
Jeremy Laird
Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
Latest articles by Jeremy Laird

Amazon will soon deploy more bots than it employs people now that it has a million robots
By Jeremy Laird published
News Wait, Amazon has over one million employees?

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Turns out you can transform your very ordinary car into an actual Mario Kart controller (but you probably shouldn't)
By Jeremy Laird published
News Just about the only way to make a 2016 Renault Clio interesting.

Intel's ex-CEO said he bet the company on the 18A node but now a new report claims Intel is pushing customers to next-gen 14A instead
By Jeremy Laird published
News 18A lives on for Intel's Panther Lake CPUs, but will that be enough?

Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
By Jeremy Laird published
News Ditch Google, Gmail and Android, add a Deck, Graphene and a Raspberry Pi.

'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team
By Jeremy Laird published
News It's much easier for Microsoft to slap an Xbox sticker on an existing piece of hardware and call it day.

The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
News Looks like the end of the road for most GeForce GTX graphics cards later this year.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs rumoured to take on AMD's X3D CPUs at last thanks to gaming-friendly cache memory tile
By Jeremy Laird published
News The devil will be in the ring-bus details.

Former CEO Pat Gelsinger reveals he was 'not given the opportunity' to finish his job at Intel as he predicts the future of computing will be a 'trinity' of traditional, AI and quantum machines
By Jeremy Laird published
News 'The decision to step down from Intel was an extremely difficult one.'

Nvidia marketing goes into overdrive mode with claims that the new RTX 5050 is over 6000% faster than the GTX 1050 thanks to DLSS
By Jeremy Laird published
News It's actually over 10 times faster in raster, isn't that a big enough win for gamers with old GPUs?

Windows 10 diehards who want security updates for free get a stay of execution, but there's a convoluted catch
By Jeremy Laird published
news You'll need to be cloud connected or have plenty of points you've forgotten exist...

HDMI 2.2 interface finalised with 4K at 480 Hz and 12K at 120 Hz support, but you're going to need a new cable
By Jeremy Laird published
news Take that DisplayPort 2.1 and your feeble 80 Gbps.

The Switch 2's super sluggish LCD screen is 10 times slower than a typical gaming monitor and 100 times slower than an OLED panel according to independent testing
By Jeremy Laird published
News Switch 2's IPS display probably isn't using overdrive.

New chip industry roadmap predicts true 10 nm silicon won't arrive until 2039 and yet Moore's Law is, actually, alive and kicking
By Jeremy Laird published
News Except, of course, it won't really be 0.2 nm or anything even close to that.

Just when you thought Intel's branding couldn't get any worse, a report says the company plans to outsource marketing to a consultancy using AI
By Jeremy Laird published
News Hard to see how you could better 'Intel Core Ultra 9 285K'...

After about a bazillion user requests, Windows finally lets you move the audio volume pop-up
By Jeremy Laird published
news ...oh, and Microsoft is still plugging away at Recall.

OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT
By Jeremy Laird published
News His Royal Altness is apparently entirely dependent on chatbots.

Fake Minecraft mods that steal all your personal data including crypto wallets are being distributed via GitHub accounts
By Jeremy Laird published
News Be very careful of your mods and tools.

Intel claims 18A, the node Pat bet the company on, is either 25% faster or 38% more efficient than Intel 3. Though that's a node Intel didn't have enough faith in to release for desktops or laptops
By Jeremy Laird published
News A tricky comparison, given there are no Intel 3 chips in PCs.

Intel has joined Nvidia with its own neural texture compression tech but it probably won't rescue your VRAM-starved 8 GB GPU any time soon
By Jeremy Laird published
News By the time games use this tech, you'll have a different graphics card.

Microsoft's exciting multi-year silicon partnership with AMD doesn't actually make it clearer if there's an official Xbox handheld or next-gen console coming
By Jeremy Laird published
News Will next-gen Xbox hardware be made by Microsoft, by someone else, maybe both?

Microsoft announces new dream team partnership with AMD on a 'portfolio' of next-gen Xbox devices, all with backwards compatibility with existing games
By Jeremy Laird published
News Console, handheld and PC, all based on silicon co-engineered with AMD.

BOE outs 8K 120 Hz monitor and it's not quite as irrelevant for gaming as you think
By Jeremy Laird published
news It's all about integer scaling, peeps...
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