Articles by Rahim Amir, Contributor

Rahim Amir is a UAE-based tech writer who enjoys building PCs as much as he enjoys writing about them. He has been professionally writing about PC hardware since 2023, focusing on buyer’s guides, hardware reviews, and sponsored content and features related to tech.

Having built hundreds of gaming PCs and being an avid gamer in his spare time, Rahim tends to have stronger opinions about hardware than most. This is particularly on display when he gets his way with powerful, but minimalistic RGB builds even as Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs come a close second.

In addition to his contributions to TechRadar, Rahim’s work has also been featured on Game Rant and financial news websites.

When he’s not working, you can find him playing DotA with friends or schmoozing to take the world over in Civilization. Alternatively, you can find him binging through the entirety of the Lord of The Rings universe with extended editions in play where applicable.

You can currently catch Rahim grinding Path of Exile 2, complaining about his (extremely low) unique loot drop rate, or actively participating in one of the numerous (and heated) debates centered around Tolkien's universe on multiple forums daily.

If you have a PC build or a Satisfactory playthrough in progress, he is likely to have some advice to send your way, especially regarding verticality being key for the latter. For the former, Rahim enjoys all aspects of the process including researching the components he will eventually use, benchmarking the latest and greatest hardware he can get his hands on, and somewhat surprisingly, cable management once he gets his latest build to POST.

Articles by: Rahim Amir

Microsoft turns to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice over second-hand software licenses, and billions could ride on the outcome

By Rahim Amir Published 31 July 26

A costly legal situation in the making?

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This startup just raised nearly $500 million to build nuclear reactors for the US military

By Rahim Amir Published 31 July 26

Seven weeks after its reactor went critical at Idaho National Laboratory, Antares has raised $470m to put microreactors on US military bases by 2028.

Microsoft introduces its first agent-powered cybersecurity model and Project Perception AI patching system - can it avoid making the same mistakes OpenAI made?

By Rahim Amir Published 30 July 26

Microsoft's new security AI writes and deploys its own patches, six days after OpenAI's models escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face

Google signage at the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

Google has a new way of talking about the latest cyber threats — so get ready for a whole load of crazy new names

By Rahim Amir Published 29 July 26

Sandworm is now Sandworm Relic: Google has ditched APT numbers for two-word cryptonyms and quietly gone its own way on threat actor naming.

A DragonFire laser being test-fired in the Hebrides Range in Scotland

Ukraine military to get DragonFire-style drone-killing lasers within months

By Rahim Amir Published 29 July 26

Ukraine says drone-killing lasers could reach the front by autumn, even as the manufacturer's own numbers show engagement ranges shrinking from five kilometers to under one as testing continues.

Nvidia paid $20 billion for SRAM decode - AMD just partnered for it instead

By Rahim Amir Published 29 July 26

AMD and Cerebras are claiming 5x higher tokens per watt from their new disaggregated inference tie-up.

A 330 MW data center wanted to buy a farm, switch off the irrigation, and drink the difference — California's most powerful irrigation district said no, so it sued

By Rahim Amir Published 28 July 26

The largest AI data center project in California is suing to get access to the Colorado River, and the 287 million gallons of water it allegedly needs to cool a 330-megawatt facility.

A render of the AMD Helios server rack from 2025

AMD's Helios beats Nvidia on memory at rack level and on compute — only if you count it at the GPU level

By Rahim Amir Published 28 July 26

AMD says Helios beats Nvidia's Vera Rubin on four counts, but the memory wins are rack-level and verifiable, while the 15% FP4 win is per-GPU, even as Nvidia pulls ahead in rack-level compute.

Ukraine claims drone 'costing a few thousand dollars' obliterated a $50m Russian Buk-M3 AA missile launcher system in seconds

By Rahim Amir Published 28 July 26

Ukraine says a drone worth a few thousand dollars destroyed a $50 million Russian Buk-M3.

AMD's Venice is the first 2nm x86 server chip, but the stack doesn't fully ship until 2027

By Rahim Amir Published 27 July 26

AMD's Zen 6 Venice EPYC is a 2nm, 256-core, 512-thread juggernaut which comes into play at the same time as Nvidia is gunning for the data center CPU market.

