Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
AMD seals multi-year megadeal with OpenAI involving 6 gigawatts' worth of AI GPUs and a possible 10% stake in AMD
news Take that, Nvidia.
Decade-long SSD and RAM 'pricing apocalypse' predicted as AI data centers gobble up hardware on an epic scale
news Are SSDs and memory prices headed the same way as graphics cards?
Microsoft wants to sell you a Steam Deck in 2025 for $600 as Xbox Ally pricing unveiled
news Quick, somebody tell Microsoft that Valve just cut the price of the Steam Deck LCD to $329.
AMD wants to patent a new DDR5 memory standard with double the bandwidth but we're not expecting to see it in PCs any time soon
News 12.8 Gbps of raw bandwidth, but will the industry adopt it?
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2, the first 5 GHz Arm CPU, its 'biggest advance in PC gaming' and the chip that might finally make gaming on Arm an actual thing
news We've heard it all before, but this chip could be awesome.
Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters
News Better AI characters, more convincing in-game interactions incoming?
Google and Qualcomm are prepping 'desktop' Android to enable 'mobile and PC' in one device, but should Windows and x86 be afraid?
news Google and Qualcomm are both super excited...
Valve has just dropped the Steam Deck LCD to $319 / £279 making it a stellar deal for entry-level portable PC gaming
Deal Over three years old, but still going strong.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirms the upcoming N1 APU that's heading for the PC is indeed the same as the GB10 'Superchip' in the DGX Spark AI box
News An all-powerful APU with RTX 5070 performance in a laptop, but at what cost?
With this HDD mashing machine, you can watch your old hard drive being squished in half and then wonder if the spooks could still get at your data
news Good enough for most peeps, but probably not sufficiently secure for the No Such Agency.
An original Apple I PC just sold for $500K and now I'm frantically ransacking boxes of old PC and Apple kit for my retirement fund
news Hand built by Jobs and the Woz...?
Best 4K gaming monitors in 2025: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.
If you're wondering what those newly announced Intel-Nvidia PC chips might look like, there's already an Nvidia 'Superchip' that could provide the answers
News Could the Nvidia GB10 Superchip hold the secret to Nvidia's new collab' on the PC with Intel?
Intel and Nvidia announce stunning plans to combine their CPU and GPU products for both consumer PCs and AI servers, with Nvidia taking a $5 billion stake in Intel
News Well, we weren't expecting this.
This mouse has no wires, no battery, and even no optical sensor. Could it be the future of gaming?
news Give it up for EMR tracking technology.
AMD says its next-gen FSR 'Redstone' AI upscaling tech can run on Nvidia GPUs
News FSR 5 on an Nvidia graphics card, anyone?
A Californian company wants to sell you an outrageously expensive $8,000 keyboard supposedly inspired by a Roman philosopher, but did the Stoics really go in for conspicuous consumption?
news Would Seneca have abstained from this kind of financial flex?
15 ransomware gangs announce mass retirement so they can enjoy 'golden parachutes' worth millions and 'go gentle into that good night'
news But some observers think this is just an attempt to distract law enforcement.
Nvidia is rumoured to be first in line to use TSMC's ultra-advanced A16 chip node, although it's AI GPUs that'll likely see the benefit first
News Yup, it's AI driving the move.
If you bought Corsair PC memory after 2018 you might be entitled to a share of $5.5 million from a class action over advertised DDR4 and DDR5 speeds
News Corsair is paying out over class actions lawsuit covering DDR4 and DDR 5 memory bought in the USA.
Microsoft's big Windows 11 25H2 update is now available to download but in terms of new features it's a total nothing burger
news At least it'll be easy to install and (probably) won't break anything.
Apple's new A19 Pro iPhone chip has posted a genuinely astonishing score on Geekbench, and if it was a new gaming CPU we'd all be losing our minds
News Apple is the king of IPC...
With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks
News Is it just me or is a vapor chamber in an iPhone a bit silly?
