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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W8VR)
Russia's ZNTC and Belarus's Planar have completed the development of a 350nm-class lithography system, but despite its symbolic value, the machine lags far behind global standards.
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Latest from Tom's Hardware
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Updated | 2025-04-18 14:45 |
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#6W8VS)
Dell hits all the fundamentals with a colorful IPS paneland integrated stand, but its rivals are more attractively priced.
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on (#6W8T8)
The only Nvidia-brand product of 2025 that is readily available, sold at the expected price, and affordable, is a Denny's breakfast
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on (#600HX)
We've benchmarked all the latest GPUs to select the best graphics cards for gaming. These graphics cards offer the best performance at their price and resolution, from 1080p to 4K.
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on (#6W8CB)
German retailer Alternate is selling Zotac branded RTX 5090 GPUs with missing ROPs priced over $3,000.
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Intel and SK hynix close NAND business deal: Intel gets $1.9 billion, SK hynix gets IP and employees
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W86N)
SK hynix's Solidigm can now work more closely with the parent company now that SK hynix finally obtains Intel's SSD IP and R&D capabilities after making final $1.9 billion payment.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W83T)
SMIC is reportedly trying to poach engineers to get Taiwanese semiconductor know how.
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on (#6W83V)
Corsair's newest flagship headset in its Virtuoso line sounds fantastic in games, delivering detail you didn't even know existed. Unfortunately, the headset is stiff and uncomfortable, and yes, you still have to use iCue.
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on (#6W83W)
Nvidia's RTX 50-series "Blackwell" GPU launch for laptops has been rocky, with delays and driver issues.
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on (#6W83X)
Micro Center has several ROG Astral LC GeForce RTX 5090 for $3,700 that have reportedly sold out.
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on (#6W83Y)
The Razer Blade 16 is a thin RTX 5090 laptop with a bright screen and tons of ports, but it's extremely pricey and the drivers felt unfinished on our test unit.
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on (#6W80T)
The Hollyland Lark M2 Wireless Lavalier Microphone is now cheaper than when I bought it in the last sale!
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on (#6W80V)
The Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5-6400 C38 isn't the shiniest memory kit, but can it shine in the benchmarks?
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W80W)
Intel's board to shrink from 14 to 11 as three directors will not seek re-election later this year.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W7YT)
China's rush to build AI data centers in 2023-2024 has collapsed into underused infrastructure, falling profits, and outdated facilities.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W7N9)
After a slow, five-year build of its first U.S. fab due to labor and logistical hurdles, TSMC now plans to construct future U.S. facilities in two years, but can its timely access to chipmaking equipment remains an uncertainty.
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on (#6W7F5)
One of the fastest PCIe SSDs is on a big sale.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W7BQ)
Although TSMC will build an R&D facility in the U.S., its core R&D will remain in Taiwan, so the U.S. will keep following Taiwan even after TSMC builds out its Fab 21 site with six fab modules and two packaging facilities, says former CEO of Intel.
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on (#6W7BR)
Microsoft announces several updates to its Xbox gaming ecosystem, including a UI update to the Windows Game Bar and quality of life improvements for switching between games with its Xbox Cloud Gaming platform.
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by stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi) on (#6W78T)
The Power of Two: Are Xtool and Snapmaker challenging Bambu Lab?
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on (#6W78V)
The newest insider builds of Windows 11 are allowing users to create and clean install onto freshly formatted NTFS (Default) or ReFS partitions
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on (#6W75K)
A YouTuber has procured a modded blower-style RTX 4090 48GB, designed for the Chinese market, with the teardown revealing a rather sturdy and well-built PCB for what is a custom GPU.
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on (#6W75M)
Goblinhan Ykan has created a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered fight stick that has extra buttons for throwing random combos while playing fighting games.
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on (#6W75N)
Lenovo's updated take on the ThinkPad gets a lot right, despite ditching the traditional keyboard and TrackPoint.
