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Global chip supply chain under threat as US-Iran conflict enters third week — Strait of Hormuz blockade is days away from crippling Taiwan's semiconductor industry

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 06:20 EDT

Taiwan imports almost all of its energy and requires large amounts of LNG to sustain its electrical grid. That grid is then used by local chipmakers — like TSMC who is responsible for making most of the world's high-end chips. Fabrication for these chips requires helium, which Taiwan also imports and right now, the Iran-U.S. conflict has made it difficult to acquire both. Read more ›

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Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw — open source USB bridge unlocks 0.85-inch mechanical Toshiba drive from 2004

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 06:00 EDT

Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world’s smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004. Read more ›

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Seagate FireCuda X1070 2TB SSD review: Entry-level hardware meets premium support

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 06:00 EDT

The Seagate FireCuda X1070 is a budget-minded SSD done mostly right. It performs well enough and has excellent support, but initial pricing is high. A Gen 4 SSD that you can just throw into any system and get the job done. Read more ›

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Nvidia removes Rubin CPX accelerators from its roadmap — Groq 3 LPUs take center stage as CPX is removed

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 06:00 EDT

Nvidia's slides at GTC lack any mentions of Rubin CPX, but praise Groq LPUs instead. Read more ›

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Dell updates Alienware gaming laptops with Intel’s Arrow Lake-HX Refresh CPUs — 16-inch models receive OLED display and GPU upgrades

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 03:00 EDT

Dell expands Alienware 16 Area-51, Alienware 16X Aurora, and Alienware 18 Area-51 laptops with new Intel Arrow Lake-HX Refresh processor options. Read more ›

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Micron enters high-volume production of HBM4 for Nvidia Vera Rubin - 2.3x bandwidth improvement and 20% boost in power efficiency

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 18:47 EDT

The HBM4 36GB 12H stack runs at over 11 Gb/s pin speeds, delivering bandwidth greater than 2.8 TB/s. Read more ›

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Jensen Huang expects Nvidia to sell $1 trillion of AI hardware through 2027 — AI buildout intensifies as Agentic AI takes hold

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 16:41 EDT

Nvidia believes it earn $1 trillion by selling AI hardware, says co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang. Read more ›

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Nvidia announces Vera Rubin Space Module — up to 25x the AI compute of H100 for orbital data centers

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 16:04 EDT

Six commercial space companies are understood to have already deployed the platform. Read more ›

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Nvidia's Nemotron coalition brings eight AI labs together to build open frontier models

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 16:04 EDT

"Open models are the lifeblood of innovation and the engine of global participation in the AI revolution," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Read more ›

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Intel Xeon 6 selected as host CPU for Nvidia DGX Rubin NVL8 systems — Intel wins a contract as Nvidia enters data center processor market with Vera CPUs

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 15:40 EDT

Intel announced today at Nvidia GTC 2026 in San Jose that its Xeon 6 processor will serve as the host CPU in Nvidia's DGX Rubin NVL8 systems. Read more ›

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Nvidia Groq 3 LPU and Groq LPX racks join Rubin platform at GTC — SRAM-packed accelerator boosts 'every layer of the AI model on every token'

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 15:31 EDT

At GTC 2026, Nvidia revealed the Groq 3 accelerator and Groq LPX rack as part of the Vera Rubin platform. These SRAM-packed, inference-focused chips deliver large amounts of memory bandwidth to help Rubin deliver low-latency interactions with AI models spanning trillions of parameters and million-token contexts. Read more ›

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Nvidia unveils details of new 88-core Vera CPUs positioned to compete with AMD and Intel – new Vera CPU rack features 256 liquid-cooled chips that deliver up to a 6X gain in CPU throughput

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 15:29 EDT

Nvidia announced more details about its new 88-core Vera data center CPUs, claiming impressive 50% performance gains over standard CPUs, fueled by a 1.5X increase in IPC from its Olympus cores. The firm also unveiled its new Vera CPU Rack architecture, which brings 256 liquid-cooled CPUs into one rack for CPU-centric workloads. Read more ›

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Nvidia debuts DLSS 5 for increased visual fidelity in games — AI-infused tech transforms pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 15:12 EDT

DLSS 5 is coming to make your favorite games look even more realistic Read more ›

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Meta's new MTIA lineup joins hyperscalers' unified push for dedicated inferencing chips — companies diversify AI chips in effort to diversify from sole reliance on Nvidia

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 14:19 EDT

As Meta introduces its lineup of new AI chips, the company joins other tech giants in diversifying the AI accelerators used for specific workloads, and says that mainstream GPUs built for large-scale pre-training are less cost-effective for inference workloads. Read more ›

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Microsoft and Samsung scramble to fix a major C: drive lockout bug on Galaxy devices — faulty Galaxy Connect app leaves users with 'limited' recovery options following recent Windows 11 update

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 13:46 EDT

A bug with a Samsung app on Windows 11 has caused some users to lose access to their C: drive, following the installation of the KB5077181 security update, according to a notice posted by Microsoft online. Read more ›

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Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote live blog — Jensen Huang takes the stage in San Jose to show the 'future of technology'

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 13:45 EDT

Nvidia's GTC 2026 keynote is happening now, and Tom's Hardware is on the ground to deliver live updates during CEO Jensen Huang's two-hour presentation. Read more ›

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Creative updates its Sound Blaster PCIe line after 5 years — new $79.99 Audigy FX Pro 7.1 pitched as ‘clear upgrade over standard onboard audio’

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 11:00 EDT

Creative updates its roster of PCIe sound cards for PC desktop DIYers with the new Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro 7.1, Read more ›

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Intel's roadmaps examined — 14A, Nova Lake, Diamond Rapids & AI accelerator push

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 10:29 EDT

Intel's CPU roadmap is unlike any the company has published in recent years, because its manufacturing ambitions and its product launches have to succeed simultaneously. Read more ›

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First credible leak of an AMD Zen 6 processor pops up on Geekbench — ten-core CPU seems to have 32MB of L3 cache

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 09:37 EDT

While the result doesn't mean much due to this being early silicon running at low clocks, it proves that AMD has Zen 6 consumer CPUs up and running. Read more ›

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No more stick drift for under $50 — 8BitDo's Pro 3 controller with Hall-Effect TMR sticks and swappable ABXY buttons is 29% off while stocks last

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Tom's Hardware · 03/16/2026 09:05 EDT

8BitDo's Pro 3 controller with TMR Hall-Effect sticks and swappable ABXY buttons is 29% off in this Woot deal. Read more ›

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