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Lip-Bu Tan will get a $1 million base annual salary for leading Intel, but his performance-related bonuses are worth so much more than that.

SNES consoles appear to run faster as they age, thanks to the SPC700 sound chip.

The ASRock PG-1600G Phantom Gaming is a high-performance, fully modular power supply that delivers impressive electrical stability and reliability for demanding systems.

Foxconn CEO Young Liu claims major tech partners consider navigating Trump's tariff plays a "big headache" in an earnings call this week.

The Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB SSD is currently available at Amazon for $249, one of its lowest prices to date and the best price so far this year.

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ClockworkPi has released a cool Raspberry Pi Pico kit that lets you create a calculator suitable for handling your math homework or playing games.

Wall Street analysts see Lip-Bu Tan's appointment as Intel's CEO as good news, but Intel employees are preparing for a major overhaul.

MSI has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that it won't make RDNA 4 GPUs. There are many potential reasons behind the decision, though MSI was reticent to share those.

Deepseek is focused on keeping its team lean and propelling development towards new models, with the goal of reaching AGI, instead of scaling up its commercial product offerings.

Asus updates the Q-Release Slim feature, removing a metal part in the PCIe bracket suspected of causing scratches to GPUs.

We tested ID-Cooling's new FX 360 INF Pink with Intel's i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs. It performs well, but is loud in more ways than one.

Non-profits that refurbish PCs and give them to the needy have a dilemma when it comes to Windows 11-ineligible computers. Should they give clients an insecure Windows 10 OS, turn to Linux or throw perfectly-good computers away?

Intel's Fab 52 and Fab 62 in Arizona are getting ready to produce chips on 1.8nm-class process technology.

AMD VP and GM David McAfee called the demand for RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs "unprecedented" on a podcast appearance with Hot Hardware this week.

Xbox announces its new "Copilot for Gaming" AI assistant, which will seek to help gamers in real-time with all manner of gaming needs.

Microsoft will enabled neural shading and cooperative vectors in a DirectX preview this April. This will allow for better use of AI features mixed with shaders in games, and while it may be exclusive to Nvidia at first, we expect AMD and Intel GPUs to add support later.

AMD published DeepSeek R1 benchmarks of its W7900 and W7800 Pro series 48GB GPUs, massively outperforming the 24GB RTX 4090.

Newegg is taking pre-orders for Asus' flagship-grade ROG Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard, designed for extreme overclocking.

Reddit user u/GoatWithAGun updated the BIOS of their old BioStar A320MH motherboard, and it's now taken over 24 hours (and counting) to finish the process.

Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9700 XT graphics cards that are supposed to be sold at MSRP sell at prices that are 12%-22% higher in the U.S. And that's assuming you can even find cards in stock.

A new lending program that uses a borrower's IPv4 addresses as collateral has launched.

Glossyio has created a Raspberry Pi-powered traffic monitor that uses AI to monitor traffic and look for statistics around specific travelers like cyclists and pedestrians.

ViewSonic delivers tremendous performance at a low price with its XG2536. It's a 25-inch FHD IPS gaming monitor with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync and HDR10. It's incredibly fast and delivers solid value too.

Cursor AI refuses to generate codes larger than 800 lines of code.

Researchers at the QIA have developed the world's first hardware-independent quantum-network operating system, supporting applications written with high-level code.

The action follows charges against three men for smuggling Nvidia chips and defrauding companies like Dell and Super Micro.

Sources say that Asus and Microsoft are working together to build the first Xbox handheld gaming console for launch later this year.

In advance of next week's GTC and GDC trade shows, Nvidia discussed Blackwell availability, where it specifically stated that it has shipped twice as many Blackwell GPUs in the first five weeks as it did Ada GPUs for the first five weeks in 2022 - but that's effectively comparing only the RTX 4090 against four RTX 50-series GPUs launched this year.

Mysterious GeForce RTX 5060 12 GB emerges as GeForce RTX 5060-series graphics cards get listed in China.

Industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan becomes Intel's permanent CEO, rejoins the company's board-of-directors.

The WD Black SN7100 is the successor to the popular SN770 in the budget SSD market segment. It's power efficient and generally competent, but it's otherwise unimpressive compared to the rest of the PCIe 4.0 market.

Congatec's latest acetone-filled heat pipe cooling solution targets COMs in extreme environments as a suitable alternative to water.

Biwin introduces two new 192GB memory kits optimized for AM5-based Ryzen CPUs. The new kits are advertised towards AI-centric workloads and enterprise applications.

Peking University has published its findings on a wafer-scale 2D GAAFET in Nature, pointing a new path into the Angstrom era

Texas Instruments unveiled what it claims to be the world's smallest microcontroller" at Embedded World 2025-the tiny new MSPM0C1104 measures just 1.38 mm^2.

Asus vows to avoid price hikes due to incoming tariffs, but it warns that it will not be able to offset all the extra costs.

I mean, what else would you name this mode?

UserBenchmark claims that AMD's Radeon GPUs fail to deliver real-world performance and are backed by an army of influencers it blames for duping customers.

Maker 3megabytesofhotram is using a Raspberry Pi to power a voice-activated paper towel dispenser that makes it easier than ever to dry your hands.

Several scientists expressed concern that Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip is deeply flawed.

YouTubers mount an Elegoo Centauri Carbon on an RC plane and print while flying.

TSMC reportedly asked its biggest customers to invest in joint venture that would operate Intel's production facilities.

Awekeys' Viking-themed distressed copper keycaps offer a next-level typing experience - and next-level pricing if you don't grab them early.

ASML to install its High-NA EUV lithography tools in Imec's pilot production line to give research and development personnel access to leading-edge equipment.

While Trump has recommended legislators revoke the CHIPS and Science Act, it's unlikely to happen and the government is obliged to distribute $39 billion grants by September 2026. But if it did happen, analysts say it could dramatically shrink the US chip production market share.

The AMD RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are well-equipped for heavy performance boosts through undervolting, per the reviews of several online overclockers.

UHPILCL T1000 Kickstarter page flaunts 720W of Cooling TDP with maximum fan noise of 55 decibels

AMD introduces EPYC Embedded 9005 series CPUs sporting its Zen 5c architecture with up to 192 cores. The new chips have an improved 7-year warranty.