Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Against a backdrop of advancing Chinese production, TSMC announces another $100 billion worth of chipmaking will be invested in the US
News This, after a strong quarter.
Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
DRAM demand predicted to outstrip supply by 28.7 exabytes in 2030, which is almost as much as the actual DRAM in the world right now
News More to come? Joy.
'Worse than our expectations': IBM's shares drop 25% after CEO says it hasn't adapted quickly enough to AI industry changes
News That's a steep drop.
New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we'll be able to disable web results
News Keep going in this direction, please, Microsoft.
So THIS is why component makers have started validating their products for Chinese memory
News CXMT is estimated to essentially match Micron in terms of DRAM manufacturing capabilities this year.
We might see a new Logitech Superstrike this September, just a few months after the world's first proper analogue mouse launched
News Apparently no new sensor, though.
AI did a surprisingly good job with designing a rack for three Framework mainboards
News Great, I'll take one. With the Framework mainboards, of course.
More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x
News Not only that, but Ray Regeneration and Neural Radiance Caching overrides.
KTC 25M1 400 Hz gaming monitor review
Score: 89% Smooth, snappy, and surprisingly well-priced for a high refresh panel.
It looks like Samsung is taking a leaf out of Nvidia's book and making a proper PC processor
News If 2026 is the year of Linux, could 2027 be the year of Windows on Arm?
Amazon Prime Day UK PC gaming deals
Prime Day 2026 Amazon's Prime Day sales event is now over, but there are still plenty of deals worth paying attention to.
Amazon Prime Day gaming PC deals
Prime Day 2026 From sub-$1,000 builds all the way to RTX 5090 behemoths, here are the best Prime Day discounts on gaming rigs.
Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some audio treacle with the best gaming headsets.
Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign
News Slides out of Unreal Fest promise "5x faster cold start (average)" and "6.5x faster systray restore to library (average)" as Epic works on making its store suck less.
The US is worried China could have a top-spec chipmaking machine despite export restrictions, but the machine maker ASML denies it
News All I know is you can't hide a 150+ ton EUV machine in MY house.
Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly
News 'DPI downshift', they call it.
We now have teardown pics of the Steam Frame controller and it looks like it could be pretty repairable
News It could follow in the Steam Controller's footsteps.
'Price increases are unavoidable' says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn't impervious to the global memory shortage
News "We’re willing to use our balance sheet to help be a part of the solution."
All roads lead to philosophy, as this Wikipedia game proves
News It's all footnotes to Plato, just as Whitehead said.
Intel's 18A-P chipmaking process has started risk production and promises 9% improved CPU performance for the same power
News Or 18% less power consumption for the same performance.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we need to 'deal with social norms' surrounding AI but apparently that means 'just go engage it'
News Oh, right, of course that's exactly what he has in mind. Use AI, got it.
