Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Crumbs: ASRock finds 'debris' in X870 motherboard accused of toasting AMD Ryzen CPU
News ASRock keen to point out that their BIOSes do not toast CPUs.
As if your work meetings weren't already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion
News Should you fear the all-hearing AI ear?
From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now
News Rolling grasses have given way to a vineyard in northern California.
Former music-pirating platform Napster to be reborn rather ironically as a metaverse for musicians to connect with their fans after $207 million deal
News The music, ahem, sharing platform that refuses to die.
Hmmm, upgrades: Nvidia App gets an optional AI assistant and custom DLSS resolution scaling
News You'll need a desktop RTX card to give the new Nvidia chatbot a try.
AMD's next-gen 'Gorgon Point' APU outted and seemingly sticks with RDNA 3.5 graphics which is disappointing for handheld gaming PCs if accurate
news Looks like it'll be a long wait for a big graphics upgrade in AMD APUs for handheld PCs.
AMD's CEO claims 9070 XT sales are 10x higher than all previous Radeon generations but that's just for the first week of availability
news What about long-term availability...?
Samsung has a crack at ye olde glasses-free 3D monitor thing but its new cheaper 49-inch ultrawide OLED is far more interesting
News Lenticular lenses and eye tracking all over again.
Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming 'game changing' performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia's RTX GPUs, even the old ones
News Is Microsoft tracing Nvidia's already-trodden path...?
CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?
News Not just test chips, but 'production silicon'.
Best CPU for gaming in 2025: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
Rejoice! PCI Express 7.0 hits 'final draft' status enabling bandwidth that you probably won't notice on devices that won't appear for years
News Call me back in 2035 when things are getting real.
While we despair of RTX 50-series supplies and wait on next-gen Rubin, Nvidia reveals its next-next GPU architecture will be known as Feynman and is due in 2028
News Blackwell will beget Rubin and only then will we get Feynman
Nvidia reveals Vera, a new CPU with 'custom' cores which could be very exciting for its upcoming premium PC processor
News Is Vera destined for the PC?
New super-thin '2D' metal sheets could enable ultra-low power chips and can you guess how they're made? Yup, by squishing stuff really hard
news Apparently single-atom thickness is possible with a plain old hydraulic press
AMD claims it has 45% gaming GPU market share in Japan but jokingly admits it 'isn't used to selling graphics cards'
news If AMD's supply ain't perfect, Nvidia's must be even worse
Chinese graphics card maker claims RX 9070 supply will be 'stable' from April while AMD commits to more MSRP graphics cards though admits it's something 'we don't directly control'
news It's true that it's not all under AMD's control, but that isn't by accident...
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...?
