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Updated 2026-02-27 20:30
TSMC swats down claims it is delaying its Japan chipmaking plant to prioritize Arizona plants to avoid US tariffs — TSMC says US investments won't impact other regions
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YEHG)
TSMC is reportedly slowing work on its second Japanese fab to accelerate buildout in Arizona in anticipation of possible U.S. tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, though the company maintains that its expanded American investments will not affect its projects in Japan and Germany.
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Laser-engraved ceramic storage device that stores data for 5,000 years targets astounding 100 petabytes per rack by 2030 — 10X performance boost and 100,000 petabytes per rack also on Cerbayte's
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Cerabyte's ambitious plans target 100PB per rack by 2030, rocketing to 100,000PB per rack by 2045.
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Grab a Crucial X10 portable SSD with a 30% discount — savings up to $182, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB models all on sale
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During this Prime Day sale, Amazon offers competitive prices on Crucial's newest X10 portable SSD.
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Samsung Odyssey G3 27-inch gaming monitor drops to all-time low $129.99 — $100 discount for a limited time on Amazon
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YE87)
Samsung drops the price of its value gaming monitor by $100, giving you a 180Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time for less than $150.
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Save $350 on Apple's MacBook Air M1 13.3-inch laptop — discount lands within $20 of all-time low price
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Apple's MacBook Air, powered by the M1 processor, is now available for $649, a $350 savings.
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Nephew of the ZX Spectrum inventor has created a handheld Raspberry Pi gaming console the size of a gift card — GamerCard features 4-inch square IPS screen and pre-loaded arcade games
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YE56)
GamerCard is a retro gaming handheld so portable than it's literally the size of a gift card, so you can now casually spend $170 at checkout.
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Bambu Lab Introduces free software to manage an unlimited number of 3D printers simultaneously — cloud-free LAN Mode Print Farm Manager program simplifies mass 3D printing
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stldenise@gmail.com (Denise Bertacchi)
on (#6YE57)
Bambu Lab introduces cloud-free farm management tool.
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Elon Musk's Optimus boast in doubt as humanoid robot production plans halted — Telsa’s projections for 10,000 robots in 2025 cast into doubt, according to supply chain sources
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China-tech industry sources allege that 'unresolved hardware challenges,' will mean Optimus design changes.
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DDR4 prices are now so high that vendors have decided to start making it again — manufacturers want a slice now that it's more expensive than DDR5
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YE2R)
A few smaller manufacturers are pushing back their plans to discontinue DDR4 production because of surging prices in the global market.
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New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record — 9980X scores 147,481, making it the fastest desktop CPU ever tested, but only in multi-thread performance
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YE2S)
Benchmark results for AMD's 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9980X show record-breaking multi-threaded performance, surpassing even the 96-core Threadripper Pro, but relatively modest single-threaded scores.
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The best Fourth of July 2025 deals — explosive deals on gaming GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
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The best 4th of July deals spotted so far for the holiday weekend
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Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% more than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YE0E)
Gamers Nexus analyzed the GPU market, revealing that all GPUs sell above MSRP on average, with 8GB variants getting the smallest markups.
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This device uses a laser to shoot down 30 mosquitoes per second — LiDAR-guided 'Photonmatrix' has up to 6-meter kill zone, can gauge distance, orientation, and body size in 3 milliseconds
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A popular new crowdfunding campaign promises an all-in-one portable laser-driven mosquito killing machine for $498.
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Gamer turns 2012 Honda CR-V into Need for Speed Underground controller — laptop reads throttle input using OBD and a Python library, even the steering works
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YDYC)
Forget expensive simracing setups with carbon fiber seats and podium racing wheels, this is what driving in games should look like.
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Lack of PCIe bandwidth can nerf RTX 5090 by up to 25% in content creation workloads — Puget data confirms performance hit when using older generations and fewer lanes
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Puget Systems has tested a range of PCIe configurations for its GPU in different professional applications and found that lane generation and width can make a real difference.
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Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof,
by
ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YDX4)
Elon Musk's xAI is set to build million-GPU data center expected to draw up to 2 GW of power, prompting Musk to buy and import an entire power plant.
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Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB SSD drops to excellent all-time low $234 — DRAM-less drive gets blowout sale for early Prime Day
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editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)
on (#6YDJT)
You can get the Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB for just $234, 47% off its original MSRP.
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Nvidia's newest top-tier AI supercomputers deployed for the first time — Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip systems deployed at CoreWeave
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YDGT)
CoreWeave deploys first Dell GB300 cluster with Switch: Up to 1.1 ExaFLOPS of AI inference performance per rack.
