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Skirt ridiculous DDR5 prices in this smokin' deal from Newegg. $229 buys a mid-range Asus B850-A Gaming Wifi R2 motherboard and 16GB Team Group DDR5-6000 RAM - $150 off
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71Z1Q)
Huawei has unveiled its Ascend NPU roadmap featuring Ascend 950, 960, 970 processors and massive SuperClusters with over a million of processors and up to 4 ZettaFLOPS FP4 performance in 2028, shifting from chip scaling to system-level scaling, amid U.S. sanctions and manufacturing constraints.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71YYM)
Intel needs more Core Ultra 200-series 'Arrow Lake' and 'Lunar Lake' wafers from TSMC as demand exceeds supply.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71YYN)
SoftBank proposes building multiple industrial parks across the U.S. on federal land to manufacture semiconductors and other AI infrastructure.
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on (#71YYP)
AMD CEO Lisa Su used her appearance at WIRED's Big Interview conference in San Francisco to push back against growing speculation that the AI sector is overheating.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71YYQ)
Artificial intelligence has seemingly put the entire PC industry in a chokehold, with even large manufacturers like Lenovo and Dell at the mercy of drying production lines. Lenovo has reportedly warned its clients to book orders before the next price hike on New Year's, while Dell is already considering a 15-20% increase in mid-December.
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on (#71YW1)
Missed out on all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday fun? You're in luck. MSI's MP273L E14 is a slick 27-inch FHD monitor, which is currently 31% off at Newegg, dropping the price to just $89.99 in a limited-time offer.
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on (#71YW2)
Samsung brings immersive gaming with its new Odyssey G7 S40FG75. It's a 40-inch Curved Ultra-Wide 21:9 VA panel with WUHD resolution, 180 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR600 and wide gamut color. With a tight 1000R curve, it practically wraps around you.
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on (#71YW3)
On November 5, 1995, IBM took the wraps off its Deep Blue prototype, a supercomputer designed to beat the world's greatest chess players.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71YW4)
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that blocking AI bots and giving website owners the option to license their content to AI companies could help maintain online publication's viability as a business in the future.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71YSP)
The SAFE Chips Act proposed by a bipartisan group aims to lock current export rules into law, preventing AMD and Nvidia from selling any AI accelerators based on the latest architectures to China for the next 30 months and forcing companies to compete with H20 and MI308 against China's latest AI processors.
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on (#71YSQ)
Data center demand is skyrocketing as the generative AI revolution continues at pace. The racks of servers already use around 1.5% of global electricity, but by 2030, it's estimated that data centers will need around 1.1 million tonnes of copper annually by 2030, or close to 3% of global demand.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71YST)
AWS is taking pages from Nvidia's book with its new Trainium3 AI accelerators and Trn3 Gen2 UltraServers that are now built entirely on in-house silicon and are accompanies by the enhanced Neuron software stack that simplifies their adoption and gives users more controls over performance and behavior.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71YSS)
YouTuber Zac Builds used an M4 Mac mini to upgrade an old iMac G3 into a modern all-in-one computer.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71YSR)
Nvidia responds to NorthridgeFix and is replacing one of its customers' damaged RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards worth $10,000, even though the damage was not Nvidia's fault and was done accidentally by the customer.
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on (#71YSV)
Logitech chief executive Hanneke Faber used an interview with Bloomberg, marking her second anniversary in the role, to question the rush toward standalone AI hardware.
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on (#71YB2)
Transcend's wares on hold due to AI-induced NAND chip shortage
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71YB3)
AMD is refreshing its X3D lineup, with new chips part of the Ryzen 9000 family, one of which is the updated Ryzen 7 9850X3D. As the name suggests, it's pretty much the same as the existing 9800X3D, but with 400 MHz higher boost clocks, which have now been confirmed won't require more power.
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on (#71YB4)
Windows 11 preview update flashbangs users with bright white
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71Y4R)
Amidst the never-ending cycle of DRAM shortage news cursing the industry, ASRock is finally bringing some good news: a motherboard with support for both DDR4 and DDR5 memory, that too in dual-channel mode. The H610M Combo doesn't have a price yet, but it looks like it can help somewhat mitigate the effects of the current RAM crisis.
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on (#71Y4S)
Industry sources have told Tom's Hardware that there has been no communication from AMD about price hikes on Ryzen processors.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#71Y1S)
After discontinuing the feature earlier this year, Nvidia is bringing back GPU-powered PhysX compatibility for the RTX 50 lineup.
