Latest from Tom's Hardware

A new Nintendo Switch dock shell has been designed to mimic the sleek undulating curves of the classic Nintendo 64.

OpenPuck is custom, open-source firmware that can turn a microcontroller into a DIY Steam Controller puck in minutes. You can then use your Steam Controller as a native Xbox, PlayStation or Switch controller without even having Steam open in the background.

Researchers created a programmable thermal material that steers heat and retains its state without power, a breakthrough that could benefit AI chips, silicon photonics, and infrared devices.

A stylish new product encourages the repurposing of old IDE optical drives as standalone audio players.

MSI Afterburner is soon getting a new heatmap in its V/F curve editor that shows the GPU's boosting behavior in real workloads.

Meta is expanding Hyperion from 2 GW to 5 GW, lifting its Louisiana investment above $50 billion as it races to secure more AI computing capacity.

Valve has confirmed that the Steam Machine's red light bar warning is being triggered prematurely.

Get the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and a Gigabyte X870E motherboard for $1,064.98, with the RAM costing you just $236.

Lenovo has added the RTX 5070 12GB GPU to its Legion 7a gaming laptop, allowing you finally configure it with something better than an RTX 5060. It's very expensive at $3,375 but you're getting a genuinely premium machine for that price and an upgraded RTX 5070 that's not limited to just 8GB of VRAM.

Ireland's data centers consumed 23% of the country's electricity in 2025, rising 10% in one year despite restrictions on new grid connections.

Asus' fancy dual-interface M.2 enclosure is marked down to its lowest price ever on Amazon right now. Not only is it fast, but it also looks clean and has extra on-the-go convenience thanks to its metal hook and strap.

A startup that aims to bring sunlight on Earth after dark just received approval from the FCC to launch its experimental satellite. Critics say that the project could adversely affect astronomy and the environment, but the regulator says that their complaints are outside of its jursidiction.

Nvidia decided to hide the hotspot temperature on its RTX 50 series, but internal diagnostic tools, such as Nvidia's own "MODS," can still read it. The resulting data reveals how some GPUs can overheat and throttle easily, which could be why the sensor was kept hidden in the first place.

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung says the memory shortage will get even worse in 2027, and claiming the RAM crunch will last at least until the turn of the decade.

Microsoft's carbon emissions jumped 25% in FY2025 as AI data center expansion outpaced sustainability gains, despite progress in water conservation and waste reduction.

Colibri proof-of-concept gets a frontier-level AI model running on only 25 GB of RAM and a modest CPU

SK hynix, TetraMem, and the University of Southern California built a memristor-based in-memory computing system-on-chip for AI edge devices, achieving promising energy efficiency, but failed to demonstrate its full potential.

Anthropic has discovered an internal "J-space" for its Claude AI that displays similarities to human internal processing. While the AI developer anthropomorphizes it as thought, it may yet prove useful as a method of improving LLM honesty, oversight, and guardrails.

Intel's forgotten 14-core SKU from last year has received a sizable discount on Amazon, making it one of the best value propositions in CPUs right now. It performs amicably in gaming and professional tasks thanks to its 6 P-cores and 8 E-cores that can clock up to 5.2 GHz.

Steam made an estimated $11.1 billion in revenue in the first six months of 2026, according to estimates from research firm Alinea Analytics. That's more than it did in the entire pandemic-ridden year of 2020. In fact, even last year's holiday season made 8% less money than H1 2026, making this half Valve's best-ever.

Tencent is in talks with Manus and other investors to raise the $2 billion needed to buy back the startup from Meta. Beijing ordered the two companies to unwind the deal six months after the surprise announcement of its purchase.

Right now, you'll save $378 in total on over two years' worth of ExpressVPN, now priced at $69.72, with four extra months thrown in for free.

Researchers in Korea and Japan have proposed sideways-stacked DRAM designs that could push future AI memory beyond conventional HBM limits by improving cooling, bandwidth, and capacity while reducing reliance on TSV-heavy vertical stacks.