Jeremy Laird

Jeremy Laird

Hardware writer

Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.

Latest articles by Jeremy Laird

Senator Elizabeth Warren
'I know a bubble when I see one': US senator's grave warning about the AI industry

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Senator Warren fears another '2008-style financial crisis'.

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Man with hands out using a VR headset.
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'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Be very careful what you ask for...

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A cropped screenshot of an AMD video, in which Sony's Horizon Forbidden West is used to demonstrate AMD's FSR 4 upscaling technology
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News The guy that previously lead development of FSR 4 thinks AMD should release it for older GPU owners.

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CHIBA, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 26: The Xbox logo is seen during the Tokyo Game Show 2024 at Makuhari Messe on September 26, 2024 in Chiba, Japan. The gaming exhibition is one of the world's largest and will be held through September 29th. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Probably not the budget PC gaming saviour we've been hoping for.

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. TSMC is scheduled to release earnings results on Oct. 19.
TSMC reportedly plots ultra-advanced sub-1 nm chips with 'trial' production starting in 2029 [Updated]

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Meanwhile, TSMC's A14 node is supposedly go for 2028.

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Gigabyte GO27Q24G
Gigabyte GO27Q24G gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 75% This cheaper WOLED gaming monitor comes at an image quality cost.

Score: 75%
Gigabyte MO27Q28GR
Gigabyte MO27Q28GR gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Score: 90% This is surely the sweet spot for 1440p OLED gaming.

Score: 90%
GlaDOS from Portal
Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions

By Jeremy Laird Published

News It definitely won't be anything like GlaDOS...

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MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36
Use this handy cheat sheet to keep track of all those confusing Samsung QD-OLED gaming monitor panel generations

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Know your RGB V-stripe from your HyperEfficient EL 3.0.

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Holding an Xbox controller in front of a keyboard
Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits

By Jeremy Laird Published

News If yours was missing batteries, Microsoft will send you a freebie.

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Intel Arc Pro B70 GPUs
Intel updates Arc graphics driver with 'gaming support' for the GPU gamers aren't getting

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Intel Arc Pro B70 is the GPU we want but can't have.

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Apple MacBook Neo in Citrus colour.
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News An RTX 5090 is nice and all, but...

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An Intel Core i9 14900K CPU held by a person, using a finger and a thumb, against a pale blue background
Raptor Lake chips 'not going anywhere' as Intel commits to making older CPUs 'abundantly available' and keeping DDR4 support alive

By Jeremy Laird Published

News That includes motherboards with both DDR4 and DDR5 support.

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A close-up, detailed photo of a delidded Intel Core Ultra 200S processor, codenamed Arrow Lake, showing the structures of each tile comprising the processor.
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

By Jeremy Laird Published

News IPC gains, more cores, a Strix Halo killer and more...

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Intel Core i9 14900K CPU on a box and inside a motherboard socket.
Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Maybe AI isn't so useless after all.

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Framework 16 with new Nvidia graphics module and AMD mainboard
Framework says stabilising memory prices are a 'temporary reprieve' and there are more cost increases to come this year

By Jeremy Laird Published

News It ain't over yet, folks.

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Seasonic Focus ATX 3.1 Sakura Limited Edition PSU
Seasonic teases cherry blossom-themed Focus ATX 3.1 'Sakura' power supply

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Prettified, limited edition PSU.

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Gigabyte X870E AERO X3D DARK WOOD motherboard
If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Wooda, coulda, shoulda.

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Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White
Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Has the Linux revolution finally begun?

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Google Willow Quantum chip
Google says quantum computing will crack bitcoin cryptography sooner than expected, estimating a 10% chance of 'Q-Day' by 2032

By Jeremy Laird Published

News The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

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A promotional image from G.Skill showing the RAM makers DDR5 RDIMMs filling all eight memory slots of a Threadripper motherboard.
Trendforce says DDR5 RAM kit prices have fallen 'sharply' in US, Europe and China but that contract memory prices 'remain stable'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News We're not seeing much evidence of cheaper DDR5 kits ourselves, though.

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Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus
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'

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Geekbench also says BOT is doing something different from Intel's claims.

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OpenAi logo
Report claims OpenAI spending cuts have 'hit' memory prices but there's little evidence right now of cheaper PC components

By Jeremy Laird Published

News OpenAI spending is but one element of the complex memory crisis.

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Windows 11
Microsoft is building new '100% native' Windows programs to replace memory-hogging web apps

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Microsoft shows Windows 11 yet more love.

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Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
TSMC is reportedly sold out until 2028 and even its next-gen Arizona fab is fully booked before it has even been built

By Jeremy Laird Published

News TSMC's new N2 node selling like hot, er, chips.

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