The Tech Report

The Tech Report Podcast returns with Editor-in-Chief Jeff Kampman and esteemed guest David Kanter on the line. We hold a wide-ranging discussion of fairly recent happenings in the world of PC hardware revolving around results from our review of AMD's Ryzen 5 2500U mobile APU (code-named Raven Ridge).

The Tech Report Podcast made a guerrilla trip to San Francisco a couple weeks ago to talk about AMD's Ryzen 7 CPUs and the Zen architecture, as well as the upcoming Ryzen 5 CPUs. Editor-in-Chief Jeff Kampman and special guest David Kanter also talk about the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and upcoming developments in the graphics card market.

The Tech Report Podcast returns from a long slumber with new Editor-in-Chief Jeff Kampman in the host's seat. Jeff and special guest David Kanter discuss Soft Machines' VISC architecture and the performance targets that the company released recently. We also answer readers' questions about Soft Machines and other tech topics.

In this episode, we overcome some technical difficulties to chat about the performance gains Apple baked into the A9 SoC, the state of AMD in 2015, Google's latest slate of Nexus and Pixel devices, and more.

On this episode, we talk with Jacky Huang of Zotac about the Zbox EN970 and the other nifty mini-PCs that his team builds. Then we get to the core of Apple's announcements this week—including the iPad Pro, iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, and the updated Apple TV—and finish up by discussing some reader questions. Our thanks to Zotac for sponsoring the podcast this week.

In this episode, special guest David Kanter joins Scott to go deep on Intel's Skylake CPU and its graphics architecture. We also address some questions about the recent controversy surrounding the differences between Nvidia's and AMD's approaches to DirectX 12 asychronous compute shaders—the source of a comment that's taken the Internet by storm.

In this episode, Scott, Ben, and Jeff put AMD's Radeon R9 Nano under the magnifying glass. We also discuss Intel's support of VESA Adaptive-Sync, Cooler Master's MasterCase 5, and Galaxy Note 5 owners putting their pens in backwards, and we take questions from the peanut gallery.

In this episode, we chat about our Nvidia Shield review, explore Logitech's MX Master and MX Anywhere 2 mice, take measure of how much RAM is enough for today's graphics cards, and answer reader questions.

In this episode, special guest David Kanter returns to dive deep into Intel's new Skylake CPUs with Scott. We discuss the results of our review, compare the performance of the Broadwell Core i7-5775C versus the Skylake Core i7-6700K, and answer a bundle of reader questions about the new chips.

In this episode, we talk about our non-experiences with Windows 10, tricked-out GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics cards, the freemium software plague, the wonders of Rocket League, Intel and Micron's 3D XPoint memory technology, and several new smartphones from Motorola and OnePlus. We also answer questions from our readers and loyal live-stream watchers.