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PremiumTom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 0 — peek behind the curtain to see how we're covering the biggest trade show of the yearWe peel back the curtain in our new series of daily blogs.
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PremiumAI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool developmentAutomated analysis and design, powered by AI, could help the chip design process… with caveats.
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PremiumThe custom AI ASIC state of play (May 2026) — Broadcom deals, Google TPUs, Meta MTIA & beyondASIC-based AI server shipments are projected to reach 27.8% of the market in 2026, the highest share since 2023, and custom ASIC shipments will grow 44.6% year-over-year.
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Premium20 years of Noctua: How one brand became a leader in the PC cooling businessWe sit down with Noctua's Jakob Dellinger to go over the PC industry's iconic beige and brown brand's colorful 20-year history.
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PremiumMassive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies — New energy methods are being explored as power demands are set to skyrocketA perfect storm of massive data centre buildout and new innovations in energy could materially change what our supplies look like in the future.
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PremiumAI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decadeOnce-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years.
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PremiumHow Nvidia's deal with Intel has been decades in the making — years of rivalry culminated in an unexpected allianceYears of rivalry, roadmap drift, and packaging breakthroughs set the stage for one of the most unexpected alliances in the industry
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PremiumThe state of Intel: What the company's $5 billion deal with Nvidia could mean for the floundering chipmakerAn eye-watering and mind-boggling deal saw computer chips’ new king supplant what used to be the old name in town – but what does it all mean for Intel?
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PremiumIntel officially becomes a contract custom chip designer, Nvidia among lead customersOr at least makes steps in the right direction.
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PremiumRyzen to the top: How AMD innovated in the gaming CPU marketAMD has come a long way since Bulldozer
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PremiumHow the AI revolution is triggering a hardware arms race and pushing up pricesTech giants and hyperscalers are paying billions to build out large data centers for AI, creating supply chain bottlenecks and intense competition for technological dominance.
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Premium40 years of Windows: How Windows 7 cleansed the sins of VistaFollowing the release of the poorly received Windows Vista, Microsoft had some work to do to reinstate trust in the operating system, and Windows 7 was a roaring success. Here's why.
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