Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
PC sales are finally on the up again as Lenovo tightens its grip on the top spot in the charts while Dell takes a dip
news All the big brands are up... apart from Dell.
Intel reportedly won't make any cheaper GPU-less 'F' spec versions of its top Arrow Lake CPUs
news But we could still see some pure CPU models with the iGPU turned off further down the range.
Why TSMC's 4nm silicon will make or break Intel's new Battlemage GPUs
news Has the competition gone for N4 or N3?
Mark Zuckerberg accuses AI competitors of attempting to 'create God'
news The Zuck warns against the quest for 'one true AI'.
Ageing Windows 10 PCs will live on an extra five years thanks to third-party security patches
news 0patch's "micropatches" can be applied without a reboot and easily reversed.
Intel denies Lunar Lake laptop chip delay but reports say Arrow Lake could actually go on sale first
news Intel's seemingly intentional vagueness has the rumour mill in a tizz.
Super-tiny capacitors could enable a 'whole new realm' of ultra-efficient devices, maybe even handheld gaming PCs with more than 15 minutes of battery life
news Dare we hope for a gaming handheld with usable battery life?
Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD gaming monitor review
DumbTV disaster So frustrating, it'll make you cry.
SSD prices could steady or even drop as NAND chip makers boost production
News Not that SSD pricing ever got all that bad.
Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company, but will somebody please think about poor old PC gamers?
News Adios Apple and Microsoft, you're old news.
Microsoft president grovels before Congress, takes responsibility for a 'cascade' of cybersecurity errors
news Chinese hackers accessed US government data thanks to Microsoft's 'avoidable errors'.
Qualcomm touts Intel-beating gaming performance for its Snapdragon X Arm chip, promises gaming app plus monthly GPU driver updates
news Qualcomm is making quite the push for PC gaming with its new chip.
Pay no attention to AMD's horribly misleading benchmarks for its 'new' Ryzen 5000 XT CPUs
news And really pretty naughty.
AMD's greatest gaming CPU won't be beaten by AMD's latest gaming CPU, and that's according to AMD
news But upcoming X3D versions of Ryzen 9000-series chips will be even better.
The battle for the heart of next-gen handheld gaming PCs: AMD's Strix Point versus Intel's Lunar Lake
AMD v Intel Frame rates or battery life, take your choice...
HAVN's new 'Unisheet' glass case is the totally panoramic PC you've been waiting for
news Unisheet Heatformed Glass for the win!
Corsair's new cases at Computex include its biggest ever beast and a cut-price contender with full wrap-around glass
news The 9000D is a monster but it's the 3500X that would get our cash.
Intel's new Lunar Lake CPU is simultaneously wonderful, weird and worrisome, but has the makings of an awesome handheld gaming chip
News Say what you want about Intel's new mobile CPU, it's not boring.
Nvidia's CEO reckons that millions of AI GPUs will reduce power consumption, not increase it
news The more you AI, the less power you use!
Intel says it's happy to make the very Arm chips that threaten its x86 hegemony
News CEO Pat Gelsinger keeping his options open.
Dell's new XPS 13 laptop running a Snapdragon X Elite CPU has 27 hours of battery life, 9 more than the Intel version
news Exactly the same battery and screen, but miles better claimed battery life.
Qualcomm says it's tested 1,200 x86 Windows games on its new X Elite Arm chip but won't say how well they actually run
news We'll have to wait until we get our hands on the Snapdragon X Elite to find out.
AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 APU looks super exciting for handheld gaming but what about the battery life?
news It would be nice to know if the ray-tracing performance is getting a bump, too
