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Nexperia’s standoff puts a core part of the chip supply chain under strain — U.S export controls and red tape may threaten consumer continuity without governance

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 07:15 EDT

Dutch intervention, China’s retaliation, and widening U.S. controls have turned a major European component supplier into the centre of a three-way dispute. Read more ›

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Ancient 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics card coaxed into working in modern AMD Ryzen 9 9900X-powered Windows 11 system — 12MB relic from 1998 successfully runs Quake 2 but crumbles in SLI configuration

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 12/04/2025 06:00 EDT

1998 3D accelerator uses an experimental 64-bit driver from 2006, to run on a PC using an OS from 2011, powered by a processor from 2024. Read more ›

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First ARM-supported 3D driver for discrete gaming GPUs emerges from China — Lisuan 7G106 runs 3DMark on a Windows 11 ARM machine

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Tom's Hardware · 12/04/2025 05:00 EDT

Lisuan's 7G105 discrete GPU was spotted running 3DMark in an ARM-based machine, revealing that Lisuan has quite possibly built the first 3D graphics driver that supports ARM machines that works with a dedicated graphics card. Read more ›

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Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 17:42 EDT

The U.S. House shelved the GAIN AI Act, blocking a rule that would have forced AMD and Nvidia to put U.S. buyers ahead of China for advanced GPUs, though Beijing's own limits blunt the impact. Read more ›

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Asus reportedly halts ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments — $4,000 halo card could be dead in its tracks for now due to quality control issue

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 14:40 EDT

Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments halted due to QC issue Read more ›

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Micron is killing Crucial SSDs and memory in AI pivot — company refocuses on HBM and enterprise customers

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 13:52 EDT

After 29 years, Micron decided to wind down its Crucial consumer business amid switching resources to HBM memory and enterprise-grade hardware. Read more ›

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Segotep's Titanload 12V-2x6 cables use heavier-duty pins to prevent meltdowns — brute-force approach purportedly drops peak temps by up to 72%

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 13:08 EDT

Segotep's Titanload family of 12V-2x6 cables use higher-capacity pins to try and reduce the risk of meltdowns under heavy GPU load. Read more ›

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MSI MAG X870E Tomahawk MAX Wifi PZ Review: Project Zero cleans up the cables

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 11:58 EDT

The MSI X870E Tomahawk MAX Wi-Fi PZ mainboard is designed to offer a sleek, clutter-free setup by positioning all its connections on the board's backside, providing a solid base to build your system around. Read more ›

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IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar AI data center buildout is unsustainable — warns there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 11:51 EDT

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna used an appearance on The Verge’s Decoder podcast to question whether the capital spending now underway in pursuit of AGI can ever pay for itself. Read more ›

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GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs — Linux release marks the end of the line for graphics cards that defined an era

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 11:07 EDT

Nvidia 590 drivers cut support for GTX 900- and 10-series Read more ›

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Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys stake strengthens its push into AI-accelerated chip design — partnership to bolster GPU-accelerated EDA tools, but a careful balance is required

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 10:36 EDT

Nvidia has taken a $2 billion equity stake in Synopsys, as the two companies announced a long-term collaboration to accelerate electronic design automation workloads on GPUs. Read more ›

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Customer buys RTX 5080 from Best Buy, but got rocks instead — $1,200 GPU arrived in tampered box with broken seal

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 10:07 EDT

A Redditor who purchased an Asus TUF RTX 5080 from Best Buy for $1,200 received rocks inside the box, which itself was already tampered with. Upon reaching out to customer support, Best Buy told our victim that nothing could be done, and no refund would be issued, despite not getting what they paid for. Read more ›

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Enthusiast adds OCuLink port to Framework 16 Laptop — offering PCIe 4.0 x8 bandwidth for big GPU performance gains

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 09:45 EDT

The project has been bandied about for years, but has finally come to fruition thanks to the dedicated efforts of one modder. Read more ›

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Get a 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT prebuilt gaming PC for just $2,199 — Skytech's hi-spec offering also comes with 2TB of SSD storage and 32GB of DDR5

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 09:04 EDT

Featuring top-tier components. The Skytech Gaming Prism 4 desktop PC is yours for $2199 in this Newegg deal. Read more ›

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My Arcade launches portable Pac-Man 45th anniversary-themed retro arcade games — available in both pocketable and desktop versions

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 09:01 EDT

My Arcade has launched a couple of retro gaming consoles to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the legendary Pac-Man arcade game. Read more ›

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AI data-centre buildout pushes copper toward shortages, analysts warn — only 70% of 2035 demand could be met, 2025 deficit thought to be 304,000 tonnes

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 08:47 EDT

Copper producers and market analysts are starting to outline a supply gap that arrives just as hyperscale AI campuses ramp toward record power draws. Read more ›

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Helldivers 2 install size slashed from 154GB to just 23GB — 85% reduction accomplished by de-duplicating game data, an optimization for older mechanical hard drives

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 07:57 EDT

The newly released beta version of Helldivers 2 delivers the same gameplay with far less disk usage, offering PC players a much leaner install without sacrificing performance or progression. Read more ›

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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 07:00 EDT

A user used Google Antigravity to build an app, but it ended up deleting their entire D: drive instead of just their project's cache folder. Read more ›

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Enthusiast modder creates the smallest-ever PlayStation using genuine chips for console's 31st anniversary — redesigned PCB is less than a quarter size of the already dinky PS One revision

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 06:30 EDT

An enthusiast has managed to shrink an already dinky PS One motherboard down to a quarter of its size. Working prototype uses all original ICs. Read more ›

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Reviewer records first drop in overall brightness after 21 months of burning in his QD-OLED monitor — but the 2% decrease isn't likely to be noticeable

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Tom's Hardware · 12/03/2025 06:00 EDT

After 5000 hours of torture testing over 21 months, Monitors Unboxed has shared the latest effects of that stress on an MSI MPG 321URX OLED monitor. Beyond burn-in, the display is beginning to exhibit signs of gradual brightness degradation Read more ›

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