by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#777P6)
Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion strategic partnership focused on long-term memory supply, 2 GW AI data center, and future AI infrastructure
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#777MF)
Printed Solid, the Delaware-based filament manufacturer acquired by Czech Prusa Research in 2022, is now known as Prusa USA, Inc.
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AOC redefines the budget 4K gaming monitor with its U32G4. This 32-inch IPS panel sports 160 Hz, 320 Hz in FHD resolution, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color for around $320.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#777MH)
Microsoft dropped four OG Xbox titles on PC a couple of days ago and they came with a native Xbox 360 emulator baked in. These games are packaged as Xbox 360 files, to the emulator runs them as such, then another emulator takes over to translate OG Xbox code inside the virtualized 360 environment.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#777JT)
Game Compressor leverages Windows' built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings and can save you hundreds of gigs across your game library.
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An advanced fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter jet crashed spectacularly during a routine training mission in the Moscow region on Thursday," say reports published by Russian state media. But some Ukrainian sources are claiming it as successful sabotage.
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Lockheed Martin has unveiled a ground-launched high-power microwave counter-drone system which cab 'neutralize up to 50 enemy drones in a single mission.'
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on (#777J1)
The rise and fall of a pair of eSports hotel RAM thieves has been retold by Chinese news media.
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Signatories include chipmakers, server vendors, cloud operators, enterprise software firms, security companies, and venture funds
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7774K)
Intel posts 25% higher year-over-year sales and above-the-guidance earnings, and confirms that its 14A technology is on-track to start high volume ramp in 2028.
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Mini PC specialist Geekom has updated its A9 Max design with AMD's latest mobile silicon. The incremental improvements of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX470 are supported by a revamped Ice Blast 3.0 cooling solution with larger fan and all copper heatpipes in a sleek 0.9L chassis.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7771K)
Contemporary AI bots are far too competent at cybersecurity, and humanity may have reached a tipping point where it's hard to keep up.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#7771M)
The Dell 14S makes good on its promise of serving as a cheaper alternative to the pricier XPS 14.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#7771N)
A fresh leak suggests AMD is preparing an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 mobile processor with 96MB of L3 cache, potentially bringing the desktop Ryzen 7 9800X3D experience to gaming laptops.
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The performance is impressive and it's good to see official support, but the question remains whether you can actually buy any of it.
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Samsung and SK Hynix are expected to unveil multibillion-dollar memory-chip partnerships with major U.S. technology companies during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's visit to San Francisco
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Nvidia took the first stab with its Vera results earlier this week, and now AMD is biting back with SPEC results for its Zen 6 Venice' CPUs, as well.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#776ZE)
EA's FC 27 is available in three options, starting at $69.99 for the base game and going up to $149.99 for the Ultimate Plus Edition. The top-tier option, which costs more than double than the Standard Edition, caused sticker shock for everyone and caught the ire of gamers.
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on (#776ZF)
OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform's production infrastructure.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#776WV)
U.S. President Donald Trump expands the 'ratepayer protection pledge' to include states, utility companies, and data center developers. He claims that the pledge will help electricity costs go down, even as PJM Interconnect, the largest grid operator in the U.S., increased power costs by 75.5% and slapped Maryland with a $2-billion bill for infrastructure upgrades.
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Save a massive $900 on HP's HyperX Omen 16 with RTX 5060. The perfect back-to-school gaming laptop is now only $1,099.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#776TF)
Get an RTX 5080 gaming PC with 9800X3D for $2,829 at Newegg.
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On this day in 2006, AMD confirmed its acquisition of graphics chip firm ATI. AMD stumped up a cash-and-stock deal worth a total of $5.4B for the Canadian PC graphics innovators.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#776TH)
AMD's Lisa Su shows off the company's roadmap through 2030, including teases of Zen 7 and Zen 8 CPUs.
