Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
The first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU makes an appearance in the Steam hardware survey and it's the RTX 5080 that has the honour
News AMD CPUs are up and Intel down, too.
Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards
News This surely isn't just a case of a few crumbs...
AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs
News But AMD's statement doesn't quite square with Reddit reports...
Intel promises its next-gen Pather Lake laptop CPU will have the 'efficiency of Lunar Lake and the performance of Arrow Lake' and is on track for 2026
News Production later this year and availability in 2026 makes Panther Lake about a year late.
AMD reportedly plots late 2025 launch for desktop version of the nifty little Strix Point APU we like so much in laptops and handhelds
news This would make for a super little desktop mini PC.
Same plan, different CEO: Intel's Lip-Bu Tan laments 'past mistakes' while promising a brighter 'engineering focused' future
News Show me the innovation!
Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought
News Oh, and another thing: They don't just predict the next word.
This flip-screen mini PC looks like an original '80s Apple Macintosh and comes with all kinds of want
News I need an Ayaneo Retro Mini PC AM01S on my desk, yes need.
Crumbs: ASRock finds 'debris' in X870 motherboard accused of toasting AMD Ryzen CPU
News ASRock keen to point out that their BIOSes do not toast CPUs.
As if your work meetings weren't already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion
News Should you fear the all-hearing AI ear?
From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now
News Rolling grasses have given way to a vineyard in northern California.
Former music-pirating platform Napster to be reborn rather ironically as a metaverse for musicians to connect with their fans after $207 million deal
News The music, ahem, sharing platform that refuses to die.
Hmmm, upgrades: Nvidia App gets an optional AI assistant and custom DLSS resolution scaling
News You'll need a desktop RTX card to give the new Nvidia chatbot a try.
AMD's next-gen 'Gorgon Point' APU outted and seemingly sticks with RDNA 3.5 graphics which is disappointing for handheld gaming PCs if accurate
news Looks like it'll be a long wait for a big graphics upgrade in AMD APUs for handheld PCs.
AMD's CEO claims 9070 XT sales are 10x higher than all previous Radeon generations but that's just for the first week of availability
news What about long-term availability...?
Samsung has a crack at ye olde glasses-free 3D monitor thing but its new cheaper 49-inch ultrawide OLED is far more interesting
News Lenticular lenses and eye tracking all over again.
Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming 'game changing' performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia's RTX GPUs, even the old ones
News Is Microsoft tracing Nvidia's already-trodden path...?
CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?
News Not just test chips, but 'production silicon'.
Best CPU for gaming in 2025: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
Rejoice! PCI Express 7.0 hits 'final draft' status enabling bandwidth that you probably won't notice on devices that won't appear for years
News Call me back in 2035 when things are getting real.
While we despair of RTX 50-series supplies and wait on next-gen Rubin, Nvidia reveals its next-next GPU architecture will be known as Feynman and is due in 2028
News Blackwell will beget Rubin and only then will we get Feynman
Nvidia reveals Vera, a new CPU with 'custom' cores which could be very exciting for its upcoming premium PC processor
News Is Vera destined for the PC?
