Jeremy Laird

Jeremy Laird

Hardware writer

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

A Steam Machine in the dark, showing the blue LED light strip against the black chassis with a bright blue background
Valve says the memory and storage crisis is so bad, it's not just a problem of pricing, they had to 'negotiate really hard' just to secure supply for the Steam Machine

By Jeremy Laird Published

News One day, we'll laugh about all this. Maybe...

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US President Donald Trump listens during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 29, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)
Trump says Apple has agreed to build chips with Intel in the USA

By Jeremy Laird Published

News But for now, it's just a post on Truth Social...

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SanDisk Optimus GX 7100X M.2 SSD
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News There is a Gen 5 model, but it starts at $525 for the 1 TB drive. Bargain!

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Asus Prime RX 9070 XT graphics card
Valve upgrades AMD's 9070 XT GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, finally allowing the credit it deserves

By Jeremy Laird Published

News But still only in 23rd place, natch.

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A photograph of an Intel Core i7 14700K processor resting against an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition graphics card
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Nvidia's second-gen RTX Spark is also due in 2028 and AMD has new chips coming, too.

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ViewSonic VX24G26J-4K gaming monitor
Viewsonic unveils the world's first 24-inch 4K gaming monitor for super crispy visuals in a smaller form factor

By Jeremy Laird Published

News 160 Hz and 1 ms response, to boot.

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Framework 13 Pro ultra-repairable and upgradeable laptop
Modular laptop maker Framework forced to push SSD prices even higher but says DDR5 is 'stable'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Have RAM prices peaked?

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Asus Prime RX 9070 XT graphics card
The latest market data shows GPU shipments are holding up for now but AMD isn't making any inroads on Nvidia

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Is this the quiet before the storm?

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TSMC
The BBC quizzed chip maker TSMC on the possibility of increased prices and you're really not going to like the answer

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Inflation and TSMC's "value" looks set to push prices ever higher.

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card from various angles
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

Computex 2026 The slim GPU pickings look set to continue.

Computex 2026
KTC M27T6S gaming monitor
KTC M27T6S gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 90% An affordable 1440p mini-LED gaming monitor with truly eye-popping performance.

Score: 90%
Koorui 34E6UC gaming monitor
Koorui 34E6UC gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 72% A budget 34-inch ultrawide gaming monitor that's big on immersion but ever so slightly sluggish.

Score: 72%
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor
New rumour claims with '100%' confidence that AMD's next-gen Zen 6 desktop CPU will run at over 6.5 GHz

By Jeremy Laird Published

Computex 2026 However fast it is, AMD says Zen 6 is coming later this year.

Computex 2026
Acer Nitro Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

Computex 2026 In some ways, the later the better.

Computex 2026
Panther Lake
New report claims Intel is 'struggling' to supply laptop CPUs based on its latest 18A node after speaking to Computex sources

By Jeremy Laird Published

Computex 2026 But it might not be because there's a problem with 18A itself.

Computex 2026
Alienware AW3926QW OLED monitor
Shut the front door!: Alienware's new 5K2K RGB-stripe OLED could be the gaming monitor, er, endgame

By Jeremy Laird Published

Computex 2026 Is this the panel I've been waiting for?

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Computex 2026
The MacBook Neo in yellow, held aloft.
New data predicts PC sales will tank in 2026 but Apple is doubling MacBook Neo production according to reports

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Supply or demand?

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Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang on stage at GTC Taiwan with the new RTX Spark.
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

Computex 2026 Emulating x86 apps, enabling anti-cheat is plenty of work, for now...

Computex 2026
Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM 32-inch 4K OLED monitor
Asus outs 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with new LG RGB-stripe panel, but it's a bit behind on brightness

By Jeremy Laird Published

Computex 2026 Beaten by Samsung's latest QD-OLED tech, already...

Computex 2026
Nvidia RTX Spark chip
Nvidia may have announced the RTX Spark, but the first true Nvidia CPU for the PC could be coming in 2028

By Jeremy Laird Published

Computex 2026 Will Nvidia's second-gen Vera Rubin Spark get Nvidia-designed Olympus cores?

Computex 2026
Intel Arc G handheld chip
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

Gee whiz Do you trust Intel to keep investing in Arc drivers?

Gee whiz
LG Ultragear 45GX950A
LG reportedly denies plans to sell TV business to Hisense, but there's probably still a display war coming that could impact the PC

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Even though the part of LG that actually makes display panels wasn't implicated, China's industry is still coming...

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MSI MPG 322UR X24 monitor
Samsung ups its 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor ante with impressive new 360 Hz, RGB-stripe, HDR 600 panel

By Jeremy Laird Published

News On paper, this is surely the ultimate 32-inch 4K panel.

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Nvidia Vera Rubin
Nvidia's first in-house CPU benchmarked, beats x86 and ARM chips alike but only in Nvidia-sanctioned tests

By Jeremy Laird Published

News But when might we see such CPU cores in a PC?

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TSMC's Fab 16, Shenzen, China
TSMC employees reportedly following Samsung workers in threatening to strike over bonus cuts despite record profits

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Bumper times for tech firms but not necessarily tech employees?

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