
Jeremy Laird
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

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
By Jeremy Laird published
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?
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
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
By Jeremy Laird published
News Bugs apparently don't like the heat.

Behold the first sub-£400 OLED gaming monitor in the UK, courtesy of Prime Day
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day Suddenly, 1440p and 27 inches makes sense.

I'm an absolute gaming monitor geek and I reckon these UK deals are better than all the other Amazon Prime Day offers, anywhere for anything
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day But will it be 1440p, ultrawide or 4K?

OLED is the must-have gaming monitor tech and I've got some great early Prime Day deals for you
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day Ole, ole, ole, OLED.

Amazon will soon deploy more bots than it employs people now that it has a million robots
By Jeremy Laird published
News Wait, Amazon has over one million employees?

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Turns out you can transform your very ordinary car into an actual Mario Kart controller (but you probably shouldn't)
By Jeremy Laird published
News Just about the only way to make a 2016 Renault Clio interesting.

Intel's ex-CEO said he bet the company on the 18A node but now a new report claims Intel is pushing customers to next-gen 14A instead
By Jeremy Laird published
News 18A lives on for Intel's Panther Lake CPUs, but will that be enough?

Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
By Jeremy Laird published
News Ditch Google, Gmail and Android, add a Deck, Graphene and a Raspberry Pi.

'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team
By Jeremy Laird published
News It's much easier for Microsoft to slap an Xbox sticker on an existing piece of hardware and call it day.

The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs
By Jeremy Laird published
News Looks like the end of the road for most GeForce GTX graphics cards later this year.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs rumoured to take on AMD's X3D CPUs at last thanks to gaming-friendly cache memory tile
By Jeremy Laird published
News The devil will be in the ring-bus details.

Former CEO Pat Gelsinger reveals he was 'not given the opportunity' to finish his job at Intel as he predicts the future of computing will be a 'trinity' of traditional, AI and quantum machines
By Jeremy Laird published
News 'The decision to step down from Intel was an extremely difficult one.'

Nvidia marketing goes into overdrive mode with claims that the new RTX 5050 is over 6000% faster than the GTX 1050 thanks to DLSS
By Jeremy Laird published
News It's actually over 10 times faster in raster, isn't that a big enough win for gamers with old GPUs?

Windows 10 diehards who want security updates for free get a stay of execution, but there's a convoluted catch
By Jeremy Laird published
news You'll need to be cloud connected or have plenty of points you've forgotten exist...
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