Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
OpenAI's performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video are such a mess you have to think GPT-5 itself probably made them, and the company's attempted fixes raise even more questions
News Does OpenAI even care?
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Ex-Intel CEO calls current Intel CEO's plans for chip factory investment a 'joke' and wants Nvidia, Apple and Google to stump up the cash to save the fabs
News Craig Barrett's bullet points aim the barrel squarely at Lip Bu Tan.
Trump Media and Perplexity team up for 'Truth Search AI,' a new tool in the fight against 'Big Tech's assault on free speech'
News A slightly odd sales pitch given Perplexity's investors include Jeff Bezos and Nvidia...
Trump says Intel CEO 'must resign immediately' as US senator questions Lip Bu Tan's China ties
News This is all getting a bit much.
Save Intel's fabs before 'the rust of time makes them worthless': Four former Intel board members want a joint venture between Nvidia, Qualcomm, Google, Amazon, Apple, Broadcom and others to create an 'American Foundry'
News Missed deadlines, poor execution, and a misguided strategy. Ouch.
Kiss goodbye to your keyboard and mouse, in Microsoft's vision for the Windows OS in 2030 they'll both 'feel as alien as it does for Gen Z to use DOS'
news And it's all thanks to, yup you guessed it, AI.
Microsoft's anniversary edition Windows XP-themed Crocs are definitely a look, but I'm not entirely sure I could carry them off
news These boots are made for coding.
Intel's bad news year rolls on as new 18A chip manufacturing node is reportedly in trouble with 10% yields and doubts over profitability of the Panther Lake CPU
News Will Intel ever turn the corner?
AMD's new AM6 socket has all the pins—2,100 of 'em—but don't worry, your old CPU cooler will apparently still fit just fine
news Plenty of pins and all the bandwidth.
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.
Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.
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?
