Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
We're still waiting for the first 2nm chips but TSMC is accelerating its plans for 1.4nm silicon manufacturing, starting in 2027
News All sounds a bit scary if you're Intel.
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
After 4,500 hours of testing, SSD controller specialist Phison rules out allegations that a Windows 11 update is bricking drives
news Correlation without causation, after all?
A PR storm has erupted around Razer's gaming laptops with reports of faulty trackpads and keyboards, glitchy software, performance issues and poor customer support
news After Asus, here comes Razer.
Microsoft locks down HQ as anti-Israel protesters live stream themselves storming the company president's office
news Microsoft's alleged involvement with the Israeli military prompted the protest.
The latest AMD RDNA 5 rumours are complicated but it looks like there really is going to be a high-end next-gen GPU to take on Nvidia's best graphics card
news And could low-end RDNA 5 use laptop memory?
AMD just revealed that its current RDNA 4 GPUs have a clever 'modular' architecture—here's hoping it signals a broader range of next-gen graphics cards
news Let's have all the GPUs, please.
Intel warns its deal with the US government may be bad for business, while reports claim it won't prevent the fabs being sold off and the whole thing might not be legal, anyway
News The CHIPS Act apparently doesn't allow for equity stakes...
AMD blames toasted AM5 sockets on motherboard makers pushing their luck with CPU settings
News Non-adherence to the recommended "AMD values" is the cause.
Asus heard you like screens, so it put a curved '3D effect' OLED screen on your CPU water cooler
News Asus ups the ante with '3D effect' visuals
Valve's rumoured 'Fremont' SteamOS console spotted on Geekbench... running Windows 11
News The device is claimed to be an upcoming living room PC with a custom AMD CPU and Radeon RX 7600 graphics.
Looks like AI could be the new Metaverse as CEO Mark Zuckerberg will reportedly 'downsize' Meta Superintelligence Labs and buy in third-party AI models
News A billion here, a billion there...
The US government wants a 10% stake in Intel in return for that CHIPS act cash
News A 'piece of the action' for the taxpayer...
This adjustable Allen key tool is one small project for a YouTube channel, one giant leap for PC building kind
News An awful lot of engineering for such a small tool.
87% of game developers are already using AI agents and over a third use AI for creative elements like level design and dialogue according to a new Google survey
News All your games are belong to AI.
A new report claims Windows 11 update is breaking SSDs and HDDs, but this could just be routine hardware failures
news It could be correlation without causation, but holding off update KB5063878 for now probably makes sense.
LG Ultragear 45GX950A review
Score: 78% This is not quite the ultimate gaming monitor you've been waiting for.
Samsung has announced the world's first 500 Hz OLED monitor, but it's the new 5K2K panel that's got my wallet twitching
news 40 inches of 5K2K gaming precision is awfully tempting.
White House says it's still working on the 'legality' of 15% China tax for Nvidia and AMD GPU sales as it threatens similar deals with other companies
News You get the feeling Nvidia and AMD aren't arguing.
Microsoft's vision for the next version of Windows is an all-seeing, voice-controlled chatbot that gives you productivity 'superpowers'
news Look out for Windows Chat to arrive around 2030?
Cyberpower begins selling desktop PCs with carbon nanotube CPU cooling, possibly spelling the end of thermal paste catastrophes
News Quick, someone let that guy at The Verge know...
Controversial AI outfit Perplexity puts in speculative $34.5 billion bid for the Chrome browser, but Google never said it was selling
News Cue a bidding war?
