Are screensavers art? If they are, one of the most iconic Windows screensavers, 3D Pipes, only existed because of an internal Windows contest to show off OpenGL support to Windows NT. Raymond Chen, a longtime…
Synaptics and its customers are debuting a new logo for the fall: DisplayLink Pro, which will be DisplayLink’s answer to the next-gen, high-bandwidth offerings from the USB and Thunderbolt camps. The new logo is important,…
For years, Chromebooks have served as the loyal opposition to PCs. Google’s laptops offer many of the same Google services as you can find via the Web, but integrated into an inexpensive package for consumers…
Microsoft’s new Recall feature in Windows 11 has attracted a ton of attention — some good, some bad. But Google’s ChromeOS chief says that the company is cautiously exploring a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks, too,…
One of the outstanding questions that remain for PCs built upon the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite is just how well they’ll run, especially games. Qualcomm executives said recently that they’ve made great strides, but that…
Lunar Lake marks perhaps the first time that an Intel PC processor wasn’t manufactured at Intel. Intel’s Lunar Lake has four tiles, of which the key tiles — the compute tile and the controller tiles…
Intel announced its next-generation processor, Lunar Lake, today. But chief executive Pat Gelsinger also updated Intel’s roadmap — next up is Arrow Lake, Intel’s desktop chip. Although Intel is talking extensively about Lunar Lake in…
Intel launches Lunar Lake, its next entrant into its Core Ultra series of laptop processors, today at Computex, ushering in a new generation of AI-infused Copilot+ PCs that have been initially overshadowed by Qualcomm. Stop…
You bought into the hype and purchased a first-gen AI laptop with an Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) chip inside. Congratulations! But in a world that shifted overnight to Copilot+ PCs with much more stringent…
As Qualcomm-powered Windows on Arm PCs begin appearing here at Computex, ushering in a generation of AI-infused Copilot+ laptops, it seemed appropriate to interview a major player in the push. No, not Qualcomm. (We’ve already…