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Samsung detailed the industry's first LPDDR5X-PIM at Hot Chips 2026, adding logic directly to memory to speed up data-intensive workloads like AI inference.
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OpenAI arrived at Hot Chips on Tuesday with benchmarks claiming its first in-house chip beats Nvidia's GB300.
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by mylesgoldman@icloud.com (Myles Goldman) on (#77Y3A)
Hyte's Y50 RGB is an affordable option for anyone looking to get a glass chassis with included ARGB fans.
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568.99 ($200/26% off) gets you a 3-item Newegg combo: a Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus B650 board, 16GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000, and a free 240mm AIO thrown in - a inexpensive avenue into AM5.
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Intel's Wildcat Lake is competing in the budget laptop market, but it takes a very different approach, leveraging a UCIe interconnect and Intel's latest 18A node.
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We're rounding up the best RAM deals from retailers across the U.S here.
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At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed more about its Crescent Island AI accelerator, which uses the Xe3P architecture. The accelerator will use liquid-cooled chips and HBM4 memory to serve inference workloads in data centers.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#77Y0B)
Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio see price hikes, while memory and storage upgrades get even more expensive
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Apple has announced new M6 and M5 Ultra chips, a new Mac mini, and a new Mac Studio.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#77XX5)
China slows exports of germanium, quartz-based materials, and magnets. The move potentially disrupts the optical connectivity, semiconductor, and robotics industries.
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A Russian Molniya drone carrying an Nvidia Jetson Orin module killed three civilians at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia last month.
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At gamescom, Asus finally announced the pricing for the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20, either as a standalone handheld or a bundle with AR glasses.
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The development of Linux, a free hobby' operating system, was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today.
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Micron Fellow Raghu Sreeramaneni told the Hot Chips 2026 conference that the silicon penalty HBM carries against DDR5 is growing with every generation.
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Nvidia has provided more color on its Vera CPU for agentic data centers at Hot Chips 2026, showcasing the benefits of spatial multithreading and the power benefits of the LPDDR5X memory system.
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Save $30 on an 8TB Seagate Barracuda HDD at Best Buy. The lowest price since April.
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An AI computing enthusiast has demonstrated Doom running on a custom CPU designed by GPT-5.6 Sol.
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Maxsun's Terminator B850M Pro II is a decent budget option in the Micro ATX form factor, but only if you can find it for the $199.99 MSRP.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#77XTX)
One gigabyte of RAM could cost you a house back in 1995 - PCs were brutally expensive were back then, and we're heading back in that direction
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This $1,499 MSI Codex R2 gaming PC comes with a $500 saving for a PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
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Nvidia claims the chip completes agentic, reinforcement learning, and data processing tasks up to 1.8 times faster than x86 processors.
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Legendary Windows developer Dave Plummer has been busy finessing his revamped Task Manager, now dubbed TMOG.
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A decades-long dispute over the ownership of Linux looks like it is over. Earlier this month the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected Xinuos' continued claims that IBM and Red Hat improperly contributed jointlydeveloped Project Monterey UNIX code to Linux.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#77XS2)
A developer's investigation into a Bluetooth headphone issue uncovered hidden Web Audio processing on AliExpress that allegedly fingerprints browsers and collects detailed device information.
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Intel has pulled back the curtain on its next-gen Diamond Rapids Xeon CPUs, packing up to 256 P-cores and 1.28 TB of last-level cache.
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The problem, per SK, is that HBM cubes are capped at a total thickness of 775 microns, the standard thickness of a 300mm logic wafer.
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IBM is vastly expanding softwarte support on its mainframes with its first dual-ISA CPU core that natively supports z/Architecture and ARM instructions.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#77X82)
The UltraGear 25G590B is the first 1,000 Hz gaming monitor with a native 1080p resolution
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Cooler Master's Q300L V3 offers more airflow, bigger clearances, and a 20 Gbps USB-C for under $45
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#77X58)
32GB of DDR5 6000 RAM now costs more than $400.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#77X59)
A new report claims nine people have been indicted over the illegal smuggling of Nvidia B300 servers to China.
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AMD has dominated the DIY space so thoroughly over the last few years that an Intel chip appearing in the top 10 at all is notable, but it's not really that surprising if you look at the details.
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Marvell has introduced a three-tier "AI memory infrastructure" portfolio, announced at FMS 2026 in Santa Clara on August 4.
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Asus' first-ever gaming soundbar, the ROG Gjallar, is blocky and uninspired, with decent sound and a completely unnecessary audio control hub with built-in beamforming mics.
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Antarctic research data still leaves the continent physically, on hard drives ferried out by ship and plane "in suitcases full of hard drives."
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#77X0Y)
The Asus ZenScreen OLED (MQ16FC) excels on several fronts, including pricing.
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Today marks Valve's 30th birthday. The company was founded on August 24, 1996, by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, both Microsoft veterans.
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A research team at Kyoto University has built a silicon carbide transistor that operates at 600C (873 K) using ion implantation.
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A massive discount means this $4,799 HP Omen Max 45L gaming PC is now cheaper than individually buying the RTX 5090 it uses, thanks to a $2,200 discount.
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AliExpress 828 sale brings unbeatable savings on Flashforge 3D printers and premium accessories.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77WYZ)
Nintendo is doing Nintendo things again as it goes after 7 different master repos containing Switch emulators, which total out to 401 repos wiped in a single day. Most of these belonged to Yuzu forks, such as Suyu, but there was one exception.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#77WGP)
The Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC is available for just $629.99 on Amazon, delivering strong 1440p performance, 16GB of VRAM, a 2,610MHz boost clock, and a triple-fan cooling system at a $120 discount.
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The US Army tested an autonomous breaching vehicle with an onboard counter-UAS turret during a live-fire exercise at Fort Bragg on August 18.
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The increases will take effect on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems shipping early next year.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#77WF5)
Nvidia's most powerful desktop offering, the GB300 DGX Station, is available to buy starting from just $94,930 and you can spec it up to $108,350. It offers 748GB of unified memory shared across the 72-core Grace CPU and Blackwell Ultra GPU, and it can be yours in a pretty standard-looking desktop chassis today.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77WF6)
A 113GB GTA VI ISO file is circulating on the internet, with its file name making it seem like it was the game build that Cyberleek is allegedly in possession of. But upon further investigation, it appears to just be a 50KB virus padded with zeroes to make it look like the real thing.
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The Versa, a 230g pocket gimbal camera that snaps into a separate propeller chassis for flight, raised more than $230,000 at its debut.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#77WF8)
The Deco 7 Pro BE13000 is attractively priced on the hardware front, but a subscription is needed to enable many features of the mesh system.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77WF9)
A game preservation group is asking PlayStation users to stay away from their consoles for a week in protest of Sony's plan to axe physical game disc production. However, others say this is too soft, and a more concrete move would be to cancel PSN subscriptions en masse or refund purchases of pre-sold games.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#77WDN)
Two robots at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing beat Usain Bolt's 2009 100-meter dash world record. The Tiangong Ultra set a record of 9.39 seconds, while the Honor Lightning achieved a 9.47 record time, breaking the Jamaican runner's 9.58-second record.