Tag: hardware

Gigabyte Aorus 16X review

Gigabyte Aorus 16X review

Gaming laptops aren't a new phenomenon but manufacturers keep finding new ways to make them slightly annoying. It's remarkable,…
Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand

Goldman Sachs research seems…

Another day, another reminder that the memory market is screwed, yippee. The storage market as well, actually, although the…
‘The CPU is the weakest link in computing’—Flow says it can boost CPU performance up to 100x with its proprietary companion chip

‘The CPU is the…

CPU design has been undergoing something of a shake-up recently, what with the addition of NPUs into the mix…
Microsoft’s new guide to PC gaming hardware is very slightly more useful than you might expect but oddly has never heard of upscaling

Microsoft’s new guide to…

Here’s one we missed a few weeks ago. Microsoft has posted a new guide to PC gaming hardware. It’s…
Hands on with the Zotac Zone gaming handheld: It’s got a gorgeous screen, but the competition is ramping up

Hands on with the…

As a showcase of all things computing, Computex 2024 was a natural place for vendors to show off their…
Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it

Firefox is becoming an…

There’s no such thing as bad publicity, they say. Mozilla must be clinging to that aphorism for dear life…
SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5X wireless review

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5X…

I've never been one to be bothered by a heavy headset. Or at least, so I thought. For me,…
The RAMpocalypse has developed a whole new style of scam: one unlucky gamer opened a sealed box of new DDR5 memory from Amazon only to find two sticks of DDR2

The RAMpocalypse has developed…

Seems like everywhere you look there’s a fresh scam on the hardware marketplace, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for…
The battle for the heart of next-gen handheld gaming PCs: AMD’s Strix Point versus Intel’s Lunar Lake

The battle for the…

Verily, the dust has settled on the orgy of silicon, frenzied capitalism and silly AI marketing straplines that was…
Could Arm’s legal battle with Qualcomm over technology licences stop Copilot+ PCs from really taking off?

Could Arm’s legal battle…

Back in August 2022, chip design firm Arm filed a lawsuit in the US against Qualcomm, demanding that it…