Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it
News And will it be limited to next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs?
One of my favourite 4K OLED monitors just got updated with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel tech
News The only bit that's missing is the 'RGB stripe'...
Intel announces Arrow Lake 'Plus' desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting 'BOT' tool
News As refreshes go, this isn't actually half bad.
If you're thinking about buying a Framework PC or laptop with 2 TB-plus of storage 'now is the time to do that' says company CEO
News Framework still has some SSDs at old prices but once they sell out...
How to make your very own semiconductor-class cleanroom in a wooden shed and build your own chips, well kinda
News Knocking up a cleanroom isn't as hard as you might think, the rest of the job, however...
Big Tech makes White House pledge to stump up for the increased energy costs of AI and prevent household bills from escalating
News Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon et al agree to pay for new power generation at the White House.
After two years and over 6,000 hours, Monitors Unboxed's long-term OLED gaming monitor test shows increasing burn-in
News How problematic it is, well, that's up to you...
Intel bigs up its latest 18A chip node as fit for external customers but probably not Nvidia, for now
News Intel CPUs living with Nvidia GPUs.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Arm CPU pops up in Geekbench and wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance
News How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.
AMD's CPU division is booming as CEO Dr. Lisa Su says sales 'far exceeded my expectations'
News And yes, of course, it's down to AI.
Rumor that Microsoft plans to launch a 'modular' Windows 12 this year retracted by its source, refuted by others [Updated]
News Microsoft does not plan to ship a Windows 12 this year, according to sources reacting to a now-retracted PCWorld article.
Apple somehow just doubled the amount of storage in the new MacBook Air M5 base model to 512 GB despite the memory crisis
News Though the base price has gone up $100.
The cores in Nvidia's upcoming PC processor achieve 'performance parity' with Intel and AMD's latest chips, but will it actually be any good for games?
News X86 emulation is the big unanswered question.
Nvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures
News Yep, it's probably China again, but maybe not just the usual Lunar New Year holiday buzz.
Anthropic ditches its defining safety promise to pause dangerous AI development because it's basically pointless when everybody else is 'blazing ahead'
News There's apparently no point being the only careful AI company.
YouTuber sets out to cool a CPU with infinite ice loop machine and actually achieves it
News Inefficient and impractical, but what the heck it actually works.
New Intel graphics driver claims a remarkable 35% performance boost for Panther Lake's nifty little iGPU in Witcher 3 at 1080p
News Ye olde Arc A770 gets some fps upgrades, too.
The company that stopped making memory for gamers just explained how important memory is for gamers. Yeah, really
News You want 96 GB of VRAM, apparently...
HP warns that memory now makes up around 35% of the cost its PCs, double that of a year ago
News Yet another entry for the annals of the memory crisis.
'I taught my dog to vibe code games': Yup, someone actually managed to get Claude AI to code a game based on the keyboard inputs of a pooch
News If this is what a Cavapoo can do, goodness knows what a Border Collie would code.
AMD and Meta announce yet another circular megamoney GPU deal, this time for $60 billion of chips and potentially a 10% stake in AMD for Meta
News Meta to buy $60 billion in GPUs but might end up owning $35 billion share in AMD.
The company behind the machines that make pretty much all our computer chips reckons it has worked out how to increase production capacity by 50%
News All it takes is a little more light...
Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review
Score: 63% It's the world's only glasses-free 3D gaming handheld... for a reason.
