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

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Lenovo's ThinkCentre X Ultra puts 128GB of unified memory in a 1.6-liter box, and you can cluster four of them together

By Rahim Amir Published 3 September 26

Lenovo's ThinkCentre X Ultra packs 128GB of unified memory into 1.6 liters for $3,699, and says four will cluster into a potential 512GB pool

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Lockheed carries out missile launches directly from a drone boat - will the US Navy be next?

By Rahim Amir Published 2 September 26

A crewless sailboat has fired two live missiles at RIMPAC

OpenAI data center chief leaves the company as exec exodus continues

By Rahim Amir Published 1 September 26

OpenAI's data center chief is out after 17 months, and the company had already broken his job into three pieces before he left.

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OpenAI lifts the lid on its in-house Jalapeño chip - with benchmarks claiming it beats Nvidia's GB300

By Rahim Amir Published 1 September 26

OpenAI says its 700W Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's 1,400W GB300 in efficiency, while skipping a crucial head-to-head against the latter's Vera Rubin architecture.

Diamonds, Crescents and Wildcats: Intel shows off its hardware for the next generation of agentic AI workloads

By Rahim Amir Published 29 August 26

Intel laid out its whole agentic AI hardware stack at Hot Chips 2026, but two of the three chips are still a year or more from shipping.

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This company wants to help universities get around Microsoft 365's extra costs as it moves away from unlimited cloud storage

By Rahim Amir Published 28 August 26

Microsoft's free unlimited education storage is gone, and Arcitecta is the latest vendor selling universities the exit ramp they need.

Google unveils Gemini AI plans specifically for legal and finance workers

By Rahim Amir Published 27 August 26

Google shipped Gemini editions for law firms and banks. Both are previews, and pricing isn't available yet.

Ukraine warns Russia has built metal-cutting drones to topple its power grid

By Rahim Amir Published 27 August 26

Ukraine says Russia built a drone with cutting charges in its wings to drop power pylons.

Security expert hijacks Apple's Find My network to share data with a Linux device

By Rahim Amir Published 26 August 26

Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into feeding live location data to a Linux box, with no Mac or iPhone required.

Xiaomi will now let you pre-order its first NAS — and at a surprisingly attractive price for customers everywhere

By Rahim Amir Published 26 August 26

Xiaomi's first NAS starts at CNY 2,699 with drives included, uses the same chip as Synology's 2023 budget boxes, and isn't yet available outside China.

IBM reveals plans for 'quantum fridges' — its next-gen cooling hardware, which could be the key to quantum computers finally reaching their potential

By Rahim Amir Published 25 August 26

IBM cools two connected fridges to a hundredth of a degree above absolute zero, but the temperature is arguably the least impressive part of its achievement.

Samsung thinks Claude Code can help it boost chip design — but admits the AI still makes some worryingly big mistakes

By Rahim Amir Published 25 August 26

A different kind of numbers game

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This company wants to stop underwater drones and even submarines with a whole new form of sonar technology

By Rahim Amir Published 24 August 26

A sensor that listens silently, then calls in a second one to ping the target, could be a key pairing that helps the US Navy track underwater drones before they reach the pier.

'Same compute, fewer resources - More compute, same energy': AMD says it is on track to make AI four times more energy efficient

By Rahim Amir Published 24 August 26

AMD says two of its 2030 racks will match 570 from 2024 using twenty times less power and reducing carbon intensity by twenty-eight times.

Google's $10 million bid to buy old business data from Spirit Airlines so it can use it to train AI has hit turbulence

By Rahim Amir Published 22 August 26

One corporation's old business data could be another's AI treasure

Experts warn expired credit cards can be brought back from the dead to make contactless payments

By Rahim Amir Published 21 August 26

That expired card in your drawer might not be nearly as dead as you think: researchers made one pay $100 for a grocery run.

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Even dead websites aren't safe — experts warn hackers are spending millions on expired domains to enable malware scams

By Rahim Amir Published 21 August 26

Roughly 65,000 expired domains change hands every day, and researchers have found one crime group spending an estimated $7 million on them to inherit the trust that comes attached to them.

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Massive supply-chain attack sees terabytes of data belonging to some of the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations leaked online

By Rahim Amir Published 21 August 26

Hackers compromised a security tool, used it to steal the publishing keys of a popular AI tool, and released a poisoned version under that tool's real name in a far-reaching attack

'Dude, you're getting a Dell....server rack': Is this iconic TV ad campaign returning with an AI twist?

By Rahim Amir Published 20 August 26

Michael Dell resurrects the Dell Dude to sell massive AI racks, an advertisement that also earned a "Made with AI" sticker on X.

Alabama town left powerless against massive new Bitcoin mining data center after developer finds loophole in state zoning laws

By Rahim Amir Published 19 August 26

An Alabama town and its county both passed moratoriums, but a 50 MW Bitcoin mine is being built anyway because they aren't allowed to zone.

Public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center after its cloud storage vendor goes out of business, losing over 70 years of archival materials and programming

By Rahim Amir Published 19 August 26

A St. Louis PBS station bought cloud storage from a vendor that has now gone defunct and is now in a legal battle with its landlord for access to its own data

Rent a supernode by the hour - Alibaba brings frontier-scale AI compute to the public cloud, but only if you live in this remote Chinese province

By Rahim Amir Published 19 August 26

Alibaba's new AI supernode is rentable by the hour, built entirely on Chinese silicon, and smaller than every rival it's compared to.

Nvidia wants to stop AI costs skyrocketing with its new software router — but will it really make a difference?

By Rahim Amir Published 19 August 26

Nvidia says its new router cuts AI costs by up to 74%, but the partner that measured it says it couldn't prove the router beat using the cheaper model.