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Nvidia RTX 3060 comeback in 2026 could alleviate soaring GPU prices and memory shortages — rumored RTX 5050 9GB abruptly shelved amid speculation

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Tom's Hardware · 04/18/2026 11:53 EDT

If relaunched at the right price, the RTX 3060 could re-enter the market as a viable option in a segment facing increasing cost pressures. Read more ›

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AMD makes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official — first dual-cache X3D CPU arrives in April, with 208MB cache, 200W TDP, promising modest performance gains

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 11:58 EDT

The new flagship packs a total of 208MB cache, helping deliver modest gains in gaming, rendering, and content creation. Read more ›

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Where to buy Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus — grab these impressive Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs from these retailers, starting from $219

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 11:53 EDT

Two of Intel's latest CPUs, the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, are now available to buy. Read more ›

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Intel's upcoming 'Wildcat Lake' low-power series breaks cover in Geekbench listing — 'Core 3 304' is twice as fast in single-core performance versus last-gen

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 11:44 EDT

Wildcat Lake is the successor to Twin Lake, which itself was a refresh of Alder Lake-N. These are ultra-budget CPUs aimed at embedded devices, cheap laptops, mini-PCs, NAS devices, and more, where efficiency is key. The Core 3 304 is part of the Wildcat Lake family and represents a huge jump over its predecessors in early Geekbench results. Read more ›

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US Senators call for a halt to Nvidia GPU exports in the wake of the Super Micro scandal — looming Chip Security Act may put a wrench into Huang's China ambitions

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 11:35 EDT

As the Super Micro smuggling scandal unfolds, U.S. senators have urged the government to halt Nvidia GPU exports to China, as the Foreign Affairs Committee prepares the Chip Security Act, which will impose location tracking for all exported AI accelerators. Read more ›

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OLED monitor sales surge 92% in 2025 — Asus leads shipments of 2.735 million units as display tech takes hold

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 10:18 EDT

Gamers are finally buying OLEDs thanks to bumps in durability and brightness as well as drops in prices. Read more ›

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Class action alleges Nvidia hid more than $1b crypto-GPU income within its gaming revenues — investor lawsuit concerns business spanning 2017 and 2018

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 09:42 EDT

Nvidia is back in court over whether a significant chunk of its revenue through 2017 and 2018 was reliant on the whims of the cryptocurrency market. Read more ›

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Super Micro shareholders sue company over securities fraud after AI chip smuggling bust — furious investors say company concealed dependence on illicit sales to China

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 09:05 EDT

Supermicro shareholders argue that the company committed securities fraud because it did not tell them that illegal activities made up a huge portion of its sales and that it had issues with export controls compliance. Read more ›

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Gigabyte Aero X16 Review: Capable hardware, compromised experience

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 09:00 EDT

Gigabyte’s Aero X16 is a solid productivity machine, but its screen and audio hold it back from true creative credibility. Read more ›

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Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool tested and explained — how the iBOT translation delivers up to 18% faster gaming performance, 8% on average

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 08:46 EDT

Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs come with a unique feature: Binary Optimization Tool. We’ve put it to the test in 10 games with the 250K Plus and 270K Plus, and came out with an 8% uplift on average. Read more ›

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Save big on Intel's Arrow Lake refresh with almost $300 off on this 3-item bundle — new Core Ultra 270K Plus processor, MSI Z890 Carbon Wifi motherboard, and 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6400 RAM for $899.99

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 08:37 EDT

Buy a powerful Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus bundle with a MSI Z890 Carbon Wifi and 32GB of RAM for $899.99 - get pre AI-apocolypse RAM pricing on this awesome launch day Newegg bundle Read more ›

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Corsair's discounted 32GB Vengeance is the cheapest DDR5 on the market by a big margin — $300 sale price is $60 less than next best option

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 08:23 EDT

You can grab 32GB of DDR5-6200 Corsair Vengeance RAM for $300.99 right now. That's a $130 discount on its (current) list price, a serious saving in a market that the AI boom has left in ruin. Read more ›

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Arzopa Z3FC 16.1-inch portable monitor review: 1440p resolution and 180 Hz for mobile gamers

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 08:00 EDT

The Arzopa Z3FC has performance and build quality on its side, but it could use some better speakers. Read more ›

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Three individuals charged with attempting to break US sanctions on AI chips — damning text messages between conspirators reveal intention to find clients to ‘act as pass through partner for customers in China’

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 07:50 EDT

One Chinese and two U.S. citizens have been charged of conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations after they attempted to order servers containing controlled chips for export to Thailand on paper, but with China as the intended final destination. Read more ›

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Paralyzed army vet can now play World of Warcraft using 'science fiction… magic… brilliant…' Neuralink brain implant — 'I’m now raiding, and exploring Azeroth hands-free at full speed'

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 07:38 EDT

British Army veteran Jon L. Noble has shared a heartwarming update on his first 100 days with a Neuralink implant. Read more ›

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Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, Bernstein claims — herculean effort would cost more than 70% of the total yearly US government budget

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 06:40 EDT

To build 1 TW of AI silicon per year, Elon Musk's TeraFab would need to process 22.4 million Rubin Ultra GPU wafers, 2.716 million Vera CPU wafers, and 15.824 million HBM4E wafers annually using from 142 to 358 fabs, according to Bernstein. Read more ›

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CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason — sophisticated attack spreads through npm packages and uses ICP canister as control surface

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 06:20 EDT

CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason Read more ›

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Enthusiast ‘lands’ on the moon using hardware from the 1980s — ZX Spectrum home computer with 3.5 MHz CPU and 48KB of memory power Kerbal space flight

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Tom's Hardware · 03/26/2026 06:00 EDT

YouTuber Scott Manley demonstrated using a ZX Spectrum home computer launched in 1982 to land a spacecraft on the Kerbal Space Program spaceflight simulator. Read more ›

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Geekbench 6 warns about inconsistent benchmarking performance from new Core Ultra 200S Plus chips — says Intel's IPC boosting Binary Optimization Tool modifies scores in 'unclear' fashion

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 13:43 EDT

The team behind Geekbench 6 has warned users about benchmarking inconsistency with Intel's latest iBOT tool found in the new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus. Geekbench 6 can't identify when iBOT is enabled or disabled during benchmark runs. Read more ›

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Micron's $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 transformers, more than double the output of any single manufacturer — heavy electrical infrastructure the latest AI buildout bottleneck

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 12:39 EDT

Micron’s planned $24 billion NAND flash expansion in Singapore will require 400 to 500 power transformers, which is more than double the 100 to 150 units a standard wafer fab typically needs. Read more ›

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Samsung’s 870 EVO SATA SSD quietly gets 8TB variant despite AI storage struggle — new model spotted in Europe for €1,300 with higher cache and endurance

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 11:06 EDT

Samsung’s unlisted 870 EVO 8TB model appears at European retailers with pricing starting at €1,300. Read more ›

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