Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
OLED gaming monitor sales are booming as shipments increase 78% in the first quarter of 2026
News Samsung seems to be flooding the market with QD-OLED panels.
AMD announces production ramp of first 2 nm CPUs as Intel teases 10A and 7A chip roadmap
News Moore's Law alive and kinda kicking…
Rebooted AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU for the 10th anniversary of the AM4 socket spotted online for $310, keeping DDR4 and your hopes of a PC upgrade alive
News Can it really be 10 years since AM4 appeared?
Intel is reportedly forcing PC builders to buy its latest, most expensive 18A CPUs and I'm wondering what that means for Arrow Lake desktop chips
News There are no Intel 18A desktop CPUs, so what are we meant to buy?
Microsoft announces plans to give you more control over the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu
News Top, bottom, left and right.
Former Samsung boss predicts the memory crisis could be over in the second half of next year thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity
News The memory crisis could be followed by the mother of all memory gluts.
AMD now owns 38.1% of the overall x86 CPU market according to new research but actually lost ground in desktop PCs
News The CPU market giveth, and the CPU market taketh away...
Nvidia's solution to the AI energy problem is mini data centers next to local power substations and, of course, selling even more GPUs
News AI hardware coming to your neighborhood...
AOC's new 34-inch gaming monitor gets the same sizzling 5th Gen QD-OLED panel tech as our current favorite ultrawide but it's a whole lot cheaper
News Still not exactly a bargain, but at least it's not sold out.
New testing shows DisplayPort 2.1 is very picky about the monitor cable you're using
News If you want the full 80 Gbps of bandwidth, you'll need a DP80-certified cable.
Intel's Big Battlemage Arc Pro B70 GPU benchmarked in games, ends up bang-on Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB performance
News So much silicon for such modest performance.
MSI MPG 322UR X24 gaming monitor review
Score: 92% The art of QD-OLED very nearly perfected.
SATA drives are still going strong as Kingston announces it has shipped 100 million A400 SSDs
News Perfect for when you're feeling precious about PCIe lanes...
Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it
News 'Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.'
Microsoft exec. confirms Windows 11 is just as full of old code as you suspected: 'We were thinking flying cars and moon stations by the year 2026, not Win32'
News "Did anyone in the '90s expect Win32 to still be a first-class API surface in the year 2026? And I think I can safely answer, no."
'In China we have now dropped to zero': CEO Jensen Huang bemoans Nvidia's market share and calls for US to export AI 'like crazy'
News Restricting sales of GPUs to China has 'backfired.'
Alienware AW2726DM gaming monitor review
Score: 85% Alienware's surprisingly affordable, but still pretty excellent, QD-OLED gaming monitor.
Raspberry Pi-based homebrew dongle enables full wireless Sony DualSense controller functionality on the PC including haptics
News With better latency than a generic Bluetooth dongle, too?
'Where the goblins came from': OpenAI's strange but not entirely surprising story of little critters infesting ChatGPT's output
News 'Goblins, gremlins, and other creatures...'
Apple has reportedly 'given up' on the Vision Pro headset and that doesn't seem like a good thing for VR, generally
News No more Metaverse, Vision Pro apparently dead, VR just can't get a break... roll on Steam Frame.
Microsoft announces Shader Model 6.10 preview, bringing neural rendering into the mainstream and just maybe making the games industry a bit less reliant on Nvidia
News Max out your GPU's matrix hardware without paying fealty to Nvidia.
Keychron unleashes big, eminently bashable $65 mechanical single-key keyboard with 8K polling for ultra-low latency tantrums
News Fully mechanical stress relief...
Samsung's 'world's first' 6K 32-inch gaming monitor goes on sale for 1,499 euros
News Expect a similar dollar price.