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on (#6W75P)
Grab AMD's top-of-the-line 16-core workhorse for its lowest-ever price of $532
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on (#6W75Q)
A Chinese firm has started to mass produce a 31.2-inch color e-paper display, which it says is a world first at over 30-inches.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W738)
Huawei-linked Chinese startup has developed a nearly complete suite of semiconductor manufacturing tools to enable fully domestic chip production amid escalating export controls.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W739)
Nvidia's Jensen Huang mulls about next-generation process technologies, suggests that the typical improvement from any process node change worth shifting to is only 20%.
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on (#6W6QS)
This 6-core, 12-threaded Zen 5 architecture chip is great for mid-range gaming.
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on (#6W6J9)
A Chinese tech channel uncovered another fake RTX 4090 featuring a GA102 die inside. The card was allegedly bought for a mere $530, but it showed no visible damage or marks outside that would suggest the GPU was modified. Closer inspection reveals how far scammers will go to attempt to dupe people.
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on (#6W6JA)
Grab Crucial's 2TB T705 (heatsink version) for $259, one of its lowest prices.
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on (#6W6FP)
The Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro and Neptune 4 Pro are both excellent choices.
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on (#6W6FQ)
Thermal Grizzly has released a 90-degree version of its WireView Pro GPU hardware monitoring tool for optimized cable routing.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W6BJ)
U.S. expands trade blacklist with 80 new entities to prevent China's advancements in AI, exascale supercomputing, quantum technology, and hypersonic weapons.
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on (#6W6BK)
Jaykihn claims that Arrow Lake refresh (possibly named Core Ultra 300) is back in development and is expected to feature only unlocked (K/KF) models.
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on (#6W68M)
Lian Li's dual chamber O11 Vision PC case is only $149 at Newegg.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W68N)
Qualcomm has filed complaints with regulators in the U.S., EU, and South Korea, accusing Arm of restricting technology access and shifting its licensing model to undermine competition.
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on (#6W68P)
We tested Thermalright's Assassin Spirit 120 V2 Plus with Intel's i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs. How well can a budget cooler with a reverse fan perform?
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W68Q)
According to an analyst, Broadcom and Nvidia are reportedly close to adopting Intel Foundry as their manufacturing partner.
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on (#6W5RB)
We collected all the real-world pricing information on the latest Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs to see how they compare to MSRPs. For many graphics cards, finding anything in stock can be difficult, and the sellers are rarely reputable places. Caveat emptor!
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#6W5RC)
AMD's Lisa Su says that the Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards shattered company sales records in their first week, signaling a potential market rebound as AMD shifted focus away from the high end. A deeper analysis raises a lot of questions about the supply and demand, however.
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on (#6W5NF)
Corsair gaming desktops are available with the latest RTX 50 series graphics cards.
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on (#6W5NG)
Play 1080p games on a 15-inch laptop for well under $800.
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on (#6W5NH)
ASRock cleaned up and removed debris from a customer's failed ASRock AM5 motherboard. Despite clear signs of socket damage, the board booted up on its original BIOS, passing "long-term stress tests."
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on (#6W5NJ)
At just $289, the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X is a great bang-for-buck alternative to the 9800X3D.
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on (#6W5HR)
Zotac has increased the pricing of its RTX 5090 graphics cards by up to 20%, while seemingly eliminating any base-MSRP models.
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on (#6W5HS)
From electric screwdrivers to high-res webcams, these are inexpensive game-changers.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#6W5HT)
The size of two monitors merged into just one single OLED screen, the Samsung Odyssey G9 OLED is available at a new low during Amazon's Spring Sale
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on (#6W5HV)
This spring deals season, you can get a high-capacity SSD for a great price.
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on (#6W5F6)
Nvidia's on-device AI assistant for PCs, dubbed "G-Assist," finally arrives, providing in-game tuning, advice, and help. The latest Nvidia App also add support for custom DLSS scaling factors for super resolution via App overrides.
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