Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
LG claims its new 1-120 Hz auto-refresh rate LCD display for laptops extends battery life by 48% and helps the new Dell XPS hit 31 hours
News LCD this year, an OLED version follows in 2027.
CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' according to an unnamed gaming PC company
News Are CPUs set to follow RAM and SSDs?
Geekbench warns that Intel's BOT tool for the new Arrow Lake Plus CPUs generates results that 'aren't comparable with standard runs'
News Why is Geekbench singling out Intel?
Sony reveals that its new PSSR upscaling for the Playstation 5 Pro has the same 'core' as AMD's FSR Redstone but that doesn't necessarily mean older AMD PC graphics cards are set to get an FSR upgrade
News Frame generation could be coming the the PS5 Pro.
Former Windows boss reveals previous plans to reduce Windows 11's memory and storage footprint by 20% and now I'm hoping Microsoft includes that in its new Windows 'quality' drive
News Dare we say it, but Microsoft seems to be reading the room.
Microsoft is 'working on' removing the online account login requirement for new Windows 11 installs and also 'reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points'
News Microsoft's laundry list for Windows 11 actually looks pretty good.
High-end systems dominate booming gaming PC sales according to new report that also claims Arm chips are coming to the rescue of gamers on a budget
News I'll believe the idea of affordable Arm-based gaming PCs when I see it.
Optiscaler updated to support FSR 4 on older AMD RX 6000 GPUs without the need for driver mods
News Community tool beats AMD to the punch once again.
Forget about PCs or LLMs, Micron says driverless cars and humanoid bots will soon be gobbling up 300 GB of RAM per device
News If you want clever machines, you're going to need a load of memory.
Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG gaming monitor review
Score: 80% 5K gaming isn't as bananas as it sounds...
Intel adds mobile chips to its updated Arrow Lake 'Plus' family with 8% more gaming performance despite no changes to core counts or their clock speeds
News Is it all about Intel's new performance BOT?
China reportedly approves imports of Nvidia's H200 GPU, but the US government may cap exports to individual Chinese companies
News The intricate US-China GPU export dance continues.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says DLSS 5 backlash is 'completely wrong' because it 'doesn't change the artistic control'
News Artistic control remains with developers, but what exactly does that mean?
Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal: PC Gamer reacts... not wholly positively
So... DLSS 5 This has been one of the most controversial reveals of an Nvidia technology I can remember, and people have a lot of thoughts.
New report claims CPUs are next in line for a chip shortage but there's little evidence of that right now
News Are CPUs headed in the same direction as GPUs, RAM and SSDs?
Nvidia's new Vera CPU has been designed for 'extremely high' single-core performance, but it's not coming to the PC for now
News Dare we hope that those Olympus cores turn up in a future PC chip?
New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance
News And it's not even Apple's fastest phone chip.
AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it
News And will it be limited to next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs?
One of my favourite 4K OLED monitors just got updated with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel tech
News The only bit that's missing is the 'RGB stripe'...
Intel announces Arrow Lake 'Plus' desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting 'BOT' tool
News As refreshes go, this isn't actually half bad.
If you're thinking about buying a Framework PC or laptop with 2 TB-plus of storage 'now is the time to do that' says company CEO
News Framework still has some SSDs at old prices but once they sell out...
How to make your very own semiconductor-class cleanroom in a wooden shed and build your own chips, well kinda
News Knocking up a cleanroom isn't as hard as you might think, the rest of the job, however...
Big Tech makes White House pledge to stump up for the increased energy costs of AI and prevent household bills from escalating
News Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon et al agree to pay for new power generation at the White House.
