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Hitting an all-time low price at Amazon, 8Bitdo's wireless Pro 2 gaming controller with hall-effect joysticks is 38% off for Prime members.

Nvidia lifts the veil a little bit more on its Vera CPU and reveals a single-thread performance monster - company claims a 1.8x uplift versus x86 competition in agentic workloads and 1.5x in coding.

The 1,350 trillion total combines a $520 billion semiconductor program with AI data center and robotics spending, mostly made up of corporate capex.

A Change.org petition urging Sony to keep making physical PlayStation games has passed 172,000 signatures.

Valve's official account on Reddit has responded to RLOD victims with simple step-by-step instructions to get any affected Steam Machine up and running again.

Missed Prime Day? You can still soften the blow of buying PC parts with this three-item AM5 Newegg combo - 32GB of DDR5, 9800X3D, Gigabyte X870E motherboard, and a free AIO to take the sting out of buying

Corsair's 2800X RS-R ARGB brings a compact MicroATX design with room for full-size hardware, strong cooling support, and three pre-installed ARGB fans. Priced under $90, it offers solid value for a small-form-factor chassis.

Kioxia, Sandisk begin to sample BiCS10 3D NAND: 332 active layers and over 29 Gb/mm2 areal capacity.

Unix copyright code infringement back from the dead - IBM is still under fire from Xinuos about 2003-era bytes, with a hearing as recent as June 22.

Well-known engineer Matthias Balwierz (aka Bitluni) designed and created an 8,192-core RISC-V GPU at home.

Brokerage consensus puts Samsung's full-year 2026 operating profit near 300 trillion won.

MSI has officially validated region-bound Chinese RAM using CXMT modules to run at up to 8,200 MT/s on its AM5 motherboards. Models with two RAM slots can handle these high frequencies a bit better than four-DIMM variants.

Open Tools, a Paris-based startup, has announced that its Open Printer has been nominated for two French Design Awards.

The Ryzen AI Halo is a turn-key AMD local AI box that's backed up with first-party software support, handy utilities, and plenty of documentation for local AI explorers. But the performance and application compatibility of the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (aka Strix Halo) SoC still trails Nvidia's GB10, and it's pricey for what it offers.

Nvidia reportedly won't ship its Kyber NVL144 rack until 2028, a delay of more than 12 months.

America's AI supply chain now starts and ends in the U.S., while its most valuable middle steps remain entirely offshore until at least 2028.

Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat talked to Tom's Hardware about the Steam Machine, it's pricing, engineering, and even Windows support.

This is the first e-ink monitor that can hit 60 FPS, making it useful in more tasks outside of just reading. While you likely won't be able to play fast-paced games on this display, it should still make other everyday tasks on it easier while reducing eye strain.

Get an RTX 3060 with 12 GB of VRAM for just $329.99 at Newegg - MSI Ventus 2X OC model back in stock with free shipping

A German effort to assemble the world's largest publicly accessible video game archive is being wound down after roughly 1.5 million in public funding expired.

Say whaaaat? Hannah Montana Linux is back. Basically abandonware since 2009, the distro has returned with a modern kernel and about 18 years worth of patches.

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Atomic Semi, the semiconductor tooling startup founded by chip architect Jim Keller and DIY fabrication pioneer Sam Zeloof, has rebranded as Fab2.

A sublime ultraportable with world-class quality and OLED visuals, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 excels at everything it does.