Techreport

Tech Report was founded by Scott Wasson, and Andy 'Dr. Evil' Brown.^[9] Both started writing at Ars Technica in 1998^[10][11]. The site eventually grew into a business enterprise with multiple full-time staff members.^[12]

On December 2, 2015, Scott Wasson, the remaining founder and Editor-In-Chief stepped down as he accepted a role in AMD's graphics division.^[13][14] Wasson subsequently sold the company in March 2018 to Adam Eiberger, the site's business manager.^[15]

On December 21, 2018 Jeff Kampman stepped down as Editor-In-Chief and was replaced by Seth Colaner as the interim Managing Editor.^[16] The site was subsequently sold to investors John Rampton and John Rall, and Renee Johnson took over as Editor-in-Chief. When Renee Johnson assumed the Editor-in-Chief position in 2019, all articles written by Jeff Kampman dating back to 2014 had his byline removed and replaced with Renee's. This situation continues to exist as of 2026.^{[17][18][19][20]} Other writers such as Scott Wasson have had their articles republished with revised datelines that make it appear as if an old article was only recently published and that the author was still writing for the site.^[21] This practice includes notable articles such as the "Inside the Second" article from 2011 which was republished with a December 2024 dateline.^[22]

On July 7, 2019, coinciding with the release of AMD's Ryzen 3 CPUs and Navi GPUs, a site redesign was launched, moving from the Tech Report's former custom CMS and functionality to a WordPress template. On July 9, Johnson posted an introduction to the design.^[23] The new redesign was met with criticism from the users.^[24] In August of the same year, TechReport's senior editing team experienced a series of changes, which was also evident in a change in direction in terms of the focus of the site, no longer covering hardware reviews and creating system guides.^[25]

By July of 2025, Renee Johnson left Tech Report and the site appeared to have been sold again, moving from being a Missouri corporation^[26] to unknown owners.^[27]

In 2007, Tech Report was one of the first sites to document and benchmark the flaw in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) of AMD Phenom CPUs. AMD initially claimed that the BIOS patch needed to address this issue would result in only a 10% performance decrease. Subsequent benchmark tests conducted by Tech Report revealed that the performance impact from the patch was significantly larger, up to nearly 20% on average, with some applications such as Firefox experiencing a performance hit of 57%.^[28] Tech Report also broke the news that AMD had stopped shipping affected processors.^[29][30]

On September 8, 2011, Scott Wasson posted an article titled "Inside the Second: A New Look at Game Benchmarking." This article demonstrated that frames per second (FPS) are not the only factor that matters in "smooth" gameplay, with frame latency also having a large impact.^[31][32] This innovative benchmarking method was later mentioned and acknowledged by other publications such as Anandtech, which described this method as "a revolution in the 3D game benchmarking scene"^[7][33] and with Overclockers noting how Tech Report pioneered measure frame timing.^[34]

In 2013, Tech Report started an experiment using several SSD drives to determine how many writes they can endure. This test lasted for more than 18 months before all drives used in this test failed, enduring much larger amount of written data than rated by manufacturers themselves,^[35][8] and even prompting one of the manufacturers, Samsung, to release a humorous music video dedicated to this test.^[36]