Hardware

In this first episode of First Ring Daily of the new year, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss what to expect from the CES 2025 trade show that will officially kick off next week.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Intel’s ongoing troubles after the chip maker abruptly “retired” its CEO Pat Gelsinger.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Intel’s plans to stop packaging memory with the processor in its upcoming Panther Lake and Nova Lake chips. They also share their vision of what a “perfect device” would be.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Qualcomm boasting about the superiority of its Arm-based Snapdragon X chips over Intel’s new “Lunar Lake” mobile CPUs designed for Copilot+ PCs.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss how Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Plus 8-core chip and the latest CPUs from Intel and AMD for Copilot+ PCs will make the PC ecosystem exciting again.

Qualcomm has announced today its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chip at IFA in Berlin. This new Snapdragon X SoC variant will power a more affordable range of Copilot+ PCs from all major hardware manufacturers. In June, Qualcomm launched its first wave of Snapdragon X processors called the 10-Core Snapdragon X Plus and 12-Core Snapdragon…

Microsoft announced this morning its latest lineup of Surface devices tailored for business customers, including the Surface Laptop 7th Edition, Surface Pro 11th Edition, and the Surface Pro 10 with 5G. These new Surface devices are powered by Intel Core Ultra and Snapdragon X Elite and Plus processors, along with integrated Neural Processing Units (NPUs),…

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss recent reports suggesting the upcoming release of cheaper Copilot+ PCs, which may use a less powerful version of Qualcomm’s ARM-based Snapdragon X Plus chip. 

Key takeaway: RAID 5 provides good read performance and it can tolerate one disk failure in a minimum 3-disk array. RAID 10 provides fast read and write performance and it can potentially tolerate up to 2 drive failures in a minimum 4-disk array. RAID 5 and RAID 10 are two different redundant array of independent…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Paul Thurrott discusses his experience using the Qualcomm-powered Surface Laptop 7 and how this first generation of Copilot+ PCs is making Windows on ARM exciting again.

RAID 0 and RAID 1 are two of the standard RAID storage levels that you can use to create large data stores by combining multiple disk drives. In this article, we’ll explain the main differences between RAID 0 and RAID 1 and help you determine how to choose the best RAID level for your projects….