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Huawei is reportedly on track to become China's top AI chip supplier as Nvidia faces export restrictions and customs delays. Analysts forecast China's domestic AI chip market could hit $67 billion by 2030.
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Commodore 64C Ultimate Edition reintroduces the C64's sleeker 1986-1994 styling across the range using original molds and tooling.
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ASML shipped 48 EUV lithography systems and 131 immersion DUV tools in 2025, generating 32.7 billion in total revenue and ending the year with a 38.8 billion order backlog.
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According to a filing to the Shanghai bourse on Wednesday, Wingtech's stock will carry a delisting risk warning starting May 6th.
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Best Buy has slashed the cost of this Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti, 32 GB of RAM, 240 Hz OLED display, and a Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, knocking it down to $1,799.99 and saving you $400.
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Meta spent $72.2 billion on capex in all of 2025. The midpoint of its new 2026 guidance would nearly double that figure in a single year.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#75B50)
Intel details improvements of 18A-P that include higher performance, lower power, reduced variability, improved yields, and more.
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Get an AMD Ryzen 9850X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5, an X870 MSI MAG Tomahawk motherboard, and a 750W PSU combo deal at Newegg
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Retro Games Ltd and Blaze Entertainment put The C64 Handheld and The Spectrum Handheld up for preorder at $129.99.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#75B53)
Zero-day exploit instantly grants administrator access on most Linux distributions since 2017
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Major firms are finding the rising costs of AI hard to manage, as human workers are now often more affordable alternatives to AI within certain contexts. With many platforms switching to per-token billing and rising model costs, we may be reaching an inflection point where human workers are a more efficient way to spend.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#75AJ1)
Gamers have reported that Windrose is consuming abnormally high disk I/O while playing, with up to 30 MB/s of constant read/write activity to the drive across most areas of the game world.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75AJ2)
Bad weather has caused a shipwreck to shift from its original position on the seafloor, severing a crucial undersea link between Dongyin and Beigan islands. These two islands are strategically located near the Chinese coast and the northern mouth of the Taiwan Strait and reportedly have a heavy military presence of Taiwanese troops.
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Samsung and SK hynix warn that severe AI-driven memory shortages could persist through 2027 as exploding HBM demand overwhelms supply, tightens the broader DRAM market, and fuels record profits
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Get $239.98 off this Newegg Intel bundle - Score a Core Ultra 270K Plus, 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 RAM, and an ASRock Z890 Pro RS motherboard for only $768.34
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#75ACN)
The supposed new DRM policy surrounding digital PS4 and PS5 games has been finally debunked by Sony. You don't need to check-in online every 30 days for your games to still be playable, rather, only one check-in is required right after the game has been downloaded to convert a temporary license into a permanent one.
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Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta collectively plan to spend $725 billion on capex in 2026, up 77% from last year's record $410 billion.
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An SaaS business got all its data back after its cloud data provider recovered critical databases that were ruthlessly wiped by an AI agent gone rogue.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75ACR)
Tennessee becomes the second state to ban crypto ATMs after its governor signs a bill into law restricting these machines starting July 1st.
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Reports suggest Apple may be shifting focus away from the Vision headset, despite ongoing hiring tied to its Vision Products Group, possibly implying otherwise.
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Snag this premium 4-item combo from Newegg featuring the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB RAM, 2TB WD SN7100 M.2 SSD, and an overclocking-focused Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard for $2,048.99. The $398.98 off gets the RAM and storage for only $406
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A PC gaming enthusiast has shared a video demo of the new DS5Dongle which unlocks the full gamut of Sony DualSense controller features for Windows users who prefer wireless.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#75AAM)
Get an Alienware Aurora 5080 desktop gaming PC for $2,899.
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The results come as Chinese chipmakers continue to absorb market share from Nvidia.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#75A8S)
Housing construction projects in Texas are facing delays of up to two months as contractors are having a harder time finding and keeping electricians. Data center projects are pricing out housing projects from the labor force as they offer 75% higher salaries and more benefits.
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Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#759PC)
Save 25% on this Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, on sale at Woot for a limited time only.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#759PD)
OpenAI has reportedly modified its arrangement on several Stargate projects, leaving the direct ownership set up and instead preferring to lease compute from other partners who took on the direct risk of investing in the infrastructure.