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on (#71Y1T)
Pay $179 for 16GB of DDR5-6000 RAM and an MSI B650 motherboard bundle from Newegg, and save $129.
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on (#71Y1V)
An industry source has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that AMD has raised the price of its Radeon gaming graphics card by $10 per 8GB.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71Y1W)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits that he has no idea whether Nvidia can sell its H200 chips in China even if Washington allows the company to export them.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71Y1X)
Cash influxes from the U.S. government, Nvidia, and SoftBank stabilized Intel enough to cancel plans to spin out its networking and communications division.
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on (#71Y1Y)
Chinese tech firm Cambricon Technologies has plans to triple its production of domestic AI chips in 2026, targeting the market dominance of national giant Huawei. Primarily set to rely on Semiconductor Manufacturing International for fabrication, it's not entirely clear how Cambricon will get enough wafers to achieve its goals.
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on (#71XZD)
Dutch intervention, China's retaliation, and widening U.S. controls have turned a major European component supplier into the centre of a three-way dispute.
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on (#71XZE)
1998 3D accelerator uses an experimental 64-bit driver from 2006, to run on a PC using an OS from 2011, powered by a processor from 2024.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71XX5)
Lisuan's 7G105 discrete GPU was spotted running 3DMark in an ARM-based machine, revealing that Lisuan has quite possibly built the first 3D graphics driver that supports ARM machines that works with a dedicated graphics card.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71XKT)
The U.S. House shelved the GAIN AI Act, blocking a rule that would have forced AMD and Nvidia to put U.S. buyers ahead of China for advanced GPUs, though Beijing's own limits blunt the impact.
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Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments halted due to QC issue
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71XDS)
After 29 years, Micron decided to wind down its Crucial consumer business amid switching resources to HBM memory and enterprise-grade hardware.
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on (#71XDT)
Segotep's Titanload family of 12V-2x6 cables use higher-capacity pins to try and reduce the risk of meltdowns under heavy GPU load.
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on (#71XAC)
The MSI X870E Tomahawk MAX Wi-Fi PZ mainboard is designed to offer a sleek, clutter-free setup by positioning all its connections on the board's backside, providing a solid base to build your system around.
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna used an appearance on The Verge's Decoder podcast to question whether the capital spending now underway in pursuit of AGI can ever pay for itself.
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Nvidia 590 drivers cut support for GTX 900- and 10-series
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on (#71X7K)
Nvidia has taken a $2 billion equity stake in Synopsys, as the two companies announced a long-term collaboration to accelerate electronic design automation workloads on GPUs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71X7M)
A Redditor who purchased an Asus TUF RTX 5080 from Best Buy for $1,200 received rocks inside the box, which itself was already tampered with. Upon reaching out to customer support, Best Buy told our victim that nothing could be done, and no refund would be issued, despite not getting what they paid for.
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on (#71X7N)
The project has been bandied about for years, but has finally come to fruition thanks to the dedicated efforts of one modder.
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on (#71X57)
Featuring top-tier components. The Skytech Gaming Prism 4 desktop PC is yours for $2199 in this Newegg deal.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71X58)
My Arcade has launched a couple of retro gaming consoles to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the legendary Pac-Man arcade game.
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on (#71X59)
Copper producers and market analysts are starting to outline a supply gap that arrives just as hyperscale AI campuses ramp toward record power draws.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#71X5A)
The newly released beta version of Helldivers 2 delivers the same gameplay with far less disk usage, offering PC players a much leaner install without sacrificing performance or progression.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71X3B)
A user used Google Antigravity to build an app, but it ended up deleting their entire D: drive instead of just their project's cache folder.
on (#71X3C)
An enthusiast has managed to shrink an already dinky PS One motherboard down to a quarter of its size. Working prototype uses all original ICs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71X3D)
After 5000 hours of torture testing over 21 months, Monitors Unboxed has shared the latest effects of that stress on an MSI MPG 321URX OLED monitor. Beyond burn-in, the display is beginning to exhibit signs of gradual brightness degradation
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on (#71X1T)
Linux usage has hit an all-time high in the latest Steam hardware survey, indicating the small but growing popularity of SteamOS and its derivatives.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71WPJ)
AMD's MSRPs for Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards may increase by $20 - $40 amid rising GDDR6 prices depending on the model, if new rumors are true.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71WKH)
The White House has once again extended the exemption for its 25% tariffs on GPUs and other Chinese-made computer components.
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