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This credit card-sized PC board can use an Intel Core i7

Or an eight-core AMD Ryzen. Not made for personal use, but what's stopping you?

On-Prem26 Jul 2022 | 83

NAND flash prices expected to plummet 8-13% in Q3

Did someone say cheap SSDs in time for the holidays?

Systems19 Jul 2022 | 4

British boffins make touchless computing tech on the cheap

No special hardware, internet connection, or cloud service needed, just a regular CPU and webcam

Personal Tech19 Jul 2022 | 30

Intel’s first discrete GPUs won't be a home run

Comment High-end Arc A750 will compete with *checks notes* a GeForce RTX 3060

Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 36

Intel plans chip price hikes due to 'inflationary pressures'

Customers to start paying more for CPUs, chipsets and other products from October

Systems14 Jul 2022 | 12

IT spending set to ride out wave of global economic uncertainty

Market watchers see device spending downturn as blip in robust bigger picture

On-Prem14 Jul 2022 |

Global PC market falls at fastest rate in 9 years

Nothing shiny about US Chromebook sales anymore, plus war in Ukraine and inflation hits EMEA shipments

Personal Tech12 Jul 2022 | 7

PC sales take double-digit tumble in Q2 amid economic downturn

PC market is resting, not dead despite Shanghai lockdown, fears of global recession

Personal Tech11 Jul 2022 | 8

Gartner predicts 9.5% drop in PC shipments

Stark contrast to 11 percent increase year-over-year in 2021 shipments

Personal Tech30 Jun 2022 | 4

ZTE intros 'cloud laptop' that draws just five watts of power

The catch: It hooks up to desktop-as-a-service and runs Android – so while it looks like a laptop ...

PaaS + IaaS24 Jun 2022 | 30

Lenovo reveals small but mighty desktop workstation

ThinkStation P360 Ultra packs latest Intel Core processor, Nvidia RTX A5000 GPU, support for eight monitors

Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 10

DRAM prices to drop 3-8% due to Ukraine war, inflation

Wait, we’ll explain

On-Prem20 Jun 2022 | 10

Intel delivers first discrete Arc desktop GPUs ... in China

Updated Why not just ship it in Narnia and call it a win?

Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 9

PC shipments sink amid steady waves of supply chain, war disruptions

320 million units forecast, still well above pre-pandemic, but boom is over for now

Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 5

HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus

Revenue hit for HP far larger than many tech providers post-pullout but PC, print giant stays course

Systems01 Jun 2022 | 12

Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy

Desktop Tourism Survives all manner of indiginities in Reg tests but may stuggle to cross over from boots to suits

Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 54

AMD reveals 5nm Ryzen 7000 powered by Zen 4 cores

AM5 socket to bring desktop CPUs to life in late 2022, mid-range laptop CPU to follow

Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 15

Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker

Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles

Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 19

Demand for GPUs used to mine crypto 'disappearing', says ASUSTeK

Less demand will see prices fall, and gaming laptop sales rise – which is nice as the rest of the PC market has cooled

Systems13 May 2022 | 17

Intel blames software, COVID lockdowns for Arc GPU delays

Intel Vision And China to get first dibs when graphics chips do ship

Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 3

UK government preps tech suppliers for £8bn mega framework

Software? Ticked. Hardware? Ticked. Kitchen sink? Oh go on then, why not

On-Prem21 Apr 2022 | 6

Intel’s neurochips could one day end up in PCs or a cloud service

The brain-like chip technology could aid with low-power AI tasks like speech recognition

Systems15 Apr 2022 | 9

Chromebook sales train derails as market reaches saturation

Vendors didn't 'diversify' adoption beyond education, CIOs flirted with form factor and nothing more

Systems14 Apr 2022 | 25

PC sales start to ebb as pandemic buying spree ends: IDC

Analyst says it's not a 'downward spiral' as sales are still defying predictions

Personal Tech11 Apr 2022 | 19

The Souls noob's guide to Elden Ring

The RPG FromSoftware's magnum opus, made with input from George R R Martin, invites new and veteran players alike

Offbeat09 Apr 2022 | 23

AMD Threadripper CPU supply severely low, PC makers say

Special report Some fear they'll lose workstation sales to Lenovo, AMD's exclusive launch partner for the T Pro 5000

Systems08 Apr 2022 | 15

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buys 11.4% stake in HP

Even notoriously tech averse stock market gambler can't resist piece of pandemic-boosted PC extravaganza

