Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
This YouTuber's homebrew VR headset using mini CRTs is way cooler and more usable than you would ever imagine
News Gordon Gekko would approve...
Nvidia dumps its $140 million stake in Arm but licensing deals remain and its new PC CPU is still go
News Nvidia once planned to take full control of Arm.
Nvidia's DLSS upscaling beats AMD's FSR and plain old native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers
News Upscaling is only becoming more important.
New research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies
News Add this to your list of things to worry about.
NZXT's latest mini-ITX PC case looks seriously nifty, I'm just not sure how I'm going to afford the RAM for the build...
News If you want a desktop PC that actually fits on your desktop...
Windows 11 is getting a handy internet speed test built right into the taskbar
News Plus a load of other quite welcome tweaks, fixes and enhancements.
Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says
News This mess is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Bloomberg claims 'rampant AI demand for memory' is forcing Sony to consider pushing back the launch of its next-gen PlayStation as far back as 2029
News A plague on all our computing houses.
Old school hard drives are getting more reliable according to a new survey but good luck buying one later this year thanks to AI demand
News 1.36% overall HDD failure rate reported as one drive maker says it's sold out for 2026.
Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense
News Five times two is 10?
Best Buy creates the GPU pricing meme nobody asked for, so here's the sadly inevitable Nvidia RTX 5090 for $5090
News It had to happen some day... just don't round the price up or it spoils the effect.
All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis
News This isn't getting any more fun.
More details of an extra big Intel Nova Lake 'bLLC' CPU die with added cache and designed to take on AMD's X3D chips emerge
News The 'bLLC' CPU die is allegedly 36% bigger than the regular high-performance die.
The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won't help DRAM prices until 2028, if then
News Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung are all tooling up, but don't expect PC memory prices to improve for years to come.
Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I'm wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine
News Your local recycling depot probably won't take kindly to you digging in.
G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over 'deceptive' RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing
News Millions to be paid out but individual customers probably won't get much.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 chip gets tested in games and unsurprisingly can't keep up with Intel's mighty Panther Lake APU
News There's a little more to come from Qualcomm, but it probably won't be enough.
Oh great, now copper prices are 'surging' and threatening to make PC hardware even more expensive
News Stop the car, I want to get out.
After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage
News OLED burn-in is real, but increasingly looks like it's not a major worry for either WOLED or QD OLED.
A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that's pretty much the only way you're gonna get a cheap GPU these days
News Shurely shome mishtake.
New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul
News AMD's next Ryzen CPUs could be a big step...
WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis
News But it will probably just make hard drives more expensive, too!
Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD's greatest graphics card hits to design them
News But, yup, you guessed it, this is all for AI, not gaming. Probably.
