Madeline Ricchiuto

Laptop Mag's Silicon Survey meets the architects behind the architecture that powers our favorite portable tech. Catch exclusive interviews with Apple, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and more as we learn how their silicon will shape the future of CPUs and GPUs.

MediaTek is an Arm-based chipmaker, alongside Apple and Qualcomm, powering plenty of smartphones, tablets, and Chromebooks.

Smartphone success stories are now shaping the computing industry

If any company can get gamers behind AI, it would be Nvidia

Doug Brooks, Product Manager for Mac Hardware, is enthusiastic about Apple’s ability to maintain its performance and battery life dominance.

To say 2024 was a rough year for Intel may be an understatement. But, as Intel's Robert Hallock tells Laptop Mag, “You can't go backwards. That's unacceptable.”

Moore’s law is both alive and dead.

With major overhauls to the company’s CPU and GPU lineup, 2025 looks like a big year for Team Red. However, hardware alone isn’t the secret behind the AMD Advantage.

“We expect AI will become ubiquitous as consumers and businesses continue upgrading to the latest PCs over the next decade,” Qualcomm's Kedar Kondap told Laptop Mag.

Intel and HP make a business case for AI

My biggest struggle with the Claw 8 is not build quality or performance. No, the struggle is restraining myself from becoming a total MMO hermit and not speaking to actual humans.

Asus executive Shawn Yen reveals where the ever-active computer company looks for feedback: The passionate, opinionated user communities that buy its products.

The Z2 series isn't created equal

Is 2025 the year laptop upgradeability becomes viable?

192GB of system memory may just be too much RAM

The Ryzen AI Max series of APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) offers incredible performance in gaming, content creation, and AI thanks to its innovative approach to x86 chip design.

The Legion Go 2 remains a prototype for now, but based on our initial impressions, it feels like a worthy successor to the 2023 Lenovo Legion Go.