A render of the AMD Instinct MI455X AI GPU

AMD says the MI430X is the fastest FP64 GPU ever built, but you can't buy one until 2027

By Rahim Amir Published 27 July 26

AMD's MI400 launch release contains a single performance number, and it's a double-precision one.

The 2026 World Cup didn't just cause global celebrations when Argentina lost — it might also have altered global web traffic and online behavior around the world

By Rahim Amir Published 26 July 26

The 2026 World Cup's biggest moment online wasn't the final - Cloudflare says what time you woke up to watch dictated browsing habits significantly.

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Ukraine's new Marichka AI targets the one layer of its war stack that Palantir still owns

By Rahim Amir Published 26 July 26

Ukraine says testing shows Marichka AI can cut battle planning from 12 hours to minutes, allowing for faster, actionable goals

Time for a super-sized Raspberry Pi? New 10.1-inch Touch Display 2 gives users more room for their projects but makes compromises

By Rahim Amir Published 25 July 26

Raspberry Pi's new 10.1-inch Touch Display 2 is $80 and the best value in the range per square inch.

Nvidia reveals deep dive into what makes Vera CPU tick — with the super-powered Olympus core promising huge performance increases and more

By Rahim Amir Published 24 July 26

Nvidia reveals deepest Vera CPU disclosure yet: 88 custom Olympus cores with internally measured SPEC CPU 2026 numbers that show it winning against rivals.

Nvidia's latest trick for cooling its data center hardware is... hot water? 'Hot liquid cooling' is warmer than a hot tub, but apparently does the job pretty well

By Rahim Amir Published 23 July 26

Nvidia's newest AI servers are cooled by water hotter than a hot tub: 45°C going in, 55°C coming out, while skipping out on fans altogether

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A Tupolev Tu-95 captured flying over Moscow

Split in half from space: satellite images confirm Ukraine's 800km drone strike destroyed an irreplaceable Russian Tu-95 bomber

By Rahim Amir Published 22 July 26

Russia painted fake Tu-95s on the tarmac and built 17 shelters to protect the real ones. Ukraine's drones flew 800km and split an actual bomber in half anyway.

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Andruil unveils autonomous attack rotorcraft - could Thunder be the future of warfare as we know it?

By Rahim Amir Published 22 July 26

Anduril's new Thunder autonomous attack helicopter is built to fly as an escort for the Apache.

Leaving Apple, Intel, and Nvidia in the dust? Huawei could join Samsung as the only tech firms producing its own CPUs, SSDs, and DRAM

By Rahim Amir Published 21 July 26

Only Samsung currently makes its own CPUs, SSDs, and DRAM, but Huawei may be quietly building its own alternative.

A robot standing thoughtfully in front of a giant digital display with code on it

The 8-Hour challenge: SK On says solid-state robot batteries must justify a 4x manufacturing cost jump to replace 'inferior' lithium-ion

By Rahim Amir Published 21 July 26

SK On says solid-state batteries can close the gap, but only if the math holds for companies.

US startup founded by former teenage drone racers just won one of the Pentagon's biggest small-drone deals — Neros has shipped tens of thousands of UAVs to Ukraine and inked a $500M contract

By Rahim Amir Published 21 July 26

Two drone-racers who were told they couldn't "waltz into the Pentagon" and sell weapons just won a $500 million US Army contract to do exactly that.

Ukraine claims $400 FPV drone destroyed Russia's $19 million 'Apache rival' attack helicopter

By Rahim Amir Published 20 July 26

A $400 Ukrainian FPV drone chased down and allegedly 'destroyed' Russia's Mi-28 "Night Hunter" attack helicopter.

'We can no longer afford to be blind': Danish startup raises funds to build underwater CCTV-like tech to track drones and more

By Rahim Amir Published 18 July 26

Three engineering students raise €1 million to string AI-powered listening posts across the seabed.

Hackers breached DHS after alarms were twice ruled 'false positives'

By Rahim Amir Published 17 July 26

DHS analysts twice ruled intrusion alerts on its HSIN network "false positives", allowing hackers to have weeks of unintended access on the platform.

Employees at the China Southern Power Grid operating humanoid robots

Ukraine wants combat humanoid robots — but expect Wall-E over Terminator, as simpler, wheeled tech still wins

By Rahim Amir Published 16 July 26

Ukraine might have greenlit combat humanoid robots, but battlefield realities favor economies of scale for much simpler contraptions.

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