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 […]

Arm Holdings plc, or “arm”, was once considered a vendor of processor 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 front: laptops, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Much has been written about the performance of Arm-based processors exceeding that of x86-64 CPUs, but depending on your perspective, that fully hasn’t come to pass. There are Apple’s M-series processors that do perform competitively in many tasks, along with an array of data center-focused products that emphasize power efficiency, but ultimately the overall performance […]

Qualcomm is making a splash at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona Spain, with several announcements, one of which is the introduction of its Snapdragon X80 5G Modem-RF system. Harnessing the capabilities of AI, Qualcomm is pitching its latest-generation modem as the most advanced modem-to-antenna platform yet, sporting some serious spectrum flexibility. […]

For all the advances that have been made in wireless technologies, at times it still feels like we’re stuck in the stone age of connectivity. However, with the advancements in mobile, 5G and WiFi technologies, that’s beginning to change. At Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm introduced its FastConnect 7900 Mobile Connectivity system, which is an exciting […]

Despite the two families of processors being closely-related, Intel’s extant 13th-Gen desktop processors (codenamed Raptor Lake) are a very solid upgrade over the previous-generation of Intel Alder Lake desktop CPUs. However, these currently released Raptor Lake processors are fairly high-end, powerful chips that are also targeted at desktop-class power envelopes. This obviously left many wondering […]

Improved efficiency is a huge boon in mobile applications, so it’s no surprise that AMD is being aggressive about bringing the new architecture to bear in the laptop market. As part of its CES 2023 announcements, AMD unveiled the first RDNA 3-based Radeon GPU for laptops. There’s four separate models, but all four are based […]