Sean Hollister

As proof it’s on track with its next low-power laptop chip — the chip that will itself prove out Intel’s 18A process, which could in turn prove whether the company can regain silicon manufacturing leadership — Intel showed journalists these working samples.

Just before Christmas, I told you how the company behind those awesome Popsocket alternatives had rescued the coolest-looking gamepad phone attachment I’ve ever seen.

Wraparound glass is a fancy desktop trend, and so are CPU coolers with built-in screens — sure seems like two great tastes taste great together with the Asus ROG Ryuo IV SLC 360 ARGB!

Asus, Samsung, MSI, and Alienware will all have them, so you can safely ignore the “world’s first” marketing baloney for now — but it’s absolutely true that the 32-inch version of these monitors was groundbreaking, and a 27-inch size means you can comfortably fit the entire gorgeous picture in view.

The Shroud-supported tactical shooter where you always live twice utterly flopped on PC, with under 200 concurrent players today. Mountaintop tells me it needs thousands to survive, and may run out of funding this year.

I sat in the Sony Honda car a year ago, six months ago, and now — improvements are slow. AI is new for 2025, but the chatbot got far too easily confused. I couldn’t see the lidar in action. I like the digital mirrors, though.

I know everything in Vegas is for sale, but wouldn’t the Sphere be more of an attraction if the structure displayed more incredible 3D art and fewer ads? (This is one of like three we saw repeatedly looped while riding a ferris wheel.)

HP calls its ZBook Ultra 14 G1a “the world’s most powerful 14-inch mobile workstation,” because it comes with AMD’s most powerful mobile chip: the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka “Strix Halo,” with up to 128GB of unified memory shared among the CPU, GPU, and AI engines.

The AI boom means most of these highly sought-after parts wind up in server farms, so it’s rare to see one ourselves — but AMD and Nvidia showed off a few at CES 2025. Here’s AMD’s MI325X, and then what appears to be Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, with potentially lots of its new Blackwell AI chips inside.