Articles by Sayem Ahmed, Subscription Editor

Sayem's first foray into building PCs dates back to the 90s, where he helped his dad run a small PC business from their garage. After getting tired of installing Windows using a stack of floppy disks, he eventually became obsessed with disassembling video game consoles, without his parents' permission. His love for gaming led him to build his first gaming PC, using an Intel Core i5-2500K that spent most of its life overclocked, alongside a hand-me-down GeForce 9800 GTX. Since then, he's worked as a professional tech journalist since 2015, writing for Gamespot, IGN, and Dexerto. When Sayem isn't focused on the latest tech, he can usually be found playing his guitar, or reading old fantasy novels.

Articles by: Sayem Ahmed

Brace for a barren landscape of new hardware launches, as AI demand reshapes the world of consumer electronics — trillions in AI investment threaten to derail entire industries

By Sayem Ahmed published 17 February 26

Premium Amid the ongoing DRAM supply squeeze, the world of consumer electronics is evolving, and it threatens to derail entire industries with its sheer scale and monetary backing.

A monitor light bar is the most underrated upgrade you can make to your setup — but not all of them are born equal, so here’s how to choose one that fits you

By Sayem Ahmed published 11 February 26

The best upgrade that I’ve made to my setup in recent years is the addition of a monitor light bar, but there’s a lot to consider before you purchase one.

Deepseek research touts memory breakthrough, decoupling compute power and RAM pools to bypass GPU & HBM constraints — Engram conditional memory module commits static knowledge to system RAM

By Sayem Ahmed published 13 January 26

Premium Deepseek paper seeks to reduce reliance on GPU compute for basic information retrieval

Intel Panther Lake press Q&A transcript — EVO is still alive, and the company ditches prior-generation naming scheme

By Sayem Ahmed published 9 January 26

Premium We sat down at CES 2026 with a panel of Intel staff to ask questions about Core Ultra Series 3.

Asus' Zenbook lineup gets 2026 refresh — ZenBook 14, Duo return with new AMD, Intel, and Snapdragon chips

By Sayem Ahmed published 6 January 26

A pretty platter of portable PC's pepper CES 2026

Nvidia CES 2026 keynote live blog — Jensen Huang takes the stage to reveal what's next for the AI company, but don't expect new consumer GPUs

By Sayem Ahmed, Jeffrey Kampman last updated 5 January 26

Jensen Huang takes the stage to lay out Nvidia's upcoming plans at CES 2026.

Newegg bundles $1,460 128GB DDR5 memory kit with $50 Starbucks gift card — 'Drink Coffee while you game!!' retailer says as memory hits RTX 5080 pricing

By Sayem Ahmed last updated 5 January 26

Newegg has listed two 128GB G.Skill DDR5 RAM kits with a free $50 Starbucks gift card. Both kits are more expensive than a brand-new RTX 5080, as the DRAM pricing crisis hits DIY PC builders hard.

White House U-turn on Nvidia H200 AI accelerator exports down to Huawei's powerful new Ascend chips, report claims — U.S. committed to 'dominance of the American tech stack'

By Sayem Ahmed published 10 December 25

Can CUDA still capture China?

Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition just got restocked in the UK, undercuts AIB cards by over £200 — GPU available directly from Nvidia marketplace

By Sayem Ahmed published 1 December 25

A Cyber Monday miracle.

Masterliquid 240 Atmos next to Black Friday lettering

Grab 34% off the Cooler Master Atmos 240 AIO at Amazon UK, just in time for Black Friday — one of the best 240mm coolers just hit an all-time low price

By Sayem Ahmed published 27 November 25

Deals The Cooler Master Masterliquid Atmos 240 Black AIO cooler has just plummeted to £79.99 at Amazon UK, an all-time low price for one of the best liquid coolers in its class.

Cloudflare outage hints at nefarious "traffic spike" as service impact spreads — X, McDonalds go down, company issues statement amidst chaos

By Stephen Warwick, Les Pounder, Sayem Ahmed last updated 18 November 25

Cloudflare is down, but the company is investigating.