Systems07 Apr 2022 | 14

TSMC sees slowdown in demand for PCs, smartphones

Foundry giant's staff could be sleeping at work during new COVID lockdown

Personal Tech31 Mar 2022 | 6

APAC region's PC market growth flattens out

COVID saw sales surge, but there's less reason to buy in the new normal

Personal Tech25 Mar 2022 |

Lost Ark: A pulpy Korean MMO-lite for idle hands

The RPG Approach with caution

Offbeat26 Feb 2022 | 6

Dell PC backlog woes strike again amid component shortfall

Servers, storage parts challenges too, according to Q4 earnings call

On-Prem25 Feb 2022 | 4

India surpasses a billion active mobile subscriptions

Also has more than 100 million 2G subscribers, and a tiny PC market

Networks25 Feb 2022 | 7

God of War: How do you improve on perfection? You port it to PC, obviously

The RPG The migration of PlayStation exclusives continues to be a great idea

Bootnotes29 Jan 2022 | 39

Even desktops showed up on growth radar in global PC shipment stakes for 2021

341 million units sold last year, up 15%

Personal Tech12 Jan 2022 | 5

Halo Infinite ups the nostalgia factor for fans of the originals, but it's not without limits

The RPG 343 Industries brings open world to the long-running military sci-fi epic

Columnists05 Jan 2022 | 11

PC market pulls past peak pandemic demand, and IDC says it will keep growing

Lappies are leaping – albeit a little lower – and gamers are growing, but tablets are turgid

Personal Tech09 Dec 2021 | 9

Battlefield 2042: Please don't be the death knell of the franchise, please don't be the death knell of the franchise

The RPG Another terrible launch, but DICE is already working on improvements

Bootnotes04 Dec 2021 | 31

Dell: We and our customers understand the supply constraints now. The 'wildcard is logistics'

Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away

Personal Tech24 Nov 2021 | 7

Indian PC market sets all-time records as Q3 shipments top 2019 total

Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt

Personal Tech19 Nov 2021 |

New World: Grindy? Check. Repetitive? Check. Fun? We hate to say it... but check

The RPG Goddamn it, Jeff Bezos' lot can make a passable MMORPG after all

Columnists30 Oct 2021 | 31

Inflation hits PC market as laptop and desktop prices jump, and most businesses are last in the line for kit

Constrained supply of parts like USB-C among reasons for price hikes

Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 3

Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors

x86 is an eighty-sixed ex

Personal Tech18 Oct 2021 | 103

Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality

US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation

Personal Tech13 Oct 2021 | 41

IDC: Global PC market growing pains in Q3 due to 'softening' of sales in America

Ok, time to call death to PC again? No, definitely not. Did we mention prices due to go up again?

Personal Tech11 Oct 2021 | 3

Real world not giving you enough anxiety? Try being hunted down by the perfect organism in Alien: Isolation

The RPG 2014 stealth-em-up hasn't aged a day

Personal Tech28 Aug 2021 | 21

Indian tech market settles into second year of coronavirus as PC and smartphone sales soar

Lighter lockdowns meant more effective manufacturing and logistics

Personal Tech13 Aug 2021 |

Beige Against the Machine: The IBM PC turns 40

5150: Not just a medical emergency, also the beginning of the office brick

Personal Tech12 Aug 2021 | 79

Chromebooks fighting for mind share at PC makers with higher-margin Windows 11 machines in the lead, says IDC

Colour us surprised

Personal Tech02 Aug 2021 | 11

Desktop PC sales bounce back – but only because of laptop component shortages

HP missed the boom for both, posted 2.7 per cent growth as market surged 13 points over 2020

Personal Tech12 Jul 2021 | 5

UK artists seek 'luvvie levy' on new gadgets to make up for all the media that consumers access online

'Smart Fund' would be redistributed among creators and performers

Offbeat29 Jun 2021 | 101

Wish you could play tabletop Dungeons & Dragons but have no friends? Solasta: Crown of the Magister offers a solution

The RPG Plus: A tale of tech woe and E3 best bits

Bootnotes26 Jun 2021 | 30

Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there

The RPG Decent port of a PlayStation 4 'exclusive', but it's far from original

Bootnotes29 May 2021 | 20

Desktop renaissance? Nope, rebound of hefty PCs is just because there's notebook shortage – analysts

Lenovo ops chief adds: 'Everything that is able to be built is selling'

Personal Tech28 May 2021 | 25

ASUS baffles customer by telling them thermal pad thickness is proprietary

Updated Replacing such cooling measures are the PC equivalent of an oil change

Personal Tech20 May 2021 | 119

Octopath Traveler: Love letter to JRPG golden age has great combat but retro graphics highlight the genre's tedium

The RPG You sure have to press 'A' a lot

Bootnotes01 May 2021 | 7

PCs continue to sell like hot cakes and industry can barely keep up with demand – analyst

Retailers prep for what could be the biggest sales year on record

Personal Tech26 Apr 2021 | 51