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Jeremy Laird

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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

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 1 April 26

News The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

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 1 April 26

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

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 1 April 26

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

By Jeremy Laird Published 31 March 26

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

Windows 11

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

By Jeremy Laird Published 31 March 26

News Microsoft shows Windows 11 yet more love.

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 31 March 26

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

MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36

Say what you want about burn-in, sales of OLED PC monitors surged by 92% in 2025

By Jeremy Laird Published 26 March 26

News Go for the burn!

Alienware Area-51 gaming PC

Global PC sales forecast to dip by 5% in 2026 due to spiralling memory prices

By Jeremy Laird Published 26 March 26

News But that's PCs as a whole, gaming PC sales might buck the trend.

Intel Arc Pro B70 GPUs

Intel launches the Arc Pro B70 graphics card based on the Big Battlemage GPU we've been waiting for forever but it's for AI, not gaming

By Jeremy Laird Published 26 March 26

News 32 GB and a near-$1,000 price tag are appealing for local AI inference.

Dell XPS 16 2026 laptop

LG claims its new 1-120 Hz auto-refresh rate LCD display for laptops extends battery life by 48% and helps the new Dell XPS hit 31 hours

By Jeremy Laird Published 25 March 26

News LCD this year, an OLED version follows in 2027.

A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 7 2750K Plus processor, resting against a colorful, Intel-branded box

CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' according to an unnamed gaming PC company

By Jeremy Laird Published 25 March 26

News Are CPUs set to follow RAM and SSDs?

Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus

Geekbench warns that Intel's BOT tool for the new Arrow Lake Plus CPUs generates results that 'aren't comparable with standard runs'

By Jeremy Laird Published 25 March 26

News Why is Geekbench singling out Intel?

PS5 Pro

Sony reveals that its new PSSR upscaling for the Playstation 5 Pro has the same 'core' as AMD's FSR Redstone but that doesn't necessarily mean older AMD PC graphics cards are set to get an FSR upgrade

By Jeremy Laird Published 24 March 26

News Frame generation could be coming the the PS5 Pro.

Microsoft Windows Event

Former Windows boss reveals previous plans to reduce Windows 11's memory and storage footprint by 20% and now I'm hoping Microsoft includes that in its new Windows 'quality' drive

By Jeremy Laird Published 24 March 26

News Dare we say it, but Microsoft seems to be reading the room.

Windows 11 displayed on a laptop, with a multi-coloured background

Microsoft is 'working on' removing the online account login requirement for new Windows 11 installs and also 'reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points'

By Jeremy Laird Published 24 March 26

News Microsoft's laundry list for Windows 11 actually looks pretty good.

HP Omen 30L

High-end systems dominate booming gaming PC sales according to new report that also claims Arm chips are coming to the rescue of gamers on a budget

By Jeremy Laird Published 19 March 26

News I'll believe the idea of affordable Arm-based gaming PCs when I see it.

AMD RX 6000-series graphics card family with GPU

Optiscaler updated to support FSR 4 on older AMD RX 6000 GPUs without the need for driver mods

By Jeremy Laird Published 19 March 26

News Community tool beats AMD to the punch once again.

A driver seat perspective of a steering wheel turning without the driver's direct control.

Forget about PCs or LLMs, Micron says driverless cars and humanoid bots will soon be gobbling up 300 GB of RAM per device

By Jeremy Laird Published 19 March 26

News If you want clever machines, you're going to need a load of memory.

Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG

Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published 19 March 26

Score: 80% 5K gaming isn't as bananas as it sounds...

Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus

Intel adds mobile chips to its updated Arrow Lake 'Plus' family with 8% more gaming performance despite no changes to core counts or their clock speeds

By Jeremy Laird Published 18 March 26

News Is it all about Intel's new performance BOT?

Nvidia H100 chips inside a server room at the Yotta Data Services Pvt. data center, in Navi Mumbai, India

China reportedly approves imports of Nvidia's H200 GPU, but the US government may cap exports to individual Chinese companies

By Jeremy Laird Published 18 March 26

News The intricate US-China GPU export dance continues.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang showing off DLSS 5 at GTC 2026.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says DLSS 5 backlash is 'completely wrong' because it 'doesn't change the artistic control'

By Jeremy Laird Published 18 March 26

News Artistic control remains with developers, but what exactly does that mean?

Nvidia's Jensen Huang showing off DLSS 5 at GTC 2026.

Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal: PC Gamer reacts... not wholly positively

By PC Gamer Team Published 17 March 26

So... DLSS 5 This has been one of the most controversial reveals of an Nvidia technology I can remember, and people have a lot of thoughts.

A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor surrounded by DDR5 memory sticks from Corsair, Kingston, and Lexar

New report claims CPUs are next in line for a chip shortage but there's little evidence of that right now

By Jeremy Laird Published 17 March 26

News Are CPUs headed in the same direction as GPUs, RAM and SSDs?

Jensen Huang discusses the Vera CPU

Nvidia's new Vera CPU has been designed for 'extremely high' single-core performance, but it's not coming to the PC for now

By Jeremy Laird Published 17 March 26

News Dare we hope that those Olympus cores turn up in a future PC chip?

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