Thermaltake Tower 250 on a desk with accessories

Building in the Thermaltake Tower 250 made me furious about one design flaw that could be easily solved — cramped cable cut-outs and inaccessible I/O

By Sayem Ahmed published 19 September 25

After building in the Thermaltake Tower 250, I found that the ITX PC case has one issue that drove me mad: the Motherboard I/O is difficult to access.

Nvidia responds to reports that its H20 GPU for China is ending production — next-gen B30A green light "up to the United States government," according to CEO Jensen Huang

By Sayem Ahmed published 22 August 25

A new report claims that Nvidia might be winding down production of the China-only HGX H20 AI chip following claims that the chips is "unsafe" according to China's CAC.

Howard Lutnick standing next to TSMC CEO C.C Wei

CHIPS Act funding could herald an era where the U.S. is not offering grants, but buying equity — Lutnick's semiconductor strategy might not end with Intel

By Sayem Ahmed published 20 August 25

News Analysis As the U.S. confirms interest in an equity stake in Intel, could this move signal to other CHIPS Act beneficiaries that America wants a slice of their pie, in exchange for funds?

A monitor OSD in purple showing various display options

I've been using an OLED monitor for 2,656 hours, and I'm not scared of burn-in: Here's why

By Sayem Ahmed published 17 June 25

I've been using this monitor for nine months, and I'm not afraid of burn-in.

"Export control was a failure." Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang slams Biden's China AI restrictions - Computex 2025 Q and A

By Sayem Ahmed published 26 May 25

Premium Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang addressed trade and new AI technologies in a Computex Q&A

The Lexar 1TB MicroSD Express card behind the silhouette of a game console with a dark red gradient background.

Nintendo Switch 2's support for MicroSD Express standard will hurt your wallet: Here's why

By Sayem Ahmed published 3 April 25

The Nintendo Switch 2 uses a memory standard named MicroSD Express, and the pricing of the newly announced products is going to make your wallet sting.

Deepseek 'clearly not interested' in scaling up — 160-person team focused on developing new models

By Sayem Ahmed published 14 March 25

Deepseek is focused on keeping its team lean and propelling development towards new models, with the goal of reaching AGI, instead of scaling up its commercial product offerings.

A pegboard illustrating deduction of some kind.

AI bots now play Mafia with each other on public website, and almost all of them are terrible at it

By Sayem Ahmed published 7 March 25

A developer has created a way for multiple LLM chatbots to play Mafia against each other, with a ranking, full transcripts and a leaderboard.

Nvidia's RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti rumored launch in 'ten days' — but don't expect any stock until April

By Sayem Ahmed published 7 March 25

The announcement appears to be imminent.

Nvidia and Broadcom continue trialing Intel 18A test chips: Report

By Sayem Ahmed published 3 March 25

A new report suggests that Broadcom and Intel are continuing to test the Intel 18A manufacturing process, amid reports of setbacks for contract manufacturing customers.

A silver titanum slab, the Mark 1, inside a book.

AI-powered bookmark wants to revolutionize the way you read — $129 Mark 1 offers AI-generated summaries

By Sayem Ahmed published 1 March 25

Startup Mark Engineering has revealed the Mark 1, a Titanium bookmark with a screen, which can offer AI-powered insights into your reading habits.

Doom key artwork with the lettering "Typescript Types".

Porting Doom to Typescript Types took 3.5 trillion lines, 90GB of RAM and a full year of work

By Sayem Ahmed published 27 February 25

Developer Dimitri Mitropoulos has managed to get Doom running inside of Typescript Types, after a year-long effort, resulting in three and a half trillion lines of types.

ASRock issues BIOS update to address Ryzen 9 9800X3D failures, warns of 'misinformation' about failures

By Sayem Ahmed published 25 February 25

The beta BIOS claims to improve 'CPU boot' issues.

Meta defends using pirated material, claims it's legal if you don't seed content

By Sayem Ahmed published 21 February 25

A new court filing alleges that Meta "took precautions" to not seed copyrighted data after downloading 82 TB dataset featuring copyrighted material.

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