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”)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Computex trade show starts in Taipei next week, and it’s kind of a big deal. While CES tends to get headlines for general tech, Computex is where manufacturers pull out all the stops for…
If there’s one trend in PCs for 2024, it’s “AI” in everything. That’s inescapable. (Ugh.) But if there are two, then the second one is OLED monitors finally gaining steam. Case in point: Acer just…
April Fools’ Day is the bane of any tech news writer’s existence. Never mind that these sad attempts at comedy from marketing people are sometimes barely distinguishable from real products — especially when they come…