February was a big month for PC news, with the Apple M2, a massive Nvidia hack, and, of course, the SteamDeck. Here's what you need to know about.
The first few months of the year are generally slow for PC news, but not in February 2022. We saw an Nvidia hack that we’re still discovering the scope of, a blatant cash grab from Best Buy to capitalize on the GPU shortage, and the mixed reception of Valve’s Steam Deck.
That doesn’t mean AMD chips are buggy. Intel discovered 51 vulnerabilities, 23 of which came from AMD components. It seems most of the issue was focused around the Radeon RX Vega M graphics chip inside Intel Kaby Lake-G CPUs, like the one on the Dell XPS 15 2-in-1. In fairness to AMD, these are still bugs on Intel processors, so we’re not going to shame Team Red.
The Steam Deck arrives to mixed reviews The Steam Deck arrived at the end of the month, kind of. Keeping to its promise, Valve shipped out the first batch of its new handhelds on February 25, though the lion’s share of pre-orders are still in shipping limbo. Reviews have been generally positive, especially in terms of performance, but the Steam Deck still has a number of worrying issues.
The FCC says this should open up broadband options in apartment complexes, but there are skeptics. Landlords are still free to enter into agreements and push one ISP over another; they just have to be clear that there are other options. It’s not a full win, but it’s a step in the right direction for an area that’s been largely ignored for nearly two decades.
Apple M2 rumors run wild Apple is rumored to be holding a spring event in March, keeping with the trend of a Mac-focused event in either March or April. The key talking point according to the rumor mill: A new Apple M2 processor. There’s no shortage of Apple rumors each month, but M2 news has hit a fever pitch, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman confirming the rumors.
In the other camp, AMD put out its Ryzen 6000 processors. The CPU itself looks like a generational, unexciting, improvement. But AMD is talking up the graphics a lot. The new chips use the RDNA 2 architecture inside RX 6000 graphics cards, which AMD says can go toe-to-toe with some discrete GPUs.
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