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

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?

The ultimate SSD deal to beat on Prime Day — grab a 4TB Crucial P310 for $199, the most affordable 4TB SSD on the market, in the final hours of Prime Day

By Sayem Ahmed Published 11 July 25

Deals Get 40% off Crucial's huge 4TB SSD in this excellent Prime Day discount

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

Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 gaming mouse gets $56 discount ahead of Memorial Day sale

By Sayem Ahmed Published 23 May 25

Logitech's flagship gaming mouse gets limited-time 31% discount at Amazon

Asus ROG B650E-I Gaming Wi-Fi motherboard on gradient background with Tom's Hardware Tech Deals lettering.

This small-form-factor Mini-ITX Asus ROG Strix B650E-I Gaming Wi-Fi motherboard just got a $90 discount ahead of Memorial Day

By Sayem Ahmed Published 22 May 25

Grab a $90 discount on this Asus ROG B650E-I motherboard.

My favorite gaming headset just got a $106 discount on Amazon ahead of Memorial Day sales

By Sayem Ahmed Published 21 May 25

The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless is a great all-rounder, and is now 30% off at Amazon

The fastest SSD you can buy right now just got a 42% discount ahead of Memorial Day sales

By Sayem Ahmed Published 20 May 25

Crucial's 2TB T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD gets a hefty discount at Amazon.

AMD's 9600X drops down to $208 ahead of Memorial Day Weekend Sale — Plus free 16GB of DDR5-6000 RAM

By Sayem Ahmed Published 19 May 25

Get on AMD's AM5 train without breaking the bank

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.

Kioxia's new 10th gen 332-layer 4.8 GB/s 3D NAND flash is 33% faster than its 8th gen ICs

By Sayem Ahmed Published 20 February 25

Kioxia's 10th generation 332-layer 3D NAND flash is up to 33% faster than prior-gen NAND, boasted the company at ISSCC 2025.

Musk announces Grok 3-powered xAI gaming studio to develop 'AI games' with photo-realistic graphics

By Sayem Ahmed Published 19 February 25

Following the release of Grok 3, Musk's xAI is spinning off into game development, with lofty ambitions.

AMD Ryzen 9900X3D & 9950X3D benchmarks surface with strong single-core uplift

By Sayem Ahmed Published 19 February 25

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D have been tested on Geekbench 6.

Trump to introduce 25% and 'higher' tariff on imported semiconductors, timing unclear

By Sayem Ahmed Published 19 February 25

Trump announced a 25% tariff on semiconductor chips to boost U.S. production, but provided no timeline for implementation.

DRAM and NAND prices are expected to rise in the second half of 2025

By Sayem Ahmed Published 18 February 25

A new report suggests that both DRAM and NAND prices are going to rise later this year.

Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO

By Sayem Ahmed Published 18 February 25

CEO Jason Chen confirms a 10% price hike on U.S. laptops starting March 2025 due to incoming Trump tariffs.

A Raspberry Pi Zero inside a case being assembled.

Modder crams LLM onto Raspberry Pi Zero-powered USB stick, but it isn't fast enough to be practical

By Sayem Ahmed Published 17 February 25

A Raspberry Pi Zero can run a local LLM using llama.cpp. But, while functional, slow token speeds make it impractical for real-world use.

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