Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Windows 10 diehards who want security updates for free get a stay of execution, but there's a convoluted catch
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
news It's all about integer scaling, peeps...
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments
News Mid-range Nova Lake has more cores than high-end Arrow Lake, natch.
Borderlands 4 system requirements demand 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of VRAM but the reality is probably a bit more forgiving than that
News An AMD Ryzen 5 9600X will surely run Borderlands 4 just fine.
Xbox handheld rumoured to be 'essentially cancelled' but the new Asus Xbox Ally is actually a preview of all future Xbox consoles, not just handhelds
News No more dedicated Xbox consoles built by Microsoft, so the story goes...
Alienware 34 AW3425DW review
Deja jeu Alienware's ultrawide OLED has a new look, but the gaming experience is mostly familiar.
Intel's mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely
News An RTX 4070 or 5070 beater for a bit less money?
AMD stealth launches the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a cheaper downclocked version of its oldest 3D V-Cache CPU architecture
news AM4 forever.
OpenAI head Sam Altman claims a single ChatGPT query uses ‘one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water but that doesn't put AI's environmental impact in the clear
News But is water usage actually the worry?
Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest CPU in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts
News AheadComputing reckons the future of CPU performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.
Microsoft previews new super-sized Start menu for Windows 11
news More of your apps and files just a couple of clicks away...
US peripheral maker cites 'global supply chain issues' as the reason for releasing its new gaming mouse everywhere except the US
news Locally global issues, or should that be globally local...?
