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PremiumIntel's one-two punch plan in desktop CPUs is taking shapeIntel’s next-gen desktop plans are starting to take shape, and Computex entertained a lot of murmurs about what’s coming from Team Blue over the next year at the event.
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PremiumDemand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsibleThe massive AI gold rush has a new bottleneck set in its sights, CPUs. But what's driving the demand? We interview industry experts to find out.
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PremiumTom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 4 — the B2B shift, and we say farewell to TaipeiIn the final entry in our series of daily Computex blogs, our team ruminates on their thoughts from the show itself.
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PremiumThe $599 MacBook Neo stunned the budget laptop marketThe $599 MacBook Neo is an incredible budget laptop. But if you're all in on Windows, there are a few advantages that traditional PCs still offer if you shop the right sales.
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PremiumHow to protect yourself from bad external SSDs during the PC hardware apocalypseIf you’re shopping for a new external SSD, you might want to buy a drive soon, and something that was released before the AI demand seemingly gobbled up all the good flash.
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PremiumShortages of crucial chip packaging material threatens AI accelerator supply chainsThe T-glass supply is becoming an issue for the AI revolution, and the market is unlikely to unwind until 2027 at the earliest.
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PremiumMotherboard buying advice for the PC building apocalypseMatch your board to your build, use case, and future plans to avoid bottlenecks and wasted upgrades. Spend smart now to prevent paying out more later, even with a budget motherboard.
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PremiumExploring the future of Artificial Intelligence — today's models, tomorrow's agents, and the big privacy problemThe world of AI is getting more complex, and we assess the current state of LLMs, what makes them tick, and explore the risks and features that companies are looking to integrate in the future.
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PremiumBehind the scenes of our massive CPU retest for Bench — testing at 1080p, choosing new apps, and gathering data for a decade of CPUsWe’re retesting a decade’s worth of CPUs for our CPU hierarchy and Bench database, and we’re taking Tom’s Hardware Premium users behind the scenes to show you how it’s done.
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PremiumThe great Bench GPU retest begins — how we're testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still outIt's time to test. Here's how the sausage is made.
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PremiumThe state of China's decade-long semiconductor push: still a decade behind, despite hundreds of billions spent and significant progressAfter 10 years and hundreds of billions of investments, China's semiconductor supply chain is still decades behind chip supply chain in America and Taiwan.
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PremiumWi-Fi 7 promises made, but not kept — the mysteries of MLO and AFC, and looking toward Wi-Fi 8Wi-Fi 7 has been a mess of unfulfilled promises and fragmentation, and Wi-Fi 8 doesn’t seem like it will bring any further clarity
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