Jeremy Laird

Jeremy Laird

Hardware writer

Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.

Latest articles by Jeremy Laird

PS5 Pro
Sony says the GPU in the PS5 Pro is mostly very old tech but previews the ray-tracing upgrades from future RDNA 4 graphics for PCs

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Backwards compatibility means PS5 Pro is mostly RDNA 2.

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A screenshot from Sony's presentation announcing the PS5 Pro
Sony decided fully four years ago to develop its own AI hardware for the PS5 Pro rather than using AMD tech and the big question is why

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Why doesn't AMD have any machine learning acceleration in its GPUs?

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Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition graphics card
'Neural Rendering' could be the new AI-powered sorcery in Nvidia's next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs

By Jeremy Laird Published

News INNO3D website lets slip a possible hint at Nvidia's next AI magic.

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Nvidia RTX 4070 Founders Edition graphics card
Zotac website leak seemingly confirms monstrous 32GB Nvidia RTX 5090 but we're still concerned about how stingy Nvidia might be further down its new GPU range

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Nvidia going big at the top end, but what about the rest of the range?

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. TSMC is scheduled to release earnings results on Oct. 19.
New details of TSMC's next-gen N2 chip tech aren't totally stellar but could provide a roadmap for new GPUs right through to 2031

By Jeremy Laird Published

News N2 is quite a bit more efficient but only a little more dense than N3.

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Dough Spectrum Black 32 OLED
Dough Spectrum Black 32 OLED gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Last updated

Glassy or classy? Dough's new 4K OLED is glassy, but is it genuinely classy?

Glassy or classy?
HP Omen Transcend 32 OLED
HP Omen Transcend 32 OLED gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Connected QD-OLED A late 4K OLED arrival, but welcome all the same.

Connected QD-OLED
Intel Arc B580
I really want to believe Intel's claim that the drivers for its new Arc B580 1440p graphics card suffer from 'no known issues of any kind'

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Known knowns, known unknowns, or just completely unknown? Better ask Donald Rumsfeld.

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Intel Arc B580
Intel just launched a brand new gaming graphics architecture but it has already designed a new generation of GPUs and it's working on the generation after that

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Celestial, Druid, call them what you will, Intel still has a full gaming GPU road map. For now...

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Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, with a 18A SRAM test wafer
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is gone but will Intel's chip fabs follow him out the door?

By Jeremy Laird Published

News If AMD is the ultimate case study, kiss goodbye to Intel's fabs.

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ASML lego
I'm going to build my very own multi-billion dollar chip fab at home with this awesome Lego kit

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Anyone got a friend who works at ASML...?

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Intel Arc B580
Intel's Arc graphics cards have made their first appearance in the Steam hardware survey just as I'm getting genuinely excited about the new Battlemage B580 card

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Dare we hope for some real competition for Nvidia?

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
If the rumour that AMD's RDNA 4 GPU is 45% faster in ray tracing than a 7900 XTX and on par with an RTX 4080 Super in raster is true I'm buying six of 'em

By Jeremy Laird Published

news This has got to be too good to be true, right?

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Intel Arc B580
Intel's new second-gen XeSS 2 upscaling tech with Frame Generation matches Nvidia's DLSS for features and might have the edge on AMD's FSR

By Jeremy Laird Published

news More feature-complete than AMD's FSR and competitive with Nvidia DLSS.

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Intel Arc B580
Intel launches new Arc B580 GPU with 10% more performance than an RTX 4060 for $249 but the rumoured RTX 4070-beater is nowhere to be seen

By Jeremy Laird Published

news Faster than an RTX 4060, but is it too little too late?

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Nvidia RTX 4070 Founders Edition graphics card
Upcoming Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU rumoured to have fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 4070 Super

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Here's hoping Nvidia has clocked the twangers off it.

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Nvidia RTX 4070 Founders Edition graphics card
Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU specs have supposedly leaked and I'm not sure if I'm excited or exasperated

By Jeremy Laird Published

News It'll probably come down to money, it always comes down to money...

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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon
Qualcomm reckons it will be flogging $4 billion worth of PC CPUs annually by 2029 which is about what AMD sold in 2023

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Will that be extra CPUs sold, or will it come at the expense of AMD and Intel?

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Opera GX
Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too

By Jeremy Laird Published

News You'll have to see this video to believe it...

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A stylised image of AMD's RDNA 3 GPU design for its Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards
AMD rumoured to be ditching future RDNA 5 graphics architecture in favour of 'unified' UDNA tech in a possible effort to bring AI smarts to gaming ASAP

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Whether this is semantics or something more meaningful remains to be seen.

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A photo of a BenQ MOBIUZ EX321UX gaming monitor on a desk
BenQ MOBIUZ EX321UX gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published

Mini-LED madness A megabucks mini-LED monitor that doesn't really make sense

Mini-LED madness
msi_mag_x870_tomahawk
MSI responds to reports of 9800X3D CPUs 'burning out' in its motherboards but the problem seems limited for now

By Jeremy Laird Published

News A batch of dodgy sockets or just maybe user error?

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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite on an electronic background
Qualcomm upgrades its gaming upscaler from spatial to temporal tech but it lacks AI smarts and may struggle to compete with Nvidia's highly polished DLSS performance

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Lots of work to do for Qualcomm, but you gotta start somewhere.

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AMD
AMD is firing 4% of its global workforce as it realigns in likely pursuit of all those AI dollars

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Is this the one metric where Intel beats AMD...?

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A phone with an Xbox logo reflected in a looming laptop monitor.
Microsoft's Xbox boss upgrades rumoured gaming handheld device from a hope to an 'expectation' but says it's years away from release

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Will it be powered by AMD, Intel or even Nvidia?

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