Author Archives: Mark Hachman

Microsoft’s Windows 10X has leaked, and it’s boring.Well, it’s designed to be boring. Simple, really—uncomplicated, straightforward, without the fuss and clutter of “traditionalâ€� Windows. We wrote last year that Windows 10X now appears t… Continue reading →

Qualcomm said Wednesday that it plans to buy startup Nuvia for $1.4 billion, potentially as a way to beef up its own CPU efforts and challenge Apple more directly in the Arm computing space.Nuvia was founded by an ex-Apple chip architect, Gerard Wil… Continue reading →

Intel unexpectedly brought back one of its own to lead the company on Wednesday, naming Pat Gelsinger, its former chief technology officer and current VMware chief executive, as its new CEO.Gelsinger will take over on February 15, replacing Bob Swan… Continue reading →

Amid the fanfare over AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 Mobile chips, you might have missed one important detail: Some of the new CPUs use older technology, and it’s hard to tell which ones they are.The majority of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 Mobile family of chips … Continue reading →

Masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 range have evolved from protection to a fashion statement. Now Razer is taking it a step further with Project Hazel, a voice-amplified RGB mask it’s announcing at CES 2021. Yes, RGB.In March 2020, Razer ann… Continue reading →

Razer has launched new versions of the Razer Blade 15 and Razer Blade Pro 17 to take advantage of the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series laptop GPUs, the company announced at CES 2021, with “advanced modelsâ€� tapping 360Hz 1080p displays and even 1… Continue reading →

AMD officially launched its Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors at CES 2021 on Tuesday, hoping to continue what it’s accomplished on the desktop: bring its powerful Zen 3 architecture to bear and oust Intel’s Core i9 as the best gaming CPU. The unexpec… Continue reading →

During CES Monday, Intel announced the next phase of its vPro program for business PCs, adding the 11th-gen “Tiger Lakeâ€� Core chips to the vPro line. The company will use Evo branding to promote the vPro line, and incorporate CET and TDT techn… Continue reading →

Editor’s note: Intel chief executive Bob Swan sat down briefly via Zoom with reporters and analysts in advance of CES 2021 to summarize where the company stands in 2021 and what the company plans to talk about at CES. He then briefly respondied to… Continue reading →

Intel faces perhaps its toughest competition in a long time: AMD’s Ryzen chips are eating into the market share of Intel’s Core chips, and Arm chips like Apple’s M1 are finally getting some respect. So why should PC makers, let alone consumer… Continue reading →