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Two of Intel's latest CPUs, the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, are now available to buy.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74GW6)
Wildcat Lake is the successor to Twin Lake, which itself was a refresh of Alder Lake-N. These are ultra-budget CPUs aimed at embedded devices, cheap laptops, mini-PCs, NAS devices, and more, where efficiency is key. The Core 3 304 is part of the Wildcat Lake family and represents a huge jump over its predecessors in early Geekbench results.
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As the Super Micro smuggling scandal unfolds, U.S. senators have urged the government to halt Nvidia GPU exports to China, as the Foreign Affairs Committee prepares the Chip Security Act, which will impose location tracking for all exported AI accelerators.
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Gamers are finally buying OLEDs thanks to bumps in durability and brightness as well as drops in prices.
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Nvidia is back in court over whether a significant chunk of its revenue through 2017 and 2018 was reliant on the whims of the cryptocurrency market.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74GSG)
Supermicro shareholders argue that the company committed securities fraud because it did not tell them that illegal activities made up a huge portion of its sales and that it had issues with export controls compliance.
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Gigabyte's Aero X16 is a solid productivity machine, but its screen and audio hold it back from true creative credibility.
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Intel's new Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs come with a unique feature: Binary Optimization Tool. We've put it to the test in 10 games with the 250K Plus and 270K Plus, and came out with an 8% uplift on average.
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Buy a powerful Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus bundle with a MSI Z890 Carbon Wifi and 32GB of RAM for $899.99 - get pre AI-apocolypse RAM pricing on this awesome launch day Newegg bundle
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You can grab 32GB of DDR5-6200 Corsair Vengeance RAM for $300.99 right now. That's a $130 discount on its (current) list price, a serious saving in a market that the AI boom has left in ruin.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#74GQ3)
The Arzopa Z3FC has performance and build quality on its side, but it could use some better speakers.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74GQ4)
One Chinese and two U.S. citizens have been charged of conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations after they attempted to order servers containing controlled chips for export to Thailand on paper, but with China as the intended final destination.
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British Army veteran Jon L. Noble has shared a heartwarming update on his first 100 days with a Neuralink implant.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#74GMS)
To build 1 TW of AI silicon per year, Elon Musk's TeraFab would need to process 22.4 million Rubin Ultra GPU wafers, 2.716 million Vera CPU wafers, and 15.824 million HBM4E wafers annually using from 142 to 358 fabs, according to Bernstein.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#74GMT)
CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74GMV)
YouTuber Scott Manley demonstrated using a ZX Spectrum home computer launched in 1982 to land a spacecraft on the Kerbal Space Program spaceflight simulator.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#74G3M)
The team behind Geekbench 6 has warned users about benchmarking inconsistency with Intel's latest iBOT tool found in the new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus. Geekbench 6 can't identify when iBOT is enabled or disabled during benchmark runs.
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Micron's planned $24 billion NAND flash expansion in Singapore will require 400 to 500 power transformers, which is more than double the 100 to 150 units a standard wafer fab typically needs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#74G09)
Samsung's unlisted 870 EVO 8TB model appears at European retailers with pricing starting at 1,300.
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Intel's Arc Pro B70 and B65 GPUs bring options for more raw compute, 32GB of RAM and multi-GPU scalability to the market for local AI explorers looking to run inference workloads for relatively low prices.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74G0B)
Many PC manufacturers are facing challenges in acquiring inventory of Intel and AMD CPUs, saying that there is not enough supply to meet consumer demand.
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In benchmarks on Nvidia H100 GPUs, 4-bit TurboQuant delivered up to an eight-times performance increase in computing attention logits compared to unquantized 32-bit keys.
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The Seagate FireCuda 530R is a specialized workstation SSD that prioritizes reliability and performance consistency. With high write endurance and bundled data recovery services, it provides extra peace of mind.
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Intel has officially released its Xeon 600 workstation CPUs, previously known as Granite Rapids-WS, as well as detailed new features coming to its vPro platform with new Panther Lake CPUs for businesses.
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Check out this great deal on AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X for only $314.99 - an all time low. Build new, or upgrade your AM5 rig on the cheap with this limited time deal from Amazon's limited tome Spring Sale
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74FV8)
A family in Northern Kentucky received a $26 million offer for half their land - a price that's worth more than 7 times the going rate for the area. But despite the massive price, they still refused, saying that they "fed a nation off of it."
