Hardware

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Majorana 1, Microsoft’s first quantum chip which required the company to create an entirely new state of matter.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss phone upgrade cycles, Microsoft offloading its HoloLens US military contract to another company, and how the upcoming Microsoft Build and Google I/O developer conferences are about to overlap each other in May.

Microsoft announced today new business editions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 Copilot+ PCs with Intel x86 Core Ultra processors (Series 2). Additionally, a 5G-enabled variant of the Surface Laptop for Business is set to launch later this year. In September 2023, Microsoft introduced business editions of the Surface Pro 11 and…

Microsoft announced this morning several new experiences coming to Surface Hub 3 later this year, including support for Microsoft Edge and Miracast wireless projection. These enhancements aim to enhance business collaboration by enabling seamless web access and content sharing. Microsoft launched Surface Hub 3 as an all-in-one digital whiteboard in December 2023. It offers seamless…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss some of the biggest news of CES 2025 including Dell’s simplified PC portfolio, new CPUs from Intel and AMD, and Nvidia’s new GPUs and AI tools for PCs.

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…