Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
News But there could be much worse to come.
