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Jeremy Laird

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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 battery of WD hard drives.

Old school hard drives are getting more reliable according to a new survey but good luck buying one later this year thanks to AI demand

By Jeremy Laird Published 16 February 26

News 1.36% overall HDD failure rate reported as one drive maker says it's sold out for 2026.

Samsung Penta Tandem QD-OLED

Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 February 26

News Five times two is 10?

Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds

Best Buy creates the GPU pricing meme nobody asked for, so here's the sadly inevitable Nvidia RTX 5090 for $5090

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 February 26

News It had to happen some day... just don't round the price up or it spoils the effect.

Valve Steam Deck OLED handheld PC

All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 February 26

News This isn't getting any more fun.

A close-up, detailed photo of a delidded Intel Core Ultra 200S processor, codenamed Arrow Lake, showing the structures of each tile comprising the processor.

More details of an extra big Intel Nova Lake 'bLLC' CPU die with added cache and designed to take on AMD's X3D chips emerge

By Jeremy Laird Published 11 February 26

News The 'bLLC' CPU die is allegedly 36% bigger than the regular high-performance die.

Micron RAM production shot

The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won't help DRAM prices until 2028, if then

By Jeremy Laird Published 11 February 26

News Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung are all tooling up, but don't expect PC memory prices to improve for years to come.

Scrapped Randam Access Memory (RAM) devices sit in a crate at the Attero Recycling Pvt facility in the Raipur industrial area of Bhagwanpur in Roorkee, Uttarkhand, India, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I'm wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine

By Jeremy Laird Published 11 February 26

News Your local recycling depot probably won't take kindly to you digging in.

G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 memory

G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over 'deceptive' RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing

By Jeremy Laird Published 10 February 26

News Millions to be paid out but individual customers probably won't get much.

Snapdragon X2 Elite

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 chip gets tested in games and unsurprisingly can't keep up with Intel's mighty Panther Lake APU

By Jeremy Laird Published 10 February 26

News There's a little more to come from Qualcomm, but it probably won't be enough.

MSI MAG CoreLiquid A15 360 AIO CPU cooler pump heat plate

Oh great, now copper prices are 'surging' and threatening to make PC hardware even more expensive

By Jeremy Laird Published 5 February 26

News Stop the car, I want to get out.

LG UltraGear 32GS95UE

After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage

By Jeremy Laird Published 5 February 26

News OLED burn-in is real, but increasingly looks like it's not a major worry for either WOLED or QD OLED.

Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card from different angles

A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that's pretty much the only way you're gonna get a cheap GPU these days

By Jeremy Laird Published 5 February 26

News Shurely shome mishtake.

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor

New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul

By Jeremy Laird Published 4 February 26

News AMD's next Ryzen CPUs could be a big step...

A battery of WD hard drives.

WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis

By Jeremy Laird Published 4 February 26

News But it will probably just make hard drives more expensive, too!

Intel Arc B580 graphics card

Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD's greatest graphics card hits to design them

By Jeremy Laird Published 4 February 26

News But, yup, you guessed it, this is all for AI, not gaming. Probably.

Intel Arc B580 graphics card

Intel's Arc B770 gaming graphics card claimed to be dead and the reason is inevitably AI

By Jeremy Laird Published 3 February 26

News It's no longer possible to launch a sensibly priced 16 GB GPU.

Acer Predator Z57 dual-4K monitor

It's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'

By Jeremy Laird Published 3 February 26

News But does that necessarily apply to the PC?

OpenAI reportedly isn't happy with Nvidia's GPUs while Nvidia's $100 billion investment plan in OpenAI is said to have 'stalled': Is the AI honeymoon over?

By Jeremy Laird Published 3 February 26

News Are the two biggest beasts in AI falling out of love?

This is an Xbox marketing image

Xbox hardware sales slump by 32% as Microsoft reports that its overall gaming revenue is in decline

By Jeremy Laird Published 29 January 26

News Is this an Xbox?

Mark Zuckerberg wearing Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses

Meta lost $19.1 billion on VR last year despite the mother of all pivots to AI including plans for AI-generated gaming

By Jeremy Laird Published 29 January 26

News Forget the Metaverse, an "explosion" of new AI media formats are headed your way.

The AI money merry-go-round shows no sign of stopping as Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft linked to deals worth nearly $200 billion

By Jeremy Laird Published 29 January 26

News More money than you can possibly imagine.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee at Web Summit 2018

'We can fix the internet' says Tim Berners-Lee—just don't ask what he thinks about AI

By Jeremy Laird Published 29 January 26

News Out of the internet frying pan, into the AI fire.

A promotional image by SK Hynix, showing two 321-layer QLC NAND flash modules with a flash memory wafer in the background.

Memory chip specialist SK Hynix reports record-breaking profits but doesn't have a word to say about almost anything apart from AI

By Jeremy Laird Published 28 January 26

News AI, AI, oh.

Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'

By Jeremy Laird Published 28 January 26

News If you are using WinRAR you definitely want to update to version 7.13.

A Samsung 9100 Pro SSD in both 2 TB and 4 TB sizes.

New report claims Samsung, SK Hynix and Sandisk are all planning to double the price of NAND memory chips this year

By Jeremy Laird Published 27 January 26

News The PC memory crisis just gets worse.

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