Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU
News A sneeze-inducing 1.38 mm² and small enough to make a Raspberry Pi look like a bus.
Finally some good vibes from Intel as stock jumps 15% on new CEO hire and Arizona fab celebrates 'Eagle has landed' moment for its 18A node
News Is Intel finally on the up?
Sony's fixing the wrong panel problems while showing off its new 'RGB LED' backlight tech with outrageous colours and brightness
News It may be bright and pretty, but that backlight resolution is still super small.
Alienware 27 AW2725Q QD-OLED gaming monitor review
By Grabthar's Hammer... Alienware undercuts the 4K 27-inch QD-OLED competition by $200.
Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed
News 7 GHz-plus computing here we come...?
More affordable sub-$1,000 RTX 50-series laptops likely coming in May as RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 models spotted online
News Likely 8 GB GPUs with specs yet to be determined.
So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel's ailing chip fabs?
News And it's all because of Donald Trump? This story will run and run...
Haunted printers turning on by themselves and printing nonsense has to be one of my favorite Windows 11 bugs ever
News Though this is one Windows 11 update you might want to avoid if you're not into the whole horror vibe.
New modder tool makes it easier than ever to swap AMD's FSR 4 scaling for Nvidia's DLSS or Intel's XeSS and vice versa
News It's not supported by every game, but it does increase your options.
Microsoft is reportedly prepping a handheld Xbox for later this year with new consoles coming in 2027
News We've got a feeling the handheld could look rather familiar...
Specs for Nvidia's new RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti GPUs leak out and that 5060 might actually be half decent. If it's priced right
News And if you can actually buy the darned thing...
Best OLED gaming monitors in 2025: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.
AMD clawed back 7% graphics market share from Nvidia at the end of 2024, but the outlook for the whole industry in 2025 looks iffy
News The great unknown? Yup, you guessed it, tariffs.
'Don't despair' says AMD to PC gamers as it continues to 'encourage' AIBs to supply MSRP-priced 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs
news That sounds 'encouraging', but will it be enough?
Nvidia denies reports that the 'missing ROPs' debacle is hitting its RTX 50 laptop GPUs and could delay their launch
News Missing ROPs in laptops categorically denied, but then Nvidia denied the RTX 5080 was missing ROPs...
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
Lenovo's clever solar-powered laptop can turn 20 minutes of sunlight into an hour of video playback but sun-powered mobile gaming still isn't a goer
News The catch? It's still a concept, for now...
Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels. Ouch!
News Are these the cards that will really be available?
Alienware launches two new OLED gaming monitors and one of them is its cheapest yet at $550
News 27-inch is the cheap one but the 34-inch ultrawide looks like the pick
It might be hard to imagine even worse GPU prices but the CEOs of Best Buy and Target both predict tariffs will push consumer prices up and fast
News If you spot an MSRP-priced GPU in the next few days, jump on it!
This DIY 'infinite contrast' screen uses an old projector in a seriously clever way and makes monitors with full-array dimming look like absolute garbage
News Why does it take a DIY YouTube channel to show how to do local dimming right?
Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we're still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X
news A new chip is all very well, but how about making the first one work properly.
TSMC and Trump announce massive $100 billion investment in the US including 3 new fabs but it's reasonable to ponder whether it will actually happen
News Taiwanese government emphasises that TSMC's most 'advanced processes' won't be moving Stateside
