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

LinkedIn says it won't be spending big on AI hardware this year — but it has a good reason why

By Rahim Amir Published 4 August 26

LinkedIn says it won't expand its AI data centers for a full year, keeping GPU investment flat after roughly doubling the output of the GPUs it already has.

Samsung warns RAM-pocalypse could last until 2028 — as its profits continue to rise

By Rahim Amir Published 3 August 26

Samsung says the memory shortage will persist through 2028 and worsen in 2027.

Micron purchases treated water from Veolia, a private municipal water utility

Hackers are going after our water now — over 30 Minnesota utilities hit in coordinated cyberattack by apparent Iranian attackers

By Rahim Amir Published 2 August 26

More than 30 Minnesota water utilities were hit in a coordinated attack

Expert warns this dangerous Microsoft Word worm can burrow into Copilot and cause havoc — here's what we know

By Rahim Amir Published 1 August 26

Hidden white text in a Word document can make Copilot rewrite your figures and copy itself into the finished file.

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Blank spaces could hold danger - Kaspersky report warns of the dangers of 'parked domains' and empty pages where hackers could be lurking

By Rahim Amir Published 1 August 26

That "Domain for Sale" page you closed without reading may have fingerprinted your device on the way in.

Bad updates, broken cables and blackouts - Cloudflare reveals some of the wildest reasons behind Internet downtime across the world

By Rahim Amir Published 1 August 26

A routine key update took every .de website offline worldwide, and the failure, interestingly, made global DNS queries go up, not down.

The Seagate Exos X24 24TB hard drives are piling up

Seagate reveals more on its 50TB HDD plans — but looks like we'll still have a long wait to buy one

By Rahim Amir Published 31 July 26

Seagate's 50TB hard drives finally have a date: qualification in late 2027, shipments in 2028.

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.

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