Hassan Mujtaba's Hardware Coverage at Wccftech
Hassan Mujtaba covers processors, graphics cards and chip manufacturing as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware. His author page lists 11,727 articles and a June 2011 joining date, with recent work ranging from AI processor architectures to rising GPU prices and memory shortages.
Layla Haddad
Background and editorial role
Mujtaba's Wccftech biography describes a PC enthusiast with software engineering training whose reporting combines technology news, hands-on reviews and benchmarks. His technical coverage includes next-generation CPU and GPU designs, motherboards and cooling hardware.
His LinkedIn profile places him in Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan, and lists a B.S. (Hons) in Software Engineering from Beaconhouse National University. It dates his tenure as Senior Editor to January 2020 and identifies Editor in Chief as a previous role at Wccftech.
His author page also lists The Verge, Harvard Business Review, Tech Target and PCMag in its "Featured In" section.
Processors, manufacturing and hardware markets
The author's featured stories emphasize the competition in processors and semiconductor manufacturing. His Intel 14A coverage reports that the company confirmed high-volume production for 2028, with risk production on internal products brought forward to 2027. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan expressed confidence in the process's competitiveness on power, density, cost and schedule.
Two other featured articles examine CPUs for AI workloads. The NVIDIA Vera analysis describes a processor built for reinforcement learning and agentic AI, with 88 Olympus cores aimed at maximizing single-core performance. The AMD EPYC Venice launch story lists configurations with up to 256 Zen 6 cores, 203 billion transistors and clock speeds above 5 GHz.
Recent coverage also follows constraints in the memory market. One headline attributes to Samsung a warning that shortages will worsen in 2027 and supply constraints will continue into 2028. Another reports SK Hynix's expectation that shortages will last through 2030 despite expansion. A separate story reports a 21% decline in global PC shipments in the third quarter, alongside a forecast for a 27% drop in the fourth.
Graphics card pricing and product roadmaps are another recurring subject. The recent-post list includes a report of NVIDIA RTX 50 price increases in November, a possible December arrival for a 24 GB RTX 5080, and AMD's plans for RDNA 5+ in 2029. Other entries cover the GeForce 8800 GTX's 20th anniversary, Intel Nova Lake laptop processors, and Micron's DDR6 and LPDDR6 plans.
Wccftech's origins and reach
Wccftech, legally WCCF TECH INC., says it started as a technology enthusiasts' forum in 2004. Its About page describes the publication as one of the world's most-visited technology media platforms and says it consistently ranks among the five most-commented websites. Those are the company's own characterizations; it identifies its audience as spanning the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
A June 2016 profile in The Express Tribune gives a more detailed account of the site's beginnings. It traces the community to the original Worldcall forum, which shut down in April 2004 over its use of pirated software. A small group of founders, including current CEO Abdullah Saad, then pooled funds to purchase software licenses and keep the community running.
At the time of that June 2016 report, Wccftech said it attracted approximately 15 million monthly visitors and had more than 35,000 registered community members.
The corporate description on Mujtaba's LinkedIn profile places Wccftech's headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It describes a workforce spread across seven countries, including Pakistan, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Italy.
