This Was the Most Exciting and Disappointing Year for Hardware
This fall was a blizzard of hardware and console announcements from practically every major company, all timed to launch just before the holiday shopping season. Nvidia wowed us with new graphics cards. AMD hit the ground running with new processors and its own graphics cards. Intel’s Iris Xe integrated GPU was impressive, not to be upstaged by Apple’s equally impressive M1 processor. And of course we can’t forget about the Xbox Series X and PS5. This could’ve been a year gamers and hardware enthusiasts would remember—one for the history books. Advertisement Instead, global supply c...