Welcome to The Drive, a weekly column looking at some wacky, interesting, cool, and pivotal things within the tech space!

What do the HP-1000 and the DEC VAX 11/730 have in common with the video games Tempest and Battlezone? More than you might think. All of those machines, along with many others from that time period, ...

Alibaba claims its XuanTie C950 CPU runs a 27-billion-parameter AI model at 30 tokens per second without a GPU, but these ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...