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CXMT's DDR5 RAM isn't as performant or as consistent as SK hynix dies, early testing shows — reveals resistance to voltage scaling and inferior manual overclocking capabilities

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 12:34 EDT

Asus is claiming that CXMT-made DDR5 RAM performs worse than SK Hynix-made DDR5 at the same clock speeds, while being harder to manually overclock as well. It also allegedly doesn't scale with voltage or allow the subtimings to be tuned properly. Read more ›

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ASRock Phantom Gaming and Steel Legend 360 LCD review: An impressive cooling debut

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 12:11 EDT

ASRock has entered the cooling market with the Phantom Gaming 360 LCD and Steel Legend 360 LCD AIOs. We’ve tested both liquid coolers with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D to benchmark their thermal proficiency. Read more ›

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Intel becomes the first company to ship high-volume logic chips made with ASML's High NA EUV — select Panther Lake layers on 18A are now dual-qualified for 0.55 NA scanners

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 11:33 EDT

Intel is using ASML’s High-NA EUV tools to pattern select Panther Lake layers, marking the technology’s first use in high-volume logic production Read more ›

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Grab a DJI Osmo camera at some of lowest US prices ever

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 11:18 EDT

An exclusive sale on AliExpress slashes prices on DJI’s Osmo ultra-compact handheld cameras, bringing them to some of the lowest prices in the U.S. Read more ›

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Intel's EMIB packaging gains traction as chip designers look to skirt TSMC's CoWoS constraints — Google's reported decision for 9th-gen TPUs highlights Intel's attractive alternative

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 10:45 EDT

Google has reportedly chosen Intel's EMIB-T over TSMC's CoWoS-L for its next-generation TPU, codenamed Humufish. But will Google be alone in its alleged decision? Read more ›

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'PCIe Gen7 development has already started,' says Silicon Motion's Alex Chou — Nvidia's Storage Next initiative is becoming a focal point

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 10:09 EDT

Silicon Motion is a relatively new entrant to the data center storage market, which has quickly landed orders from various customers and is now ramping up shipments of its high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers both to CSPs and hyperscalers. Being a new player, the company has a unique view on the market, which it shared with Tom's Hardware. Read more ›

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Save $400 on a 27-inch LG Ultragear OLED Monitor — limited-time discount nets you an awesome OLED monitor with fast 240Hz refresh rate for your gaming PC

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 09:40 EDT

Save $400 on LG’s 27-inch UltraGear 27GS93QE OLED gaming monitor, now $499.99 - with QHD 240 Hz OLED panel, true blacks, and FreeSync/G-Sync support, this deal is worth grabbing. Read more ›

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PC gamer turns Steam games into cartridges with ingenious 2.5-inch SSD system — games are stored on 128GB drives alongside a script to auto-start the title once plugged in

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 08:16 EDT

A PC gamer has created and demonstrated a handy Steam Game Cartridge system. Read more ›

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Palit officially announces RTX 3060 return with 'new' Infinity 2 OC launch — 2021 GPU with 12GB of VRAM is an AI crisis stopgap

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 07:59 EDT

Nvidia has rebooted its five-year-old RTX 3060 graphics card, as is, for the modern AI era, bringing back the GPU officially at its original $329 price. It still features 12GB of VRAM, which serves as its main selling point during a memory crisis, but don't let the capacity fool you. Read more ›

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Elon Musk's Starlink releases smaller and lighter V5 residential kit — offers speeds of up to 375 Mbps and almost half the power consumption of V4

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 07:47 EDT

Starlink just released a new generation of its Starlink terminal, which reduces its weight by more than 50% and is significantly smaller, too. This should make it easier to install, especially for DIY-ers, but comes with a tiny speed penalty. Read more ›

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Score 16GB of DDR5 RAM for just $61.99 in this Newegg parts bundle with the 7800X3D — epic kit deal for a gaming PC build nets you $189 in savings and ships with a Gigabyte motherboard and free MSI MAG cooler

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 07:30 EDT

This 7800X3D bundle from Newegg saves you $188 and ships with a Gigabyte motherboard and 16GB of DDR5 RAM for just $636.99 overall. Read more ›

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Best Buy has slashed $900 off this Asus 64GB 2-in-1 touchscreen gaming laptop — $2,099 RoG Flow Z13 is great for both gaming and AI use

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 07:24 EDT

Gaming laptop or touchscreen tablet, you choose. Save $900 on the Asus RoG Flow Z13 at Best Buy. Read more ›

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Intel's big $5 billion bet on Ireland aims to right the wrongs of the cancelled Magdeburg, Germany complex — Fab 34's proven pipeline and Intel 3 node should help the company meet insatiable HPC demand

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 07:20 EDT

The announcement comes just shy of a year after CEO Lip-Bu Tan cancelled Intel's planned €30 billion fab complex in Germany and a €4.6 billion assembly and test plant in Poland. Read more ›

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Nvidia and Sega team up to deliver RTX Spark support for future games — partnership kicks off next year with upcoming Virtua Fighter Crossroads

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 07:20 EDT

Nvidia and Sega announced today that the upcoming Virtua Fighter Crossroads will support the RTX Spark platform when the game launches in 2027. Sega is also promising Spark support in its future titles. Read more ›

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Developer successfully ports Linux to 1994 Sega 32X — Genesis and MegaDrive expansion runs open-source OS on paltry 23MHz processors and 256KB of RAM

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 06:04 EDT

The adventurous developer who recently ported Linux to the Atari Jaguar (1993) has brewed up a version of the open source OS for the Sega 32X (1994). Read more ›

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Legendary Gravis Ultrasound sound card gets new open-source clone — Beavis Ultrasound remake includes complete KiCad schematics, PCB layout, sample ROM, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 06:00 EDT

There’s a new remake of the legendary Gravis Ultrasound ISA soundcard on the block with the arrival of the open source Beavis Ultrasound project. Read more ›

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CXMT close to matching Micron's memory capacity in 2026, research claims — would put China on track to become world's second-largest DRAM producer

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 05:48 EDT

As CXMT's DRAM capacity set to match Micron's, China's DRAM industry could become world's second largest after South Korea. Read more ›

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Ukraine conducts record drone strike of 2,500km after 12-hour flight — $55,000 unit made of plywood halts operations at Russia's largest gasoline producer

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 05:29 EDT

Ukrainian FP-1 drones struck the Gazprom Neft oil refinery in Omsk, Siberia, on July 6 after flying roughly 2,500 km over more than 12 hours. Read more ›

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PS5 emulation ramps up in response to Sony killing physical games — PS5 titles now booting across different emulators with rapid community development for both 2D and 3D games

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Tom's Hardware · 07/15/2026 05:00 EDT

SharpEmu and KytyPS5 are two emulators that have exploded in terms of development milestones in the past two weeks, receiving several high-profile updates that have now made it possible to run a handful of 2D and even 3D PS5 games on PC. Read more ›

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US gov't allows Chinese telecom giant ZTE to purchase Nvidia H200 AI chips — firm joins Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance in access to Hopper tech

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Tom's Hardware · 07/14/2026 15:46 EDT

The United States has licensed Chinese telecom giant ZTE to purchase restricted Nvidia H200 AI chips, but Chinese regulators and domestic procurement initiatives may limit the material impact of the change. Read more ›

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