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There aren’t many gaming laptops with enormous 18-inch screens. The Ultima 18, Maingear’s first 18-inch model, has four M.2 SSD options, up to 192GB of DDR5 memory, and, of course, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 mobile GPU. Although the Intel “Arrow Lake” Core Ultra 9 275HX is only 100 MHz slower than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX that was introduced at CES 2025, it still has an advantage over the MSI Crosshair 18 HZ AI that was introduced at…

The architecture that links graphics cards and SSDs, PCI Express 5.0, has become synonymous with high-end PCs in recent years. With the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) reaching a significant milestone this year to provide the higher-bandwidth PCI Express 6 to PCs, that is almost about to change. The majority of today’s PCI SIG news is theoretical in nature; the SIG is establishing the foundation for PCIe 8.0 and has publicly announced PCIe 7.0, which is anticipated to be released…

Nvidia dominates the desktop graphics card market, despite gamers’ complaints about declining value and growing costs. As of the first quarter of 2025, a research organization claims that Big Green holds over 90% of the market following a sharp decline from rival AMD. By many measures, Nvidia is already on the verge of becoming the desktop GPU monopoly, or has already done so. Nvidia holds 92 percent of the desktop graphics market share for the quarter that ended in March,…

In the context of the company’s future plan, Intel documentation has disclosed new code names: Bartlett Lake, Wildcat Lake, and a 12-core version of the Bartlett Lake processor composed exclusively of performance cores. It’s interesting to note that the source—a guide on using Intel’s platforms for real-time computing—is openly accessible. Following a Twitter observation by InstLatX64 (via Videocardz), the latest “gold deck” presentation was removed. Although it lacks the roadmap information that the most current version had, Intel’s March 2025…