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New York firm faces China investigation over $17M advanced trading hardware smuggling — accused of installing customized processors and networking hardware at Shanghai Futures Exchange

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 12:03 EDT

Tower Research Capital is under fire by a Chinese regulator for using possibly-illicit hardware. Read more ›

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OpenAI might be building its own chip, but it’ll still be dependent on Nvidia — custom chip developed with Broadcom reportedly slips to Q3 2026

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 11:40 EDT

OpenAI is widely understood to be developing a custom AI accelerator with Broadcom, part of a $10 billion partnership to design chips specifically for OpenAI’s internal workloads. Read more ›

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'Next-gen 3D printing' demonstrated by U.S. government scientists — multiplexing nozzle system touted as faster, lighter, and more precise for aerospace and marine industries

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 11:13 EDT

A 'next-generation 3D printing system' has been demonstrated by scientists from the ORNL. Read more ›

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Orange Pi AI Studio Pro mini-PC debuts with Huawei Ascend 310 and 352 TOPS of AI performance — also features up to 192GB of memory, but relies on a single USB-C port

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 11:05 EDT

Orange Pi’s AI Studio Pro mini-PC promises up to 352 TOPS of AI performance with up to 192GB of LPDDR4X 4266 memory. Read more ›

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Microsoft adds Grok 4 to Azure AI Foundry following cautious trials — Elon Musk's latest AI model is now available to deploy for "frontier‑level reasoning"

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 10:37 EDT

Grok 4, the latest AI model produced by Elon Musk's xAI, is now available for enterprise customers inside Azure AI Foundry. Microsoft has added Grok 4 to its library after a series of prior internal testing to make sure it doesn't go on tangents again. It has a 128K-token context window and focuses on STEM workloads over basic tasks. Read more ›

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Maingear debuts new premium desktop PCs — Apex Rush, Force models start at $6,259, with top-end model featuring hardline tubing and dual 420mm radiators

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 08:30 EDT

Maingear has today unveiled a couple of new desktop PCs, a new Apex Rush and a new Apex Force. Read more ›

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Amid Intel's deals, Intel Foundry Services remains notably absent — 18A and 14A are on the way, but success isn't guaranteed

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 08:21 EDT

It has been a busy few weeks for semiconductors, but among various announcements and rumors, IFS has remained conspicuously absent. Read more ›

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Wee Beastie crowdfunding project promises 4.75L fish tank SFF PC packing a 'desktop' RTX 4070 — $699 design features modded 12GB GPU mounted on a circuit board

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 07:52 EDT

Compact new 4.75-liter Mini PC packs a 'desktop' RTX 4070 with 12GB VRAM for improved gaming and AI. Read more ›

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Data center boom sends some wholesale electricity prices soaring up to 267% in five years, says report — as global rollout of AI factories continues apace

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 07:19 EDT

People living near many of the new data centers being built as part of the AI boom are finding their power costs rising dramatically, in some cases making it hard to afford day-to-day living. Read more ›

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Nvidia's new CPX GPU aims to change the game in AI inference — how the debut of cheaper and cooler GDDR7 memory could redefine AI inference infrastructure

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 07:12 EDT

Nvidia has introduced Rubin CPX, a specialized GPU designed to accelerate compute-heavy context phase of long-context inference in large AI models, enabling more efficient handling of million-token workloads by offloading this task from 'Big' GPUs with HBM memory to smaller GPUs with GDDR7 memory. Read more ›

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China's 96-core x86 CPU taps chiplet design to rival AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon — 13 chiplets per processor provide up to 384 cores on a single motherboard, but no word on power consumption

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 09/30/2025 06:00 EDT

Zhaoxin announces the company's latest KH-50000 series of server processors, leveraging a chiplet design with up to 96 cores. Read more ›

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Logitech launches MX Master 4 flagship productivity mouse – the best mouse we've tested adds haptic feedback, circular Action Ring shortcuts

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Tom's Hardware · 09/30/2025 03:01 EDT

Logitech updates its MX Master 4 flagship mouse with haptic feedback and a quick, customizable Action Ring shortcut circle. Read more ›

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Tile exploit could let stalkers follow you with your own tracker — researchers uncover broadcasting flaw via Bluetooth

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 13:31 EDT

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers found design flaws in Tile location trackers that can be abused to stalk their owners. Read more ›

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Intel aims at AMD's Threadripper with its new Granite Rapids-WS CPU — chip armed with core count approaching the flagship AMD Threadripper 9995WX, boasts a 4.8GHz boost clock

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 12:47 EDT

A new Granite Rapids-WS CPU has appeared on openbenchmark.org, sporting a 4.8GHz boost clock and a hefty core count. Read more ›

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Amazon and Google tip off Jensen Huang before announcing information about their homegrown AI chips — companies tread carefully to avoid surprising Nvidia, says report

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 12:12 EDT

According to a recent report by The Information, Amazon and Google each provide advance notice to Huang before unveiling updates to their custom silicon. Read more ›

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Get a 4TB Crucial P310 SSD for just 5 cents per gigabyte — PCIe 4.0 drive is available now with heatsink for $202

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 12:00 EDT

The Crucial P310 PCIe Gen 4 SSD features QLC NAND-flash memory for up to 7,100 MB/s sequential read speeds. Read more ›

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Sandisk launches officially licensed SSDs and MicroSD cards for the ROG Xbox Ally series — up to 4TB of storage for new Asus flagship handheld

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 11:45 EDT

Sandisk is launching Xbox-branded storage accessories for the new Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld systems. Read more ›

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Data centers to account for 9% of electricity demand in the U.S by 2035, an increase of 5% — Nuclear power could help sate AI demand

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 11:25 EDT

Major tech firms building gigawatts of power-hungry new AI data centers are investing in small, modular nuclear reactors as a potential solution for on-site, year-round power without the fluctuations in output of renewables, though questions remain over how long they'll take to receive approval and reach operative capacity. Read more ›

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OpenAI CTO teases 10 billion GPU future — says always-working AI future calls for 'every person to have their own dedicated GPU'

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 11:12 EDT

OpenAI's vision for world needs 10 billion GPUs Read more ›

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Mobile RTX 2070 with shunt mod nearly eclipses desktop performance — 60W boost provides 15% performance uplift

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 10:50 EDT

A PC enthusiast reports successfully shunt modding his Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile GPU for a ~15% performance uplift. Read more ›

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