As recently as March, as the coronavirus pandemic was still in the early stages of spreading worldwide, Computex organizers pushed their trade show back from June to late September. Today they announced that despite host country Taiwan’s low number of COVID-19 cases, as a result of travel restrictions still in place for many countries, they’ve decided to cancel this year’s show. It’s now rescheduled for June 1st – 5th 2021, and hopefully we’ll be ready to see the usual lineup of computers and associated components by then.

What’s surprising here is not that Computex is the latest tech conference to be affected by the outbreak, but that its organizers feel confident they’ll be able to hold an event this year at all. In most cases, we’ve seen other organizations such as the GSMA and ESA outright cancel events like Mobile World Congress and E3 this year. Some groups, such as the company that puts together the Game Developers Conference (GDC), have announced rescheduled shows for later in the year. At this moment, it seems premature to hold an international conference. In the meantime, it sounds like we still may see companies make announcements between June 2nd and 6th, with Computex’s organizers saying they’ll help host new product launches over the internet. So PC enthusiasts won’t have to wait until September get a flood of information about new hardware.

Initially, NVIDIA said it would test monitors for a baseline VRR experience, that is, no blanking, pulsing, flickering or ghosting. Now, it claims 273 of the monitors it tested lacked the desired VRR range, meaning gamers were unlikely to get the benefits of the GeForce graphic cards. Another 202 failed due to poor image quality, like flickering and blanking. Apparently 55 percent of the monitors NVIDIA tested had variable refresh rates below 75 Hz, so for many games with high frame rates, VRR never activated.

Still, the updated list of “G-Sync Compatible” monitors is more than double what it first was. You now have more to choose from, including monitors from Acer, Agon, Asus, Benq, HP, Dell and LG. As we noted before, a number of the options were previously only FreeSync certified. Of course, NVIDIA notes that it’s introducing its own new and improved gaming monitors at Computex 2019. The company says it will continue testing newly-released adaptive sync monitors and will add those that pass to its G-Sync Compatible list.

Back at CES, AMD CEO Lisa Su mentioned that they were working on ray tracing from a hardware and software end. When today’s announcement came and went without any mention of the technology, I started to worry that it wouldn’t make it into this generation of cards. But based on discussions with CEO Lisa Su and the company’s graphics leads, it sounds like AMD still has some surprises in store.

“We view ray tracing as a very important element across the portfolio, so we’ll have it in a number of other places,” Su said during a media roundtable after her keynote, when I asked her if we’ll see ray tracing in these new video cards. She added that AMD will work to support the ecosystem around the technology, and we’ll hear more about what specifically the Radeon RX 5000-series will include during the company’s E3 livestream on June 10th.

“There’s no doubt ray tracing is the future of graphics and gaming, but the support mechanism, the ecosystem readiness, are all very important things,” AMD’s head of Radeon gaming, Scott Herkelman, said in a later discussion. “The game adoption is all important … We agree it’s very early, but it’s still a very important technology.” He also reiterated that we can expect to hear more at E3.

Basically, it seems like AMD pigeonholed themselves a bit at Computex, choosing to give us just a taste of its new GPUs, while holding back on some of the exciting specifics until E3. Given their focus on the gaming ecosystem, though, the move probably makes sense. For ray tracing to truly take off, AMD (and NVIDIA) need to convince developers to invest in the technology. And what better place to announce a slew of gaming partnerships than E3?