Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Microsoft's big Windows 11 25H2 update is now available to download but in terms of new features it's a total nothing burger
news At least it'll be easy to install and (probably) won't break anything.
Apple's new A19 Pro iPhone chip has posted a genuinely astonishing score on Geekbench, and if it was a new gaming CPU we'd all be losing our minds
News Apple is the king of IPC...
With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks
News Is it just me or is a vapor chamber in an iPhone a bit silly?
AMD candidly admits 'we charge more for our CPUs than our competitor' and that 'customers feel good about the price'
News Doesn't bode well if AMD manages to take the fight to Nvidia in the GPU market.
After 18 months and over 4,000 hours of brutal 'worst case' monitor usage, independent testing finds OLED burn-in is only just beginning to get 'annoying'
news Burn-in really ain't so bad.
Intel promises 'leadership across the board on desktop' when its next-gen Nova Lake CPU launches in late 2026
News Beating AMD will be a tall order, but maybe 52 cores will do it.
AMD reckons its next-gen GPUs will beat Nvidia at 'any sort of AI workload' and we're praying that rubs off on the company's gaming graphics cards
news If AMD can win at AI, what about gaming?
Packaging for Intel's high-performance Battlemage gaming GPU has popped up in a shipping manifest but I'm not sure I dare to hope it will really launch or actually be any good
News Save us G31, you're our only hope.
Lenovo's fabulous carbon-fiber and magnesium Thinkpad laptop with an RTX 4090 is on sale at 45% off and could be the best gaming portable deal this side of Black Friday 2025
Deal It's not a pure gaming laptop, but it is an amazing machine.
Valve applies to use 'Steam Frame' as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues
News Could HLX be the ultimate launch title for the new Steam Frame?
Acer shows off the very first Intel Panther Lake laptop with what's claimed to be the world's biggest haptic touchpad
news Based on Intel 18A silicon but doesn't go on sale until next year.
This Kickstarter-backed battery maker claims you can smash a nail through its solid-state USB-C pack and it will still work
News It won't catch on fire, either.
AMD's PC graphics card market share falls to a worrying 6% according to the latest analyst data putting Nvidia at 94% and probably an all-time high
news But AMD has taken a big chunk out of Intel in CPUs.
Google's self-loathing Gemini chatbot admits to being wrong 'every single time' and offers to pay software developer to fix the bad code it wrote
News Does Gemini have access to Google's credit card details...?
If this report about 2nm silicon from Japanese chip manufacturing start-up Rapidus beating TSMC is true, there might just be hope for GPU prices
News ...and Intel 18A isn't really in the running, allegedly.
Nvidia's RTX 5070 is the most popular current-gen GPU in the latest Steam hardware survey but AMD's RDNA 4 cards don't even make the top 100
news Wherefore art thou, RDNA ?
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.
