Latest articles by Nick Evanson
AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC's constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers
News If true, my money would be on low-end laptop APUs or Ryzen IO chiplets.
My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under
Lite rays With studios being closed down faster than you can blink, every coder is going to be using one-click fixes.
'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6
News When two become one.
Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems
News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.
Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review
Score: 82% The makers might be heavily into AI, but its chair design is all about humans.
Consumer rights champion and tech-whizz Louis Rossman is taking Samsung to court over a failed 990 Pro SSD it says it can't replace, even though Amazon has plenty of them in stock
News The fact that they now cost $949 instead of $300 surely has nothing to do with it, right?
Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2x6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector
News Normally I'd suggest burning such things to the ground but they're doing that themselves.
Arm's ray-traced demo of its neural technologies for mobile phone gaming proves that there's an alternate chip for handheld gaming PCs to use outside of AMD or Intel
News After all, the hardware inside your phone is rather wasted, so let's stick it in something better.
SK hynix claims it will be able to triple its memory chip output by 2034, roughly 10 years sooner than first projected
News Just in time to solve the current crisis, right?
There's one AI machine that doesn't need a nuclear power station to run, and it points to a potential way forward in the memory crisis
News You, a box, and a crank.
Linux driver for vintage AMD GPUs gets an update with a helping hand from Copilot AI, keeping old hardware alive and kicking
News Today, just refactoring. Tomorrow, the whole driver set?
Microsoft rolls out Windows Low Latency Profile, giving older PCs a bit more snap when opening the Start Menu and apps
News Every little helps, even if it really is very little.
Tech leaker claims that the RTX 50 Super refresh is still on, despite the RAMpocalypse, and it'll be joined by a 12 GB RTX 5060
News Gotta use all them Blackwell dies somehow.
Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
News If you have a 270K Plus and an RTX 5090, you could see up to 27% more performance in Silksong…at 1080p High, that is.
Apple's virtual Siri-ball is a glowing reminder to Google and Microsoft that user interfaces really matter in software
News I'll take environmental lighting over a cell-blocking button any day of the week.
Godot devs are getting a helping hand from Microsoft to bring their games to Xbox on PC
News It's only a little step forward, but at least it's in the right direction.
AMD says that no decision has been made about bringing FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3.5 GPUs, which seems to contradict AMD also saying that it has no current plans to do so because of hardware reasons
Computex 2026 The truth is out there somewhere.
Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one
Computex 2026 With a thermal target of 400 W in its sights, this cooler might just be planned for handling Intel's mega-core Nova Lake
Montech's new shuttered PC case is so odd, I can't decide whether I'm missing the sheer brilliance of it or if it really is totally pointless
News Two words for you: fan and profile.
Corsair's range-topping AX1600i power supply gets some much-needed upgrades, including pin monitoring, proper GPU power sockets, and a reduction in size
News The hammer blow of the price tag has yet to fall, though.
NAND flash makers earned a record $46 billion in revenues over the first quarter of 2026, a shocking 3.5 times more than last year
News Gosh, I wonder how? Was it AI, by any chance?
Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42
Computex 2026 Plus an EXPO ULL kit of DDR5-6000 CL26, though none of it is what you'd call affordable.
'One of my favourites': Even Jensen Huang recognises the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as one of the best graphics cards Nvidia ever made
Computex 2026 And we'll probably never see its like again.
