Hands-on: Asus ROG Ally X gives gaming handhelds a huge upgrade
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…
Michael Crider
Michael Crider
Intel ditches hyperthreading for Lunar Lake CPUs
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”)…
Intel Lunar Lake laptops get rid of replaceable memory
It’s getting pretty hard to find a laptop with a user-accessible SO-DIMM slot to upgrade the memory. And it’s about to get a lot harder. Starting with its upcoming Lunar Lake laptop CPU series, Intel…
MSI Claw gets Lunar Lake upgrade, Fallout Edition
There are a lot of Steam Deck alternatives out there right now, but MSI’s version is the only one based on Intel hardware instead of AMD or Arm. The original Claw only came out a…
Score a new iPad Air for $200 off today
If you want to get a deal on Apple hardware, you’re often forced to look for used or refurbished models. But there’s one exception: when new stuff comes out. That’s the time you can find…
AMD unveils two new Ryzen 5000 chips as AM4 refuses to die
If you bought an AM4 motherboard way back in 2016, you might want to sit down for this: You’ll be able to drop a brand new AMD Ryzen 5000 processor into it next month. That’s a…
AMD interview: Breaking down Ryzen 9000, AM5, Ryzen AI and more
Here on the Computex show floor, the biggest and boldest players in the PC world are roaming about. Adam managed to lasso Donny Woligroski, AMD’s Senior Technical Marketing Manager, in order to pick his brain…
Qualcomm says Snapdragon is coming to PC desktops
If you listen to Qualcomm as it sings the praises of its new Snapdragon X series of laptop processors, Arm is the second coming of PC hardware. So if that’s the case, why not stick…
Hands-on: Asus Ally X gives gaming handhelds a big upgrade
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…
CPU Showdown: Snapdragon X vs Intel Core vs M3
By now you’ve probably heard that Qualcomm is pushing hard to get its Arm-based processors into Windows machines, including the new Surface devices revealed in May. Without getting them into our lab, we don’t know…