Tag: hardware

Valve applies to use ‘Steam Frame’ as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues

Valve applies to use…

Remember Fremont, that supposed SteamOS device from Valve that popped up in Geekbench’s CPU results and according to some…
Acer shows off the very first Intel Panther Lake laptop with what’s claimed to be the world’s biggest haptic touchpad

Acer shows off the…

Give it up, everyone, for the first laptop based on Intel’s portentous Panther Lake CPU, the Acer Swift 16…
Grovemade desk review

Grovemade desk review

I didn’t expect the sparkle to last quite so long with this desk, but it has. I’m not talking…
Intel spent so much cash on research and development last year that it outspent Nvidia by 28% and AMD by a whopping 156%

Intel spent so much…

It should come as no surprise that the biggest chip companies in the world spend billions of dollars every…
Gigabyte have finally released its RTX 5090 external GPU—but it’s calling it an ‘AI box’

Gigabyte have finally released…

I enjoyed the highs and lows of the gaming laptop life for more than ten years—until the recovery partition…
This 3D-printed mini arcade cabinet turns the humble Lenovo Legion Go into a bartop Street Fighter machine

This 3D-printed mini arcade…

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A laptop brand I’ve never heard of beat Razer’s Project Valerie to the market with a three-screen laptop

A laptop brand I’ve…

Eight years ago, Razer announced a version of its laptop with three screens built in. With attention to detail…
Tired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back

Tired of jiggling your…

Small form factor (aka SFF) builds are the PC equivalent of bespoke mechanical timepieces. Beautiful to look at and…
If this report about 2nm silicon from Japanese chip manufacturing start-up Rapidus beating TSMC is true, there might just be hope for GPU prices

If this report about…

We reported recently on TSMC’s relentless march toward 2 nm chip tech, despite the fact that there’s barely any…
Samsung and SK Hynix, the world’s biggest makers of DRAM and flash memory chips, have potentially lost the right to buy US equipment for use in their China-based factories

Samsung and SK Hynix,…

Whether it’s your graphics card, RAM sticks, or SSD, they all contain memory chips that have probably been manufactured…