Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Apple announces new M5 chip with double the per-core performance of the M1 and it's got me wondering why AMD and Intel can't keep up with Apple's single-core performance gains
News New M5 chip is about twice as fast as the original M1 in raw single-thread benchmarks.
AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now
News Apparently, AI slop doesn't do well in searches.
The plot thickens as Intel announces a new data center GPU that could also preview its next-gen gaming graphics cards, but there's still no mention of Celestial
News This GPU was made for inferencing.
I've never really been sold on the whole external GPU thing, but I can't deny this Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock is seriously slick, it'll even charge your phone wirelessly
news Could this thing really transform a thin-and-light lappy into a gaming beast?
Uh oh, it's happening: ADATA chairman says the perfect storm of simultaneous DRAM, SSD and HDD shortages is already upon us and it looks like prices are only going in one direction
news All in the name of AI slop.
Best OLED gaming monitors in 2025: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.
Intel attempts to clarify whether the new Xe3 iGPU in Panther Lake is next-gen Celestial technology but I'm left confused and fearing for the future of Intel Arc graphics
News So is it Celestial, or not?
When will the AI bubble burst? As OpenAI signs yet another megabucks deal with Broadcom, can anyone make sense of the trillions of dollars involved?
News A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Hooray for the PC: Sales are up by nearly 10% on last year, but predictably things are quite a bit slower in the US
News That'll be those tariffs, then.
Kiss goodbye to your smartphone OS, ChatGPT wants to become an operating system complete with an AI app store
News Apple and Google will not like this one little bit.
Discord says 70,000 age-verification ID photos may have been leaked in recent security breach that also includes names, usernames, emails, credit cards, and IP addresses
News I just died of not-surprise.
Microsoft is planning to make it harder than ever to install Windows without an internet connection and a Microsoft account
News The number of work arounds is ever shrinking...
This new 4K gaming monitor is so ridiculously bright I'm gonna need to wear shades
News 1,600 nits of eye-popping panel power.
The latest Intel Panther Lake CPU leak details next-gen Core Ultra 300 range with high-performance graphics restricted to a new 'X' model line
News Our first taste of Intel's 18A silicon is approaching fast.
Intel's morale is reportedly 'in the toilet' as the chip maker strives to be 'really lean, fast moving'
News Will deals like the Nvidia joint venture turn things around for Intel?
Don't look up: That's not a shooting star, it's another Starlink satellite burning up
News They're coming down at a rate of several per day.
AMD seals multi-year megadeal with OpenAI involving 6 gigawatts' worth of AI GPUs and a possible 10% stake in AMD
news Take that, Nvidia.
Decade-long SSD and RAM 'pricing apocalypse' predicted as AI data centers gobble up hardware on an epic scale
news Are SSDs and memory prices headed the same way as graphics cards?
Microsoft wants to sell you a Steam Deck in 2025 for $600 as Xbox Ally pricing unveiled
news Quick, somebody tell Microsoft that Valve just cut the price of the Steam Deck LCD to $329.
AMD wants to patent a new DDR5 memory standard with double the bandwidth but we're not expecting to see it in PCs any time soon
News 12.8 Gbps of raw bandwidth, but will the industry adopt it?
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2, the first 5 GHz Arm CPU, its 'biggest advance in PC gaming' and the chip that might finally make gaming on Arm an actual thing
news We've heard it all before, but this chip could be awesome.
Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters
News Better AI characters, more convincing in-game interactions incoming?
Google and Qualcomm are prepping 'desktop' Android to enable 'mobile and PC' in one device, but should Windows and x86 be afraid?
news Google and Qualcomm are both super excited...
