Micron—one of the “big three” companies that manufacture the vast majority of memory on the planet—is shutting down its Crucial brand. This is the arm of the company that sells RAM and storage products directly to consumers. Instead, Micron is shifting its focus to the “AI” boom… the same situation that’s making memory explode in price all over the world. Consumers are, to use a…
Life is better if your portable flash drive can connect to both Type-A and Type-C ports without having to drag around an adapter. The Kingston Dual Portable packs both types of USB connectors into its minuscule form factor, and turned in a very good, if not chart-topping…
Samsung has dabbled in the smart speaker space before, but the company’s all-new Music Studio 5 and Music Studio 7 Wi-Fi speakers pose serious competition for the likes of Amazon, Apple, Bose, and Sonos—at least at the higher-end of the market.
Unveiled this week at CES…
At CES 2026, AMD and Nvidia both signaled that they’re considering bringing back older chip technologies to battle the sudden shortages and extreme price hikes battering the PC ecosystem right know.
I warned y’all this could happen.
We were chatting about reports of AMD resurrecting older B650 motherboards in a recent episode of our Full Nerd podcast. And, as part of the discussion, I brought…
Intel launched its long-awaited Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” mobile chips at CES 2026 this week, promising an alluring blend of long battery life and shockingly great integrated graphics performance thanks to its new Arc Xe3 graphics cores. (It’s true! We…
The latest edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is already drawing to a close, and once again, we’ve seen some truly impressive smart home and home security innovations—and as usual, some are more likely to ship than others.
We’re not counting on the…
AMD Q&A at CES 2026: We talk Ryzen and more
January 8, 2026
A day after AMD announced the Ryzen AI 400 (Gorgon Point) processor for laptops, PCWorld and a handful of other reporters sat down with Rahul Tikoo, senior vice president and general manager of the client business at AMD, to ask about AMD’s client processors: its mobile Ryzen processors, the Ryzen AI Max, desktop processors, and more.
Below are excerpts of the interview, edited for space and…
Smart appliances that can be controlled with voice commands are nothing new, but IAI Smart is showing a new line of Emerson Smart appliances at CES that respond directly to voice commands. They don’t need a smart speaker in the middle, and they don’t rely on a broadband…
AMD’s push into socketed desktop PCs that use the Ryzen AI 400 may yield an extraordinary bonus: the ability to buy a mobile Ryzen processor at a retailer like Newegg, install it, then upgrade that mobile processor into a desktop PC that uses it.
At CES 2026, AMD announced…
Lenovo’s Yoga Mini i is Lenovo’s answer to one of the hottest categories around: the mini PC. And yes, it’s round, with a light bar that’s as productive as it is fun.
Lenovo claims that this devices takes up a liter of volume. It does not, according to a rather indignant product manager that insisted that the total volume might be closer to 0.85 liters instead. In any event, the Yoga Mini…
