Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
'I know a bubble when I see one': US senator's grave warning about the AI industry
News Senator Warren fears another '2008-style financial crisis'.
Is smellovision the future of VR gaming?: 'Projectile vomiting as your headset psychically projects the scent of yeast-infected rotting fish from the pregnant fox OC on the other side of the room'
News Be very careful what you ask for...
Former head of FSR development at AMD posts 'big trouble' meme when asked why the company won't release the INT8 version of FSR 4 for older GPUs
News The guy that previously lead development of FSR 4 thinks AMD should release it for older GPU owners.
Microsoft's Xbox 'Helix' chip is reportedly the basis of next-gen consoles made by Asus and MSI, but you won't be able to buy it separately
News Probably not the budget PC gaming saviour we've been hoping for.
TSMC reportedly plots ultra-advanced sub-1 nm chips with 'trial' production starting in 2029 [Updated]
News Meanwhile, TSMC's A14 node is supposedly go for 2028.
Gigabyte GO27Q24G gaming monitor review
Score: 75% This cheaper WOLED gaming monitor comes at an image quality cost.
Gigabyte MO27Q28GR gaming monitor review
Score: 90% This is surely the sweet spot for 1440p OLED gaming.
Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions
News It definitely won't be anything like GlaDOS...
Use this handy cheat sheet to keep track of all those confusing Samsung QD-OLED gaming monitor panel generations
News Know your RGB V-stripe from your HyperEfficient EL 3.0.
Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits
News If yours was missing batteries, Microsoft will send you a freebie.
Intel updates Arc graphics driver with 'gaming support' for the GPU gamers aren't getting
News Intel Arc Pro B70 is the GPU we want but can't have.
Apple's MacBook Neo is reportedly close to selling out which has got me thinking about why we can't have more simple and affordable gaming PCs like the Steam Deck
News An RTX 5090 is nice and all, but...
Raptor Lake chips 'not going anywhere' as Intel commits to making older CPUs 'abundantly available' and keeping DDR4 support alive
News That includes motherboards with both DDR4 and DDR5 support.
Intel's new Nova Lake CPU claimed to have superior IPC performance to AMD's next-gen Zen 6 as rumour mill goes into overdrive with talk of higher core counts and an APU with a massive iGPU
News IPC gains, more cores, a Strix Halo killer and more...
Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard
News Maybe AI isn't so useless after all.
Framework says stabilising memory prices are a 'temporary reprieve' and there are more cost increases to come this year
News It ain't over yet, folks.
Seasonic teases cherry blossom-themed Focus ATX 3.1 'Sakura' power supply
News Prettified, limited edition PSU.
If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?
News Wooda, coulda, shoulda.
Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm
News Has the Linux revolution finally begun?
Google says quantum computing will crack bitcoin cryptography sooner than expected, estimating a 10% chance of 'Q-Day' by 2032
News The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.
Trendforce says DDR5 RAM kit prices have fallen 'sharply' in US, Europe and China but that contract memory prices 'remain stable'
News We're not seeing much evidence of cheaper DDR5 kits ourselves, though.
Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an 'unrealistic picture' of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition 'than they would be in typical, real-world usage'
News Geekbench also says BOT is doing something different from Intel's claims.
Report claims OpenAI spending cuts have 'hit' memory prices but there's little evidence right now of cheaper PC components
News OpenAI spending is but one element of the complex memory crisis.
