Computex 2026: All the news and announcements
Computex 2026: All the news and announcements Computex 2026 is kicking off in Taipei, Taiwan this week, where Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and other tech brands are announcing new laptops, handhelds, chips, and more. Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, its first family of consumer PC chips, arriving in laptops and mini PCs starting this fall. Intel […]
Asus just announced the OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams
Asus just announced the OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams The Xbox Ally X20, and the glasses you’ll have to buy with it. | Image: Asus If you asked me what I’d change about the Xbox Ally X handheld – aside from fixing Windows, I mean – I’d tell you two key things. First, […]
AMD’s FSR 4.1 upscaling tech is coming to older graphics cards
AMD's FSR 4.1 upscaling tech is coming to older graphics cards Assassin’s Creed Shadows is just one of the games that supports FSR 4.1. | Image: Ubisoft AMD is bringing its FSR 4.1 upscaling tech to older graphics cards. In an announcement on X, Jack Huynh, AMD’s head of computing and graphics, says FSR 4.1 […]
AMD’s best CPU tech for gamers is coming to workstations too
AMD's best CPU tech for gamers is coming to workstations too For the first time, AMD is including its 3D V-Cache tech in its commercial workstation processors with a refreshed line of Ryzen PRO 9000 series chips. Up until now, AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips have mainly been geared toward gamers, but they’ve also gotten better […]
Arm’s first CPU ever will plug into Meta’s AI datacenters later this year
Arm's first CPU ever will plug into Meta's AI datacenters later this year After decades of only licensing its chip designs for others to use, UK-based Arm revealed the first chip it’s producing on its own, and the first customer. Dubbed the Arm AGI CPU, it’s another chip designed for inference, or running the cloud […]
Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames
Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, told Digital Foundry that ML-based frame generation tech is coming to “PlayStation platforms” in the future, letting the game console use AI to imagine new frames between the ones it’s actually rendering, […]
HP ZBook Ultra G1a review: a business-class workstation that’s got game
HP ZBook Ultra G1a review: a business-class workstation that's got game Sleeper laptop. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Business laptops are typically dull computers foisted on employees en masse. But higher-end enterprise workstation notebooks sometimes get an interesting enough blend of power and features to appeal to enthusiasts. HP’s ZBook Ultra […]
AMD’s faster Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU arrives on January 29th for $499
AMD's faster Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU arrives on January 29th for $499 AMD announced an improved version of its popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor at CES earlier this month, and it’s now confirming a release date and pricing today. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D will debut on January 29th, priced at $499. That’s $20 more […]
The two things AMD subtly revealed at CES that actually excite me
The two things AMD subtly revealed at CES that actually excite me As we predicted, the world’s biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads, but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs – not from Nvidia, not from Intel, and […]
Windows on Arm had another good year
Windows on Arm had another good year In 2024, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips finally made Arm-based Windows laptops viable. Unlike previous Arm laptops that struggled to even run Windows well, this new class offered solid performance and the best battery life on Windows, and they impressed us in Microsoft’s own Surface Laptop and Surface Pro […]