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Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because 'there are no customers'
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YDGV)
Sources cite that Samsung is delaying the launch of its Taylor, Texas, fab because the site lacks customers for its 4nm-class chip output.
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Newegg slashes Ryzen 7 7800X3D price, now just $369 with a free 1TB SSD — last-gen chip is a stellar deal with 95% of the gaming performance of the newer model
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editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)
on (#6YDEF)
You can get a Ryzen 7 7800X3D for $370 at Newegg, replete with a free 1TB SSD.
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Dell's own Black Friday in July summer sale strips $350 off price of the Alienware's 4K QD-OLED curved gaming monitor, AW3225QF deal gives Prime Day a run for its money
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Dell's Prime Day rival summer sale drops the price of the 4K QD-OLED AW3225QF to just $849 - its lowest-ever
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A project to bring CUDA to non-Nvidia GPUs is making major progress — ZLUDA update now has two full-time developers, working on 32-bit PhysX support and LLMs, amongst other things
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YDEH)
ZLUDA has expanded its team and made steady technical progress in Q1: Expands support for LLM.c, attempts to bring back PhysX 32-bit.
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Nvidia RTX 50 Series appears in Steam Hardware Survey for the first time — represents 3.69% of cards, with the RTX 5070 leading the pack
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YDBC)
Despite being out for a few months at this point, Nvidia's notorious RTX 50-series has failed to show up in Steam's internal stats - up until now, when they've finally appeared with a 3.69% share.
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Nintendo is restricting the Switch 2's USB-C port — most third-party docks and accessories won't work thanks to proprietary protocols
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editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar)
on (#6YDBD)
Nintendo is using custom communication protocols to limit compatibility with third-party docks and hubs
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Hong Kong scientists 3D printing organs for transplant patients — 3D-printed respiratory tissue combined with lab-grown mini organs in new procedure
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Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have started experimenting with 3D printed organ technology to help burn victims.
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White House lifts chip design export ban on China in exchange for rare earth materials compromise — export licences for EDA software sales no longer required
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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YD8J)
The U.S. has lifted recent license requirements on exporting chip design software to China in exchange for Beijing easing rare earth export controls, enabling Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys to resume shipments to clients in the People's Republic.
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After another review-less launch, the first RTX 5050 benchmarks are here — Nvidia's budget card loses to B580 and RTX 4060, with only multi frame generation to give it a boost
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The first independent review of Nvidia's new RTX 5050 suggests it's faster than the RTX 3060, and has impressive performance with multi-frame gen, but falls behind the RTX 4060 and B580 at native.
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Nvidia's incendiary 12VHPWR connector consumes its latest victim — Chinese RTX 3060 Ti melts down despite modest power draw after ASUS shipped it with the wrong cable
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YD6V)
Wherever the 12VHPWR connector goes, it brings death with it. The latest in the series of murders is a measly RTX 3060 Ti from China.
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Recertified HDD vendor goHardDrive caught leaking thousands of customer details — company pays astonishingly low $20 bug bounty for discovery of inexplicable online database of names, addresses,
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YD6W)
Developer Michael Lynch accidentally discovered a privacy vulnerability exposing the details of thousands of customers online.
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Ford CEO latest to claim AI will wipe out half of white collar jobs in the U.S. — 'AI will leave a lot of white-collar people behind'
on (#6YD6X)
Ford CEO Jim Farley has joined the chorus of CEOs who believe AI could wipe out 50% of white collar jobs.
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Nvidia's Arm chips rapidly gain share in server market as AI booms — Nvidia's Arm-powered GB200 servers surge as market reaches a record $95 billion in the first quarter
by
ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YD54)
The global server market soared 134% to $95.2 billion in Q1 2025 as hyperscalers ramped up AI infrastructure, with Arm-based Nvidia GB200 systems driving growth and annual spending projected to exceed $366 billion.
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Nintendo faces government challenge over Switch 2 nuke powers — Brazilian watchdog says end-user license agreement contains 'abusive clauses'
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stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)
on (#6YD55)
Brazilian consumer watchdog ProconSP has asked Nintendo to change its end-user license agreement in the country.
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Hilariously unfortunate Windows user accidentally ejects graphics card like a memory stick — breaks PC for over an hour out of curiosity
on (#6YD56)
What happens if you 'eject' your GPU? You might end up wasting an hour of your precious time.
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Newegg selling $100 gift cards for $85, with a promo code — get $15 off any PC hardware purchase
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editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)
on (#6YCQ3)
Newegg is offering a discount on its $100 online gift card, giving customers $15 off on any Newegg purchase.
