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

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.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding Project Digits

Nvidia, SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron reportedly working on new SOCAMM memory standard for AI PCs

By Sayem Ahmed published 17 February 25

Nvidia is reportedly collaborating with memory makers on a new high-performance, compact memory standard, seemingly designed for AI workloads.

Intel Panther Lake-H CPU hits max turbo power of 64W — mobile chips' leaked specs point to substantial power draw

By Sayem Ahmed published 14 February 25

Alleged preliminary specs of Intel's Panther Lake-H CPUs show efficiency gains for the upcoming architecture.

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