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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.311: The Fab FloorPC World's Adam Patrick Murray stops by this week to discuss the trip he and Will recently took to visit Intel's new 18A chip fabrication facility in Arizona. Settle in for a wide-ranging chat about the upcoming Panther Lake architecture, why Intel won't have a new desktop part for a while longer, the future of next-gen chiplet interconnects, the difficulty of scheduling between big and little cores, suiting up to enter the fab, 30mph FOUPs whizzing around overhead, EUV machines the size of multiple school buses, getting served beer by tiny horses (??), and more.
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2025-11-021h 28
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.281: Fully Ray-Traced Metal MarioWith the wraps finally being taken off the Switch 2 this week, PC World's Adam Patrick Murray joins us for a handheld state of the union this week, with a closer look at some of the technical aspects of the new Nintendo handheld including the specs on the screen and TV output, the innards of the dock, the new MicroSD Express storage standard, and more. Then we get into the pervasive rumors about a forthcoming Xbox handheld made by Asus, analyze Microsoft's opportunity for a more gaming-centric Windows experience in the space, speculate about where the Steam Deck might be...
2025-04-061h 18
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.256: Gotta Get That Smooth 40Adam Patrick Murray, PC World's handheld PC gaming expert, drops by to talk about the current state of the handheld union. We discuss what's going on with hardware for the Valve Steam Deck, the ASUS Rog Ally X, and a whole lot more, plus dig deep into the pros and cons of Windows vs. Linux on handhelds, talk about what's going on with Valve's version of Steam Deck OS and homebrew options like Bazzite, and touch on what we'd like to see next from the ecosystem next year and beyond.Stuff discussed in this episode: BazziteRetro G...
2024-10-131h 00
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.241: The Computruth About ComputexThis week, Friend of the Show Adam Patrick Murray from PC World joins Will to share the ground truth about Computex. Freshly returned from Taipei, Adam is a Computex veteran, and told us what it's like to attend and cover the most important PC hardware trade show in the world.What Hardware Should You Use for UE5 Development?PC World's YouTube ChannelThe Full Nerd PodcastHow MSI Laptops are Designed VideoMSI's GPUs Through History Video
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2024-06-301h 07
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.215: Taking the Temperature of the MarketOn the final day of 2023, Will is joined by Adam Patrick Murray from PC World to discuss the year that was. We run down the last twelve months of PC and mobile hardware, pick this year's winners (and a few losers) and call out the trends and hardware that we were most excited about in 2023! Plus, scene drama!
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2023-12-311h 48
The Full Nerd PodcastEpisode 274: Gordon Updates, Hardware Reliability, RAM Testing & MoreJoin The Full Nerd gang as they talk about the latest PC hardware topics. In this episode the gang is joined by special guests Steve from @GamersNexus and Will Smith from Brad and Will Make A TechPod to talk about Gordon, the reliability of PC hardware right now, RAM testing and so much more. And of course we answer all of your burning questions, so be sure to join us live!Buy The Full Nerd merch: https://crowdmade.com/collections/pcworldJoin the PC related discussions and ask us qu...
2023-10-111h 36
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.201: Core 1 Ultra Extreme Plus+Intel held its annual Innovation event this week, and our friend Adam Patrick Murray from PC World was there. Now he's here to fill us in on all the details about the company's big shift to Meteor Lake and beyond, including the embrace of chiplet-style modular CPU design, their ever-shrinking process nodes, major changes to how the CPUs are named, their first "neural processing unit," how complicated it's getting to benchmark all this stuff, and more.Check out some of PCWorld's recent coverage of the topics from this ep:Meteor Lake Tech Tour Deep Dive
2023-09-251h 22