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

TSMC's Fab 14
China taunts Taiwan with claim that chip foundry TSMC could soon become 'USSMC' or the 'United States Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Won't somebody please think of the people...?

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Steam Deck with menu screen
New figures show Valve's Steam Deck is still by far the biggest selling handheld gaming PC but the form factor isn't really taking off

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Forecast for gaming handheld sales in 2025 still far lower than 2023 peak.

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ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard
Reddit reports of 9800X3D CPUs dying in ASRock motherboards are racking up fast, but a new BIOS update seemingly only addresses boot problems

By Jeremy Laird Published

News There's surely more to come from this story...

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SUQIAN, CHINA - JANUARY 27, 2025 - An illustration photo shows the logo of DeepSeek and ChatGPT in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, January 27, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
China's DeepSeek chatbot reportedly gets much more done with fewer GPUs but Nvidia still thinks it's 'excellent' news

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Nvidia claims more AI from fewer chips is good for business.

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Trump AI order
Oh well, looks like the next 4 years are going to be an AI free-for-all as Trump nixes Biden administration's safety order

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Kiss goodbye to Executive Order 14110.

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The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPUs arranged in diagonal lines, taken from a CES 2025 presentation slide
AMD finally gives the Radeon RX 9070 XT a release date and it's (roughly) March

By Jeremy Laird Published

News At the very back end of that 'Q1' promise, then.

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A phone displaying the TikTok logo in front of the US flag.
TikTok users wave goodbye to their 'Chinese spies' as they they ditch the app for another, er, Chinese one

By Jeremy Laird Published

News I for one welcome our new (still Chinese) social media overlords

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
An ode to the RTX 4090 and why high-end GPUs can sometimes be the best value

By Jeremy Laird Published

4090 forever The new RTX 5090 doesn't look quite as compelling.

4090 forever
TSMC 3nm
TSMC's next-gen 2nm silicon is reportedly on track for later this year but don't expect chips for PCs until 2027 and beyond

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Maybe Moore's law isn't quite dead.

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Big AI beasts reportedly delay Nvidia Blackwell orders due to GPU overheating but it doesn't worry us for RTX 50 gaming cards

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Blackwell GPUs aren't all exactly the same.

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Australian Open art balls
It turns out NFTs of tennis balls that sold for $3 million aren't worth much after all and I just died of not-surprise

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Tennis ball NFTs sold by the Australian Open aren't money spinners, it seems.

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AMD Strix Halo
AMD says it took four goes to get its new Strix Halo uber APU right and that included designing new CPU dies that 'put Threadripper in the palm of your hands'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News It's not just a couple of Zen 5 CCDs thrown together with a new GPU die.

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OC record 1
Core i9 14900KF CPU hits a world record 9.12 GHz and proves Intel chips are still good at something

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Or an untimely reminder that Intel's new Arrow Lake chips are still second best?

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Nvidia headquarters
Nvidia denounces Biden administration's 'rigged' and 'misguided' new AI chip export restrictions

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Do we detect an attempt to flatter the incoming President?

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LG UltraGear 45GX950A
It's hard to believe but 22% of PC gaming monitors are now OLED panels

By Jeremy Laird Published

News OLED adoption on the PC much faster than with TVs.

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A photo of an AMD Ryzen 7 9700X processor next to its retail packaging box
AMD is now reportedly making all-American Ryzen 9000 CPU dies at TSMC's Arizona fab

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Made in the USA, mostly anyway...

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MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WIFI PZ
MSI intros cheaper 'back connect' Project Zero Intel motherboards for super-clean PC builds you might actually be able to afford

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Should help bring down the cost of that 'zero rat's nest' build...

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Corsair Xeneon Edge
Corsair heard you like screens and PC cases so it made a new screen for your PC case that you can also use as a, er, screen

By Jeremy Laird Published

News You can't have too many screens. Right?

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Samsung S95F
Uber-bright new OLED TVs from LG and Samsung should finally enable PC gaming monitors with full-screen brightness of up to 400 nits

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Have they finally cracked the full-screen brightness thing?

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Intel's Lunar Lake Lion Cove cores without Hyper-Threading
The future of the PC according to Intel is a CPU-GPU-NPU trifecta and that definitely includes gaming

By Jeremy Laird Published

News NPUs are here to stay, folks.

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MSI MPG 242R X60N
MSI's new 24-inch gaming monitor hits a sizzling 600 Hz and has me wondering how many Hz you genuinely need

By Jeremy Laird Published

News So good it Hz.

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LG UltraGear 45GX950A
LG's new 45-inch 5K2K OLED could be the pixel-packed gaming monitor you've been waiting for

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Not just big, but plenty of pixels.

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MSI MPG 272URX
MSI, Asus and Samsung are announcing new 27-inch 4K models with '4th gen' QD-OLED panels but they're not a huge step forward

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Better pixel density, but that's about it.

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PS5 Pro
Sony says the GPU in the PS5 Pro is mostly very old tech but previews the ray-tracing upgrades from future RDNA 4 graphics for PCs

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Backwards compatibility means PS5 Pro is mostly RDNA 2.

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A screenshot from Sony's presentation announcing the PS5 Pro
Sony decided fully four years ago to develop its own AI hardware for the PS5 Pro rather than using AMD tech and the big question is why

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Why doesn't AMD have any machine learning acceleration in its GPUs?

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