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Intel jumps to HBM4 with Jaguar Shores, 2nd Gen MRDIMMs with Diamond Rapids
by
ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YCQ4)
SK hynix revealed that Intel's upcoming Xeon 'Diamond Rapids' CPUs will adopt 2nd Gen MRDIMMs and its next-generation Gaudi AI accelerator 'Jaguar Shores' will feature SK hynix HBM4 memory.
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Intel might axe the 18A process node for foundry customers, essentially leaving TSMC with no rival — Intel reportedly to focus on 14A (Updated)
by
ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)
on (#6YCKZ)
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is weighing whether to stop offering the company's 18A technology to external clients and instead focus on the next-generation 14A process, a move that could withdraw Intel from the broad foundry market for several years.
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SK hynix's first PCIe 5.0 SSD is finally available in the U.S., sports impressive performance and pricing — Platinum P51 flaunts speeds up to 14,700 MB/s
on (#6YCM0)
SK hynix Platinum P51, the successor to the Platinum P41, is available for purchase in the U.S. market.
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AMD Krackan Point 2 APU emerges on Geekbench — mid-range chip appears inside an unnamed Acer laptop
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YCM1)
An AMD Krackan Point 2 APU Geekbench test result has appeared, featuring a single Zen 5 core and three Zen 5c cores.
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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey leads group of tech billionaires launching new crypto-bank — aims to fill the void left by Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 collapse
on (#6YCM2)
It's looking to fortify its coffers with stablecoins.
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Microsoft's youngest security researcher started collaboration with the company at just 13 — high school junior filed 20 vulnerability reports last summer, named MSRC Most Valuable Researcher tw
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Microsoft has published a blog about one of its youngest and most outstanding security researchers. Dylan started work for MSRC age 13.
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German charity refuses to comply with Bitcoin ransomware demand — hackers attempt to extort hunger-fighting group for over $2 million
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A German hunger-fighting charity is on the hook for some $2 million after being extorted by cybercriminals.
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G.Skill pushing new CAMM2 DDR5 memory modules to the overclocking limit — hits DDR5-10000 speeds on modified ASUS motherboard
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editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)
on (#6YCGK)
G.Skill broke DDR5-10000 with a CAMM2 memory module attached to a custom Asus motherboard, showing off its potential for high-performance applications.
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Hugo Boss debuts 3D printed loafer — scans your foot for a custom fit
on (#6YCGM)
Fashion designer Hugo (Hugo Boss) has debuted a 3D-printed loafer that is custom-fit for your foot using a 3D scanner.
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Nvidia's Upcoming 'Double D' gaming GPU becomes the '5090D V2' in latest leak — GPU previously known as the 'RTX 5090DD' remains China-exclusive
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YCDR)
The RTX 5090DD, intended for release in China, has been renamed to the RTX 5090D V2 while the specs remain untouched.
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Not to be outdone by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot humiliates itself in Atari 2600 chess showdown — another AI humbled by 1970s tech despite trash talk
on (#6YCDS)
Microsoft Copilot is the latest AI to have been trounced in Atari Chess, despite its pre-game confidence in a victory.
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HP unveils 'CarFax for PCs' that could make buying older laptops more viable — telemetry, support requests, and AI will generate a laptop's history to reduce e-waste
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HP has unveiled a new system that can help generate a report about a laptop's history before you buy it.
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Nvidia's 16GB RTX 5060 Ti reportedly 16x more popular than its 8GB variant — German retailer figures suggest customers are steering clear of lower spec model
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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)
on (#6YCCA)
The 16GB variant of the RTX 5060 Ti reigns supreme against its 8GB peer with a whopping 16x difference in sales figures.
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29 North Korean laptop farms busted by U.S. Department of Justice — illicit IT workers across 16 states reportedly obtained employment with more than 100 U.S. companies to help fund regime
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The Department of Justice says it searched 29 known or suspected laptop farms in 16 states, leading to a series of arrests and seizures.
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Nintendo Switch 2 units allegedly overheating — users report freezing and crashes while playing Cyberpunk 2077 and less power-hungry games
by
stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)
on (#6YCAM)
Nintendo Switch 2 users are reporting overheating, leading to freezes and crashes while gaming.
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Crucial's X9 Pro 4TB external SSD is now $100 off — fast and portable storage for $198 in this early Prime Day deal
on (#6YBW8)
Compact and super portable, Crucial's X9 Pro combines speed with a tiny form factor, and is currently discounted by $100.
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