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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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Intel Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs bring 32GB of RAM to AI and pro apps — bigger Battlemage finally arrives, but it's not for gaming

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 11:02 EDT

Intel's Arc Pro B70 and B65 GPUs bring options for more raw compute, 32GB of RAM and multi-GPU scalability to the market for local AI explorers looking to run inference workloads for relatively low prices. Read more ›

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PC makers face shortages of Intel and AMD CPUs that stretch up to six months — lead time for orders jumps from just two weeks in the face of AI demand

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 11:00 EDT

Many PC manufacturers are facing challenges in acquiring inventory of Intel and AMD CPUs, saying that there is not enough supply to meet consumer demand. Read more ›

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Google's TurboQuant reduces AI LLM cache memory capacity requirements by at least six times — up to 8x performance boost on Nvidia H100 GPUs, compresses KV caches to 3 bits with no accuracy loss

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 09:14 EDT

In benchmarks on Nvidia H100 GPUs, 4-bit TurboQuant delivered up to an eight-times performance increase in computing attention logits compared to unquantized 32-bit keys. Read more ›

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Intel officially releases Xeon 600 chips, announces new vPro Panther Lake CPUs — ‘all-new’ vPro platform goes all-in on AI

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 09:00 EDT

Intel has officially released its Xeon 600 workstation CPUs, previously known as Granite Rapids-WS, as well as detailed new features coming to its vPro platform with new Panther Lake CPUs for businesses. Read more ›

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Seagate FireCuda 530R 2TB SSD Review: A stealthy workstation powerhouse

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 09:00 EDT

The Seagate FireCuda 530R is a specialized workstation SSD that prioritizes reliability and performance consistency. With high write endurance and bundled data recovery services, it provides extra peace of mind. Read more ›

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Start your AM5 build off right with an incredible deal on a Ryzen 9 9900X processor — get $185 off and walk away with the centerpiece of your new or upgraded PC for only $314.99, an all-time low

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 08:32 EDT

Check out this great deal on AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X for only $314.99 - an all time low. Build new, or upgrade your AM5 rig on the cheap with this limited time deal from Amazon's limited tome Spring Sale Read more ›

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Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for 600 acres of land from unnamed AI data center suitor — declines 7x offer, wants to ‘Stay and hold and feed a nation’

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 08:28 EDT

A family in Northern Kentucky received a $26 million offer for half their land — a price that's worth more than 7 times the going rate for the area. But despite the massive price, they still refused, saying that they "fed a nation off of it." Read more ›

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Gigabyte MO27Q28G 27-inch 280 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: Bright, colorful, and quick

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 08:00 EDT

Gigabyte leverages Tandem OLED tech to bring a huge color gamut to its MO27Q28G. It’s a 27-inch QHD panel with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR500 and enough speed to satisfy hardcore eSports competitors. Read more ›

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Grab this $8.98 TP-Link gigabit Ethernet switch for lag-free 4K streaming and gaming — save nearly 50% on silent unmanaged 5-port hub to instantly expand your LAN

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 07:52 EDT

A half-price discount is up for grabs on this TP-Link 5-port unmanaged Ethernet switch, down to only $8.98 in this limited-time Amazon deal, unlocking five extra ports for your network at a very low price. Read more ›

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The Super Micro AI accelerator smuggling scandal proves how cut-throat the global AI race has become — as global trade evolves, so does export control evasion

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Tom's Hardware · 03/25/2026 07:48 EDT

One of the co-founders of American server company Super Micro has been arrested and charged with smuggling AI chips to China in deals worth several billions of dollars. Several managers and contractors are also implicated, and one remains a fugitive at the time of writing. Read more ›

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