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Save $500 on this beastly gaming rig with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Ryzen 7800X3D, and 32GB of RAM — Skytech's desktop gaming PC now just $1,499

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Tom's Hardware · 06/13/2026 10:29 EDT

Looking for a solid gaming PC but tired of seeing exorbitant prices on every retailer's website? We've got you covered with this prebuilt, equipped with high-quality components ready for 1440p gaming and more, with a clear upgrade path once prices settle down. 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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Amazon and Google tip off Jensen Huang before announcing information about their AI chips, says report — companies tread carefully to avoid surprising Nvidia

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 09:53 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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EA acquired by Saudi Arabian investment fund and others for $55 billion — largest ever buyout of a public company

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 09:53 EDT

EA has been acquired for $55 billion. Read more ›

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Qualcomm’s 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme dominates in first benchmarks – 18 cores and 48GB of on-package memory on a 192-bit bus look tough to beat

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 09:00 EDT

Testing the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme made me wonder how Intel and AMD are going to respond. Qualcomm’s new flagship chip looks ready to dominate on all fronts. Read more ›

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'Moscow military spy ship' tracked mapping and surveilling NATO undersea cables — 'She’s following cable lines and pipelines, making stops. We are monitoring her very closely

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 07:46 EDT

A new report documents how a Russian military spy ship has been tracked surveilling and mapping undersea cables in Europe's Atlantic coastline. Read more ›

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EU pushes for Chips Act 2.0 investment as it looks set to miss global silicon production targets by a wide margin — seeks quadrupling of semiconductor investment as $50 billion initiative flounders

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 07:34 EDT

A Dutch coalition has brought together all EU member nations to revise the 2022 Chips Act to encourage greater investment in silicon manufacturing, with estimates suggesting it is on track to miss its 2030 target of 20% of global chip production in the EU by a wide margin. Read more ›

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Legendary Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA card revived by hardware enthusiast — 1994 relic restored to former glory

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Tom's Hardware · 09/29/2025 07:07 EDT

A hardware enthusiast has repaired an iconic 90s Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA card. Read more ›

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Famed gamer creates working 5 million parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft, made with 439 million blocks — AI trained to hold conversations, working model runs inference in the game

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 09/29/2025 07:00 EDT

CraftGPT puts a functioning AI chatbot on a computer built inside Minecraft. Read more ›

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TSMC says Intel didn’t ask for investments — denies existence of talks for partnership, joint venture

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Tom's Hardware · 09/28/2025 14:38 EDT

TSMC said that it's not considering investing in Intel, contrary to what some sources said. Read more ›

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