Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Samsung debated selling off its manufacturing arm as 3 nm yields remain low and the chip giant's stock price drops
news TSMC's keeping the ball rolling but healthy competition would be better.
Windows 11 24H2 is finally here and Microsoft's calling it a 'full OS swap', it's just a shame the new Windows update still has Recall
News Hey, at least Task Manager is saying MT/s instead of MHz now.
Nvidia's RTX 4060 is THE dominant GPU, boosting its desktop market share by 34% in a single month on Steam's Hardware Survey
News Caused by budget bargains in the lead-up to the next GPU generation, perhaps?
AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is out now and hands Radeon gamers a new AI-optimised frame generation option in most games
News The frame gen tech has finally exited beta.
TeamGroup PD20 mini 2 TB external SSD review
Zippy The PD20 is so small it might as well be a USB flash drive—except it's much faster.
This pied piper mouse lured me in with its promises of complete adjustability but it's very clearly a demon in disguise
News It might, however, be the ultimate ergonomic peripheral.
AMD's 7800X3D successor is rumoured to launch in October, as leaker claims the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will be the first Zen 5 3D V-Cache CPU to market
News Even if it's not October, surely 9000-series X3D chips can't be too far off.
Intel CPU crashes: what you need to know—Intel explains the root cause and plans a final microcode fix for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs
Intel issues A fix is here, but only for fresh Intel CPUs that aren't already affected.
Intel has discovered what actually caused its top gaming chips to break and is rolling out another fix
News Another microcode update to fix Intel stability issues and the wheel keeps on turning.
The new SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds actually fit my weird little ears and if that isn't a glowing endorsement then I don't know what is
News Oh, and they sound pretty good, too, I guess.
Presumed Battlemage engineering sample suggests there's some hope for Intel's next-gen Arc GPUs in the mid-range
News There's plenty of headroom for more powerful GPUs in the line-up, too.
This Balrog spacebar is literal fire and has made me realise I need a full set of LOTR keycaps, ASAP
News This keycap's dark fire would certainly avail me.
The GPU market is back, baby, and it's astonishing 'market watchers who have been predicting its doom for decades'
News NPUs be damned, give us those sweet, sweet discrete graphics.
I tried SteelSeries' new Hall effect gaming keyboard and I'm genuinely surprised these switches deliver such a satisfying THONK
News Listen to that thickity thock.
Adata SD810 1 TB external SSD review
Simply Speedy This portable SSD has no unnecessary frills. It's simple and fast, just the way I like it.
Samsung's just started producing what is effectively its first proper PCIe 5.0 SSD and it's faster than any currently on the market
News Could this be the start of PCIe 5.0 SSDs that are actually worth it for gaming?
Google finally wins a court case and gets out of a €1.49 billion fine over anti-competitive practices
News Despite the court agreeing with most of the European Commission's findings.
'Please halt this activity': Not-so-open OpenAI seems to have gone full mob boss, sending threatening emails to anyone who asks its latest AI models probing questions
News You probably shouldn't use the phrase "reasoning trace" when speaking to o1-preview or o1-mini.
Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs could support up to 10,000 MT/s DDR5 CUDIMM RAM, but that'll be using the Gear 2 setting which is pretty rubbish for gaming
News Whether great for gaming or not, memory with speeds in the tens of thousands is exciting.
The Steam Deck's rare but troublesome 'loading throbber' issue has been fixed
News Loading throbbers are here to stay, but that doesn't mean you have to get stuck looking at them.
AMD blog fail suggests Fluid Motion Frames 2 is exiting beta in its full September driver release
News More free frames, what's not to love?
Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are reportedly set to have their designs finalised this month and their TDPs might be lower than some thought
News I'm taking all this with a bucket of salt, personally.
Acer's just announced a 600 Hz monitor that can surely only be for those with superhuman vision
News Can such a high refresh rate justify spending significant money on a 1080p TN panel in 2024?
