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- June 4
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- Elon Musk's SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas — county approves 35-year deal worth hundreds of millions despite resident backlash
- US tech layoffs record single-highest month in two years, and more than any other sector — nearly 40,000 get the axe, AI the most cited reason for layoffs
- Silicon Motion increases sales of SSD controllers amid NAND shortage, but expects NAND shortages to get worse in 2027 — 'supply conditions will become even worse'
- Hyte shows off Y50 chassis, aesthetic cable accessory kit, new fans, and updates Nexus Software — sub $100 Y50 brings value to Y-series, Nexus 3.0 goes web-based, now works on Mac, Linux, Windows, and your phone
- Best of Computex 2026: Innovating despite disruptions
- ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
- AMD's Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects — AMD's Vera Rubin rival surfaces, but the downsides of Ethernet could hamstring performance
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming 'a huge issue' — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme
- Production of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5
- $559 Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU deal is the cheapest model available — 1440p high-performance gaming at just $10 above MSRP
- HP has slashed an astonishing $2,600 off this RTX 5080 gaming PC, nearly 50% off — get an epic Omen 35L rig with a 9900X3D, 64GB DDR5, and 4TB of SSD storage for just $2,899.99
- Frore shows off LiquidJet Nexus coldplate for Nvidia Vera Rubin, other AI accelerators — offers up claimed 10% token generation boost over rival liquid-cooling solutions
- Microsoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant — closed-loop cooling system aims to slash consumption from millions of gallons as AI infrastructure faces mounting environmental scrutiny
- Surface Laptop Ultra targets 110W TDP for RTX Spark Superchip — Microsoft reveals power budget of its high-end 15" system in hands-on session
- Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 3 — the heat bites as our team races across Taipei
- Aviation enthusiast uses Raspberry Pi and ADS-B radio to create viral real-time airport tracker — open-source 'Skylight' intercepts aircraft signals and projects flight paths onto your ceiling
- TeamGroup shows off external SSD with wireless ‘self-destruct’ function — T-Create Expert P35SG External SSD can be wiped with a single text message
- June 3
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- MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ brings Intel Arc G3 Extreme to handhelds — 8-inch, 120 Hz display and new ergonomic grips
- Save $1,280 on this 4K-ready Alienware Aurora desktop PC with RTX 5080 — high-performance gaming at your fingertips for $2,919
- Lian Li's Edge Platinum V2 PSUs have an LED dust indicator, magnetic filter, and a snap-on fan and USB header hub — Edge line's trademark 90-degree power connector also returns
- ASRock shows off a slew of new AIOs, Power Supplies, and 10th Anniversary hardware — a monster 3KW Taichi power supply for AI and hybrid Taichi Aqua AIO/custom loop stand out in the crowd
- Samsung shows first HBM5 mockup with Heat Path Block cooling — thermal race with SK hynix shaping up
- Computex 2026 Day Two Wrap-Up: Intel atones for Arrow Lake, Wi-Fi 8 comes into focus
- Corsair launches lightweight budget-friendly HS35 v3 gaming headsets — wired version weighs a cool 230 grams
- Noctua shows off improved thermosiphon prototype — passively circulated liquid cooler gets Q3 2027 projected launch date
- Samsung rolls out 2026 Odyssey gaming monitors, including 5K and 6K models — 27 to 32 inches with up to 330 Hz refresh rate
- AMD executives react to Nvidia’s RTX Spark — ‘you’re just wrong if you don’t get a Strix Halo notebook’
- Counterfeit G.Skill and V-Color DDR5 modules hit Chinese marketplaces, impacting company sales — cheap contraband memory using identical PCBs and heat spreaders almost impossible to spot
- NZXT showcases H6 mid-tower chassis, new Ultra RGB fans, and a white H2 offering — boundless RGB customization options take this case to a whole new level
- Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of 'agent-first' enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps
- Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify
- Land an RTX 5060-powered OLED gaming laptop for just $1,099 — HP's Omen Transcend features an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H 16-core CPU, 3K resolution, and WiFi 7
- Save a massive 90% on a two-year PrivadoVPN subscription and get three extra months for free — huge $266 saving on this affordable VPN with a strict no-logs policy that you can try risk-free for 30 days for just $30
- Korean tech workers splash cash on luxury brands after bumper bonus payouts — luxury goods sales rocket nearly 150% in Gyeonggi Province semiconductor belt
- Noctua's first-ever AIO features a silenced Asetek Emma V2 pump and NF-A12/14 fans — 240mm NL-LC1 starts at around $250, could cost $325 for 420mm cooler
- Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 2 — Interviews, roundtables, and the first day at the Nanggang Exhibition Center
- 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
- Corsair shows off gaming mouse with dedicated Stream Deck launch button — wireless mouse also gets almost 50 hours of 8K battery life
- GoPro warns 'substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue' in regulatory filings — AI memory shortage hits action camera maker
- AMD says new EXPO ‘Ultra Low Latency’ DDR5 memory should be 'effectively the same price' as current kits — feature will work on existing chipsets, but will require new DIMMs
- Intel's 5.7 GHz Xeon 6377P features 12 P-cores and a desktop-class LGA1700 socket — unusual server CPU prioritizes clock speed over core count
- Github Copilot customers report up to 100-fold price hikes — AI sticker shock bites as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing
- The rise of local agentic computing faces a brutal reality: rising DRAM prices — RTX Spark, Gorgon Halo chips subject to 63% DRAM contract price hike this quarter
- Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers — up to 80 accelerators can be scaled up using PCIe alone
- June 2
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- Cherry XTRFY launches first 8K ultra-wideband gaming keyboard — featuring more compact 70-percent layout
- Next-Gen HDMI Technology Crucial for Advanced Gaming
- Intel addresses Arrow Lake blunder: 'We needed to build back our reputation' — says Arrow Lake Refresh's low price a key first step, laying the groundwork for Nova Lake
- Microsoft announces Majorana 2 quantum computing chip — claims a practical machine will come in 2029
- Asus unveils its first Wi-Fi 8 router — ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro offers up to 2x real-world throughput uplift over Wi-Fi 7
- Intel’s next-gen LGA1954 socket will support Nova Lake, Razor Lake, and beyond — finally an Intel socket that outlives its CPUs
- Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box — Nvidia-powered mini-PC helps devs get ready for an agentic Windows
- MSI unveils latest set of WiFi 7 gaming routers touting ultra-fast speeds — flagship RadiX BE19000 model comes with a built-in SSD slot for 'NAS Lite' experience and wireless speeds up to 19 Gbps
- Computex 2026 Day One Wrap-Up: Arm makes a bold play for Windows PCs, PCIe 6.0 SSDs are coming, Asus embraces black and gold for ROG 20th
- Cooler Master shows off new MWE Gold V4 Power supplies and GPU Shield adapter — per-pin monitoring can dynamically scale down power to stop cables melting
- Mainland Chinese exhibitors reportedly locked out of Computex 2026, as Taiwan entry permits stall — parties complain applications left pending or hit with last-minute documentation requests
- Intel reportedly no longer working on 6-core Nova Lake mobile SKU, alleges new rumor — Wildcat Lake Refresh to become focus for next-gen budget markets instead
- AMD is considering a potential Ryzen 5 9600X3D — company says six-core Zen 5 X3D chip 'maybe something we look at doing... later this year'
- Cooler Master shows off new HAF II 500 chassis, aluminum fans, and new air coolers — New V8 Cooler, Masterfan A, and updated Silencio 600 and HAF chassis’ add to an already comprehensive product stack
- Phison shows PCIe 6.0 X3 SSD controller with 28 GB/s of bandwidth and 6.8 million IOPS, supports 2 petabytes per drive— also new power-sipping E37T SSDs for PCIe 5.0 systems consume a mere 4.5W
- Intel Xeon 6+ Computex roundtable interview transcript — Kira Boyko and Tim Wilson on 18A wafer allocation, Clearwater Forest, and dropping hyper-threading
- Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownership stakes in largest AI firms
- Grab this RTX 5070 gaming PC with a 7800X3D from CyberPowerPC for under $1,960 right now — exclusive discount available on 4K-ready pre-built rig with 32GB DDR5 and 1TB SSD that knocks $210 off
- Gigabyte showcases new Infinity products for its 40th anniversary — X870 Infinity Next halo motherboard boasts metal 3D-printed elements, Aero Wood goes dark, MicroATX Stealth boards, Infinity-style GPUs extend down the product stack
- SK hynix to double memory wafer capacity within five years, chairman says — AI-driven shortage will persist until at least 2030
- Jensen Huang says Nvidia wants to 'reinvent the single most important tool of humanity' with RTX Spark — Nvidia CEO touts support of 'literally every computer maker in the world' for its agentic AI PC platform
- Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 1 — night markets, taking the MRT train, and a slew of demos
- Drones to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage touted in new defense pact — US one of three partners developing new tech to protect $1.8 trillion in daily transactions
- Take home Gigabyte's Aero X16 gaming laptop for just $1,389.99 and save $610 — packed with 32GB of RAM and a powerful RTX 5070 GPU
- AMD ‘had to re-engineer’ the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for a re-release — 10th Anniversary Edition chip had ‘a whole body of engineering work’ put into it
- Intel Arc G3 interview transcript — Intel's Senior Product Director talks new handheld chips, Arrow Lake Refresh, and RTX Spark
- Frore System’s solid-state AirJet Mini cools Intel’s Wildcat Lake laptop reference design – 15W of sustained, fanless cooling helps MacBook Neo competitor reach a svelte 11.3 mm, remain silent
- Teen’s Bluetooth speaker named ‘BOMB’ caused a 10-hour delay on flight from Newark to Spain — passenger reported concerns to flight attendant at 32,000 feet, forcing plane back to the US
- Intel says 'something has to give' with memory prices — company says it 'will continue to make sure that there are products which can take care of older memory technologies'
- Chinese military has been acquiring Nvidia chips, even post-Washington export controls, research claims — multiple institutions linked to the PLA asked for Nvidia AI chips, according to publicly available documents
- Watch Intel's Computex 2026 keynote here — CEO Lip-Bu Tan takes the stage in Taipei at 10:30pm PT on June 1
- Asus shows off updated Zenbook and Strix Scar laptops, along with a TUF-based Gaming desktop — a refreshed look on laptops takes center stage
- Hands-on with Asus’ ROG Azoth Extreme Edition 20 mechanical keyboard – when carbon fiber isn’t enough, Asus goes for the gold
- Hands-on with Asus’ ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20 gaming mouse – 24K gold and a 65K sensor
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review: thoroughly midrange
- June 1
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- Gigabyte debuts fourth-gen Tandem WOLED and multi-mode Mini LED gaming monitors — 27 to 32 inches, up to 480 Hz, and up to 5K resolution
- Noctua announces new thermal pad for AMD chips in partnership with Carbice — product will work with processors in AM5 and AM4 sockets
- Windows Server vulnerability can grant system privileges with just a malformed packet — domain controllers are being exploited in the wild
- Anthropic files for IPO — Claude maker races OpenAI and SpaceX to Wall Street
- Computex 2026 Day Zero Wrap-Up: Nvidia launches RTX Spark Superchip assault on laptop and desktop markets, Intel readies Xeon 6+
- Nvidia's RTX Spark could caplitalize where Qualcomm's Arm-based efforts have not — following the expiration of Qualcomm's Windows on Arm deal, Nvidia stands poised to pick up the slack
- Qualcomm aims Snapdragon C laptop chip at the budget laptop segment, as manufacturers feel the DRAM squeeze — analysts warn sub $500 laptop market may disappear before 2028
- Access Tom’s Hardware Premium’s Computex 2026 coverage for free — sign up for an account to read insider reports from the show
- Asus' world-first OLED esports monitor can hit 540Hz at 1080p — ROG Strix OLED model among four fresh offerings
