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

Samsung Semiconductor's PM1763 SSD pictured

Samsung has a 16TB PCIe 6.0 SSD coming soon with read/write speeds of 28.4GBps and 21.9GBps respectively — but you won't be able to use it anyway

By Rahim Amir Published 14 July 26

Samsung's new 16TB SSD reads at 28.4 GB/s, but you can't plug it into a desktop PC just yet.

'We have not ruled this out': The water-based battery that could turn whole data centers into energy storage

By Rahim Amir Published 13 July 26

A battery that's half water can't catch fire, which is why SuperDielectrics wants to bolt it to the server rack itself, absorbing AI power spikes from the one spot lithium-ion is banned from

Like photosynthesis in plants: This CPU uses solar power to 'run computations' without the need for batteries

By Rahim Amir Published 13 July 26

Chip works just like a leaf, harvesting ambient light, sensing chemicals, and digitizing the results in one nanoscale stack requiring no battery, no charger, and no external power at all

A Russian high-altitude stratospheric balloon is being prepared for launch in an open field, with ground crew and support vehicles positioned nearby.

Like Google’s Project Loon, but for missiles: Ukraine is weaponizing stratospheric balloons to boost strike range

By Rahim Amir Published 13 July 26

Ukraine's DART leverages stratospheric balloons with a missile that goes deliberately deaf mid-fall, making Russian jammers ineffective.

The entrance to the Cinemagnum auditorium at the Cinecittà multiplex in Nuremberg, Germany

The Holy Grail of LED cinema: World's largest screen is the size of 700 TVs and packs 44 million pixels

By Rahim Amir Published 12 July 26

A 30-meter, 44-million-pixel LED wall fires sound through the pixels, solving one of the biggest audio-centric challenges which plagued previous designs.

Big letters AI in pink in front of pink and blue strands of light suggesting a digital explosion

'Quality decays exponentially following AI arrival': Research shows experts and contributors leaving online communities amidst silent 'knowledge reset'

By Rahim Amir Published 12 July 26

AI may have killed Stack Overflow while training on the same platform, as it pushed expert contributors away from the platform

A screengrab from a social media post showing a drone flying off a modular truck-based catapult launch system

No runway, no problem: China demonstrates drone catapult made up of three trucks that interlock like Lego bricks and come in shipping containers

By Rahim Amir Published 11 July 26

China seems to have solved one of the biggest logistics challenges of using larger drones across various environments by using trucks to form a launch system.

'Users no longer need to choose between powerful AI capabilities and meaningful privacy protections': Proton makes its Lumo privacy-first ChatGPT alternative a lot more powerful

By Rahim Amir Published 11 July 26

Proton's Lumo 2.0 finally looks like a real ChatGPT rival with reasoning, image generation, web search, and memory baked in.

AMD abandons HBM for inferior LPDDR5x as AI monster devours precious high-bandwidth memory

By Rahim Amir Published 10 July 26

AMD is moving away from HBM to LPDDR5x for its SoCs as AI hyperscalers continue to snap up all available wafers of the former.

Xiaomi has a NAS device, sitting alongside a supercar, a rice cooker, a nose hair trimmer, and smartphones, of course

By Rahim Amir Published 10 July 26

Xiaomi's latest product to turn heads may not be a smartphone or an automobile, but rather network-attached storage for its domestic market

'The thing that's amazing to me is this was 3D-printed': Pentagon's SciTech supremo describes future of warfare where projectiles are made up of coconut husks and coffee grounds

By Rahim Amir Published 8 July 26

The Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the Pentagon's science chief's understanding of the role of AI and biotechnology in future conflicts

The UK's countryside could be filled with small nuclear reactors after billionaire announces £35bn new investment

By Rahim Amir Published 8 July 26

Consortium led by industrialist Michał Sołowow unveils plan to build 14 small modular reactors across three British sites as part of a £35bn scheme.

OpenAI teams with Work Louder to launch Codex-native keyboard, weeks after CEO of Apps told staff 'not to be distracted by side quests’

By Rahim Amir Published 7 July 26

OpenAI's latest move seems to contradict its earlier stance of not getting distracted by 'side quests'.

The lightest Linux laptop ever just launched, and it challenges the MacBook Air for battery life

By Rahim Amir Published 6 July 26

The refreshed Lemur Pro is a Linux-based ultraportable that offers plenty of power and battery life under the hood.

A promotional image for UFS 5.0 by Samsung

Samsung is plotting to replace your M.2 SSD with a storage chip smaller than a fingernail to improve battery life and supercharge ondevice AI inference

By Rahim Amir Published 2 July 26

Faster, smaller and more power efficient

Anthropic's Claude to help Micron design better HBM, DRAM, and SSD for AI even as both companies refuse to address computational storage directly

By Rahim Amir Published 2 July 26

AI-designed solutions for AI-designated consumption?

Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs are so expensive that Intel's Arc Pro B70 is now a genuine bargain for AI — 128GB 4-card configuration costs less than $3800

By Rahim Amir Published 2 July 26

With RTX 5090 prices hovering at or above the $4,000 mark, Intel's value-centric Arc Pro B70 might be the bargain tot fulfill your local AI needs at a fraction of the cost.

A picture from Qualcomm's Investor Day 2026

Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute aims to compete with High Bandwidth Flash and Memory by stacking LPDDR just above the CPU to 'eliminate HBM tax'

By Rahim Amir Published 1 July 26

Qualcomm's latest data center push centers around High Bandwidth Compute (HBC), which aims to address the ever-increasing costs of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

Qualcomm targets Nvidia, AMD, Huawei with Dragonfly AI accelerator rack loaded with 43TB of LPDDR5x, future generations set to smash 7PB/s bandwidth

By Rahim Amir Published 30 June 26

Qualcomm's upcoming rack-scale inference platform, Dragonfly, comes with impressive numbers as it chooses to skip HBM for its more cost-effective and power-efficient proprietary HBC offerings.

One of AMD's most powerful CPUs gets a 60% price cut — 192-core EPYC 9965 CPU costs less than $6000 new and I can't explain why it's so cheap

By Rahim Amir Published 30 June 26

AMD's server-class Epyc 9965 CPU comes with a 192-core, 384-thread Zen 5-based configuration and can be had for less than half its original sub-$15,000 asking price.

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Adobe and Disney are teaming up to design the next generation of theme park rides with Foundry AI

By Rahim Amir Published 29 June 26

Adobe and Disney will build a custom AI solution trained on the latter's IP and leveraging Adobe's Firefly Foundry service.

It might look like a failed art project — but this dual-display monitor set addresses all your portable workstation needs

By Rahim Amir Published 29 June 26

Alogic's new portable monitor solves your screen real estate needs while leveraging a single USB-C connection.

An AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor seated into a black motherboard

Forget Ryzen AI! AMD launches its SLOWEST processor in years, because 'not all customers can afford a new PC' — 2019 Zen+ CPU will at least be compatible with Windows 11

By Rahim Amir Published 29 June 26

AMD's latest move seems to be two steps backward for budget laptops in a bid to cater to price-sensitive consumers

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A solution to RAM-aggedon? AMD buys startup to transform SSDs into cheap 'virtual RAM' to cut price, its third attempt at solving memory conundrum after RAMdisk and StoreMI

By Rahim Amir Published 25 June 26

AMD's latest AI-centric acquisition could be a game-changer for its data center ambitions

One memory to rule them all? Key partner to Nvidia, ASML and TSMC brings next-gen RAM and NAND replacements even closer

By Rahim Amir Published 24 June 26

IMEC has demonstrated two advances in ferroelectric memory research that could make next-generation memory possible.

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