Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Intel will reportedly take the fight to AMD's dominant X3D gaming CPUs with monstrous Nova Lake chip packing 288 MB of vertical cache and 52 cores
News A battle royale of stacked cache CPUs beckons in 2026.
Framework delists standalone memory to 'head off scalpers' and Cyberpower announces system price hikes as the memory supply crisis deepens
News It's going to get worse before it gets better, peeps.
Sam Altman says the prototype AI 'thing' he's making with Jony Ive gives the 'vibe' of 'sitting in the most beautiful cabin by a lake in the mountains' and I'm left wondering if he's ever listened to the noises coming out of the hole under his nose
News Altman hopes when people see the former Apple design guru's device they will say, 'that's it?' It's going to be here in under two years so I guess we'll see.
Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU pops up in Geekbench with decent but not exactly spectacular benchmark numbers
News These aren't final figures, but Panther Lake doesn't look like a huge advance.
LG UltraGear 27GX790A OLED gaming monitor review
Score: 85% 480 Hz's worth of sizzling WOLED speed.
Researchers have scraped the personal data and images of 3.5 billion WhatsApp users in what's claimed to be the 'largest data leak in history'
News If you're worried, don't have a headshot as your WhatsApp profile.
Nvidia beats AI bubble fears with record revenues of $57 billion and 'off the charts' AI GPU sales
News 2026 is predicted to be better still.
Samsung's next-gen 2nm node is in mass production, but will it beat TSMC's N2 silicon to market and help make chips cheaper?
News My nm are better than your nm.
AMD finally gives its AI-enhanced FSR 'Redstone' upscaling tech a December 10 launch date
News All your rays are belong to AMD.
Epic Games announces sweeping cross-platform collab' bringing Unity's games and commerce platform to Fortnite
News Frienemies forever?
Cloudflare apologises for 'the pain we caused the Internet' and admits a file size error brought down large parts of the web yesterday, not a malicious cyberattack
News A teeny, tiny bug turned into a major internet outage.
PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans
News Get your PC purchases in ASAP, peeps.
OLED PC monitor sales are booming, up 65% on last year with Asus leading the charge
News Fancy an OLED monitor this Black Friday?
AMD is reportedly planning a GPU price rise as the memory shortage crisis bites and odds of decent Black Friday graphics card deals look increasingly slim
News GPU prices rises are now pretty much inevitable.
AMD's graphics driver discovered making 'hundreds' of SSD writes for every mouse move, but it probably isn't actually a problem
News AMD's graphics driver probably won't kill your SSD, it's just doing normal driver things.
Valve says a next-gen Steam Deck 2 still isn't possible, two years after it last said exactly the same thing
News There just aren't any chips good enough and probably won't be until 2027.
Today I learned that the curvy lithography masks used by TSMC to make next-gen GPUs are 'alien', 'psychedelic' and look nothing like chip circuits
News May we introduce Inverse Lithography Technology.
This new Mac Pro-inspired motherboard standard banishes all power cables for a single connector rated at over 2,000 W
News DIY-APE takes his war on cables to a whole new level.
Sony's new 'PlayStation' gaming monitor is a relatively unexciting 27-inch 1440p model but it does have a DualSense charging hook
News It's PC compatible but doesn't look hugely compelling.
A Japanese retailer is now restricting PC memory purchases, so is it time to properly panic?
news Affordable DDR5 is but a sweet, well, memory.
Is this puny Arm-powered PC with a desktop graphics card slot a glimpse of the future of gaming?
News As ever, software support is the problem.
This bizarre but apparently usable RTX 5080 skateboard mod is kinda cool but surely if you wanted a mobile GPU there's a better way
news If GPU coolers weren't so silly, this wouldn't even be possible.
