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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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Anycubic’s ‘Dual’ Resin Printer, Photon P1 is out — Supports double the color, double the material

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Tom's Hardware · 12/17/2025 07:00 EDT

The P1 is the latest addition to Anycubic's Photon lineup. Read more ›

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Kioxia's next-gen 3D NAND production gets expedited to 2026, report claims — high-capacity 332-layer BiCS10 devices to sate growing demand from AI data centers

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Tom's Hardware · 12/17/2025 07:00 EDT

Kioxia is reportedly pulling in mass production of high-capacity BiCS10 3D NAND devices with a 4.8 GT/s interface from 2027 to 2026, possibly to meet demand from AI, cloud, and enterprise storage sectors. Read more ›

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Bernie Sanders calls for halt on AI data center construction — wants to ensure that the technology benefits ‘all of us, not just the 1%’

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 12/17/2025 06:55 EDT

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wants to delay AI data center projects to slow down progress, to ensure that AI will benefit the largest number of people and not just the richest few. Read more ›

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Nearly 7,000 of the world’s 8,808 data centers are built in the wrong climate, analysis find — vast majority located outside optimal temperature range for cooling, 600 in locations considered too hot

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/17/2025 06:40 EDT

Nearly 7,000 of the world’s operational data centers are located in climates that fall outside the temperature range recommended for efficient operation, according to a new analysis. Read more ›

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Enthusiast modder stuffs an entire gaming PC inside a gutted Commodore PET 2001 — replaced the screen with an iPad Retina LCD, but the original keyboard still works

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Tom's Hardware · 12/17/2025 06:20 EDT

A Redditor found a "pre-gutted" Commodore PET 2001 that they repurposed as a fully-fledged gaming PC, while keeping the Commodore's keyboard intact and functional. The internals are relatively modest, but they can still play most modern games on the retrofitted screen, which is a Retina LCD from an iPad. Read more ›

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Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud

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Tom's Hardware · 12/17/2025 06:00 EDT

A buyer in Spain has reported receiving a sealed DDR5 memory kit that contained counterfeit parts, raising fresh concerns about return fraud affecting high-value PC components. Read more ›

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New calculator helps evaluate the economics of datacenters in space — running the numbers on orbital computing reveals a brutal reality

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Tom's Hardware · 12/17/2025 06:00 EDT

Orbital data centers have been proposed as a way around the power, cooling, and regulatory requirements of building on Earth, but new analysis reveals that the costs of deploying such installations would be astronomical. Read more ›

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Goodram's massive DC25F enterprise SSDs are ready for the immersion-cooled future — 123TB QLC drive boasts compatibility with multiple coolants

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Tom's Hardware · 12/17/2025 05:00 EDT

Polish company Goodram's 123TB QLC enterprise SSD has been thoroughly tested for use in servers submerged in coolant. Read more ›

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Arctic launches its best thermal paste yet for chips of all types — claims new MX-7 formulation runs 3% cooler than its predecessor

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 12:01 EDT

Arctic has launched the MX-7 thermal paste, the successor to the all-popular MX-6. Read more ›

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Trump secures deal with Korea Zinc to build rare earths processing facility in Tennessee — facility expected to have annual output of 540,000 tons of gallium, germanium, indium, and other resources

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 11:45 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump secures an investment from a South Korean firm to build a rare earth refinery in Tennessee. Read more ›

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New 1.4nm nanoimprint lithography template could reduce the need for EUV steps in advanced process nodes — questions linger as no foundry has yet committed to nanoimprint lithography for high-volume manufacturing

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 11:00 EDT

Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) claims to have developed a nanoimprint lithography template capable of patterning logic with a feature size of 1.4nm, with plans for mass production in 2027. Read more ›

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With a standout $1739.99 price tag, this packed CyberPower PC features both the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Radeon RX 9070 XT for an amazing prebuilt gaming setup — beat the AI crunch with 32GB of DDR5 and a 2TB NVMe SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 10:01 EDT

This 9800X3D-infused CyberPower gaming PC also packs a Radeon RX 9070 XT for ultimate gaming performance. Read more ›

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Elizabeth Warren, other U.S. senators concerned about big tech pushing up electricity costs — demands explanation from Amazon, Google, Meta as AI data centers drive up residential energy bills

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 09:46 EDT

Three Democratic Senators are investigating the impact of the massive AI data center build out on the electricity bill of the average American. Read more ›

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Boy breaks 50 of his father's Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs worth nearly $4,000 — 25,600 GB of storage ruined by ten-year-old oblivious to global NAND crisis

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 08:13 EDT

Tragic images showing 50 mangled M.2 SSDs has been shared on social media. It looks like a naughty boy was the culprit. Read more ›

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Don't wait if you're planning to upgrade your RAM or SSD, Kingston rep warns — says 'prices will continue to go up,' NAND costs up 246%

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 08:06 EDT

Kingston Datacenter SSD Business Manager Cameron Crandall said in an interview that NAND prices for RAM and SSD are expected to rise throughout 2026. Read more ›

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Sapphire rep predicts DRAM prices will begin to stabilize in the next 6-8 months, but warns 'it may not be the prices we want' — GPU vendor says memory crisis is similar to tariff uncertainty

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 07:19 EDT

Amidst the economic uncertainty ushered in by this AI boom, some folks still have conviction and are offering hope to the community. Edward Crisler, the PR manager for GPU maker Sapphire, has just said that he believes DRAM prices will start to plateau in the next few months, so don't panic buy right now. Read more ›

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Last Minute 3D Printers for Kids, Teens, and Beginners - these models are available now and will arrive in time for Christmas

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 07:00 EDT

Here are the best deals on kid and beginner-friendly 3D printers, available in US warehouses for fast shipping to your door. Read more ›

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Qualcomm’s Ventana acquisition points to a long-term RISC-V strategy to complement its Arm lineup

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 07:00 EDT

Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Ventana Micro Systems, a RISC-V CPU specialist whose engineers have spent several years pushing the open instruction set toward high-performance server and edge designs. Read more ›

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Intel appoints Trump economic advisor as head of government affairs — announces broader leadership shakeup, new interim CTO

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 06:59 EDT

Intel has tightened its ties with the current US administration, appointing an economic advisor to President Trump as its new head of government affairs. Read more ›

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Dual-PCB Linux computer with 843 components designed by AI boots on first attempt — Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work

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Tom's Hardware · 12/16/2025 06:54 EDT

LA-based startup Quilter has outlined Project Speedrun, which marks a milestone in computer design by AI. Read more ›

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