Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
Tough day at the office? How about a mandatory photo montage to calm you down, ordered by an AI that's monitoring how close you get to breaking point
News A bank is using AI to monitor call center workers' stress levels and automatically play photo montages when it all gets too much.
PCIe 5.0 SSDs are yet to reach tipping point: 'The percentage of Gen5 shipping to the percentage of Gen 4 is very small' but Micron says that might change next year
News In around nine months' time these speedy drives may become more affordable, Micron tells me.
The new memory form factor expected to beat DDR5: 'the future really lies here... LPCAMM2 running on the PC' says Micron
News CAMM2 makes a lot of sense in laptops, but will it ever take off on desktop?
Micron says AI 'is really going to impact the supply demand balance' for PC as it's 'made memory sexy again'
News Micron talks demand, supply and AI at Computex 2024.
Palit has created a part-air, part-liquid, all-monster RTX 4090 graphics card
News The epic RTX 4090 Neptunus.
This Frostpunk 2 RX 7700 XT from Sapphire is a promotional card that actually captures the game's vibe
News Looks bleak, but in a good way!
Ditch the messy controller and cables inside your PC with Lian Li's wireless RGB dongle
News That'll save on cable management.
Ducky's 'world's first' analog keyboard offers Cherry inductive switches and wireless—but is it better than Hall effect?
News Inductive switches are reportedly as good as Hall effect without the high power draw.
Ducky's year of the dragon limited edition is a drool face emoji in keyboard form
News Only 999 will be sold. Make that 998 after I steal the one on display at Computex.
Aerocool reckons its new power supply will last you at least 15 years and it's providing the warranty to prove it
News The new Max P1 has a mega warranty period.
This is not a drill: Noctua's best fan yet is actually coming out this June
News It's happening! It's (probably) happening!
A liquid cooler with no pump: Noctua is working on a prototype targeting 'AIO level performance'
News The almighty thermosiphon.
Hyte is claiming its new AIO CPU cooler to be the quietest and coolest ever made
News "The raid boss of liquid coolers."
Intel's latest processor is mostly made by its biggest manufacturing rival because it had 'a better process technology at that point in time'
News Though for its successor, Panther Lake, "almost all of the tiles are on Intel."
It's on: our first look at Intel Battlemage comes from Lunar Lake's new graphics silicon with its redesigned Xe2 architecture
News The Xe2 GPU architecture will power everything from low-power mobile chips to desktop graphics cards.
One thread per core: 'we can deliver better than Hyper-Threading performance without Hyper-Threading' claims Intel for Lunar Lake
News New E-cores reportedly make up for the multithreaded performance lost.
Intel talks shop about next-gen Lunar Lake processors: 'We will win in performance, we will win in graphics, we will win in AI'
News Lunar Lake comes with better graphics, cores, and memory. And more mentions of AI.
Intel has made 'a tremendous amount of fixes for compatibility' in its Battlemage GPU architecture to ensure games run as they should
News There's more to a good graphics card than DirectX compatibility, says Intel's Tom Petersen.
Forget stickers on your laptop, Asus put a customisable e-ink display on the lid instead
News This concept from Asus sadly has no release date, though I've seen it working in real-time.
This new carbon fiber ROG gaming mouse is absurd and awesome in equal measure
News Do I need it? Nope. Do I want it? Oh yes.
You thought your keyboard was over the top: You can adjust the typing feel on the new ROG Azoth Extreme while enjoying its color OLED
News I'm fearful of what the price will be.
