Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Intel's elderly Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling surprisingly well and the reason is simple: They're cheap
News Good enough performance at the right price, for laptops at least...
New Intel CEO is looking 'for partnership with the industry leader to build purpose-built silicon' for AI, but is he talking about making chips with Nvidia or for OpenAI?
News Lip-Bu Tan also says he hooked up with TSMC to talk about a possible collab'.
MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible
News Strong but stretchy, apparently.
Intel will reportedly fire fully 20% of its workforce and focus on 'engineering', a plan that sounds all too familiar at this point
News New CEO, same old staff cuts?
Mark Zuckerberg is so desperate to make Facebook relevant again he considered deleting your entire friends list
news Remember who your friends are.
There's no need to overshare on social media now that OpenAI's new chatbots can pinpoint your location from the tiniest details in images
News The ultimate GeoGuessr cheat code or just a privacy nightmare?
A high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU has allegedly been spotted and I really want it to be a $400 RTX 5070 killer
News That's if tariffs don't get in the way...
Hold up, there's an RTX 5070 under MSRP in the UK that just dropped below £500 (by a penny, still counts)
News It's a topsy-turvy time for tech pricing.
If you thought USB naming was nonsense, allow this professional furry engineer to explain the total nightmare that is the underlying hardware complexity of USB-C
News Oh, and it's all Apple's fault. Well, possibly...
User reports melted power cable on an RTX 5070 and now we're wondering if any RTX 50-series GPU is safe
News That melted cable looks awfully familiar...
Trump administration exempts phones and most computing hardware from tariffs and then says they're not really exempt, just being lined up for a very special tariff 'bucket' of their own
News This really isn't my kind of bucket list...
PCs with Intel's new warranty-backed 'IPO' overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?
News IPO supposedly makes overlocking all elements of an Arrow Lake CPU simple, effective and safe.
There's hope for the PC market yet: Sales boom before tariff hammer comes down and HP expects 90% of its US PCs will be made outside of China by the end of the year
News Is this the peak before the dip?
This estimate that iPhones would cost $3,500 if made in the US has me terrified of tariffs and the concept of a mid-range gaming laptop costing $5,000 and high-end models hitting nearly $15,000
News Analyst predicts it would take years to move even a small fraction of iPhone production to the USA.
AMD is reportedly plotting an NPU-enabled 'Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme' chip for handhelds and we still can't figure out what it'll do for us aside from drain more the battery juice
News If you really must have Copilot+ in your hands...
This $299 Acer monitor is the cheapest high-refresh 32-inch 4K gaming panel we've ever seen from a big brand
Deal Less than half the price of an OLED equivalent...
So, it's the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive
News That and the lasers firing at tiny flying droplets of tin...
The Intel-TSMC unholy chip factory alliance rumour re-emerges and this time a 'preliminary' deal is said to have been done
News The involvement of AMD, Nvidia and Broadcom remains unclear...
Nvidia says its Nintendo Switch 2 chip benefited from '1,000 engineer-years of effort' claiming a 10x performance bump with DLSS and dedicated ray tracing silicon
News But is that upscaling compared to native rendering like the whole RTX 5070 versus RTX 4090 marketing nonsense?
Nintendo is going to charge Switch 2 handheld console owners money for a glorified digital manual that doubles as a game
News There's no actual price yet, but Switch 2 Welcome Tour is definitely a 'paid' game.
Nintendo Switch 2 specs: $450 price tag, bigger 1080p LCD screen, 4K support, 256 GB storage, 'mouse' functionality and more
News The specs of the console's new Nvidia chip, however, remain mysterious.
The first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU makes an appearance in the Steam hardware survey and it's the RTX 5080 that has the honour
News AMD CPUs are up and Intel down, too.
Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards
News This surely isn't just a case of a few crumbs...
