Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
After 18 months and over 4,000 hours of brutal 'worst case' monitor usage, independent testing finds OLED burn-in is only just beginning to get 'annoying'
news Burn-in really ain't so bad.
Intel promises 'leadership across the board on desktop' when its next-gen Nova Lake CPU launches in late 2026
News Beating AMD will be a tall order, but maybe 52 cores will do it.
AMD reckons its next-gen GPUs will beat Nvidia at 'any sort of AI workload' and we're praying that rubs off on the company's gaming graphics cards
news If AMD can win at AI, what about gaming?
Packaging for Intel's high-performance Battlemage gaming GPU has popped up in a shipping manifest but I'm not sure I dare to hope it will really launch or actually be any good
News Save us G31, you're our only hope.
Valve applies to use 'Steam Frame' as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues
News Could HLX be the ultimate launch title for the new Steam Frame?
Acer shows off the very first Intel Panther Lake laptop with what's claimed to be the world's biggest haptic touchpad
news Based on Intel 18A silicon but doesn't go on sale until next year.
This Kickstarter-backed battery maker claims you can smash a nail through its solid-state USB-C pack and it will still work
News It won't catch on fire, either.
AMD's PC graphics card market share falls to a worrying 6% according to the latest analyst data putting Nvidia at 94% and probably an all-time high
news But AMD has taken a big chunk out of Intel in CPUs.
Google's self-loathing Gemini chatbot admits to being wrong 'every single time' and offers to pay software developer to fix the bad code it wrote
News Does Gemini have access to Google's credit card details...?
If this report about 2nm silicon from Japanese chip manufacturing start-up Rapidus beating TSMC is true, there might just be hope for GPU prices
News ...and Intel 18A isn't really in the running, allegedly.
Nvidia's RTX 5070 is the most popular current-gen GPU in the latest Steam hardware survey but AMD's RDNA 4 cards don't even make the top 100
news Wherefore art thou, RDNA ?
We're still waiting for the first 2nm chips but TSMC is accelerating its plans for 1.4nm silicon manufacturing, starting in 2027
News All sounds a bit scary if you're Intel.
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
After 4,500 hours of testing, SSD controller specialist Phison rules out allegations that a Windows 11 update is bricking drives
news Correlation without causation, after all?
A PR storm has erupted around Razer's gaming laptops with reports of faulty trackpads and keyboards, glitchy software, performance issues and poor customer support
news After Asus, here comes Razer.
Microsoft locks down HQ as anti-Israel protesters live stream themselves storming the company president's office
news Microsoft's alleged involvement with the Israeli military prompted the protest.
The latest AMD RDNA 5 rumours are complicated but it looks like there really is going to be a high-end next-gen GPU to take on Nvidia's best graphics card
news And could low-end RDNA 5 use laptop memory?
AMD just revealed that its current RDNA 4 GPUs have a clever 'modular' architecture—here's hoping it signals a broader range of next-gen graphics cards
news Let's have all the GPUs, please.
Intel warns its deal with the US government may be bad for business, while reports claim it won't prevent the fabs being sold off and the whole thing might not be legal, anyway
News The CHIPS Act apparently doesn't allow for equity stakes...
AMD blames toasted AM5 sockets on motherboard makers pushing their luck with CPU settings
News Non-adherence to the recommended "AMD values" is the cause.
Asus heard you like screens, so it put a curved '3D effect' OLED screen on your CPU water cooler
News Asus ups the ante with '3D effect' visuals
Valve's rumoured 'Fremont' SteamOS console spotted on Geekbench... running Windows 11
News The device is claimed to be an upcoming living room PC with a custom AMD CPU and Radeon RX 7600 graphics.
