Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
AMD rolls out Radeon RX 9060 non-XT with fewer cores, lower clocks and 8 GB of slower VRAM but you probably can't buy it direct
news It had better be cheap!
Intel has just 18 months to 'land a hero customer on 14A' or its cutting-edge fabs are toast, says chip industry analyst
News Tick, tock, the clock's a tickin'.
Artificial superintelligence is 'now in sight' according to Mark Zuckerberg and it's going to be really great, but only if it comes from Meta
News And a bunch of other slightly unnerving stuff. It's El Zuck, after all.
Nvidia says it's game over come October for GTX 10, 9 and 7-series graphics cards driver support but RTX owners running Windows 10 are getting an extra year of grace
News It was a good run, but it's game over for Maxwell and Pascal.
If you'd like to see Meta's AI gunk purged from WhatsApp, a new antitrust investigation in Italy might just do the trick
news Be gone, all-seeing Eye of Zuckeron.
AMD's rumoured to be plotting a new ultra high-end gaming GPU, plus a $550 graphics card with RTX 5080 performance, but sadly we probably won't see either until 2027
news If this is all true, it'll be worth the wait.
YouTube has started using AI to determine how old you are and feed you age-appropriate content, so prepare to be judged based on what you watch and when
news Get your credit card or government ID out if YouTube got it wrong...
Microsoft rolls out 'experimental' AI mode for the Edge browser you can ask to spy on all your internetting and lend a helping hand. Yikes!
news But it's optional, for now. Phew!
Philips Evnia 27M2N3800A review
Score: 89% A quality 4K dual-mode gaming monitor for remarkably little money.
Intel's next-gen Panther Lake mobile chip will be a portable gaming beast with 50% more Xe cores than Lunar Lake, according to the latest shipping manifest leak
News 12 Xe3 cores in Panther Lake versus 8 Xe2 cores in Lunar Lake.
If you want to know why graphics cards are still so painfully pricey, you might want to take a look at TSMC's record-high profits which are heading for $50 billion this year
News Would sir care for just one more wafer?
OptiScaler has been updated to theoretically support AMD's FSR 4 in all games with upscaling that don't use Vulkan or anti-cheat—which is nice, but why the heck doesn't AMD do this?
news FSR 4 is great, which is why the limited game support is so disappointing.
Mercedes just put in a bid for the worst idea ever by enabling you to stream yourself driving during those vital Teams meetings
News Oh, and they're adding Microsoft 365 Copilot, too. Hurrah!
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant can now optionally see your entire desktop—maybe it will be able to finally explain what Windows error code 0x8007002c means
news Oh, and you can make it look like Clippy, too...
Intel rumoured to be working on a Nova Lake-based CPU with a mega iGPU to take on AMD's Strix Halo
News Lots and lots of XE3 compute units.
MSI releases new all-bright HDR mode update for its QD-OLED gaming monitors but OLED's underlying limitations remain
news A welcome addition, just be aware it can't make OLED do anything that it inherently isn't capable of.
Intel job losses mount as 4,000 layoffs are reported across multiple sites in California, Oregon, Texas and Arizona
News But there could be much worse to come.
As if being worth $4 trillion isn't enough, Nvidia claims the US government says it can start selling AI GPUs to China again
News But still not the really powerful ones.
Finally, a good use for crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs: You can track Europe's record-breaking heatwaves as they fall over, according a Firefox browser dev
News Bugs apparently don't like the heat.
Pour one out for the stunning RTX 5080 gaming laptop deal that is now merely a good one. I mean, it remains the cheapest RTX 5080 notebook you'll find, but still 🥲
Prime Day HP's Omen Max 16 is the laptop in question and it's still significantly cheaper than any other RTX 5080 gaming notebook.
Uberwide 49-inch OLED gaming monitors used to be $2,000, you can still get one for $729 and it might just be the best Prime Day monitor deal around
Prime Day More screen than you can possibly imagine.
I've been reviewing screens since forever, and the Prime Day gaming monitor deals this year are the best I've ever seen
Prime Day 1440p high refresh for $150, OLED for well under $500, there's just so much to choose from.
A 4K 32-inch MSI OLED gaming monitor for $699? Please take my money and call it quits for Prime Day 2025
Prime Day Is this peak PC gaming?
