For consumer PCs, distribution is crucial. So, I was excited when I went to Costco Wholesale to buy groceries and saw a new table promoting Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops.
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Meta has beat Google and Apple to market with smart glasses that have a display for widgets, notifications, and AI. They officially went on sale last week, but Meta wasn’t actually ready to sell too many of them.
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Lenovo held an “Innovation World” press conference at IFA again this year, and they had something for absolutely everyone: workstations, laptops, tablets, gaming handhelds, R&D concept devices, and even phones.
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MediaTek claims it is the #1 smartphone silicon vendor by volume, but its super-premium Dimensity 9000-series has been gaining real market share in smartphones outside the U.S. and in Samsung tablets everywhere.
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NVIDIA and Intel are connecting their silicon in the datacenter and on PCs, and NVIDIA is investing $5 billion in Intel stock. This is important, especially for Intel, but the deal is limited.
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Apple kept prices the same – or effectively lower – while adding a lot of content to its iPhones, Watches, and AirPods Pro.
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realme’s 15 Pro 5G takes mid-tier Snapdragon silicon and adds more premium cameras, case finishes, and much bigger batteries than you would expect at the price.
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Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Pixel line by focusing on its strengths: photography and AI. The Pixel Watch 4 looks gorgeous.
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This is the best Chromebook I’ve ever tested, both from a performance and battery life standpoint. It’s easily my top Chromebook recommendation. Google’s new ChromeOS AI features are nice to have but will not be a major purchase driver.
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Samsung has been making foldables longer than anyone, but its product development stagnated a bit recently while competitors leapt ahead. That’s over.
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Nothing has built a brand around attention-getting phones and earbuds with seemingly transparent designs and rear panel light shows. I spoke with CEO Carl Pei about Nothing’s attempt to move upmarket into flagship phones and premium headphones.
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AMD announced a chip at CES that seemed almost too good to be true, and HP was the first to incorporate it into its zBook workstation line. It performs as advertised, but you’ll want to keep this laptop plugged into power.
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We were promised incredibly fast data speeds with 5G, but uploads have been left behind – all while content creation is exploding in popularity. T-Mobile is changing that.
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Over the past week there were two new chip announcements from MediaTek that probably got lost in the tariff noise, but they’re worth paying attention to.
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At its annual developer conference, NVIDIA justified its position as the premier AI silicon provider, showed a vision of AI transforming robotics, and expanded further onto the desktop.
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Apple is updating its core iPads and MacBooks this week with new, aggressively priced, higher performance models. Here is some quick analysis from the road (out at Mobile World Congress)
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Apple was widely expected to launch a new iPhone SE. Instead we we got a single-camera iPhone 16 with a new modem at a big discount and vertical integration brought to the modem.
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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 family is notable not for new hardware or design – though the design improved and the specs are great – but for the integration of useful AI features that can be transferred in the future.
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There was a lot of silicon news at CES 2025; Qualcomm’s may be the most impactful by targeting the volume segment of the laptop market and pushing on-device AI to all.
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After teasing at various events that it was working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a VR headset, Google announced Android XR for all types of devices. This report covers both Android XR and the state of the market in general.
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