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Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Review: The Next Generation

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Tom's Hardware · 10/11/2025 08:00 EDT

The next generation of Titan Evo range sees a new leatherette fabric and supportive padding to keep you gaming and working in relative comfort. Read more ›

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Converted school bus turned into mobile retro computing museum — historic array includes Sinclair (Timex) ZX Spectrum 48K and Commodore 64

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Tom's Hardware · 10/11/2025 05:00 EDT

A father and son duo have converted an old school bus into a computer gaming museum. Read more ›

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Battlefield 6 peaks at 747,000 concurrent players — newly launched game ranks among the top three most-played on Steam today

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 16:09 EDT

Hours after the Battlefield 6 launch, concurrent player counts have reached upwards of 747,000 on Steam, making the game the third most-played game on the platform. Read more ›

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InferenceMax AI benchmark tests software stacks, efficiency, and TCO — vendor-neutral suite runs nightly and tracks performance changes over time

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 15:19 EDT

InferenceMax AI benchmark measures software stacks, efficiency, and TCO Read more ›

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President Trump warns of massively increased tariffs in wake of China's rare earth mineral 'monopoly position' — Xi Jinping meeting cancelled as Trump promises retaliation for Beijing's expanded export controls

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 14:38 EDT

President Trump, in a fiery Truth Social post, has just warned China about potential new tarriffs as a response to Beijing's expanded export controls surrounding rare earth minerals. Trump says for every element China monopolizes, America has two, and that other moves are also being considered in retaliation. Read more ›

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Intel's 18A production starts before TSMC’s competing N2 tech — here's how the two process nodes compare

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 14:34 EDT

Intel has begun mass production of its Core Ultra 3 'Panther Lake' processors built on 18A node at Fab 52 in Arizona, marking the first large-scale deployment of this advanced process ahead of TSMC’s N2. Read more ›

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U.S. Senate passes bill that forces AI chipmakers to prioritize sales to American companies — House now set to amend or pass legislation

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 13:05 EDT

The Senate just passed the bill forcing Nvidia and AMD to prioritize US orders over exports. Read more ›

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SoftBank is seeking $5 billion loan to invest in OpenAI, plans to use Arm shares as collateral — rapid AI expansion continues, investment could top $30 billion

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 12:51 EDT

SoftBank is securing a $5 billion loan backed by Arm shares to expand its OpenAI and AI infrastructure investments, raising total Arm-collateralized debt to $18.5 billion and further highlighting its leveraged AI expansion strategy. Read more ›

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Microsoft cancels Wisconsin data center after community pushback — 244-acre Caledonia site on hold, but Redmond says it remains committed to the region

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 11:43 EDT

Microsoft is canceling its plans to build a data center near the Oak Creek Power Plant after the community rallied against its plans. Read more ›

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Back to its all-time low price, Alienware's AW3225QF4K QD-OLED gaming monitor is reduced by $350 in Dell's post-Prime Day deal

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 11:26 EDT

Save $350 off the price of Alienware's gorgeous 4K QD-OLED curved gaming monitor. Read more ›

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China’s new rare-earth curbs target chipmaking industry in retaliation to US restrictions — rare earth curbs reach back to older 14nm process tech and 256-layer memory

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 11:23 EDT

China has quietly extended its rare-earth export controls into the heart of the semiconductor supply chain. Read more ›

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China bans research company that helped unearth Huawei's use of TSMC tech despite U.S. bans — TechInsights added to Unreliable Entity List by state authorities

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 09:55 EDT

Beijing has banned TechInsights from doing business with Chinese companies because it has "defied China's strong objections to engage in activities such as so-called military-technical cooperation with Taiwan, made malicious remarks concerning China, and assisted foreign governments in suppressing Chinese companies." Read more ›

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Microsoft deploys world's first 'supercomputer-scale' GB300 NVL72 Azure cluster — 4,608 GB300 GPUs linked together to form a single, unified accelerator capable of 1.44 PFLOPS of inference

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 09:34 EDT

Microsoft has just added a GB300 NVL72 supercluster to Azure, deploying a total of 4,608 GB300 GPUs across 64 racks. Each rack consists of 72x GPUs interconnected via NVLink, allowing for 1.44 PFLOPS of FP4 Tensor Core performance. Each rack is then intra-connected via Quantum-X800 InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s per GPU. Read more ›

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China issues port crackdown on all Nvidia AI chip imports, says report — enforcement teams deployed to quash smuggling and investigate data center hardware, targeting H20 and RTX 6000D shipments

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 07:56 EDT

Chinese customs authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on unlicensed Nvidia chip shipments, with enforcement teams deploying at major ports to inspect hardware shipments. Read more ›

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Singapore company alleged to have helped China get $2 billion worth of Nvidia AI processors, report claims — Nvidia denies that the accused has any China ties, but a U.S. investigation is underway

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Tom's Hardware · 10/10/2025 05:37 EDT

An investigation has uncovered that a Singapore-based firm with Chinese ties bought $2 billion worth of restricted Nvidia GPUs through Inspur's U.S. subsidiary to funnel them to Malaysia and Indonesia, where they were allegedly used by clients from China or resold to customers in the PRC. Read more ›

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Spacious 24TB hard drive is a mere 1 cent per GB — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB HDD is back on sale for $249

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 18:36 EDT

This Seagate BarraCuda 24TB HDD is available at Newegg for $249—one of its best prices to date and an excellent deal for anyone in need of storage. Read more ›

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Sony and AMD tease likely PlayStation 6 GPU upgrades —Radiance Cores and a new interconnect for boosting AI rendering performance

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 14:33 EDT

Sony and AMD teased several new technologies that will be making their way into Sony's next-generation console, dubbed Project Amethyst. Upgrades include new cores for rendering path tracing in real time and a new interconnect that will boost AI-rendering performance. Read more ›

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The best 1TB microSD Express card for your Switch 2 is still 28% off — save $62 on the Lexar Play Pro 1TB

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 12:43 EDT

Amazon Prime Day is over, but you can still get this awesome Lexar Play Pro 1TB microSD Express card for your Switch 2 for a whopping 28% off. Read more ›

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Grab vital 3D printer maintenance tools in these prime Day deals you can still get — up to 37% off HOTO, Creality, Wera

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 12:08 EDT

3D printers need maintenance and with these great tools you’ll be producing great prints all day long. Read more ›

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3D Printer Sales Bonanza is still ongoing after Prime Day — these are the best deals we found at all five sales

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Tom's Hardware · 10/09/2025 12:01 EDT

There are some great 3D printer deals happening right now, and we've found the best and put them all into one page for you. Read more ›

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