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AMD B650 expansion cards hit retail starting at $199 — add four M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots and 11 USB ports to any PC with a PCIe slot

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Tom's Hardware · 06/06/2026 12:29 EDT

A couple of new add-in cards exemplify the trend of slapping AMD's Promontory 21 chipset onto a card for extra I/O expansion. Read more ›

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Bolt Graphics tapes out its first Zeus GPU test chip on TSMC 12nm — firm touts 17x lower cost of compute

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Tom's Hardware · 04/23/2026 06:20 EDT

Bolt Graphics has announced its completed tape-out of a test chip for its Zeus GPU, marking the startup's first move from FPGA emulation to manufactured silicon. Read more ›

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Seagate FireCuda X Vault (8TB) review: A USB-powered, RGB-lit hard drive aimed at gamers

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Tom's Hardware · 04/23/2026 06:01 EDT

Seagate’s FireCuda X Vault is a gaming-focused 3.5-inch external drive with easily controlled RGB and a single USB-C cable for power and data. Read more ›

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AI agent designs a complete RISC-V CPU from a 219-word spec sheet in just 12 hours — comparably simple design required 'many tens of billions of tokens'

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Tom's Hardware · 04/23/2026 06:00 EDT

AI chip design startup Verkor.io claims that its agentic AI system, Design Conductor, has autonomously produced a complete RISC-V CPU core. Read more ›

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Elon Musk says TeraFab will use Intel's 14A process technology to make AI chips — SpaceX will be responsible for high-volume chip manufacturing in likely Intel tech licensing deal

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 21:24 EDT

Elon Musk reveals details about TeraFab: Intel provides technology, Tesla builds pilot line, SpaceX constructs high-volume fab. Read more ›

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TSMC unveils process technology roadmap through 2029: A12, A13, N2U announced, A16 slips to 2027

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 16:44 EDT

TSMC strengthens its bifurcated process technology development approach with A14, A13, and N2U aimed at client applications and A16, A12, and N2X for high-performance data center designs. Read more ›

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Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000+ bill despite $7 budget, thanks to forgotten public API key — attacker put in 60,000+ requests and blasted through $1,400 spending cap

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 12:19 EDT

Jesse Davies, an Australian AI consultant and founder of Agentic Labs, was caught unawares when their Google Cloud bill ballooned to more than 2,500 times their initial budget after an unknown API key registered more than 60,000 requests while they were asleep. Read more ›

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Samsung engineer sentenced to 7 years in prison for selling chipmaking trade secrets to Chinese chipmaker — ex-employee supplied 10nm DRAM data to CXMT for $2 million

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 11:39 EDT

An ex-Samsung employee accused of corporate espionage has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for sharing over 600 critical chipmaking steps. Read more ›

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Linux may be ending support for older network drivers due to influx of false AI-generated bug reports — maintenance has become too burdensome for old largely-unused systems

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 10:32 EDT

Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal to remove obsolete ISA and PCMCIA-era Ethernet drivers from the mainline kernel, citing rising maintenance burden from AI-driven bug reports and fuzzing. The change would cut around 27,000 lines of legacy code Read more ›

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Where to buy AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 — more L3 cache and dual 3D V-cache-stacked CCDs

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 10:17 EDT

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor is AMD's latest CPU release. Here's where you can pick one up. Read more ›

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Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop now available with AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition — base config starts at $4,299.99 with RTX 5070 and 32GB DDR5

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 10:00 EDT

Alienware is the first to launch a system powered by AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, combining the new flagship CPU with high-end components. Read more ›

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Microsoft facing $2.8 billion UK lawsuit for overcharging 60,000 businesses using Microsoft Server on other clouds — Azure users allegedly received lower wholesale pricing

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 08:36 EDT

A lawsuit alleging the company is overcharging Windows Server for non-Azure users has been certified to proceed to trial, although Microsoft is still appealing the decision. The lawyer handling the case alleges that the claim affects almost 60,000 businesses and is worth about $2.8 billion. Read more ›

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Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty after leaking victims' insurance details to 'BlackCat' hackers — perp gave attackers a precise picture of exactly how much each target could afford to pay

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 08:22 EDT

Martino, of Land O’Lakes, Florida, is the third and final member of a trio of cybersecurity professionals charged in the scheme. Read more ›

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Keychron K3 Ultra Review: Got Wood?

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 08:00 EDT

Despite a couple of flaws, the Keychron K3 Ultra is one of the best mechanical keyboards I have used in a while. Read more ›

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Score this epic 1440p Samsung gaming monitor back at its lowest-ever price, now just $159 — limited-time discount nets you this 27-inch IPS display with a fast 200Hz refresh rate for your gaming PC

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 07:53 EDT

This 27-inch Samsung Odyssey G53F gaming monitor is back down to a record-low $159.99, thanks to this limited-time Amazon deal, offering a 1440p resolution and fast 200Hz refresh rate at a great price. Read more ›

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Congress moves to strip the DoC of chip-export discretion with the MATCH Act — DUV lithography machines among those targeted in chipmaking tool crackdown

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 07:30 EDT

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware Act, or MATCH Act, in early April. Read more ›

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Just $479 nets you the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU, B850 Max motherboard, and 16GB of DDR5-6000 RAM — perfect start to a low-cost gaming PC build

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 07:22 EDT

Put together a pokey little gaming PC with components that won't break the bank. This $479 Newegg bundle includes a CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and a 360mm AIO CPU cooler Read more ›

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Anthropic's Model Context Protocol includes a critical remote code execution vulnerability — newly discovered exploit puts 200,000 AI servers at risk

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 07:00 EDT

Researchers at OX Security have exposed an architectural vulnerability in Anthropic's Model Context Protocol that allows for remote code execution on affected systems. Read more ›

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Valve VRAM hack may improve gaming on 4GB GPUs — testing showed mixed results in select titles, with FPS almost tripling in certain games

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 06:49 EDT

Valve’s VRAM hack can boost performance on 4GB GPUs, with testing showing FPS gains of up to 3x in some titles, though results vary widely depending on the game and settings. Read more ›

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AMD SDK suggests 4x and 6x frame generation multipliers are in the works — driver-level tweak will let gamers upgrade existing titles to FSR4 ML-based frame generation

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 06:40 EDT

AMD SDK suggests 4x and 6x frame generation multipliers are in the works Read more ›

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Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes — says devices from Cisco and others failed despite blackout in attack that 'indicates deep sabotage'

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Tom's Hardware · 04/22/2026 06:20 EDT

Iranian state media has alleged that equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and MikroTik failed during U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran. Read more ›

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