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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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Korean funeral services company lost $33 million of its customers' money over a bad crypto bet — firm was secretly investing client funds into leveraged crypto ETFs

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Tom's Hardware · 05/21/2026 05:40 EDT

Bumo Sarang, a funeral services company in Korea, lost $33 million after it invested $40 million of its own customers' money into a leveraged crypto ETF. These funds were meant for prepaid funeral services, but the company exploited loopholes to siphon them into creative investments. Unfortunately, almost half of the industry in involved in similar practices. Read more ›

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AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 ‘Gorgon Halo’ packs up to 192GB of unified memory — refreshed APU uses Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5, and can clock up to 5.2 GHz

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 20:00 EDT

AMD is refreshing its Ryzen AI Max chips with the new 400 series, known as Gorgon Halo, and they’ll show up in the Ryzen AI Halo development box. That box, with last-gen Strix Halo chips, is going up for pre-order in June, starting at $3,999. Read more ›

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Samsung narrowly avoids 18-day chip strike after last-minute wage deal with 48,000-worker union — tentative deal, subject to workers' vote, suspends billions of dollars worth of potential losses

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 13:53 EDT

Samsung Electronics has temporarily avoided a major 18-day strike at its South Korean semiconductor operations after reaching a tentative wage agreement with its 48,000-member union. Read more ›

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Memory makers brace for hydrogen fluoride pricing shock as Hormuz blockade impacts supply chain — key etching and cleaning material faces sharp cost increase amid trade disruption

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 13:07 EDT

Rising production costs for key chip etching and cleaning material, anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, could lead to further price rises for consumers on memory and storage products, even as salvation lies in the latter months of the year. Read more ›

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Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 10th Anniversary Edition surfaces online for $310 — return of iconic gaming CPU for budget builders seems imminent

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 12:49 EDT

Indian retailer lists AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 10th Anniversary Edition processor for $310. Read more ›

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Team Group agrees to $1.1 million DRAM settlement in another false advertising lawsuit — claimed advertised memory speeds required BIOS tweaks and overclocking settings

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 12:32 EDT

Team Group denies all wrongdoing but has agreed to settle the lawsuit involving advertised RAM performance and overclocking-related settings. Read more ›

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Get a 2TB Western Digital Black SN7100 SSD for only $299.99 — $200 savings drives snappy PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD down to a more reasonable price point.

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 12:24 EDT

Newegg slashes $200 off the 2TB WD Black SN7100 dropping this fast PCIe 4.0 SSD to $299.99 - strong PS5 and PC performance plus lower power draw make it one of the best DRAM-less drives at this price Read more ›

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Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly abandoning overseas training programs to nab up to $400,000 performance bonuses — online dating grades rise as female members 'seeking out SK hynix employees'

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 11:35 EDT

Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly considering terminating overseas training programs to be eligible for performance bonuses as AI-driven semiconductor profits fuel record bonus projections worth hundreds of millions of won. Read more ›

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Russia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 10:22 EDT

CEO German Gref didn’t specify which Chinese chips Sberbank is interested in, but the most likely candidate is Huawei's Ascend 950 family. Read more ›

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HyperX FlipCast Review: For the gamer-podcaster

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 10:03 EDT

The HyperX FlipCast is an end-address professional-quality microphone with both USB-C and XLR connectivity and tons of on-mic controls. It looks and sounds good, but is it worth the $230 price tag? Read more ›

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Asus ZenScreen Duo OLED (MQ149CD) Review: An impressive, book-style dual-screen portable monitor

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 09:00 EDT

Dual OLED screens are hard to ignore in the portable monitor segment for mobile warriors. Read more ›

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Intel kicks off development on next-decade 10A and 7A process technologies — 14A node remains on track for critical October PDK release

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 08:49 EDT

Intel says its 14A process technology is on track for high-volume manufacturing in 2029, 10A and 7A to follow in the 2030s. Read more ›

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China banned Nvidia 5090D V2 while CEO Jensen Huang was in town, report claims — move comes as Beijing pushes its AI tech companies to use homegrown chips

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 08:09 EDT

The RTX 5090D V2 GPU Nvidia specifically built for China to comply with U.S. export controls just received the ban hammer from Beijing. Although this GPU is primarily designed for gaming and 3D animation, it's also powerful enough that many AI developers also use it. Read more ›

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Grab the RX 9070 XT for just $504, $95 below its MSRP, in this Newegg combo deal with the 9850X3D — epic discount on high spec AMD parts for a 4K gaming PC saves you nearly $200 in total

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 07:27 EDT

This epic Newegg combo deal brings together the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with an ASRock-made AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT for just $978.99, a deal that makes the effective cost of this GPU just $504, almost $100 off its MSRP. Read more ›

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Hacker group hits 3,800 internal GitHub repositories via poisoned developer plugin — TeamPCP claims source code theft and attempts $50,000 sale, employee installed malicious VS Code extension

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 07:20 EDT

GitHub has confirmed a breach involving roughly 3,800 internal repositories after an employee device was compromised through a malicious VS Code extension. The TeamPCP hacker group claims it stole internal source code and attempted to sell the data for at least $50,000. Read more ›

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$300 slashed from Apple's M4 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM — get a premium laptop for just $1,099

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 07:02 EDT

Apple's MacBook Air M5 and M4 laptops both take a price cut in Best Buy's Memorial Day sale. Read more ›

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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stamps out chip bugs with aggressive new quality standards, says major validation errors can result in termination — 'B0, you keep your job. Anything above that, you are fired'

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 06:44 EDT

Lip-Bu Tan wants Intel to radically improve its chip development discipline and achieve production readiness with A0 silicon revision. Read more ›

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You can save up to 72% in HP's Memorial Day sale — grab your next gaming PC, laptop, monitor, or peripheral for less

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 06:30 EDT

Memorial Day HP deals to sink your teeth into. Up to 72% discounts on HP products. Read more ›

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Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM —non-volatile device switches in 40 picoseconds while generating almost no heat

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 06:20 EDT

Researchers at the University of Tokyo demonstrated a non-volatile Mn₃Sn magnetic switching device capable of flipping bits in just 40 picoseconds while generating minimal heat, potentially paving the way for lower-power AI hardware and memory systems. Read more ›

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Score up to $129 off a new Secretlab gaming chair or desk ahead of the Memorial Day weekend — bundles and sales galore on a whole range of upgrades for your setup, with stackable coupon codes that knock up to $100 extra off for big orders

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Tom's Hardware · 05/20/2026 06:00 EDT

You can save up to $129 on a new gaming chair or desk in this Secretlab Memorial Day Sale, with huge discounts on accessories, too. Read more ›

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