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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas

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Tom's Hardware · 07/18/2026 13:48 EDT

A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously. Read more ›

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Transparent processor found in vintage HP computer – silicon-on-sapphire chip discovered on a humble floppy drive PCB

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/21/2023 07:32 EDT

Investigations into a 1977-era transparent chip from HP have concluded it was fabricated on a sapphire substrate. HP used these for various purposes in the 70s but they suffered from low yield and high cost. Read more ›

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Samsung claims its new AI chip is 8x more power efficient than Nvidia's H100

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2023 07:27 EDT

Samsung and Naver team up for power-efficient inference chips, tout eight times higher efficiency compared to Nvidia's GPUs. Read more ›

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Intel lays off over 300 in California, over 700 layoffs in the state this year

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2023 07:23 EDT

Intel cuts hundreds of positions at its Folsom and Santa Clara sites. Read more ›

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Chinese province sets up $1.5 billion chip fund to boost local semiconductor industry

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 16:29 EDT

Guangdong province in China sets up $1.5 billion fund to finance local semiconductor industry. Read more ›

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MSI's 4K, 144Hz curved gaming monitor drops to $399

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 15:24 EDT

MSI's Optix G321CUA is large gaming monitor that also offers a high-resolution UHD display and high refresh rate, at a reduced price. Read more ›

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Intel is buying leading-edge lithography tools — report says Intel will acquire six of 10 high-NA EUV tools produced by ASML next year

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 12:52 EDT

Intel is gearing up to be high-NA EUV lithography champ with orders for six additional Twinscan EXE machines. Read more ›

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Meteor Lake die shots show off inner workings of SoC and GPU tiles

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 12:41 EDT

Die shots for Meteor Lake's SoC and GPU tiles have just come out, and it's the first time we've seen detailed images of the TSMC-made tiles. Read more ›

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HWInfo adds preliminary support for Panther Lake and Nova Lake CPUs, Battlemage and Celestial GPUs

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 12:40 EDT

Thanks to HWInfo's update details, it looks like upcoming graphic architectures for future CPUs with new iGPUs and discrete solutions are shaping up! Read more ›

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AMD's Ryzen mobile chips beat Intel's new Meteor Lake in Linux benchmarks — Ryzen 7 7840U and Intel Core Ultra 7 155H go head-to-head

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 11:22 EDT

The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H was tested against the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U by Phoronix in a gauntlet of over 300 CPU benchmarks. The Core 7 was tested with an Acer Swift Go 14, and the Ryzen 7 with a Framework laptop. Read more ›

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Intel adds support for new Xe-HPCVG and Ponte Vecchio VG variants with disabled AI features

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 11:18 EDT

Xe-HPCVG and Ponte Vecchio VG make an appearance in Intel's latest LLVM compiler update, but there are scant details. Read more ›

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Maker creates remote control Christmas tree ornament robot to spy on Santa and sneaky gift bandits

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 11:17 EDT

Milos with Element14 has created an Arduino-powered ornament robot that uses a winch motor to raise and lower itself from the Christmas tree. Read more ›

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I tested Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs on AI workloads: AMD's chips sometimes beat them

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 11:16 EDT

We tested Intel's new AI-friendly chips on real-world inference workloads such as music and image generation. The results may surprise you. Read more ›

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1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/20/2023 09:29 EDT

A 1-bit CPU packing ‘super low performance computer’ has been launched, offering a very limited scope of use, but may be a fun DIY project. Read more ›

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Hands-On: Lian Li's LCD Screen fans turn heads and are surprisingly affordable, but not as configurable as I'd like

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 09:00 EDT

Lian Li's Uni Fan TL LCD fans look great and start at under $50. But you'll have to decide which side you want the screen on before buying the fans, and you can't mix LCD and non-LCD fans together, which is a shame. Read more ›

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Chinese company claims chipmaking tool breakthrough — announces 28nm-capable litho tool

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/20/2023 08:16 EDT

Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group develops 28nm-capable litho machine. Read more ›

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Samsung Odyssey Neo 57 G9 Gaming Monitor Review: Extreme Size and Resolution

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 08:00 EDT

Samsung’s Odyssey Neo 57 G9 can only be called extreme with DUHD (7680x2160) resolution, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10+ with a 1,000-nit Mini LED backlight, 1000R curve, wide gamut color and 2,392 dimming zones. Read more ›

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World's first RISC-V handheld gaming system announced — retro gaming platform uses Linux

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 06:47 EDT

Sipeed unveiled its Lichee Pocket 4A handheld gaming platform, using a RISC-V processor and running Debian Linux. Read more ›

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NASA Successfully Streamed 8K cat video over 18 million miles with a laser — transmission averaged 267 Mb/s

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/20/2023 06:38 EDT

NASA successfully was able to transmit a UHD video with minimal or no degradation from its spacecraft using lasers, indicating it can receive a high-quality video stream over great distances. Read more ›

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Inside Cooler Master's heatsink-themed Taipei headquarters: Even the cafe is cutting edge

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2023 06:30 EDT

We visited the Cooler Master HQ in Taipei just as the firm was preparing to send piles of new products to Las Vegas for CES 2024. Read more ›

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Dell's RTX 4070-Powered Alienware M16 gaming laptop falls back to 1,399 — its lowest price

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Tom's Hardware · 12/19/2023 15:51 EDT

Back to the lowest price I've seen since the sales in October, this powerful Dell Alienware laptop is back on offer and is a much more affordable proposition this holiday season. Read more ›

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