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Countering Intel's recent moves, AMD is bringing its Strix Halo APUs to the realm of robots, and physical AI. Designed for 24/7 operation and a 10-year embedded lifecycle, X100 will also be offered as a Kria System on Module (SOM) robot developer platform.
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AMD showed off its MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, demonstrating its strong competitive performance, large HBM memory capacity, and Helios rack-scale architecture.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#776BJ)
When AMD's Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.
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A gaming enthusiast leverages Lossless Scaling to supercharge a gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3050 to deliver up to 144 FPS at 4K.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#776BM)
TYLsemi is set to offer pre-validated chiplets, along with custom ASIC design services, and build highly custom multi-tile processors at relatively low costs.
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After over a year of teases, AMD has finally provided details on its 256-core Venice CPU with the Zen 6 architecture, now known as the Epyc 9996.
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AMD is returning to 3D V-Cache in its data center range of CPUs with Venice-X, which it has confirmed will launch in the second half of 2027, with 1152 MB of L3 and clock speeds up to 5.15 GHz.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#776BQ)
The latest update introduces more realistic CPU and GPU workloads, redesigned multi-core testing, AI-focused benchmarks, larger datasets, and CUDA support for Nvidia GPUs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7768B)
GM CFO Paul Jacobson says that the company's costs are expected to increase by $1.5 to $2 billion, primarily due to increasing memory chip costs. The move comes as the RAM shortage is affecting the automotive industry, right as cars are requiring more memory and storage due to infotainment and ADAS features.
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The bill amends the Homeland Security Act and covers companies earning at least $500 million in annual revenue from a model trained with compute costing more than $100 million.
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With the limitations of copper looming, the industry is transitioning to photonic interconnects to scale data center capabilities. We spoke to experts such as Lightmatter chief executive Nick Harris about the new scale-out paradigm and the battle for control over emerging standards.
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Some customers have discussed commitments running two years or longer, one source told Reuters.
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The Arctic Senza AI 370 is a fanless mini PC designed to mount under your desk. Everyday performance isn't held back by the lack of active cooling, and its soldered dual-channel 32GB LPDDR5X-8000 is appreciated during the RAM shortages. The meager front panel I/O is the only major drawback to the design.
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Pre-purchase Creality's portable Pika 3D scanner at a discount. First come, first served: a 10% saving if you act within 19 days.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7763J)
Data center projects are facing increasing opposition from surrounding communities, making consent even far scarcer than the chips and power needed to run these facilities. Any developer planning to construct one must now consider the people living around the proposed site and take account for the months or years needed to approve it, if it even gets the green light.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#7761P)
Save $150 on this gaming PC with Intel Core i5 14400F, Intel Arc B580, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#7761Q)
Oregon set to start charging service providers for undersea cables using its sea floor. It will funnel the millions accrued toward state schools.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7761R)
A modder by the name of Dryxio has built perhaps the most impressive mod in the history of Grand Theft Auto by combining three different GTA games into one, connected through real-time, fully functional portals.
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The company is making adjustments to some existing pre-orders.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#775NF)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raised several points against the rising sentiment in Washington that U.S. firms should be prevented from accessing Chinese AI models. He also advocates for open models, which he says makes AI more secure.
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Intel will design, package, and fabricate Fortinet's sixth-generation Security Processor (SP6) on its Intel 4 node.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#775JW)
Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC will let gamers play classic Xbox games on PC and handheld.
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on (#775FQ)
The USB ecosystem is entering another transition that will affect how laptops, desktops, storage devices, displays, and peripherals connect in the second half of the decade.
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on (#775FR)
The first gigawatt is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2027 in AMD Helios rack-scale systems.
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BNEF's December outlook put 2035 demand at 106 GW, and that figure was itself 36% above the projection the firm published in April 2025.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#775CE)
A new Bloomberg report is claiming that Apple is working on a leasing program called "Apple Upgrade" that will allow customers to finance hardware over the course of 2 or 3 years. At the end of the term, they can keep the device or hand it back, or even upgrade to a newer model if payments are completed early.