Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Dygma Defy ergonomic keyboard review
Expensive ergo Powerful, pretty, and very, very pricey. Alas, not perfect.
I spent 14 hours flying 6,230 miles to watch MSI make me a new motherboard in just 40 minutes
Mobo making It's more machines than humans but people are still at the heart of making sure it's all good.
Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates
New World FPS It seems that Morrowind was more than just an inspiration for the DLC's design.
Zen 5 revisited: Testing what a new BIOS and Windows update does for AMD's Ryzen 9000 chips
Once again zen Ryzen 5 and 7 models get more power and all of them get better OS support. Good news, right?
'It's certainly not going to be business as usual because business at the moment is not as we'd like it'—Corsair CEO on its Fanatec acquisition
news Fanatec was in a total mess but it looks like Corsair is planning to fix it all.
Hacking wizard gets Linux to run on a 1971 processor, though it takes almost 5 days to boot the kernel
news The real magic is that the chip has to emulate another old chip to manage the feat.
The new Unity 6 game engine demo looks spectacular but is it enough to convince developers to return?
news Professional game makers care very much about how Unity operates as a business these days.
OpenAI's CEO vision of humanity's AI-powered glorious future: 'Fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics'
news Some of you may be unemployed in the future but it's a sacrifice that AI is willing to make.
MSI's new top-end PSU boasts two 12V-2x6 sockets for twin GPUs, or just one really, really big one
news I don't need a PSU that can handle 1200 W worth of GPUs but I do kinda want one.
If Nvidia couldn't buy Arm, then Qualcomm's rumoured Intel buyout isn't going to happen either
news For the mobile chip firm, the only thing Intel has of worth right now are x86 licenses.
Samsung and TSMC have been eyeballing the Middle East for new locations to build chip factories, says WSJ
news Don't get too excited; this is probably just about having even more AI stuff.
Intel was in the running to make the PlayStation 6 APU but lost out to AMD due to disputes over profit margins, report claims
news It's alleged that the contract was worth a cool $30 billion, which Intel could really do with right now.
Microsoft's recyclobot uses machine learning and computer vision to open and recycle 90% of hard drive components
news Beats smashing them up with a big hammer, though it's not quite as therapeutic.
AMD is set to finally join Nvidia with FSR 4, using AI to power frame generation, though no word on upscaling yet
news Now, how long will Intel take to get in on the frame gen action?
Want a 4 TB external SSD with solid state cooling, passkey unlocking, wireless tracking, RAID 6, and a built-in e-paper display? Yours for—squints at the screen—the price of TWO PlayStation 5 Pros
news And just time in time for all the new motherboards, it even uses USB4 for 3 GB/s data transfers. Crikey.
US Dept of Justice claims Google 'corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control'
news The antitrust trial has only just started but the DoJ is already aiming for Google's ad tech jugular
Ray tracing has taken its first steps at becoming the rendering norm for triple-A games but that just makes upscaling and frame generation a Hobson's choice
No choice It's not an option if you absolutely require it.
The PS5 Pro is the most powerful games console ever released, but at $700 PC gaming has nothing to worry about
news Big GPU, fast ray tracing, AI-powered upscaling. Hang on, that's just a PC, right?
Watching Doom being played on a hologram-like volumetric display is like taking a peek at the future of gaming
news But let's hope the future involves less noise and more pixels, yes?
AMD confirms it's working on a Ryzen Z2 chip for next-gen handheld PCs, even though only two vendors currently use the Z1
news Let's hope it's more than just a renamed Strix Point chip and has something special up its sleeve. Sorry, die.
'From the developer's standpoint, they love this strategy'—AMD's plan to merge its RDNA and CDNA GPU architectures to a unified system called UDNA
news Change is good, right?
Samsung and SK Hynix spend billions more on DRAM production to feed the never-ending hunger for AI servers
news This could potentially be good news for PC gaming but not while the tech world loves AI.
The Epic Minimalist Entertainment System is the leader of the itsy bitsy games console committee with its reverse-engineered 1980s LED dot matrix display
news Look at the ickle 'cartridges'! Aww, bless it's teeny socks.