- Asus rolls out a ROG 20th anniversary chair and backpack, alongside commemorative components and peripherals — ROG Destrier Edition 20, ROG SLASH Hard-case Luggage Edition 20 are back in black (and gold)
- Seven hospitalized after toxic gas fire at SK hynix advanced memory plant — Cheongju 4th campus incident today led to all 3,600 staff being evacuated
- Bambu Lab Launches Big Bed Slinger: A2L — company's 'H2S Lite' is half the cost of H2S at just $469
- Beat the heat: These components deliver cooler and faster builds
- 256GB of dual-channel RAM hits mass market thanks to Origin Code — quad-rank CUDIMM packs 128GB of DDR5-8000 into a single module
- Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 0 — peek behind the curtain to see how we're covering the biggest trade show of the year
- Nvidia says RTX Spark chip will support all major anti-cheat and DRM technologies — Fortnite, Valorant, Denuvo, and more to work natively with Windows on Arm
- Asus' monstrous ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20 includes expansive curved AMOLED display — also debuts 3,000W power supply and striking PC case
- Supermicro shows off Vera Rubin NVL72 rack with all-new type of coolant — company claims coolant offers 1,000 times higher electrical impedance over standard cooling
- Save 78% on Nord's latest Complete VPN package — 27 months of online protection for $107
- US closes loophole that allowed Chinese-owned subsidiaries located outside China to buy AI chips — report claims that hundreds of thousands of advanced AI chips have been acquired through BIS blind spot
- Negative time experiment clears peer review as photons appear to leave an atom cloud before entering — groundbreaking quantum 'negative time' proven after 1 million test runs
- Acer’s PM131QT portable monitor is a 12.3-inch touchscreen with magnetic mounting, a built-in kickstand, and 5-point touch – 1920 x 720 IPS screen has pogo pins for a keyboard, and is designed for secondary and “in-vehicle” use
- Resourceful runner 'can race my own ghost' using homemade Meta Ray-Ban Display app — also adds bonus coins, mini leaderboard, and more
- Computex 2026 Live: Day three in Taipei
- AMD promises 13% uplift with new EXPO ‘Ultra Low Latency’ overclocking on DDR5 DIMMs — automatic memory overclocking delivers 4% improvement over standard EXPO, says AMD
- Intel warns it has 'a healthy dose of paranoia' over Nvidia entrance into PC market — company says RTX Spark is 'great for the market' while touting the virtues of x86
- We went hands-on with Qualcomm's new '$300 and up' ARM laptop platform with mystery eight-core CPU — active-cooled Snapdragon C laptop surfaces in Acer Aspire Go 15
- DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction update arrives in August for better ray tracing visuals — broader training data set and second-gen transformer architecture combine for improved image quality
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra wields Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip with 128GB of RAM, 20 Arm CPU cores, and a Blackwell GPU — 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra display rounds out the powerful package
- Nvidia lays out RTX Spark roadmap for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 — three generations outlined, Rubin with LPDDR6 memory, followed by Rosa Feynman
- Nvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 – new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory
- Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth
- Intel details long-awaited Crescent Island AI GPU at Computex, boasts up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X to combat memory shortages — company shares more details of its Xe3P inference accelerator at Computex
- Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache — new Xeon 6990E+ is 30% faster per thread than 192-core AMD Epyc 9965, says Intel
- AMD’s formerly China-exclusive Radeon RX 9070 GRE goes global for $549 on June 2 — RDNA 4 GPU will bridge the gap between RX 9060 XT and RX 9070
- Watch Nvidia's Computex 2026 keynote here — Jensen Huang takes the stage for Computex and GTC Taipei at 8pm PT / 11pm ET on May 31
- AMD confirms AM5 support through 2029 — Zen 4 and 5 platform will likely see two more generations, at least
- AMD brings back Ryzen 7 5800X3D, launches Ryzen 7 7700X3D to combat rising component prices — eight-core X3D CPUs arrive under $350 for AM4 or AM5, DDR4 or DDR5