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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

US President Donald Trump speaks during a photo opportunity with autoracing officials and champions on the South Portico of the White House on April 9, 2025, in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump abruptly backed down Wednesday in his global trade war with a 90 day tariff pause for most countries -- but slapped even more levies against China in what has become a brutal duel between the world's two largest economies. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump announces that AI companies must 'pay their own way' for energy consumption to prevent consumer utility bills from going up

By Jeremy Laird Published 13 January 26

News Ironically, capping energy prices is something the 'Radical Left' could get on board with.

A promotional image for Samsung's 12 nm-class DDR5-DRAM production, showing multiple DRAM modules on a UDIMM circuit board.

Here's one solution to the ongoing PC memory crisis: Make your own DIY DDR5

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 January 26

News So, how's your soldering...?

Intel Arc B580 graphics card

Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU did not appear at CES but the rumours just won't go away

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 January 26

News G31 GPU shows up again, this time in an Intel driver package.

Gigabyte MO34WQC36

Gigabyte's new OLED gaming monitor debuts 'HyperNits' brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best?

By Jeremy Laird Published 9 January 26

CES 2026 In a word, no.

AMD RX 9070 XT and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards from Asus

AMD leaves the door open to an official 'beta' version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs

By Jeremy Laird Published 9 January 26

News Just don't expect anything terribly optimised.

MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM

Intel's new handheld gaming chip rumoured to be called 'Core G3 Extreme' and rocks a full-spec Xe3 iGPU with 12 graphics cores

By Jeremy Laird Published 9 January 26

News It's the Panther Lake laptop chip, just slightly tweaked.

LG UltraGear Evo 39GX950B gaming monitor

LG's new 39-inch 5K2K OLED is easily my favourite new PC monitor at CES 2026 and it might just be the gaming panel I've been waiting for

By Jeremy Laird Published 8 January 26

CES 2026 LG's latest OLED tech, 4K pixel density and ultrawide immersion, yum!

An Intel Core Ultra Series 3 gaming laptop benchmarked on various games

Intel had the most exciting product launch at CES 2026 and I absolutely wasn't expecting that

By Jeremy Laird Published 8 January 26

CES 2026 Intel's Panther Lake had zero competition, but it's still genuinely exciting.

Samsung's 4500 nit OLED TV panel

LG and Samsung announce new TV OLED panel tech cranking out 4,500 nits of brightness, but don't expect anything like that for PC monitors

By Jeremy Laird Published 8 January 26

CES 2026 TV and PC OLED panels are related, but not quite the same.

PNY RTX 5080 Slim

These new dual-slot Nvidia RTX graphics cards from PNY are a throwback to a simpler time of sensibly-sized GPUs

By Jeremy Laird Published 6 January 26

CES 2026 But the pricing will no doubt be distinctly 2026.

Asus ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDN gaming monitor

Asus launches new gaming monitors with two completely different 'RGB stripe' OLED panel technologies

By Jeremy Laird Published 6 January 26

CES 2026 Okay, this is officially confusing.

Dell XPS 14 2026

Dell resurrects XPS brand with slick new laptop that's smaller than a MacBook Air, lasts 40 hours and relies on Intel's Panther Lake chip for gaming grunt

By Jeremy Laird Published 6 January 26

CES 2026 Fancy battery tech and tandem OLED screens are among the highlights.

MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36

MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published 4 January 26

Score: 92% The latest QD-OLED tech is something very special.

Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge in black and white with a controller in the foreground

PC gaming on Arm chips didn't quite happen in 2025, but the die is cast for an epic battle with x86 CPUs in the next few years

By Jeremy Laird Published 27 December 25

Arm-y There's a veritable CPU Arm-y marching towards the PC.

Intel Nvidia deal

Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia

By Jeremy Laird Published 24 December 25

News Meanwhile, Razer Lake, Hammer Lake and Titan Lake take the fight to AMD.

Samsung monitors

Samsung outs world's first 1,040 Hz and 6K 3D gaming monitors ahead of CES

By Jeremy Laird Published 24 December 25

News If RAM prices are making a PC upgrade impossible, maybe 2026 is the year for a new gaming monitor?

A stylized, promotional render for Intel's Panther Lake processors

Intel Panther Lake laptops leak early onto retailer sites, so it looks like 18A really is ready to roll

By Jeremy Laird Published 18 December 25

News Is this the beginning of Intel's comeback?

Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it

By Jeremy Laird Published 17 December 25

News That's one way to light up some Reddit threads...

AMD Strix Point APU chip, held in a hand, with the reflected light showing the various processing blocks in the chip die

AMD is allegedly sizing up Samsung's new 2 nm node as an alternative to TSMC's N2 silicon for its next-gen chips

By Jeremy Laird Published 16 December 25

News Keeping TSMC honest would be very good for the PC industry.

Microsoft PC hardware guide

Microsoft's new guide to PC gaming hardware is very slightly more useful than you might expect but oddly has never heard of upscaling

By Jeremy Laird Published 16 December 25

News The shameless plug for Copilot+ AI PCs is a turn-off, too.

Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti FE laying next to Zotac RTX 3060 12GB Twin Edge graphics card

Kiss goodbye to cheap VRAM, reports say supplies of Nvidia's RTX 3060 graphics cards are finally running out

By Jeremy Laird Published 16 December 25

News Is the 12 GB RTX 3060's longevity proof positive of the importance of VRAM?

G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 memory

Tech price rises: Tracking the PC memory and SSD supply crisis, now with added GPU fun

By Jeremy Laird Last updated 13 December 25

News Affordable DDR5 and PC storage is but a sweet, well, memory. Will graphics cards follow?

OpenAI

OpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to 'benefit all humanity' aged?

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 December 25

News Well, it certainly hasn't been all good news for PC gamers!

Intel 18A wafer

AMD wants to hire people with experience of Intel's new silicon tech, but would AMD ever actually make chips with its arch rival?

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 December 25

News If nothing else, the positive noise around Intel's new nodes seems to be increasing.

Boomslang-20th-Anniversary-Edition

L33t! Razer is bringing back the Boomslang, the original gaming mouse. Kinda...

By Jeremy Laird Published 10 December 25

News 20 years on. Or should that be 26 years on...?

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