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AMD's Ryzen Z1, the all-in-one processor that powers the Asus ROG Ally and Ally X, and the Lenovo Legion Go, has been confirmed to be replaced with an updated sequel. Officially called the Ryzen Z2, the semi-custom chip won't appear until next year and it's hoped that more vendors will use it than the original Z1.
For as long as it has been running, the DRAM industry has been going through cycles of increased production and then scaling it back to boost profits. But now the two largest manufacturers are set to spend billions of dollars to significantly increase RAM chip output, all to meet the neverending demand for AI computers.
Ever since it bought GPU firm ATI Technologies in 2006, AMD has experimented with all kinds of graphics architectures. Its current approach, one for PC clients and the other for data and AI servers, will be swapped in favour of a completely unified architecture, bringing the best of both systems into one developer-friendly architecture.
Here's a question for you. How much would you pay for a non-functional, ten-year-old GPU stuffed into a plastic box, finished off with a golden chain so you can carry it around? It might depend on the graphics chip, so what if I tell you it's one of the worst-ever GPUs? $500, $50, $5? How about $1,024? Yeah…I thought so.
You can keep your hulking modern handheld gaming machines. Compact retro systems? Pah! Don't bother with any of them when you can go seriously old-school and super-small, both at the same time, with the EMES—a games machine that's barely bigger than your thumb and has cartridges smaller than a fingernail.
ASRock Phantom Gaming PG34WQ15R2B | 34-inch | 1440p | 165 Hz | VA panel | 1500R curve | $379.99$294.99 at Newegg (save $85)For the ultimate in gaming immersion, it's pretty hard to beat a huge, ultrawide, curved monitor. Normally they're really expensive but not this one, and you're getting a whole lot of display for very little money.
Acer Nitro | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 7735HS | 16-inch | 1600p | 144 Hz | IPS | 16 GB DDR5 | 512 GB SSD | $1,099.99 at NeweggThat eight-core Ryzen CPU and fast RTX 4070 GPU are a great combination and perfect for gaming at the screen's resolution. The display is lovely and big, there's a decent amount of RAM, and a teeny SSD. Oh, well you can't have everything!
If you browse through the usual online retailers, you'll find no end of keyboards with built-in touchpads, so for Kinesis (makers of the superb Freestyle Edge RGB) to enter that particular market, you'd naturally expect them to have something special. And at $199, the Kinesis Form does need to be special.