Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Oh great, now copper prices are 'surging' and threatening to make PC hardware even more expensive
News Stop the car, I want to get out.
After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage
News OLED burn-in is real, but increasingly looks like it's not a major worry for either WOLED or QD OLED.
A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that's pretty much the only way you're gonna get a cheap GPU these days
News Shurely shome mishtake.
New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul
News AMD's next Ryzen CPUs could be a big step...
WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis
News But it will probably just make hard drives more expensive, too!
Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD's greatest graphics card hits to design them
News But, yup, you guessed it, this is all for AI, not gaming. Probably.
Intel's Arc B770 gaming graphics card claimed to be dead and the reason is inevitably AI
News It's no longer possible to launch a sensibly priced 16 GB GPU.
It's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'
News But does that necessarily apply to the PC?
OpenAI reportedly isn't happy with Nvidia's GPUs while Nvidia's $100 billion investment plan in OpenAI is said to have 'stalled': Is the AI honeymoon over?
News Are the two biggest beasts in AI falling out of love?
Xbox hardware sales slump by 32% as Microsoft reports that its overall gaming revenue is in decline
News Is this an Xbox?
Meta lost $19.1 billion on VR last year despite the mother of all pivots to AI including plans for AI-generated gaming
News Forget the Metaverse, an "explosion" of new AI media formats are headed your way.
The AI money merry-go-round shows no sign of stopping as Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft linked to deals worth nearly $200 billion
News More money than you can possibly imagine.
'We can fix the internet' says Tim Berners-Lee—just don't ask what he thinks about AI
News Out of the internet frying pan, into the AI fire.
Memory chip specialist SK Hynix reports record-breaking profits but doesn't have a word to say about almost anything apart from AI
News AI, AI, oh.
Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'
News If you are using WinRAR you definitely want to update to version 7.13.
New report claims Samsung, SK Hynix and Sandisk are all planning to double the price of NAND memory chips this year
News The PC memory crisis just gets worse.
Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary with an ominous warning about the impact of AI
News Is the very integrity of information at threat from generative AI?
Not content with utter GPU domination, Nvidia's new Vera chip is coming for CPUs though maybe not gaming CPUs just yet
News Nvidia announces first customer for its custom-designed Vera CPU.
Redditor ordered an RTX 5080 from Amazon Prime and claims a near-identical RTX 5060 Ti with the stickers swapped was sent out
News Part of the problem is that the two cards look so similar...
Microsoft's Xbox app has been released for Arm PCs—just in time for Nvidia's new chip?
News Nvidia's N1X Arm CPU could be just months away.
Behold the future of PC gaming: Upscaled 77p potatovision—and it's not quite as awful as you imagine
News Next target: Upscaling from a single pixel.
Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU rumoured to be launching soon but only as a megabucks Pro graphics card with 32 GB of VRAM
News PC gamers just can't get a break...
OpenAI's internal documents predict $14 billion loss in 2026 according to report
News But it's claimed OpenAI will be making Nvidia-style money by 2029.
