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

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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A promotional image of a Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD, showing the use of Samsung's own V-NAND flash memory chips and controller
Samsung has reportedly developed 900-layer flash memory chips and I'm thinking SSDs could get seriously cheap if this AI bubble ever pops

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Two 450-layer memory chips bonded together.

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MSI MPG 322UR X24 monitor
OLED gaming monitor sales are booming as shipments increase 78% in the first quarter of 2026

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Samsung seems to be flooding the market with QD-OLED panels.

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AMD Venice 2 nm server CPU
AMD announces production ramp of first 2 nm CPUs as Intel teases 10A and 7A chip roadmap

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Moore's Law alive and kinda kicking…

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Can it really be 10 years since AM4 appeared?

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News There are no Intel 18A desktop CPUs, so what are we meant to buy?

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Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu
Microsoft announces plans to give you more control over the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Top, bottom, left and right.

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A promotional image from G.Skill showing the RAM makers DDR5 RDIMMs filling all eight memory slots of a Threadripper motherboard.
Former Samsung boss predicts the memory crisis could be over in the second half of next year thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity

By Jeremy Laird Published

News The memory crisis could be followed by the mother of all memory gluts.

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A photo of an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor held between a person's finger and thumb
AMD now owns 38.1% of the overall x86 CPU market according to new research but actually lost ground in desktop PCs

By Jeremy Laird Published

News The CPU market giveth, and the CPU market taketh away...

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Nvidia data center
Nvidia's solution to the AI energy problem is mini data centers next to local power substations and, of course, selling even more GPUs

By Jeremy Laird Published

News AI hardware coming to your neighborhood...

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AOC Agon PRO AGP346UCSD gaming monitor
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Still not exactly a bargain, but at least it's not sold out.

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MSI MPG 322UR X24 monitor
New testing shows DisplayPort 2.1 is very picky about the monitor cable you're using

By Jeremy Laird Published

News If you want the full 80 Gbps of bandwidth, you'll need a DP80-certified cable.

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Intel Arc Pro B70 GPUs
Intel's Big Battlemage Arc Pro B70 GPU benchmarked in games, ends up bang-on Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB performance

By Jeremy Laird Published

News So much silicon for such modest performance.

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MSI MPG 322UR X24 monitor
MSI MPG 322UR X24 gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 92% The art of QD-OLED very nearly perfected.

Score: 92%
Kingston A400 SATA SSD 100 million sales graphic
SATA drives are still going strong as Kingston announces it has shipped 100 million A400 SSDs

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Perfect for when you're feeling precious about PCIe lanes...

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Google Chrome
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News 'Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.'

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A screenshot of Windows 95, with WordPad running on the desktop
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'

By Jeremy Laird Published

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."

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Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO
'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'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Restricting sales of GPUs to China has 'backfired.'

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Alienware AW2726DM monitor
Alienware AW2726DM gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 85% Alienware's surprisingly affordable, but still pretty excellent, QD-OLED gaming monitor.

Score: 85%
Image of the DualSense controller from the front on in situ.
Raspberry Pi-based homebrew dongle enables full wireless Sony DualSense controller functionality on the PC including haptics

By Jeremy Laird Published

News With better latency than a generic Bluetooth dongle, too?

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ChatGPT ascii art goblin
'Where the goblins came from': OpenAI's strange but not entirely surprising story of little critters infesting ChatGPT's output

By Jeremy Laird Published

News 'Goblins, gremlins, and other creatures...'

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A screenshot from the promotional video for the Apple Vision Pro headset, showing a long haired man holding on to a pair like Dambuster goggles
Apple has reportedly 'given up' on the Vision Pro headset and that doesn't seem like a good thing for VR, generally

By Jeremy Laird Published

News No more Metaverse, Vision Pro apparently dead, VR just can't get a break... roll on Steam Frame.

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A screenshot of DLSS 5 running in Starfield
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Max out your GPU's matrix hardware without paying fealty to Nvidia.

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Keychron Q0 Mini 8K Action Key
Keychron unleashes big, eminently bashable $65 mechanical single-key keyboard with 8K polling for ultra-low latency tantrums

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Fully mechanical stress relief...

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