Computex 2026 and GTC Taipei will go down in history as the moment NVIDIA used to officially announce its entrance into the PC market. During his keynote at the Taipei Music Center, CEO Jensen Huang announced the RTX Spark – formerly codenamed N1 and N1X – which will power an array of premium laptops and […]

At CES 2026 in Las Vegas this past week, I finally had the opportunity to go hands on with the Galaxy Z TriFold, Samsung’s first phone that folds twice and transforms from a regular 6.5-inch Android handset into a 10-inch Android tablet. On the surface, the Z TriFold is essentially […]

As promised, Intel has launched the Core Ultra Series 3 processors at CES 2026. These are the long-awaited “Panther Lake” chips, and if Intel’s claims hold up under our own testing, they look incredibly impressive. Intel made some very big promises at the show: 24% improved multi-threaded performance versus its own Arrow Lake processors (despite […]

There can’t really be any doubt at this point: AI is going to change all of our lives, and there’s no going back from here. Still, there’s quite a bit of debate over exactly how it’s going to happen. If you listen to hardware vendors like AMD and Intel, they’ll tell you that you absolutely […]

Intel’s Meteor Lake processors represented a major step forward for the company. As Intel’s first step into chiplet (or “tile”) fabrication for client chips, Meteor Lake brought big improvements in efficiency, graphics, and AI performance for the company’s mobile processors. Arrow Lake is on track to do that for desktops at the end of this […]

Microsoft is looking to properly kick off the AI in PC era with its Copilot+ PC initiative the company is debuting at this year’s Microsoft Build conference, and Qualcomm will play a big role in the rollout. Qualcomm will be working with several hardware OEM manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Microsoft […]

Arm Holdings plc, or “arm”, was once considered a vendor of processors designed for embedded and low-power systems, but those days are well past at this point. Having conquered mobile some time ago, processors based on Arm’s Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) are now challenging the supremacy of the long-dominant x86-64 architecture on every Source link

Whether you knew you needed it or not, locally-hosted AI is the next big thing in PCs, and AMD is at the forefront of this movement. The company was first to market with consumer processors sporting AI-accelerating Neural Processing Units (NPUs), and it’s now on its third generation of processors for “AI PCs.” That’s the […]

IFA in Berlin hasn’t officially started yet, but so much news has come out of the pre-show already that it’s like Geek Christmas. Let’s keep the good times rolling with Lenovo, which has taken all the new Lunar Lake CPU goodness that Intel announced this week and turned it into some very sleek portable PCs. […]

Samsung has already released plenty of hardware in 2024, but it’s not done yet. The Korean technology heavyweight has revealed two new tablets, a phone and watch updates today. Samsung’s tablet lineup has expanded with the new Galaxy Tab S10+ or Tab S10 Ultra, and budget phone buyers will be able to pick up a […]