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Pre-orders begin for Asus' ROG Xbox Ally series, the first handhelds designed in partnership with Microsoft.

A YouTube gamer has constructed a homebrew aim-assist exoskeleton which tracks on-screen movement and adjusts his aim physically, helping to max out his score in Aimlabs' FPS training program.

The r/GamingLaptop subreddit is under attack from a coordinated strike involving spammers promoting MSI products exclusively to its members.

The GeForce RTX 5050 brings a much-needed performance boost to the low end of the graphics card market, but it faces intense competition at its $249 MSRP.

HighPoint launches the Rocket 7638D switch card that enables Nvidia GPUDirect connectivity between GPUs and NVMe storage by supporting peer-to-peer data transfers without CPU involvement.

Asus ROG Singapore has announced on its Instagram page that ROG Xbox Ally X and ROG Xbox Ally preorders are "dropping soon!"

All of these RTX 50-series graphics cards are at or under MSRP in Walmart's Nvidia GeForce sale, with several all-time low deals to be had.

Micron has confirmed it will partner with TSMC to manufacture the base logic die for its next-generation HBM4E memory, with production targeted for 2027.

Qualcomm has just unveiled its new X2 lineup of mobile SoCs, but they seem to be ready for the desktop as well, with mini PC reference designs. There's a frisbee-like circular design and a square device that can dock into an all-in-one base; both are thin and cooled by Frore's AirJet systems.

CoreWeave expands partnership to provide OpenAI with compute capacity.

Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh processors are expected to become more expensive because of increasing demand, despite being one generation behind the company's latest chips.

Intel is reportedly in early talks with Apple about a potential investment and closer collaboration.

Raspberry Pi has released an updated version of the Raspberry Pi 500 and this time the omitted NVMe storage is present, as is an RGB mechanical keyboard.

Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and X2 Elite SoCs, and is making big claims about improvements over last gen.

OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease high-performance GPUs from Nvidia, rather than purchase them outright, as part of its plan to build out custom AI data centers over the next several years.

It is notoriously easy to own more games than you have time to play on Steam, but one user has taken this phenomenon to the extreme.

The SMI SM2504XT ES is a capable, power-efficient PCIe 5.0 SSD on a platform that should offer a more affordable high-end experience. It takes the competing Phison E31T to task in all the right ways.

Hardware leaker momomo_us has shared a photograph of the Ryzen 3 5100, a Zen 3 processor from the Cezanne days.

Valve has just added the ability to check your Secure Boot and TPM status in the latest Steam beta update. Secure Boot and TPM are required for most modern online games, and pretty much every anti-cheat software relies on them. Now, all you need to do is open Steam to check if they're enabled or not.

Solidigm's D7-PS1010 is the industry's first dual-sided liquid-cooled enterprise SSD.

Pricing for Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs finally seems to be stabilizing.

Thermaltake has just unveiled a new feature coming to its MagFloe Ultra lineup of AIO liquid coolers, called "AI Forge." This will allow you to whip up custom backgrounds for the screen on these coolers with just a prompt, right from within the TT Plus ARGB 3.0 software, without the need for any third-party apps.

The iBuyPower Y40 Pro is competitively priced for its performance, though its priority on form over function introduces compromises that make it hard to recommend.

Intel might be working on its own multi-frame generation to combat Nvidia and AMD. Buried within the latest Arc graphics fiver, someone on Reddit found mentions of "Multi-Frame Generation (XeSS)" along with a potential logo - all hinting at Intel's own multi-frame gen tech.

AMD's APUs now rival entry GPUs, but Intel and NVIDIA aim higher: RTX chiplets, NVLink and Foveros promise scalable SoCs beyond what AMD can easily match.

More content creators have benchmarked GPD's bleeding-edge Win 5 handheld sporting AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU. The high-end SoC produces twice the frame rate of Ryzen AI 9 HX 370-powered handhelds, even at the same power levels.

Innosilicon has announced its latest flagship GPU on board the Fenghua No.3 graphics card.

There's finally an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB for a historic low of $379. PNY has one on sale, which is welcome when GPU prices have been so high.

Valve's original gaming handheld is still a great performer for thousands and thousands of Steam games, and $320 is the cheapest it's been in a while.

A new report by Bain & Company says AI's compute appetite will require more than $500 billion per year in global data center investment by 2030.

For those still using physical media, this $12 budget CD/DVD drive is the perfect solution to the modern problem of disk-driveless computers.

The Sandisk WD Blue SN5100 is the fastest QLC SSD we've seen so far, and it's power-efficient, too.

OpenAI is making major moves to secure future GPUs and accelerate its hardware plans in a flurry of major deals worth billions of dollars, though questions remain about its future funding.

Nvidia has released a statement to make it clear that, no matter what deals it does with companies to provide hardware or take an equity stake in their business, it will ensure all companies have equal access to next-generation GPU hardware.

The king of gaming processors used to be almost impossible to get your hands on, but now you can get it for $50 off its MSRP.

Lenovo has canceled some Legion Go 2 pre-orders due to supply issues, with other customers' deliveries delayed by five to ten weeks.

MediaTek is in talks with TSMC to manufacture certain chips at its Arizona fab to satisfy U.S. customer demands and potentially avoid tariffs.

OpenAI and Nvidia partner for 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters

TSMC's upcoming 2nm-class node has attracted around 15 customers - mostly in high-performance computing - making it the company's most widely adopted leading-edge process at this stage, with Apple, AMD, Intel, and MediaTek among the early adopters.