Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Trump says Apple has agreed to build chips with Intel in the USA
News But for now, it's just a post on Truth Social...
SanDisk's latest Optimus gaming SSDs start at $799 MSRP for the 2 TB model and you don't even get Gen 5 speeds for that
News There is a Gen 5 model, but it starts at $525 for the 1 TB drive. Bargain!
Valve upgrades AMD's 9070 XT GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, finally allowing the credit it deserves
News But still only in 23rd place, natch.
Intel's first chip with Nvidia graphics is coming in early 2028 according to the latest leak and it could mark a new era for handheld PC gaming
News Nvidia's second-gen RTX Spark is also due in 2028 and AMD has new chips coming, too.
Viewsonic unveils the world's first 24-inch 4K gaming monitor for super crispy visuals in a smaller form factor
News 160 Hz and 1 ms response, to boot.
Modular laptop maker Framework forced to push SSD prices even higher but says DDR5 is 'stable'
News Have RAM prices peaked?
The latest market data shows GPU shipments are holding up for now but AMD isn't making any inroads on Nvidia
News Is this the quiet before the storm?
The BBC quizzed chip maker TSMC on the possibility of increased prices and you're really not going to like the answer
News Inflation and TSMC's "value" looks set to push prices ever higher.
2026 is shaping up to be one of the worst years ever for new graphics cards as Nvidia's RTX 50 Super Series refresh rumoured to be pushed out to 2027
Computex 2026 The slim GPU pickings look set to continue.
KTC M27T6S gaming monitor review
Score: 90% An affordable 1440p mini-LED gaming monitor with truly eye-popping performance.
Koorui 34E6UC gaming monitor review
Score: 72% A budget 34-inch ultrawide gaming monitor that's big on immersion but ever so slightly sluggish.
New rumour claims with '100%' confidence that AMD's next-gen Zen 6 desktop CPU will run at over 6.5 GHz
Computex 2026 However fast it is, AMD says Zen 6 is coming later this year.
AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs not out until late 2027 or even early 2028 according to new report citing graphics card makers at Computex
Computex 2026 In some ways, the later the better.
New report claims Intel is 'struggling' to supply laptop CPUs based on its latest 18A node after speaking to Computex sources
Computex 2026 But it might not be because there's a problem with 18A itself.
Shut the front door!: Alienware's new 5K2K RGB-stripe OLED could be the gaming monitor, er, endgame
Computex 2026 Is this the panel I've been waiting for?
New data predicts PC sales will tank in 2026 but Apple is doubling MacBook Neo production according to reports
News Supply or demand?
CEO Jensen Huang says Nvidia is too busy with the 'gigantic project' of 'reinventing the PC after 40 years' to do a handheld gaming PC based on RTX Spark
Computex 2026 Emulating x86 apps, enabling anti-cheat is plenty of work, for now...
Asus outs 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with new LG RGB-stripe panel, but it's a bit behind on brightness
Computex 2026 Beaten by Samsung's latest QD-OLED tech, already...
Nvidia may have announced the RTX Spark, but the first true Nvidia CPU for the PC could be coming in 2028
Computex 2026 Will Nvidia's second-gen Vera Rubin Spark get Nvidia-designed Olympus cores?
Intel's new Arc G-Series chips will probably be the best for handheld gaming—but not for long, and only because AMD has dropped the ball
Gee whiz Do you trust Intel to keep investing in Arc drivers?
LG reportedly denies plans to sell TV business to Hisense, but there's probably still a display war coming that could impact the PC
News Even though the part of LG that actually makes display panels wasn't implicated, China's industry is still coming...
Samsung ups its 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor ante with impressive new 360 Hz, RGB-stripe, HDR 600 panel
News On paper, this is surely the ultimate 32-inch 4K panel.
Nvidia's first in-house CPU benchmarked, beats x86 and ARM chips alike but only in Nvidia-sanctioned tests
News But when might we see such CPU cores in a PC?
