Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 Review: Out on a Hunt

Gaming laptops are a dime a dozen these days, and everyone is trying to bring something unique to the table. The new Acer Predator Helios Neo 16, although a mouthful, offers more than just gaming performance. AI is all the buzz right now, and most manufacturers are trying to join the bandwagon by slapping ‘AI’ … Read more

Samsung’s SSD rival has just released one of the world’s fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs — no, it won’t beat Crucial’s superfast T705 but its no-frills approach means it’s likely to be much cheaper

Samsung’s big South Korean rival SK Hynix has launched its high-end PCB01 SSD, designed specifically for on-device AI PCs. This PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD boasts impressive sequential read and write speeds of 14GB and 12GB per second, respectively, coupled with 4K random read and write rates of 2 million IOPS. The company says these speeds … Read more

This is the chip that could feature in the world’s largest SSD — Kioxia launches 2Tb NAND chip and key partner Pure Storage may use it in its 150TB SSD DirectFlash modules

Japanese memory giant Kioxia says it has begun sampling shipments of 2Tb QLC devices, utilizing its eighth-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory technology. This new chip will be used in SSDs, servers, and other forms of digital storage hardware that require high-capacity, high-efficiency memory components. Kioxia’s BiCS FLASH technology expands the memory die vertically and … Read more

Overclocked mini PC powered by AMD may well be the fastest in its category — Metaphyuni Genesis Cube supports up to 80W TDP, has two LAN ports, can drive four 4K displays and has an OCuLink connector

Although Metaphyuni isn’t a well-known brand outside of China, its latest high-performance mini PC, the Genesis Cube, should have you sitting up and paying attention. The Genesis Cube is available with either an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS (Hawk Point) or 7840HS (Phoenix) processor, both with integrated Radeon 780M graphics. The two CPUs have similar clock … Read more