available on select models).

As AMD's Ryzen 5 3500 processor is inching closer to launch, we learn more possible specifications of the chip AMD is designing to take on Intel's popular Core i5-9400/9400F processor. Late July, we learned that the chip will be a 6-core model, breaking away from convention set by past generations, of the x500 Ryzen SKU being 4-core/8-thread. Thai PC enthusiast TUM_APISAK, who has a fairly high hit-rate on unreleased products, predicts that the 3500 will be six-core, but lack SMT (it will be 6-core/6-thread).

The Ryzen 5 3500 will be clocked at 3.60 GHz nominal, with a boost frequency of 4.10 GHz. There's no word on other specs, such as L3 cache amount. A single "Zen 2" chiplet normally has 32 MB of it (16 MB per CCX). The main competitor from the Intel stable is the Core i5-9400 / i5-9400F, which ticks at 2.90 GHz with 4.10 GHz boost. The i5-9400F in particular has had a big impact in the sub-$200 segment, as it's been aggressively priced under promotions by various DIY retailers. The chip lacks an iGPU, but has the specs to pull a fairly powerful gaming PC. With the Ryzen 5 3600 at $199, AMD could price the new chip around $169-179.

AMD is giving final touches to a second wave of 3rd generation Ryzen processor family, which includes the new Ryzen 5 3500 processor, and "Pro" variants of various already-launched SKUs, such as the 3600X, 3700X, and 3900X. These chips were spotted in an import registry of the Eurasian Economic Union. The most interesting bit from this disclosure is the fact that the Ryzen 5 3500 is a 6-core processor with 65 W TDP. For the previous two generations of Ryzen processors, AMD configured its x500 series SKUs, such as the 2500X and 1500X, as 4-core/8-thread processors. It's likely that the 3500 will be a slightly lower-clocked sibling of the Ryzen 5 3600, priced lower, to compete with Intel chips such as the Core i5-9400 or i5-9500. This also raises the possibility of Ryzen 3 "Matisse" processors being 4-core/8-thread chips.