Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Bloomberg claims 'rampant AI demand for memory' is forcing Sony to consider pushing back the launch of its next-gen PlayStation as far back as 2029
News A plague on all our computing houses.
Old school hard drives are getting more reliable according to a new survey but good luck buying one later this year thanks to AI demand
News 1.36% overall HDD failure rate reported as one drive maker says it's sold out for 2026.
Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense
News Five times two is 10?
Best Buy creates the GPU pricing meme nobody asked for, so here's the sadly inevitable Nvidia RTX 5090 for $5090
News It had to happen some day... just don't round the price up or it spoils the effect.
All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis
News This isn't getting any more fun.
More details of an extra big Intel Nova Lake 'bLLC' CPU die with added cache and designed to take on AMD's X3D chips emerge
News The 'bLLC' CPU die is allegedly 36% bigger than the regular high-performance die.
The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won't help DRAM prices until 2028, if then
News Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung are all tooling up, but don't expect PC memory prices to improve for years to come.
Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I'm wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine
News Your local recycling depot probably won't take kindly to you digging in.
G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over 'deceptive' RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing
News Millions to be paid out but individual customers probably won't get much.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 chip gets tested in games and unsurprisingly can't keep up with Intel's mighty Panther Lake APU
News There's a little more to come from Qualcomm, but it probably won't be enough.
Oh great, now copper prices are 'surging' and threatening to make PC hardware even more expensive
News Stop the car, I want to get out.
After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage
News OLED burn-in is real, but increasingly looks like it's not a major worry for either WOLED or QD OLED.
A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that's pretty much the only way you're gonna get a cheap GPU these days
News Shurely shome mishtake.
New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul
News AMD's next Ryzen CPUs could be a big step...
WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis
News But it will probably just make hard drives more expensive, too!
Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD's greatest graphics card hits to design them
News But, yup, you guessed it, this is all for AI, not gaming. Probably.
Intel's Arc B770 gaming graphics card claimed to be dead and the reason is inevitably AI
News It's no longer possible to launch a sensibly priced 16 GB GPU.
It's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'
News But does that necessarily apply to the PC?
OpenAI reportedly isn't happy with Nvidia's GPUs while Nvidia's $100 billion investment plan in OpenAI is said to have 'stalled': Is the AI honeymoon over?
News Are the two biggest beasts in AI falling out of love?
Xbox hardware sales slump by 32% as Microsoft reports that its overall gaming revenue is in decline
News Is this an Xbox?
Meta lost $19.1 billion on VR last year despite the mother of all pivots to AI including plans for AI-generated gaming
News Forget the Metaverse, an "explosion" of new AI media formats are headed your way.
The AI money merry-go-round shows no sign of stopping as Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft linked to deals worth nearly $200 billion
News More money than you can possibly imagine.
'We can fix the internet' says Tim Berners-Lee—just don't ask what he thinks about AI
News Out of the internet frying pan, into the AI fire.
