Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
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.
Microsoft is releasing a preview build of Windows that offers more personalised AI running on Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
News The new API will come later this year, Nvidia says.
Hands on with the $799 ROG Ally X: comfy to hold despite bigger battery and SSD than the original
News Shipping in late July.
Asus further outlines how it's improving its RMA process in follow-up to initial tone-deaf response: 'we are committed to doing better'
News Facing backlash from its poor RMA process, Asus now vows to improve with detailed updates on what's changing.
Razer Fujin Pro review
Subtle A first stab at the premium office chair market, the Fujin Pro is not as far off the mark as you'd expect.
The world's largest chipmaker could flip a kill switch and remotely disable its machines in the event of an invasion
News That's one helluva kill switch.
PC user annoyed about Task Manager jumping around gets told how to fix it with one button—by the developer that built the application 30 years ago
News Now that's great customer support.
OpenAI pauses use of GPT-4o 'Her' voice due to similarity to Scarlett Johansson: 'so eerily similar… my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference'
News The Hollywood star says they were approached by OpenAI to use her likeness, but declined.
Noctua's newest products will keep you, and your consoles, cool
News Built using our favorite PC fan, the NF-A12x25.
Intel's Lunar Lake is here to remind you x86 still has a place in laptops: 'You've never seen x86 power characteristics quite like this'
news It's coming out swinging, promising faster AI, CPU, and gaming performance than AMD and Qualcomm
Google looks intent on breaking the business of the internet, and AI won't fix it
Hi, Gemini New AI search tools may be sold as useful to users, but what's in it for the people creating quality content?
Meta is reportedly back on its wearables bit: this time it wants to stick cameras on earbuds for AI
News You'll never guess what the codename for the project is.
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o with a video of a man making small talk with his phone and I cannot pretend it's not really weird
News OpenAI unveils GPT-4o with new audio, video and text recognition abilities—rolling out to free users.
Clackeys, a big name in artisan keycaps, is closing down: 'I am sorry I could not keep this boat afloat'
News The company never turned a profit, says CEO and founder Robert Vignone.
Land of dragons and jank: I took a trip to Wales in the metaverse
Es i i'r metaverse! Croeso i Gymru metaverse!
Asus (sorta) announces the ROG Ally X: bigger battery, updated design, same performance as original ROG Ally
News "Not everything is changing but there are significant improvements across the board."
Keycap delivery! This limited edition keycap set from Glorious has turned my clean-cut keyboard into crude doodles and I'm surprisingly here for it
Doodles The set gives the impression someone has drawn all over my lovely gaming keyboard with a white marker pen.
