by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YWNC)
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan unveiled sweeping reforms across the company's foundry strategy, x86 roadmap, AI focus, and organizational structure.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YWDD)
Intel admits that it may halt or cancel development of its 14A (1.4nm-class) process node - its first to use High-NA EUV - if it fails to secure a major external customer or meet key milestones, which would likely mean its exit from the leading-edge semiconductor race.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YW88)
China is building a centralized, state-run cloud platform to connect underused data centers nationwide and resell excess computing power.
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A new variant of Lisuan Technology's G100 graphics card has emerged in the Geekbench database.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#6YW5F)
Data suggest that more than a billion dollars' worth of banned Nvidia chips have been sold in the second quarter of 2025 alone.
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If you act quickly, you can grab the latest Nintendo Switch 2 game console at MSRP, while stocks last.
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Microsoft said that critical vulnerabilities in SharePoint are being exploited by a potentially China-linked threat actor, Storm-2603, to deploy ransomware.
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GPD has teased an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395-powered handheld.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#6YVZD)
Intel has laid off 12,000 positions all over the globe, Microsoft has cut 10,000 workers, and Meta has reduced its workforce by 8,000 people.
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Close to its all-time low price, Logitech's MX Master 3S productivity mouse is marked down to just 72
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We investigate cooling Samsung's 990 Pro SSD to see how it differs from other SSDs in its cooling needs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#6YVW3)
AMD expects to receive TSMC-made chips by late 2025.
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Geekerwan tested an AMD Threadripper Pro 9995WX CPU cooled by a BMW M4 radiator and pump.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#6YVW5)
President Trump has admitted he threatened to break up Nvidia, despite not knowing who Jensen Huang was and having never heard of the company before.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YVTF)
Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) aims to improve wireless reliability by 25% in throughput, latency, and packet loss under difficult conditions.
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A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon's coding assistant to delete files on a user's device.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#6YVRS)
Hyte is lowering the prices for the Y40, Y60, and Y70 cases to pre-tariff levels, while the Y70 Touch Infinite gets $40 off its old price.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#6YVKE)
This is what the White House plans to do to ensure the U.S. retains global AI supremacy.
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GPU-Z, a popular utility for graphics card information, indicates support for an unannounced GeForce RTX 3050 A, apparently the fifth version of the original GeForce RTX 3050.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YV9Z)
Elon Musk's xAI aims to achieve 50 exaFLOPS of AI training compute - equivalent to 50 million H100 GPUs - within five years. Thanks to Nvidia's rapid performance scaling, it is more than doable even with less than a million GPUs, but that will likely require an immense amount of power.
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The UK Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre announced that some organizations could be banned from making ransomware payments.
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by stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#6YV3J)
Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo succeeds where others disappoint.
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Maingear launches its Retro95 beige desktop, hoping to tempt in fans of retro PCs who, despite themselves, crave modern processing power.
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The Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C26 is a new kit from G.Skill that targets AMD systems; however, can it beat the other enthusiast memory kits on the market?
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#6YV16)
This leaked Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090D BIOS removes its power limits and allows it to hit 2001 watts.
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Tape storage shipments have enjoyed their fourth consecutive year of growth, increasing 15.4% according to the most recent data.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YTZB)
CXMT has reportedly delayed DDR5 mass production to late 2025 to improve quality and yields, but its growing capabilities and state backing are starting to worry global DRAM rivals despite ongoing tool access challenges.
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A bug in the cryptocurrency tracking browser extension has been causing it to write heaps of data to users' SSDs.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#6YTGB)
A massive triple-slot cooler with space for three 8-pin connectors has surfaced from China, hinting at an unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype. Likely meant for a never-launched 7950 XTX," the design suggests AMD once flirted with an RTX 4090-class card during the RDNA 3 era.
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Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has repeatedly floated the idea of producing a laptop in the U.S. that would cost 20% more than competitive offerings.
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Microsoft has announced its first Surface Laptop with cellular connectivity and designed a custom antenna for it.
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Shanghai Sixunited Intelligent Technology Co, Ltd. has revealed the company's upcoming STHT1 powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300-series (Strix Halo) processor.
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Start your 3D printing journey while these popular Bambu Lab printers are still heavily discounted.
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An FCC proposal seeks to undo the Biden administration's efforts to encourage increased availability of gigabit download speeds.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YTAB)
OpenAI and Oracle plan to add 4.5 GW of U.S. data center power for the Stargate project, boosting total capacity past 5 GW to support millions of AI processors.
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Malware embedded in the ubiquitous Domain Name System inspired the creation of the world's most cursed take on mad-libs.
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MSI's high-spec 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is only 128 for a limited time.
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The 158-year established Knights of Old transportation company has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack, with 700 jobs lost.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#6YT5Z)
Nvidia and MediaTek have allegedly delayed the N1X AI PC platform to early 2026, possibly because of Microsoft's next-gen OS delays, ongoing Nvidia chip revisions, and weakening consumer notebook demand. The launch will now prioritize enterprise PCs, while GB10-based AI workstations are expected to debut much sooner.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#6YT60)
With AMD's latest mobile chip and a new OLED panel, Lenovo's next-gen handheld looks powerful, but competition is heating up fast.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#6YT61)
The TP-Link Archer BE9700 comes in at roughly half the price of its closest competition.
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GPD has launched the MicroPC 2, a refreshed version of its true pocket sized' productivity powerhouse, to crowdfunding.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YT4W)
AMD and Stability AI have launched the first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium model optimized for BF16 and XDNA 2 NPUs, enabling high-quality, offline image generation on Ryzen AI laptops.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YT0M)
Kioxia's LC9 SSD family offers capacities of up to 245.76TB, but its performance is far less impressive.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YSSW)
Nvidia has reportedly told Chinese customers it will not resume production of its H20 AI GPUs despite a U.S. policy reversal, and is reportedly preparing a slower but cheaper Blackwell-based B30 GPU to comply with export restrictions and remain competitive in China.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#6YSSX)
Microsoft adds additional telemetry to latest beta and dev builds of Windows 11 to monitor and log performance sluggishness within the OS. The logs will reportedly only be shared with Microsoft when users publish performance issues in the Feedback Hub.
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GizmoSlipTech applied a shunt mod to a GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU to benchmark the graphics card's performance and thermals.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YSMR)
Despite being on the U.S. Entity List since 2022 and cut off from advanced foreign fab tools, YMTC is pushing forward with plans to expand production to 150,000 wafers per month and trial a fully localized manufacturing line.
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Play your favorite games anywhere, with $150 off the list price of the Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme handheld.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6YSMT)
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit, a full Debian-based table was introduced.
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