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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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Benevolent Facebook trader exchanges 192GB of DDR5 worth $2,200 for one RTX 5070 Ti — says selling at such a high price would have been 'unethical' despite huge loss

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 08:00 EDT

PC builder generously trades 192 GB of DDR5 for an RTX 5070 Ti. Read more ›

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Two GTX 580s in SLI are responsible for the AI we have today — Nvidia's Huang revealed that the invention of deep learning began with two flagship Fermi GPUs in 2012

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 08:00 EDT

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed in a recent Joe Rogan podcast that the inventors behind deep learning ran the world's first machine learning network on a pair of GTX 580s in SLI in 2012. Read more ›

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3D-printed part failure causes light aircraft crash after plastic air intake melts during flight — pilot escapes with minor injuries

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/06/2025 07:30 EDT

A light aircraft crashed in the U.K. after its engine intake melted while on final approach. Read more ›

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Asus quotes customer $3,350 repair bill for RTX 5090 with microscopic 'surface irregularity', more than the entire card's value — offers 50% discount after months of haggling

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 07:15 EDT

Redditor shares his ongoing struggle to get Asus to RMA an expensive ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. Read more ›

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1950s mechanical calculator crumbles in the face of divide-by-zero conundrum — relic spins its gears uncontrollably in 'chaotic loop' of endless motion

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 07:00 EDT

Divide by zero is one of computing’s most notorious error conditions - and an old mechanical calculator doesn't handle it gracefully. Read more ›

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'World's first scalable DNA data storage offering' announced offering a staggering ‘60PB in 60 cubic inches,’ enough to hold 660,000 4K movies — Atlas Data storage claims its solution is 1000x denser than LTO-10 tape

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 06:30 EDT

Atlas Data Storage, a DNA-based storage tech startup, has announced its first commercial offering. Read more ›

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Russia allegedly still using Starlink-guided drones in Ukraine, report claims — Starlink Mini strapped to grounded drone points to ongoing issue, despite U.S. DoD claims threat was blunted

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Tom's Hardware · 12/06/2025 06:00 EDT

Russian drones are still flying into Ukrainian airspace to strike their targets with Starlink hardware clearly strapped to them, say Ukrainian media reports. Read more ›

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Avoid sky-high DDR5 prices and save $150 with this Asus B850 board and 16GB Team Group RAM bundle deal

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 14:46 EDT

Skirt ridiculous DDR5 prices in this smokin' deal from Newegg. $229 buys a mid-range Asus B850-A Gaming Wifi R2 motherboard and 16GB Team Group DDR5-6000 RAM - $150 off Read more ›

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Huawei Ascend NPU roadmap examined — company targets 4 ZettaFLOPS FP4 performance by 2028, amid manufacturing constraints

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 12:35 EDT

Huawei has unveiled its Ascend NPU roadmap featuring Ascend 950, 960, 970 processors and massive SuperClusters with over a million of processors and up to 4 ZettaFLOPS FP4 performance in 2028, shifting from chip scaling to system-level scaling, amid U.S. sanctions and manufacturing constraints. Read more ›

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Intel admits it needs more Core Ultra 200-series wafers — 'If we had more Lunar Lake wafers, we would be selling more Lunar Lake'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 10:49 EDT

Intel needs more Core Ultra 200-series 'Arrow Lake' and 'Lunar Lake' wafers from TSMC as demand exceeds supply. Read more ›

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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son wants to build ‘Trump Industrial Parks’ across the nation, report claims — project proposes using federal land to build manufacturing sites for data center infrastructure

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 10:44 EDT

SoftBank proposes building multiple industrial parks across the U.S. on federal land to manufacture semiconductors and other AI infrastructure. Read more ›

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AMD CEO Lisa Su 'emphatically' rejects talk of an AI bubble — says claims are 'somewhat overstated'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 10:29 EDT

AMD CEO Lisa Su used her appearance at WIRED’s Big Interview conference in San Francisco to push back against growing speculation that the AI sector is overheating. Read more ›

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Dell and Lenovo set to increase server and PC costs by as much as 15% as soon as this month, according to industry sources — DRAM and AI demand create tight market for businesses and consumers

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 10:13 EDT

Artificial intelligence has seemingly put the entire PC industry in a chokehold, with even large manufacturers like Lenovo and Dell at the mercy of drying production lines. Lenovo has reportedly warned its clients to book orders before the next price hike on New Year's, while Dell is already considering a 15-20% increase in mid-December. Read more ›

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This MSI Pro 27-inch gaming monitor plummets to its lowest-ever price of $89.99 at Newegg — 1080p, 144Hz display is a gaming and productivity double-threat

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 08:39 EDT

Missed out on all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday fun? You're in luck. MSI's MP273L E14 is a slick 27-inch FHD monitor, which is currently 31% off at Newegg, dropping the price to just $89.99 in a limited-time offer. Read more ›

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Samsung Odyssey G7 S40FG75 40-inch ultra-wide curved gaming monitor review: Fast, gorgeous, and immersive

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 08:33 EDT

Samsung brings immersive gaming with its new Odyssey G7 S40FG75. It’s a 40-inch Curved Ultra-Wide 21:9 VA panel with WUHD resolution, 180 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR600 and wide gamut color. With a tight 1000R curve, it practically wraps around you. Read more ›

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IBM unveiled its Deep Blue chess supercomputer prototype 30 years ago today — two years later in its second attempt, it defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasparov

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 08:09 EDT

On November 5, 1995, IBM took the wraps off its Deep Blue prototype, a supercomputer designed to beat the world’s greatest chess players. Read more ›

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Cloudflare says it has fended off 416 billion AI bot scrape requests in five months — CEO warns of dramatic shift for internet business model

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 07:41 EDT

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that blocking AI bots and giving website owners the option to license their content to AI companies could help maintain online publication's viability as a business in the future. Read more ›

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Senators lobby for SAFE Chips Act, which would curb leading-edge AI chip exports to China — proposed bill would restrict AMD and Nvidia to H20/MI308-class accelerator sales until 2028

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 06:58 EDT

The SAFE Chips Act proposed by a bipartisan group aims to lock current export rules into law, preventing AMD and Nvidia from selling any AI accelerators based on the latest architectures to China for the next 30 months and forcing companies to compete with H20 and MI308 against China's latest AI processors. Read more ›

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Nvidia replaces entire $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 graphics card of stricken user who broke it in transit — company offers to ship replacement and troubleshoot busted GPU

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 06:00 EDT

Nvidia responds to NorthridgeFix and is replacing one of its customers' damaged RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards worth $10,000, even though the damage was not Nvidia's fault and was done accidentally by the customer. Read more ›

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Amazon launches Trainium3 AI accelerator, competing directly against Blackwell Ultra in FP8 performance — new Trn3 Gen2 UltraServer takes vertical scaling notes from Nvidia's playbook

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Tom's Hardware · 12/05/2025 06:00 EDT

AWS is taking pages from Nvidia's book with its new Trainium3 AI accelerators and Trn3 Gen2 UltraServers that are now built entirely on in-house silicon and are accompanies by the enhanced Neuron software stack that simplifies their adoption and gives users more controls over performance and behavior. Read more ›

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