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Nvidia announced BlueField-4 STX at GTC 2026 on March 16, a modular reference architecture for accelerated storage designed to address the data access bottleneck limiting agentic AI inference.
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Another fantastic Newegg combo deal has combined the eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM and an Asus ROG Strix X870E-E motherboard for just $1,019.99, making the RAM effectively just $111 in this build.
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Gaming company forced to backtrack by court after AI-driven plan to dodge $250m bonus payment backfires.
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Razer's Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition game controller, with Hall-Effect thumbsticks, is 45% off in this Woot deal.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#749ST)
Have you ever wanted to use a fan that's more than three times as loud as the other option while providing the same performance? If you answered in resounding joy, then this project is exactly what you've been looking for. A YouTuber 3D-printed a fan that's actually made up of 15 tiny fans, fit inside the frame of a regular 120mm fan modelled after the Noctua NF-A12x25.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#749SW)
Taiwan imports almost all of its energy and requires large amounts of LNG to sustain its electrical grid. That grid is then used by local chipmakers - like TSMC who is responsible for making most of the world's high-end chips. Fabrication for these chips requires helium, which Taiwan also imports and right now, the Iran-U.S. conflict has made it difficult to acquire both.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#749SV)
Nvidia shows off its next-generation Kyber rack-scale solution to be powered by Rubin Ultra GPUs with four compute chiplets and 1 TB of HBM4E memory per package.
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Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world's smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004.
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The Seagate FireCuda X1070 is a budget-minded SSD done mostly right. It performs well enough and has excellent support, but initial pricing is high. A Gen 4 SSD that you can just throw into any system and get the job done.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#749SX)
Nvidia's slides at GTC lack any mentions of Rubin CPX, but praise Groq LPUs instead.
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Dell expands Alienware 16 Area-51, Alienware 16X Aurora, and Alienware 18 Area-51 laptops with new Intel Arrow Lake-HX Refresh processor options.
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The HBM4 36GB 12H stack runs at over 11 Gb/s pin speeds, delivering bandwidth greater than 2.8 TB/s.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#749ER)
Nvidia believes it earn $1 trillion by selling AI hardware, says co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang.
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Nvidia announces Vera Rubin Space Module — up to 25x the AI compute of H100 for orbital data centers
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Six commercial space companies are understood to have already deployed the platform.
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"Open models are the lifeblood of innovation and the engine of global participation in the AI revolution," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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Intel announced today at Nvidia GTC 2026 in San Jose that its Xeon 6 processor will serve as the host CPU in Nvidia's DGX Rubin NVL8 systems.
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At GTC 2026, Nvidia revealed the Groq 3 accelerator and Groq LPX rack as part of the Vera Rubin platform. These SRAM-packed, inference-focused chips deliver large amounts of memory bandwidth to help Rubin deliver low-latency interactions with AI models spanning trillions of parameters and million-token contexts.
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by palcorn@outlook.com (Paul Alcorn) on (#749C1)
Nvidia announced more details about its new 88-core Vera data center CPUs, claiming impressive 50% performance gains over standard CPUs, fueled by a 1.5X increase in IPC from its Olympus cores. The firm also unveiled its new Vera CPU Rack architecture, which brings 256 liquid-cooled CPUs into one rack for CPU-centric workloads.
by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#749C2)
DLSS 5 is coming to make your favorite games look even more realistic
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As Meta introduces its lineup of new AI chips, the company joins other tech giants in diversifying the AI accelerators used for specific workloads, and says that mainstream GPUs built for large-scale pre-training are less cost-effective for inference workloads.
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A bug with a Samsung app on Windows 11 has caused some users to lose access to their C: drive, following the installation of the KB5077181 security update, according to a notice posted by Microsoft online.
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Nvidia's GTC 2026 keynote is happening now, and Tom's Hardware is on the ground to deliver live updates during CEO Jensen Huang's two-hour presentation.
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Creative updates its roster of PCIe sound cards for PC desktop DIYers with the new Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro 7.1,
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Intel's CPU roadmap is unlike any the company has published in recent years, because its manufacturing ambitions and its product launches have to succeed simultaneously.