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Colorful's iGame X870E Vulcan OC V14 is a capable premium mid-range motherboard built for overclocking, thanks to its robust power delivery, cooling, and design. It faces tough competition at its price point, but remains a solid, feature-rich option under $700.
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Google joins OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI in granting the Pentagon broad classified AI access.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#759H1)
Lenovo has reportedly stopped using magnesium alloy subframes in the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 to save on weight and thickness. This feature was first introduced on the ThinkPad T60 in 2006 and was added to ensure rigidity for the brand's workstation laptops.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#759H2)
TSMC adds support for face-to-face stacking, 6.5 m and 4.5 m pitches for the next generation of SoIC 3D stacking.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#759H3)
Framework has just launched a new graphics module featuring the RTX 5070 mobile 12GB, and it costs a cool $1,200, representing a 72% raise in pricing over the 8GB variant, that's $699. Both GPUs are identical apart from the memory capacity (and bandwidth), but Framework says pricing is out of its control.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#759H4)
Applied Materials, KLA, and Lam Research received letters from the U.S. Department of Commerce preventing them from shipping some of Hua Hong's orders for the latest chipmaking tools. These are reportedly being planned for use on the Chinese company's planned 7-nm fab in Shanghai.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#759EQ)
Galax has moved under the direct control of Palit, owned by the Palit Group, but the brand itself isn't going anywhere. Official statements from both companies clarify that Galax will continue to design, produce, and release hardware like before, but will be managed by Palit now to streamline the business.
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by stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#759ER)
Independent software developer Pawel Jarczak has voluntarily shuttered his popular OrcaSlicer-BambuLab" project following legal threats from Bambu Lab, ending one man's fight to restore direct control to the popular third-party slicer.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#759ES)
As advanced LLMs do more and more for modern businesses, the outlays to cover all those tokens can cost more than worker salaries alone. But some companies don't see the added costs as a negative as they look toward a more automated future.
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Save 20% on this Newegg combo kit with AMD's first dual-X3D chip in the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, along with an Asus ROG Strix motherboard, 32GB (2x16GB) of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6400 RAM, and a 2TB WD Black SN7100 SSD, all for $1,704.99.
by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#759EV)
Dell's 34-inch QD-OLED monitor has fallen back to its all-time-low Black Friday price of $649.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#759EW)
According to analyst reports, Intel is reducing wafer yield variability to get more useful CPU dies from wafer edges amid AI-driven demand.
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Only PS5 Phat consoles on older firmware 3.00, 3.10, 3.20, 3.21, 4.00, 4.02, 4.03, 4.50, or 4.51 are supported.
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Lisuan Tech has secured Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification for its 6nm graphics cards, making it only the fourth company to ever do so.
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Meta has announced plans to help power its AI data centers using sunlight beamed from space through a partnership with Overview Energy, alongside a 100 GWh long-duration storage deal with Noon Energy, as the AI industry's energy demands continue to surge.
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Researchers at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have developed a nanoscale device that generates continuous electricity from evaporating water, with heat and sunlight boosting the process.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#7590A)
Despite ongoing memory shortages, Nvidia has launched a higher-capacity 12GB trim of its RTX 5070 laptop GPU. The new part has 50% more capacity compared to Nvidia's existing RTX 5070 8GB model.
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Grab a huge 34% discount on this TP-Link 5-port unmanaged Ethernet switch that'll let you upgrade the wired connectivity in your home or office with gigabit speeds, now down to a lowly 8.59 for a limited time only.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#758TT)
Nvidia, Oracle, SoftBank, and CoreWeave saw their stock prices go down because of news that OpenAI has been missing its internal targets. SoftBank stock lost 9.9% of its value on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and CoreWeave also dropped during pre-market trading and remain down after the market opened.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#758TV)
PS4 and PS5 consoles are now apparently subject to a new DRM policy requiring users to check-in online every 30 days to maintain access.
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The system would pack 47,000 processors into 92 compute cabinets, making it the first exascale machine designed to reach that performance tier without GPU accelerators.
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Canonical has confirmed AI is coming to Ubuntu, with plans for local AI inference, agentic system tools, and AI-powered accessibility features - says everything will remain opt-in and privacy-focused.