Tom's Hardware 4 hr ago

AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 ‘Gorgon Halo’ packs up to 192GB of unified memory — refreshed APU uses Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5, and can clock up to 5.2 GHz

AMD is refreshing its Ryzen AI Max chips with the new 400 series, known as Gorgon Halo, and they’ll show up in the Ryzen AI Halo development box. That box, w...

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Tom's Hardware 10 hr ago

Samsung narrowly avoids 18-day chip strike after last-minute wage deal with 48,000-worker union — tentative deal, subject to workers' vote, suspends billions of dollars worth of potential losses

Samsung Electronics has temporarily avoided a major 18-day strike at its South Korean semiconductor operations after reaching a tentative wage agreement with...

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Tom's Hardware 10 hr ago

Memory makers brace for hydrogen fluoride pricing shock as Hormuz blockade impacts supply chain — key etching and cleaning material faces sharp cost increase amid trade disruption

Rising production costs for key chip etching and cleaning material, anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, could lead to further price rises for consumers on memory an...

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Tom's Hardware 11 hr ago

Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 10th Anniversary Edition surfaces online for $310 — return of iconic gaming CPU for budget builders seems imminent

Indian retailer lists AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 10th Anniversary Edition processor for $310.

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Tom's Hardware 11 hr ago

Team Group agrees to $1.1 million DRAM settlement in another false advertising lawsuit — claimed advertised memory speeds required BIOS tweaks and overclocking settings

Team Group denies all wrongdoing but has agreed to settle the lawsuit involving advertised RAM performance and overclocking-related settings.

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Tom's Hardware 11 hr ago

Get a 2TB Western Digital Black SN7100 SSD for only $299.99 — $200 savings drives snappy PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD down to a more reasonable price point.

Newegg slashes $200 off the 2TB WD Black SN7100 dropping this fast PCIe 4.0 SSD to $299.99 - strong PS5 and PC performance plus lower power draw make it one ...

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Tom's Hardware 12 hr ago

Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly abandoning overseas training programs to nab up to $400,000 performance bonuses — online dating grades rise as female members 'seeking out SK hynix employees'

Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly considering terminating overseas training programs to be eligible for performance bonuses as AI-driven semicond...

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Tom's Hardware 13 hr ago

Russia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba

CEO German Gref didn’t specify which Chinese chips Sberbank is interested in, but the most likely candidate is Huawei's Ascend 950 family.

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Tom's Hardware 13 hr ago

HyperX FlipCast Review: For the gamer-podcaster

The HyperX FlipCast is an end-address professional-quality microphone with both USB-C and XLR connectivity and tons of on-mic controls. It looks and sounds g...

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Tom's Hardware 15 hr ago

Asus ZenScreen Duo OLED (MQ149CD) Review: An impressive, book-style dual-screen portable monitor

Dual OLED screens are hard to ignore in the portable monitor segment for mobile warriors.

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Tom's Hardware 15 hr ago

Intel kicks off development on next-decade 10A and 7A process technologies — 14A node remains on track for critical October PDK release

Intel says its 14A process technology is on track for high-volume manufacturing in 2029, 10A and 7A to follow in the 2030s.

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Tom's Hardware 15 hr ago

China banned Nvidia 5090D V2 while CEO Jensen Huang was in town, report claims — move comes as Beijing pushes its AI tech companies to use homegrown chips

The RTX 5090D V2 GPU Nvidia specifically built for China to comply with U.S. export controls just received the ban hammer from Beijing. Although this GPU is ...

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