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Trump says Intel has made a 'fortune' and America has made $40 billion after the US invested in ailing chipmaker — Intel has gained $73 billion in market cap since investment

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Tom's Hardware · 10/21/2025 05:00 EDT

The U.S. government’s 10% stake in Intel, acquired in August, transformed a struggling chipmaker's fortunes into a $73 billion market share uptick while reinforcing America's national security and industrial sovereignty. Read more ›

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ASML launches revolutionary lithography scanner for advanced 3D chip packaging — Twinscan XT:360 machine quadruples throughput

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 22:19 EDT

ASML has introduced the Twinscan XT:260, the industry's first lithography scanner designed specifically for advanced 3D packaging, wedding front-end precision with back-end productivity to quadruple throughput, marking a new era of tools purpose-built for heterogeneous integration. Read more ›

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China says it has foiled a series U.S. cyberattacks on its critical infrastructure — Ministry of State Security says it has 'irrefutable evidence' NSA tried to cause 'international time chaos'

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 12:48 EDT

China’s Ministry of State Security has taken to social media to boast about foiling a series of cyberattacks it says were directed by the U.S. National Security Agency. Read more ›

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Microsoft let Asus set the prices for Xbox Rog Ally, confirms Xbox President — work on next-gen console hardware is already underway with AMD

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 10:44 EDT

Xbox President Sarah Bond has just confirmed that Microsoft relied on Asus' experience in handhelds to help determine the price of the Xbox Ally. The team at Xbox is confident and proud of the device, with sold-out preorders. Sarah also talks about how the next-gen Xbox console is also in the works with AMD as we speak. Read more ›

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Cooler Master Hyper 212 3DHP Review: Engineering better heatpipes, improving thermal efficiency

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 09:50 EDT

Cooler Master’s 3DHP heatpipes promise to be the biggest evolution for cooling in years. Do they deliver? We tested the Hyper 212 3DHP with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X to determine if Cooler Master’s heatpipes live up to the hype. Read more ›

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Lucky Facebook Marketplace shopper finds souped-up prototype GTX 2080 Ti inside a $500 PC — mythical Nvidia project features 12GB of VRAM and higher memory bandwidth

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 09:24 EDT

Specifications suggest Nvidia once considered a more powerful TU102 design for the RTX 2080 Ti GPU Read more ›

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Microsoft denies Mexico data center linked to water shortages, local illnesses, and power outages — stomach bugs and even hepatitis reported in region as 1.5 Gigawatt AI data center buildout looms

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 09:19 EDT

Microsoft has denied claims that its data center in central Mexico is tied to a recent spate of power outages, water shortages, and health concerns, claiming it always prioritizes the needs of local communities in any actions it takes. Read more ›

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Razer Iskur V2 X Gaming Chair Review: An affordable, frills-free entry-level gaming chair

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 08:00 EDT

Razer puts the Iskur V2 through a cost-cutting spree, and the result is the Iskur V2 X. Read more ›

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Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 07:59 EDT

Alibaba Cloud claims its new Aegaeon pooling system reduced the number of Nvidia GPUs required to serve large language models by 82% during a multi-month beta test inside its Model Studio marketplace. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab is selling the awesome P1S 3D printer for an all-time low of $449 — clip the coupon for a $100 saving

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 07:41 EDT

Pick up the Bambu Lab P1S for a song. Only $449 for one of our favorite 3D printers. Read more ›

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Embattled Dutch chipmaker Nexperia blasts ousted CEO over false accusations — claims of unpaid salaries and independent operation in China are 'falsehoods', say company

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 07:36 EDT

The ousted ex-CEO of Dutch chip firm, Nexperia, has reportedly been claiming that Chinese workers can defy Dutch administrators and that staff haven't been paid. Dutch management denies these claims, calling them "factually incorrect and misleading." Read more ›

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Colossal AWS outage breaks the internet — Roblox, Fortnite, Zoom and beyond all crippled

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 10/20/2025 05:16 EDT

Amazon is tracking a massive AWS outage that has crippled large parts of the internet. Read more ›

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Musk challenges legendary AI researcher Karpathy to an AI coding showdown against Grok 5 — gets a polite 'no' to an IBM Deep Blue-like showdown

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Tom's Hardware · 10/20/2025 05:00 EDT

Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue. Read more ›

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TSMC gives an ultra-rare video look inside its fabs — 'Silver Highway' and fab tools revealed in flyby video of company's US Arizona Fab 21

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 12:25 EDT

TSMC's new flyby video of its Fab 21 in Arizona offers a rare glimpse inside the fully operational N4/N5 cleanroom, highlighting ASML's EUV scanners producing chips for Apple, AMD, and Nvidia. Read more ›

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Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro Review: As good as the DeathAdder V3 Pro

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 12:00 EDT

The DeathAdder V4 Pro retains the fantastic shape of its predecessor, weighs about 10% less, and includes an 8K wireless polling dongle in the box. Read more ›

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Enthusiast plays Battlefield 6 on his CPU watercooler's screen — tiny 2.1-inch 480x480 MSI liquid cooler screen good enough for XP farming

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 11:55 EDT

Battlefield 6 is an intense game with gorgeous visuals that demands the best screen possible. But what if you're at work and your literal job is to test displays? That's when a bit of ingenuity kicks in and you switch to the tiny screen on your CPU's liquid cooler to maximize gaming efficiency like a boss. Read more ›

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DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 11:19 EDT

The first public release of DOSBox Pure Unleashed, a new version of the DOS emulator by Psyraven, was made available on Saturday evening Read more ›

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Windows 11's October update just broke the Windows Recovery Environment — USB keyboards and mice unusable in Windows RE after latest bug hits

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 10:30 EDT

Like a moth to a flame, Windows has attracted yet another bug. In the latest October update, the recovery environment renders your USB keyboard and mouse unresponsive, making it impossible to interact with your PC. Microsoft has already taken note of the issue and plans to fix it in a future update. Read more ›

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Palantir chief takes a jab at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, says people decrying ‘China hawks’ are 'useful idiots' — 'The first step to ending our dependence on China is admitting we have a problem'

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 09:40 EDT

The Palantir CTO called out Jensen Huang's 'China hawk' comments. Read more ›

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The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever

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Tom's Hardware · 10/19/2025 09:10 EDT

Introduced in October 1985, the third-generation x86 processor was the first 32-bit chip in Intel’s PC line, the origin point for the IA-32 instruction set, and the architectural turning point that transformed personal computing. Read more ›

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