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Amid a global memory shortage, China's YMTC has set its sights on building a third semiconductor plant in Wuhan, with the facility expected to begin mass production of memory chips by 2027.
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| Updated | 2025-11-18 12:00 |
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71FCB)
A Chinese company gains access to Nvidia hardware by renting compute from a Jakarta-based telecommunications company.
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Multiple users reported on Reddit that the latest 21.0.0 firmware for the Switch 2 blocks some third-party docks. However, vendors have found a workaround.
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Save 29% on this Samsung 990 Evo Plus 1TB SSD, the lowest price it's ever been, with seriously decent speeds for a PCIe 4.0 drive.
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The xTool P3 is a powerful CO2 laser with plenty of modern convenience and productivity-focused features on both the hardware and software sides. Using this machine across multiple projects was very enjoyable.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71FAF)
FSR Redstone is here and Call of Duty's getting it first. In Black Ops 7, there's a "Ray Regeneration" option that allows users to clean up ray tracing data before it's fed into the upscaler, resulting in higher-quality ray-traced lighting, shadows and reflections. It only works with RX 9000 series cards at the moment, but support for older RDNA lineups might be possible.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71FAH)
China has reportedly developed the world's first scalable and industrial-compatible optical quantum chip that allegedly has 1000x the amount of processing power as Nvidia's outgoing AI GPUs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71F8V)
The Steam Deck 2 is not happening anytime soon, a notion that has just been reinforced by software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais, who says that Valve is waiting for true next-gen silicon with architectural improvements that will allow the Steam Deck successor to offer both significantly better performance and battery life, likely without incurring extra costs toward the end-user.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#71EVD)
Analogue's 3D console faithfully recreates the Nintendo 64 using FPGA hardware for perfect accuracy, 4K output, and VRR support.
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Multi-material 3D printing finally comes to the Centauri Carbon, but not the one you were thinking of.
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A growing dispute inside one of Europe's largest chipmakers is threatening to derail automotive production across the continent.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71ERK)
Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform may upend the AI-server market by shipping partners fully built L10 compute trays that include all compute, power, and cooling hardware, leaving OEMs and ODMs to handle only rack integration while Nvidia takes over the core server design, much of the value, and margins.
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IBM has detailed its most significant quantum computing advances to date, revealing new hardware and software designed to push the limits of what today's superconducting qubits can do.
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A new DARPA- and Texas-backed facility will focus on 3D heterogeneous integration, stacking, and combining multiple materials and chip types to advance U.S. capabilities in defense, AI, and HPC.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71EN8)
Memory makers are hesitant to increase output due to market uncertainties, despite robust demand from AI chip makers.
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AMD chipset driver possibly shortens SSD life, behavior alarms users - incessant log file writes observed every time a window is moved or resized.
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Save 33% on this MSI QD-OLED gaming monitor, fit for 1440p gameplay with a 240Hz refresh rate.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71EF3)
The AI race is exerting a massive toll on our environment.
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The lowest price in at least 30 days has Newegg discounting the 24TB Seagate BarraCuda Compute to just $249.
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The Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master X3D Ice is a worthwhile update from the non-X3D Aorus Master with aesthetic and other hardware improvements, but X3D Turbo 2.0 didn't show its worth in our testing.
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Sony has announced the PlayStation 27" Gaming Monitor for the PlayStation 5 and PC gamers.
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Kaspersky launches antivirus software for Linux, starting at $59.99 per year for one device, with a special first-year price of $38.99 for the basic plan.
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LTO-10 40TB carts were enabled by new 'Aramid' material technology.
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Microsoft Windows president faces withering criticism in response to boasts that 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'
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Retro tech is cool and we've scoured the internet for the best deals for nostalgic technology
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71ED0)
An expert from the Taiwan NSTC Hsinchu Science Park Bureau estimates that a single missile strike could disrupt iPhone production for three years, with another suggesting that such an event could result in a 6% to 10% contraction of the global GDP.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71EBE)
A Chinese scammer who duped almost 130,000 investors out of around $5.6 billion was handed a nearly 12-year prison sentence in a London court.
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Intel stomps down 30 bugs including privilege escalation vulnerabilities
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AMD's Ryzen 5 7500X3D with 96 MB of 3D V-Cache shows up in UK stores
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Valve's new Steam Machine brings SteamOS to the living room with more power than the Steam Deck and the possibility of 4K gaming, while the new Steam Controller brings Steam Deck-style inputs to your couch.
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New Steam Frame headset is a streaming-first" device designed to run VR games from your PC, but it can also play traditional PC games via its Arm chip, thanks to a new Fex translation layer.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71DTB)
Microsoft has published an out-of-band Windows 10 update that finally addresses all of the glitches surrounding Extended Security Update (ESU) enrollment. Installing this update should finally let you enroll in the ESU program on Windows 10 if you haven't been able to do so.
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The Framework Laptop 16 finally lets you upgrade your graphics card, and it can be customized to your heart's content. But it's expensive, and there are some visible seams that shouldn't exist on such a premium machine.
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Restrictions on U.S. chip exports are beginning to force visible shifts in China's AI compute strategy, as a shortage of Nvidia accelerators drives cloud providers toward domestic alternatives.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71DM2)
The Lighthouse Enterprise is a group of Chinese hackers that offers a complete service to scammers, from phishing websites all the way to sending millions of spam messages.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#71DM3)
Grab an RTX 5070 Ti for less in the UK, as Early Black Friday deals start to creep in.
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Google is buying 1.5 terawatt hours of solar capacity from French oil and gas supergiant TotalEnergies. The order could saturate the 50MW solar facility in Ohio that has yet to come online, meaning its entire capacity could be absorbed by Google data centers over the course of the contract.
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Pick up the MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX 5070 Ti for just $729 in Newegg's early Black Friday sale.
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Here are the best motherboard deals.
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Tiny386 emulator turns an ESP32-S3 microcontroller into a full i386 PC
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71DHS)
Kyocera built a custom system instead of using off-the-shelf parts to achieve this high bandwidth.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71DHT)
China accuses the U.S. of being behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history.
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The 12-year Meta veteran and chief AI scientist, Yann LeCunn, may be leaving Meta in the near future to set up his own AI venture, according to associates. He's reportedly keen to develop his "world model," AI concept that learns from video and spatial data rather than text, like the current-generation of large language models.
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As the Xbox 360 turns 20, the first images showing an exclusive edition of the console, which some claim kicked off the HD gaming era, have been shared on social media.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71DFQ)
An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release.
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Save up to $249 in Secretlab's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale.
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You can save up to 200 on Secretlab gaming chairs, desks, and accessories, thanks to Black Friday.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71D6K)
An updated CPU roadmap from AMD has put Zen 6 and Zen 7 in clear sight, with the former set to debut next year on TSMC's 2nm node, and the latter slated for a release sometime in 2027-2028, touted as the company's next major leap. Details were scarce at the announcement, and it's mostly just reiterating what we already knew before.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71CYZ)
SanDisk has created a new flash drive designed to be permanently integrated into your device, serving as a secondary storage solution.
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SoftBank has confirmed it sold its entire stake in Nvidia in October, offloading 32.1 million shares for $5.83 billion. The disclosure came Tuesday alongside the Japanese conglomerate's latest earnings report.
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