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Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

Then followed a weekly tech column in a local business magazine in Mauritius, a late night tech radio programme called Clicplus and a freelancing gig at the now-defunct, Theinquirer, with Mike Magee as mentor. After an eight-year stint at ITProPortal.com, where he discovered the joys of global techfests and transformed the publication into one of the biggest tech B2B independent publishers, Désiré moved to TechRadar Pro where he has been the editor for nine years.

He has an affinity for anything hardware and staunchly refuses to stop writing reviews of obscure products or cover niche B2B software-as-a-service providers. He is an avid deal hunter and can be found lurking around on various deals forums.

Articles by: Desire Athow

Google Bard being used on a phone

Exclusive - almost 40% of US adult web users have used a generative AI tool

By Desire Athow published 10 April 23

Exclusive ChatGPT, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Bing Chat, Night Cafe and Bard all prove popular.

ChatGPT hero

Worried about AI and ChatGPT taking your job? You're not alone...

By Desire Athow published 9 April 23

Will AI replace my job becomes an existential question for millions worldwide.

A computer with six screens

Not an ordinary laptop: the world’s most powerful mobile workstation bundles 192 cores, up to 3TB and six monitors

By Desire Athow published 8 April 23

New version of the MediaWorkstation a-X2P is a transportable powerhouse.

Ricoh Portable Monitor

This exciting wireless portable monitor shows what future tablets could look like

By Desire Athow published 7 April 23

Turn every Android tablet into a wireless monitor - now that’s an idea.

ROG Flow Z13-ACRNM, Asus, Tablet

Asus ROG Flow Z13 ACRNM gaming slate is an almost perfect rugged tablet with Windows 11 Pro and stylus

By Desire Athow published 31 March 23

The ROG Flow Z13 runs on Windows 11 Pro and even comes with a stylus.

An AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D on its retail packaging

AMD Ryzen 7000 successor statement is 'genuine mistake', says server firm

By Desire Athow published 31 March 23

Statement on AMD Ryzen 7000 successor was a simple error, server startup says.

Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processor

Intel plans a 144-core CPU but you probably won’t be able to buy it anyway

By Desire Athow published 30 March 23

Sierra Forest will bring more cores than AMD’s Bergamo but will it matter at all?

An adlink external gpu

ChatGPT in your pocket: Palm-sized external Nvidia GPU weighs only 250g - but who will use it?

By Desire Athow published 30 March 23

Portable GPU is an ultra-portable accelerator in search of a market.

Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processor

Watch out AMD: Intel is preparing a massive 120-core CPU

By Desire Athow published 29 March 23

Xeon family will get more cores to match AMD’s EPYC platform, but will it be enough?

A Samsung 990 Pro SSD against a technological blue-lit background.

Official: Samsung wants to launch a 1000TB SSD before 2033

By Desire Athow published 28 March 23

Start saving now, as this 1000TB storage component won’t come cheap.

The inside of a server

AMD Ryzen wants to conquer the world, one server at a time

By Desire Athow published 28 March 23

Gigabyte’s Giga Computing unleashes affordable 1U servers with Ryzen inside

Lenovo Loq

Lenovo’s latest cheap gaming PC sports a surprising legacy biz tech - from the 1980’s

By Desire Athow published 28 March 23

A VGA port on a gaming desktop PC launched in 2023? No, you’re not hallucinating

A picture of a crab shell

Shells of dead crabs could be used to make cheaper optical components

By Desire Athow published 26 March 23

Biodegradable parts from dead crabs could make their way into your next device.

Nvidia Grace Hopper

How to build your own ChatGPT alternative on the cheap? There's one way

By Desire Athow published 24 March 23

Rent the GPU that ChatGPT is using for LLM training for just $2.33 per hour

Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX

This formidable AMD 64-core CPU may be the last of its breed; here’s why I’m excited about that

By Desire Athow published 23 March 23

Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 is expected to launch later this year, according to Asus.

Nvidia Grace Hopper

Move aside CPU, today is the day the GPU takes over your kingdom

By Desire Athow published 22 March 23

GTC shows that AI is more than just a buzzword, and Nvidia is its new champion.

an open silver laptop against a white and green background

The Pro version of the Nvidia RTX 4090 Mobile may turn out to be a bit disappointing

By Desire Athow published 21 March 23

RTX 5000 Ada Generation mobile GPU won’t be cheap and won’t perform better than the RTX 4090

AMD EPYC Genoa

AMD’s new 96-core monster CPU is likely to break world records

By Desire Athow published 21 March 23

Genoa-X leak shows it will have more than 1.2GB of L3+L2 cache.

get broadband without a landline

A tiny solar panel in a cable: How fiber optics is changing the way power is transmitted

By Desire Athow published 21 March 23

Power distribution has relied for decades on copper but that is changing

Sabrent Rocket V30 1TB MicroSD card

Sabrent Rocket V30 1TB MicroSD card review

By Desire Athow published 20 March 23

Popular storage vendor delivers a useful product with a disappointing price tag.

Samsung SSD

Hard disk drives could finally be out by Christmas if this trend continues

By Desire Athow published 18 March 23

The average price of SSD building blocks is falling down and it’s good news

An Intel Xeon chip in a motherboard surrounded by blue light

Intel’s record-winning 56-core rig sucks as much power as a tumble dryer

By Desire Athow published 16 March 23

Reaching new heights in power consumption and performance

Doogee S100 Rugged Smartphone

Doogee S100 rugged smartphone

By Desire Athow published 15 March 23

Another solid performer from one of the more established rugged smartphone vendors

MacBook Pro campaign

Apple quietly launched “Mac Does That” campaign for businesses

By Desire Athow published 14 March 23

A garish

AMD EPYC Genoa

Intel’s fastest CPU nabbed world record because of a mere technicality

By Desire Athow published 14 March 23

Surprising win from Intel doesn’t reflect real life scenarios sans overclocking

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