Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Oh well, looks like the next 4 years are going to be an AI free-for-all as Trump nixes Biden administration's safety order
News Kiss goodbye to Executive Order 14110.
AMD finally gives the Radeon RX 9070 XT a release date and it's (roughly) March
News At then very back end of that 'Q1' promise, then.
Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2025: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers
Expansive It's time to go wide... ultrawide: these gaming monitors are wider, brighter, and faster than ever.
TikTok users wave goodbye to their 'Chinese spies' as they they ditch the app for another, er, Chinese one
News I for one welcome our new (still Chinese) social media overlords
An ode to the RTX 4090 and why high-end GPUs can sometimes be the best value
4090 forever The new RTX 5090 doesn't look quite as compelling.
TSMC's next-gen 2nm silicon is reportedly on track for later this year but don't expect chips for PCs until 2027 and beyond
News Maybe Moore's law isn't quite dead.
Big AI beasts reportedly delay Nvidia Blackwell orders due to GPU overheating but it doesn't worry us for RTX 50 gaming cards
News Blackwell GPUs aren't all exactly the same.
It turns out NFTs of tennis balls that sold for $3 million aren't worth much after all and I just died of not-surprise
News Tennis ball NFTs sold by the Australian Open aren't money spinners, it seems.
AMD says it took four goes to get its new Strix Halo uber APU right and that included designing new CPU dies that 'put Threadripper in the palm of your hands'
News It's not just a couple of Zen 5 CCDs thrown together with a new GPU die.
Core i9 14900KF CPU hits a world record 9.12 GHz and proves Intel chips are still good at something
News Or an untimely reminder that Intel's new Arrow Lake chips are still second best?
Nvidia denounces Biden administration's 'rigged' and 'misguided' new AI chip export restrictions
News Do we detect an attempt to flatter the incoming President?
It's hard to believe but 22% of PC gaming monitors are now OLED panels
News OLED adoption on the PC much faster than with TVs.
AMD is now reportedly making all-American Ryzen 9000 CPU dies at TSMC's Arizona fab
News Made in the USA, mostly anyway...
MSI intros cheaper 'back connect' Project Zero Intel motherboards for super-clean PC builds you might actually be able to afford
News Should help bring down the cost of that 'zero rat's nest' build...
Corsair heard you like screens and PC cases so it made a new screen for your PC case that you can also use as a, er, screen
News You can't have too many screens. Right?
Uber-bright new OLED TVs from LG and Samsung should finally enable PC gaming monitors with full-screen brightness of up to 400 nits
News Have they finally cracked the full-screen brightness thing?
The future of the PC according to Intel is a CPU-GPU-NPU trifecta and that definitely includes gaming
News NPUs are here to stay, folks.
MSI's new 24-inch gaming monitor hits a sizzling 600 Hz and has me wondering how many Hz you genuinely need
News So good it Hz.
LG's new 45-inch 5K2K OLED could be the pixel-packed gaming monitor you've been waiting for
News Not just big, but plenty of pixels.
MSI, Asus and Samsung are announcing new 27-inch 4K models with '4th gen' QD-OLED panels but they're not a huge step forward
News Better pixel density, but that's about it.
Sony says the GPU in the PS5 Pro is mostly very old tech but previews the ray-tracing upgrades from future RDNA 4 graphics for PCs
news Backwards compatibility means PS5 Pro is mostly RDNA 2.
Sony decided fully four years ago to develop its own AI hardware for the PS5 Pro rather than using AMD tech and the big question is why
news Why doesn't AMD have any machine learning acceleration in its GPUs?
Best high refresh rate gaming monitor in 2025: These are the speedy panels I'd snap up
How Refreshing Don't dawdle with one of the best high refresh rate gaming monitors around.