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Gigabyte leverages Tandem OLED tech to bring a huge color gamut to its MO27Q28G. It's a 27-inch QHD panel with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR500 and enough speed to satisfy hardcore eSports competitors.
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A half-price discount is up for grabs on this TP-Link 5-port unmanaged Ethernet switch, down to only $8.98 in this limited-time Amazon deal, unlocking five extra ports for your network at a very low price.
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One of the co-founders of American server company Super Micro has been arrested and charged with smuggling AI chips to China in deals worth several billions of dollars. Several managers and contractors are also implicated, and one remains a fugitive at the time of writing.
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HP's Z8 Fury G6i workstation has an alternate "max" side panel that makes the internal chassis 15% larger and adds more active cooling to the system.
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Russia has began to deliver on its plans to establish a domestic state-funded rival to Elon Musk's Starlink, dubbed Rassvet.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#74FSD)
If controlling the notorious Flipper Zero pen-testing and hacking tool using its native interface is too difficult, a new AI-powered companion app for Android, called V3SP3R, is ready to help you make the most of it.
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Arm has announced its AGI CPU, an up-to 136-core data center processor that the company designed in-house and will sell as finished silicon.
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Microsoft and Nvidia are joining forces to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants for power-hungry AI data centers. The partnership combines generative AI, digital twin simulation, and Nvidia's Omniverse platform to streamline the nuclear lifecycle from permitting through operations.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74FA9)
Ayaneo has suspended sales of its next-gen premium gaming handheld as the procurement costs for storage have slipped out of control. When it was first announced, prices were already high, but following the CNY break, vendor quotes had shot up many times, making it unfeasible to build the device. It's a temporary suspension, however, and existing sales will be honored.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74F7R)
Nintendo is reportedly reducing the production of the Switch 2 by 33%, cutting output by 2 million units, due to lackluster sales during the holiday season of 2025.
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SK hynix disclosed in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it will purchase 11.9 trillion won ($7.9 billion) worth of EUV lithography equipment from ASML.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#74F11)
The Atlas 350 is using the Ascend 950PR chip, but it looks like a cut-down version with less compute. Translation overhead aside, previous reports and announcements have already revealed the full specs of this silicon, such as 128 GB of HBM and up to 2 PFLOPS of FP4 compute, but the Atlas 350 is being reported just a smidge below those numbers.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74F12)
U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that he should suspend all active export licenses to China for Nvidia AI chips, saying that Nvidia's most advanced AI GPUs are being diverted into the country despite Jensen Huang's assurances.
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The Pentagon intends to designate Palantir's Maven Smart System as an official program of record, locking in multi-year funding for the AI-enabled targeting platform.
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Grab this impressive Hoto NEX O1 Pro mini electric screwdriver set with 25 bits with its AutoCare 4-in-1 air duster and vacuum cleaner in a combo Amazon deal for under $100.
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Intel's new Core Ultra 5 250K Plus establishes a new baseline for performance in the $200 CPU category. After running it through an extensive suite of benchmarks across games and applications, our testing shows it can match the competition, at worst, and far exceed other options at best.
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Lace Lithography raised $40 million in Series A funding on Monday to develop a chipmaking tool that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to pattern silicon wafers.
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A trio of US defense, autonomy, and directed energy industry leaders have created the Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) to address the threat of drone swarms.
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Budget portable PCs specialist Chuwi has released an official apology to customers who received devices that didn't match up to expected specifications.
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This Alienware Area-51 gaming PC is one of the most powerful pre-built rigs you can buy. It's on sale with a $1,200 discount, fitted with an RTX 5090, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for only $4,449.99, with an RTX 5080 variant even cheaper.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#74EYQ)
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Bahrain site has been disrupted due to the ongoing conflict. It's been said that drone activity is causing the service interruption, and that the company is requesting its clients to migrate their workloads to other regions.
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Gigabyte's X870 Aorus Stealth flies under the radar to give us one of the best reasonably priced BTF boards for the AM5 platform
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The best Amazon Big Spring Sale deals on gaming PCs, laptops, tools, and accessories.
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