Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
AMD's baffling 'new' Ryzen Z2 APUs for handheld gaming PCs include a premium 'AI' model with an NPU and seemingly the ancient chip from Valve's Steam Deck
news The Z2 family now includes fully four different generations of AMD APU. Seriously?
A new report indicates Intel's latest Battlemage GPUs are a total failure and AMD's gaming graphics market share fell to just 8% but overall graphics cards sales are up
news The figures aren't quite recent enough to show the impact of AMD's latest GPUs...
Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG review
Dual-mode monitor Does two modes in one monitor make for a singularly compelling gaming experience?
Sneeze and this incredibly tiny postage-stamp-sized Atari computer recreation is a goner
News A tiny but timely reminder of a more optimistic era of computing...
CD Projekt Red and Epic claim Witcher 4 development 'ramped up dramatically' Unreal Engine's open world game capabilities
News It's going to be a long wait until 2027...
Google search's AI overviews are awful, but here's a browser extension that gets rid of them
News The beautiful irony of idiotic AI.
DeepMind boss 'would pay thousands of dollars per month' to get rid of his email, so Google is working on a next-gen Gmail AI that will answer them in 'your style—and maybe make some of the easier decisions' for you
News Inevitably creating the potential for bots emailing other bots and absolutely nothing else to worry about.
This incredible truly wireless desktop PC build even keeps your coffee hot forever
News Is 3D wireless power the future?
The 'main goal' for Epic Games' new Unreal 5.6 engine is more performance on the PS5 and that should be good news for gaming on affordable PC hardware
News A game designed to run fast on PS5 should absolutely fly on modest PC hardware.
The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty
News Oh well, looks like gaming GPUs are still going to be hard to come by.
Nvidia's new Arm-based APU rumoured to launch in an Alienware laptop later this year with RTX 4070 mobile performance and 'breakthrough' power efficiency
News Nvidia's Arm chip said to match an RTX 4070 laptop's gaming performance at barely more than half the power consumption.
AMD's exciting new mainstream RX 9060 XT GPU spotted in online benchmarks as June 5 launch day fast approaches
news The 9060 XT looks like it will be pretty quick, but just how quick?
China has held the world's first robot martial arts tournament and I can't think of a single thing that could possibly go wrong
News These bots are made for fighting.
As US tariff uncertainty continues, Nvidia's RTX 5090 dips under MSRP in the UK and EU
News But good luck getting one anywhere near list Stateside.
If there was one non-AI Computex trend this year it's that everything needs a damned screen in or on it
Computex We heard you like screens...
Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied'
News Oh, and it will try to escape its servers—what could possibly go wrong?
Best curved monitors for gaming in 2025: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of
Bendy Immerse yourself to the max with these vision-enclosing panels.
Nvidia's CEO says attempts to control chip exports to China are a failure: 'If they don’t have enough Nvidia, they will use their own.'
Computex "AI researchers are still doing AI research in China," say Jensen Huang.
If you ever wanted to stick a screen inside your PC case Lian Li's just shown off something surprisingly affordable for you
Computex A case with a screen for just $109.
Lian Li's new water cooler with a curved and motorised screen is basically pointless but you're still going to want one
Computex It won't make your PC any faster, but it is a lot of fun.
Razer's new super-skinny Blade 14 gaming laptop is a serious threat to my wallet, but I want a GPU with more than 8 GB VRAM for $2,700
Computex Help! This is the gaming laptop I've been waiting for but my bank balance definitely won't like it.
ASRock outs new 400 Hz 1440p gaming monitor and we're hopeful the price is going to be punchy
Computex Supposedly the 'first' 400 Hz monitor
Hints of an exciting new gaming GPU from Intel were just a social media miscommunication and now I'm totally deflated
Computex No new Intel Arc GPU for gamers at Computex.
