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…
Michael Crider
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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…
Follow PCWorld on our trip to Computex!
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…
Acer unveils new OLED gaming monitors and ‘smart’ monitors
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…
Nvidia’s ‘AI game assistant’ April Fools’ joke might be real
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…
HP’s ‘Lego-like’ multi-monitor concept makes me stupidly happy
I love multiple monitors. I love Legos. (And yes, fellow LEGO addicts, I know it’s not supposed to have an ‘s’ on the end, but I have to write for the normals.) Because of that,…
A wild new GPD laptop has two stacked 13-inch OLED screens
Hello, my name is Michael, and I’m a multi-monitor addict. If I don’t have at least three screens in front of me at all times, I feel like I’m not being productive enough. It’s gotten…