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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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PremiumUltra Ethernet: The data-center interconnection of tomorrow detailedWe take a look at the Ultra Ethernet 1.0.1 specification in a bid to find out what has changed compared to the traditional Ethernet — and how it will change tomorrow's data-center connectivity.
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PremiumCPU scaling with DLSSIn a time of ubiquitous upscaling, your CPU can quickly become a performance bottleneck.
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PremiumPhotonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneckGenerative AI is pushing demand in all areas of the industry, and data interconnects, such as Silicon Photonics, may well be the next big bottleneck that hyperscalers need to be paying attention to.
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PremiumPremium Build: The Stout Owl — How I Built the Ultimate Noctua G2 PCSomebody once gave me free will, and it was universally agreed that this was a bad idea.
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PremiumAMD CES 2026 gaming trends press Q&A roundtable transcript — 'we see a little bit of an uptick in the percentage of AM4 versus AM5 platforms'We sat down with AMD at CES 2026 for a roundtable Q&A all about consumer products for gaming. We cover the full transcript of the press-only session right here.
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PremiumAMD ROCm CES 2026 press Q&A roundtable transcript — 'ROCm from 2023 is completely unrecognizable to ROCm today' company details, as it seeks to break down barriers to AI developmentWe had the opportunity to sit down with AMD at CES 2026 for a press roundtable discussion, where we discussed ROCm and other AMD software, as captured in this transcript of AMD's Q&A session.
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