CAMM2, short for Compression Attached Memory Module (and also 2), is one of the few truly exciting bits of hardware innovation to come out in the last few years. It’s poised to give us faster…
Intel’s fastest processors have included hyperthreading, a technique that lets more than one thread run on a single CPU core, for over 20 years — and it’s used by AMD (which calls it “simultaneous multi-threading”)…
“AI” applications are so specialized that they need dedicated neural processing units to work. Apparently, anyway — what benefits these NPUs can actually offer for typical users isn’t exactly clear. But if you’d like to…
Intel’s latest Lunar Lake chips for laptops have made a big splash at Computex. The new CPUs use a radical new architecture and show impressive generational gains, which is something Intel needs as competition heats…
The bell is tolling for Windows 10, with the much-loved operating system going out of official support in October of next year. But with hundreds of millions of users still on the older version (and…
Samsung usually makes headlines with its Odyssey gaming monitors by being ridiculously, humongously ginormous. They’re big, is what I’m saying. But the latest two bring its celebrated OLED panels to more conventional form factors. You…
The biggest news at Computex is how Snapdragon chips are storming the beaches of the Windows-based PC market, spearheading Microsoft’s huge Copilot+ laptop push. We’ve seen Arm-based PC hardware before, but the designs have improved…
All the cool kids have a Steam Deck-style portable gaming PC these days. (And by “cool kids,” I mean “multi-billion-dollar PC manufacturers.) Zotac is ready to sit at their lunch table with the new Zone,…
We’ve seen customizable systems for mice, keyboards, and other gadgets before, but usually from the likes of WASDKeyboards and ColorWare. Microsoft was the first big supplier to take up the mantle with its Xbox controllers…
When the rumors of the ROG Ally X started coming out, one of the first things they said was that it didn’t replace the Ryzen APU from the original design a year ago. That made…