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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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Chinese government wades into Dutch chipmaker dispute — presses Netherlands to resolve Nexperia saga as supply concerns grow

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 10:43 EDT

China has called on the Netherlands to move quickly to resolve the dispute surrounding Nexperia after months of supervision measures and a retaliatory export freeze disrupted shipments of components. Read more ›

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Asus' new 5K gaming monitor is so high-end it doesn't even officially support RTX 40-series GPUs — the XG27JCG is a 5K 180Hz beast with 330Hz 1440p dual-mode support

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 10:29 EDT

Asus is betting on overpriced GPUs in this ultra high-res and high refresh rate pairing, dubbed the "XG27JCG," a new 5K 180 Hz monitor that can only run on Nvidia's RTX 50-series, officially, or AMD's RX 7600 and up. It supports all the gaming features you could ever want, along with solid color accuracy and HDR support. Read more ›

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CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC packs 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM and an RTX 5080 GPU for $2499 — that's $700+ of RAM in today's market

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 09:36 EDT

Procure yourself a gaming PC before the RAM prices push prebuilt rigs beyond reach. CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC with RTX 5080 and 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM is reduced to $2499. Read more ›

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ASRock X870E Taichi OCF Motherboard Review: The right formula for extreme AMD overclocking

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 09:00 EDT

ASRock’s X870E Taichi OCF is a well-designed motherboard full of high-end features and tools for manual overclocking. Read more ›

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Intel fails to get EU antitrust ruling overturned in longstanding 16-year AMD competition case — chipmaker sees $1.2 billion fine reduced to $278 million

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 08:18 EDT

Intel lost its challenge to overturn an EU antitrust ruling on Wednesday, meaning it now faces a fine of $278 million. Read more ›

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Biwin Black Opal OC Lab Gold Edition DDR5-6000 C28 4x48GB Review: High-Performance Memory For Demanding Applications

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 08:00 EDT

Biwin launches a very special DDR5-6000 192GB memory kit from its OC labs. Can the spacious memory kit outperform the current competition on the market? Read more ›

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TMSC ponders upgrading 2nd Japan fab to 4nm — could pave the way for more advanced chips for Japanese customers

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 08:00 EDT

TSMC reportedly mulls making 4nm chips in Japan amid putting construction of Fab 23 phase 2 on pause. Read more ›

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UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate busted repeatedly sabotaging rival student's computer, causing $46,000 in damages — hidden camera sting catches perp causing "sparks to fly out of the laptop," student arrested on three felony counts

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 07:00 EDT

PhD student rivalry extends to repeated physical laptop damage, hidden camera shows. Read more ›

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Score a new Bambu Lab 3D printer for as little as £149 in this massive UK end-of-year sale — savings include up to 20% off printers and 46% off filament, ready for Christmas

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 06:57 EDT

Save on these top 3D printers this Christmas in Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale Read more ›

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RAM scalping takes hold on eBay, some DDR5 selling for more than $2,000 — price-gouged kits fetch 7x their original value, adding almost double the markup on already inflated prices

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 12/11/2025 06:45 EDT

Scalpers exploit the memory shortage to sell memory kits at exorbitant prices on platforms like eBay. Read more ›

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Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic join forces to form Agentic AI alliance, according to report — organization backed by the Linux Foundation is set to create open source standards for AI agents

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 06:40 EDT

The world's leading AI firms are collaborating on a new Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation managed by the Linux Foundation to build open standards around AI agents. The move will focus on three key open source tools to begin with, sharing findings on technical problems. Read more ›

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Developer gambles on 'obviously fake' $8K Grace Hopper system, scores $80,000 worth of hardware on Reddit for one-tenth of the cost — buyer's haul includes 960GB of DDR5 RAM worth more than what he paid for the entire rig

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 06:34 EDT

This used Nvidia Grace Hopper system price seemed unbelievable. But it required a lot of cleaning and intricate work to get it running smoothly. Read more ›

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Prusa brings Noctua's iconic beige and brown to 3D printer nozzleheads everywhere — accurately matching 3D printed parts to Noctua gear is now trivial

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 06:30 EDT

Prusa releases Noctua color-matched 3D printing filaments Read more ›

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Basement AI lab captures 10,000 hours of brain scans to train thought-to-text AI models — largest known neural dataset collected from thousands of humans over six months

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Tom's Hardware · 12/11/2025 06:00 EDT

Conduit says it has collected roughly 10,000 hours of noninvasive neural data from “thousands of unique individuals” in a basement studio. Read more ›

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China starts list of government-approved AI hardware suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei are in, Nvidia is not

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Tom's Hardware · 12/10/2025 14:24 EDT

Chinese government began to add government-approved AI suppliers to the Information Technology Innovation List in a bid to accelerate deployment of domestic hardware. But can Chinese semiconductor industry satisfy the needs of domestic AI industry? Read more ›

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User reports claim December Windows 11 security update fixes AMD GPU hanging and driver crashing

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Tom's Hardware · 12/10/2025 14:07 EDT

A multitude of AMD GPU owners claim the December security update for Windows 11 has fixed GPU hanging and driver crashing, primarily on RX 9000 series GPUs. Read more ›

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Framework puts Dell and Apple on blast over egregious RAM prices — modular laptop maker will be forced to increase memory prices, but won't "gouge customers" like other vendors

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Tom's Hardware · 12/10/2025 13:02 EDT

Memory prices are rising everywhere, and the latest to be hit in the aftermath of this crisis is modular laptop manufacturer Framework, which just announced its own price hike in a very interesting fashion. The company replied to a tweet showing Dell's allegedly insane markup on RAM upgrades that later turned out to be incorrect. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale is live with up to 35% off — score huge discounts on 3D printers and accessories while you can

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Tom's Hardware · 12/10/2025 12:40 EDT

Save on some of the best 3D printers in Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale Read more ›

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The Nvidia H200 export saga, as it happened — Beijing ponders response and buyers line up, while Blackwell remains locked behind restrictions

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Tom's Hardware · 12/10/2025 11:59 EDT

The U.S. government has formally approved the export of Nvidia’s high-performance H200 AI chips to China, reinstating access to a class of silicon previously barred under national security rules. Read more ›

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Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring

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Tom's Hardware · 12/10/2025 11:41 EDT

DeepSeek is allegedly involved in a "phantom data center" smuggling scheme to get Blackwell GPU servers into China as part of training its newest LLM generation. While Nvidia refutes the claims as "farfetched", some proof indicates otherwise. Read more ›

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