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While the result doesn't mean much due to this being early silicon running at low clocks, it proves that AMD has Zen 6 consumer CPUs up and running.
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8BitDo's Pro 3 controller with TMR Hall-Effect sticks and swappable ABXY buttons is 29% off in this Woot deal.
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Grab a huge $290 discount on this high-spec CyberPowerPC rig from Newegg. This gaming PC comes equipped with the powerhouse AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a huge 2TB SSD, all for just $2,259.99.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#74929)
As cheap Chinese chips threaten to invade various sectors of the economy in Europe, STMicroelectronics is on track to improve the efficiency of its own fabs
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7492A)
A single-fan RTX 4070 Ti Super had been in the works at Zephyr, a Chinese vendor, for a while, and it was close to completion, with even thermal testing data publicly released. Unfortunately, the memory crisis has gotten to Zephyr as well, and it has cancelled the project, choosing to instead develop an RTX 4070 Super instead.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7492B)
An RTX 5070 Ti with user-applied liquid metal died because the TIM leaked out everywhere and shorted multiple components, eventually killing the core as well. Despite being part of a "repair" video, there's nothing really here to fix, as most of the important ICs would need to be replaced or at least reballed.
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"This year is the most severe year since the company was founded," MSI told investors.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#748NT)
Asus launched this motherboard at $310 in late 2024, and since then its MSRP has gone down to $280, but you can score it for 40% less than that on Amazon right now. For that price, nothing really comes close in terms of performance, features, and reliability.
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A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after police in Fargo, North Dakota, used facial recognition software to identify her as the primary suspect in a bank fraud case.
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A groundbreaking hack for Microsoft's unhackable' Xbox One was revealed at the recent RE//verse 2026 conference.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#748HH)
A new LLVM patch has added V_FMA_F32, a 3-operand fused multiply-add (FMA instruction and introduced the VOPD3 instruction format for RDNA 5. Both of these changes should make it easier for compilers to use dual issue execution, working around the strict pairing rules that would otherwise limit max FP32 throughput in certain workloads.
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The prolonged uncertainty is generating internal unrest, according to an ASML spokesperson who spoke to Dutch broadcaster Omroep Brabant.
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A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been 100% backed up!"
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Meanwhile, the older 7G105 GPU name no longer appears on the site; all four cards now sit under the LX product branding.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#748GM)
DirectorFeng, an expert technician in China has just performed what is likely the first hardware mod of its kind on the new MacBook Neo. He has birthed the world's only MacBook Neo with a terabyte of storage by physically changing the NAND chip on the logic board. Whether this mod is worth the price given the Neo's target audience, well, that's for you to decide.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#748EX)
Elon Musk plans to start his 'Terafab Project' semiconductor production venture in a week.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#748EY)
A motherboard that can accept both DDR4 and DDR5 memory can be the difference between you being able to build a new PC or putting it off till the shortage is over. ASRock's new H610M Combo II is otherwise pretty barebones, not even featuring PCIe 4.0 storage, but it does have enough to get you by before things settle down.
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An ex-Hitachi, ex-Sega, and ex-Sony engineer has confirmed that he proposed and developed a Saturn graphics accelerator, codenamed TRIP, based on Hitachi's SH3 processor.
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Images representing the contents can clearly be seen when studying the surface of a CED LaserDisc' under a microscope.
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DR DOS version 9.0 is now in beta testing, with Revision 291 recently released and available for anyone to download and test.
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A developer has rebuilt the classic Gradius arcade game from the ground up, using ASCII.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7484P)
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is down to an all-time low price, making it a more enticing option than the slightly more performant but also much more expensive Ryzen 7 9850X3D.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74832)
A Redditor only paid $86.98 for a Ryzen 5 7600X, a Gigabyte B850 Eagle motherboard, and a 32GB DDR5-6000 Corsair Vengeance RGB kit from Newegg. The CPU even included a free 240mm Cooler Master AIO worth $85 on its own. All these parts would typically cost $1,012, but this customer scored a combo deal for the ages.
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The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code editor and terminal.
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The B850 Tomahawk Max Wifii II refines the popular budget AM5 board with additional M.2 storage, an OC Engine chip, a 64MB BIOS, a minor facelift, and a small price increase.
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