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Intel's Wildcat Lake refresh that's supposedly debuting next year will shift focus to a more upmarket audience, only refreshing its Core 5 and Core 7 tiers. The new silicon at the top-end would feature 8 cores, up from 6 cores on Wildcat Lake right now, with the 4 P-cores and 4 LP-E cores. The Core 3 parts are claimed to remain unchanged.

For almost a year, the RTX 50 Super series has been part of the rumor mill, but with the AI boom snatching production lines, causing memory prices to skyrocket, hype for the lineup had died down. Now, a potential RTX 5060 Super with 12GB of VRAM is apparently in the works, with the 50 Super series as a whole allegedly getting "back on track."

A coalition of nine U.S. trade associations has urged the Trump administration to address an AI-driven memory chip shortage, warning that soaring DRAM prices and constrained supply could raise costs for consumer electronics, automobiles, medical devices, and broadband infrastructure while disrupting supply chains through at least 2027.

This $1,749 Skytech gaming PC is an elite-level rig for 1440p and 4K gaming, fitted with a 9800X3D, RX 9070 XT, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD.

Meta is reportedly building more tents that house expensive data centers across the U.S., as it reportedly cuts construction time from two to three years to just a few months. It's also bringing its own power instead of relying on electricity from the grid.

Ssh, don't tell the customer anything.

While direct lightning strikes are difficult to defend against, proper grounding and protection for coaxial and network lines can help reduce the risk of costly hardware damage.

Shelbyville mayor Scott Ferguson (R) made these remarks likelly without knowing that he was being recorded, and it has ignited a political firestorm in the small town.

Wokyis is already selling its M5 dock that turns your Mac Mini into a mini Macintosh. But it plans to add G7 NES-themed docks, as well, with up to 80Gbps of throughput and larger 7-inch screens.

TSMC says it does not have enough capacity to handle all the demand from AI hyperscalers, with CEO C.C. Wei saying that it will take a long time before it can match customer demand. This is an opportunity for Intel, though, as companies desperate to get their hands on advanced chips might be willing to use Intel 18A or 14A nodes for their needs instead.

SpaceX has secured a 35-year, 100% property tax abatement for its proposed $55 billion TeraFAB semiconductor facility in Texas. Elon Musk argues the exemption is essential to compete with global chipmakers, while residents raise concerns over transparency, infrastructure, and environmental impacts.

Sales of Silicon Motion's SSD controllers are record high, but supply of NAND for client applications may get worse in 2027, the company tells us.

We stopped by Hyte at Computex 2026.

The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history," remarked CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.

AMD's Helios set to compete against Nvidia's NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system later this year, but its UALink-over-Ethernet interconnection may affect performance in certain workloads before real UALink interconnects are deployed.

An unthinkable $2,600 saving can be had right now on this HP Omen 45L gaming rig, fitted with a 9900X3D, RTX 5080, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, and 4TB in SSD storage, all for just $2,899.99.

Frore's LiquidJet Nexus promises to enable 10% more token generation on Blackwell Ultra when compared to existing liquid-cooling solutions.

Microsoft CEO claims the company's new AI data centers use only as much water as a single restaurant annually, thanks to a closed-loop cooling system designed to dramatically reduce consumption.

Lian Li's Edge V2 PSUs add a dust-detecting LED indicator, a removable filter, and a snap-on hub for fans and USB devices. They should arrive in September, at up to 1350 watts.

Tom's Hardware stopped by the ASRock booth, and was greeted by a wide variety of products at this year's Computex.