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AMD B650 expansion cards hit retail starting at $199 — add four M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots and 11 USB ports to any PC with a PCIe slot

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Tom's Hardware · 06/06/2026 12:29 EDT

A couple of new add-in cards exemplify the trend of slapping AMD's Promontory 21 chipset onto a card for extra I/O expansion. Read more ›

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Samsung Display announces world's first 360 Hz 4K QD-OLED panel — dual-mode support also offers 680Hz at FHD, 10 customers reportedly lined up

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:59 EDT

Samsung just announced that it will launch a 360 Hz 4K QD-OLED panel at Computex 2026. The company says that this is the first panel that can hit those refresh rates at a native 4K, and that it's already in talks with several potential clients to supply future premium gaming monitors. Read more ›

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Sandisk brings back affordable storage to rescue buyers from the SSD crisis — new 320 and 520 SATA SSDs are ready to launch

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:50 EDT

Sandisk prepares to launch 520 and 320 SATA SSDs with capacities up to 4TB. Read more ›

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Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for $240 when paired with this Asus motherboard — start your AM5 PC for just $639, saving $245 in the process

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:46 EDT

Get 32GB of DDR5 RAM for $240 when you buy it bundled with an Asus ROG Strix X870E-E motherboard. Read more ›

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ASRock BC-250 used for Steam Machine duty gains third-party hack to unlock all 40 CUs — mining board now has more CUs than a base PS5

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:31 EDT

Enthusiasts of ASRock's BC-250 server board have figured out a way to unlock all 40CUs inside the system's PS5-derived SoC, giving it more GPU cores than a base PS5. Read more ›

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Save up to $1,000 on Dell's elite gaming gear before it's gone — prebuilt PCs to laptops that will change the way you game.

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Tom's Hardware · 05/28/2026 06:10 EDT

Dell is selling a range of premium gaming products with up to $1,000 in savings for a limited time. Read more ›

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AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report — Uber and Microsoft among companies feeling the bite of tokenized billing

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 16:52 EDT

Major tech companies are considering refining their approaches to AI, as rising token costs and increased token demand from AI agents make the costs harder to justify, with limited return on the investment. Read more ›

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Valve hikes Steam Deck OLED prices — 512GB is now $789, while 1TB climbs to $949

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 14:59 EDT

The Valve Steam Deck is seeing price hikes as high as $300 as the component shortage continues. Read more ›

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Italian council sets 200% tax on data center development in agricultural zones — aims to spur the use of old industrial areas instead and limit environmental impact

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 12:40 EDT

This 200% tax will make it more expensive to build in rural areas and is aimed at spurring data center development in disused industrial zones instead. Read more ›

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Get your hands on a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD for under $390 — $250 savings brings one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs to its lowest price in months

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 09:58 EDT

Samsung's 990 Pro 2TB is one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs around, delivering excellent performance and efficiency and backed by a 5-year warranty - at $389.99, it's not the cheapest, but is a well-rounded storage upgrade for any build. Read more ›

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Nvidia's Vera CPU tested in common Linux benchmarks — 88-core monster competes or beats AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon in carefully curated test

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 09:52 EDT

NVIDIA's new server CPU doesn't win outright in most tests, but it's running very close to AMD's EPYC, which is incredible for a first-generation custom server core from NVIDIA. Read more ›

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Erin Brockovich starts tracking AI data centers, calls on affected communities to submit issues — website shows more than 2,700 reports from across the US raising various concerns

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 09:23 EDT

Erin Brockovich, who made her name making a case against PG&E in the '90s that resulted in a $333 million settlement, is now looking at the impact of data center developments on communities and is recording community reports along the way. Read more ›

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China adds homegrown AI chips to 'secure and reliable' procurement list for the first time — nine options added as move away from Nvidia continues

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 08:28 EDT

The certifications are valid for three years and were issued jointly by the China Information Technology Security Evaluation Centre and the National Secrecy Science and Technology Evaluation Centre. Read more ›

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Veteran programmer finishes retro game sequel and publishes it after 37 years — Colin Porch started Head Over Heels home computer title in 1989, but it was shelved due to console pivot

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 08:17 EDT

Hit 1980s isometric puzzler adventure game gets a sequel 37 years later. The original programmer is now over 80. Read more ›

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Prototype of the ‘world’s first fluid circuit board’ can be physically rewired in less than a minute, startup claims — could make hardware iteration 1,000 times faster than traditional PCB

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 08:00 EDT

A deep tech startup has come out of stealth brandishing a prototype of what it claims to be 'the world’s first fluid circuit board.' Read more ›

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SpaceX admits it can't find enough chips for orbital AI yet, requires 'significantly more than are currently available to us' — firm's risk factors in IPO paperwork also says ambitious TeraFab project may not be successful

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 07:52 EDT

SpaceX warns that it may not secure enough AI hardware to achieve its orbital AI ambitions even with supply from TeraFab. Also, Intel and Tesla may leave the TeraFab project. Read more ›

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Lenovo says it's digging into allegations that its China-only G10 handheld is being used for piracy — third parties may be including illicit games to inflate prices in the gray market

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 07:43 EDT

Lenovo has announced it is conducting an in-depth investigation of its Chinese retail supply chains following allegations that its recently released G02 retro-gaming handheld is enabling piracy. Read more ›

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Save a massive $950 on this RTX 5090 OLED gaming laptop right now — 16-inch Legion Pro 7i features a 240Hz refresh rate, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD, and more for just $3,049

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 07:16 EDT

B&H Photo has slashed the price of this Lenovo Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop by $950, netting you an RTX 5090 laptop with an 16" OLED display for just $3,049. Read more ›

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Taiwan authorities arrest three on suspicion of smuggling Nvidia chips to China — operation allegedly used Japan as transshipment point before forwarding banned Supermicro servers to Hong Kong

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 07:10 EDT

Reports say that the three individuals successfully shipped a batch of banned Nvidia AI chips in Super Micro servers to China from Taiwan to Hong Kong via Japan using falsified documentation. Read more ›

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Samsung chip workers vote to accept $340,000 average bonus, ending months-long strike threat — resentment over deal has slowed down Samsung foundry division

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 06:56 EDT

The agreement allocates 10.5% of Samsung's semiconductor division operating profit as stock-based bonuses. Read more ›

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Best Buy has slashed $1,000 off this RTX 5070 OLED gaming laptop with Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX — Lenovo Legion Pro now just $1,749, includes 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 05/27/2026 06:34 EDT

You can save $1,000 on this Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 16" gaming laptop at Best Buy. Read more ›

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