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MI350X and MI355X AI GPUs
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News Stream

Portable Monitors Back to School

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Brandon Hill last updated 5 August 25

There are excellent back to school deals to be had on portable monitors from Arzopa and Feelworld

Huawei Ascend AI chip

Huawei is making its Ascend AI GPU software toolkit open-source to better compete against CUDA

Aaron Klotz published 5 August 25

Huawei is planning to open-source its Ascend AI GPU toolkit in efforts to accelerate development and compete with Nvidia's CUDA software ecosystem.

Huawei Lianqiu Lake R&D Center

14 ex-Huawei employees handed down prison sentences in China

Mark Tyson published 5 August 25

China’s courts take tech secret pilfering seriously, if one of its homegrown companies appears to be the victim.

Intel's Raja Koduri

Legendary GPU architect Raja Koduri's new startup leverages RISC-V and targets CUDA workloads

Anton Shilov published 5 August 25

Raja Koduri's Oxmiq Labs develops RISC-V–based GPU IP and a hardware-agnostic software stack.

Michael Kratsios during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 5, 2025.

The White House eyes chip tracking to curb AI hardware smuggling to China amid enforcement gaps

Hassam Nasir published 5 August 25

America's chip policy keeps evolving.

3D printing tech used for the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor

3D printing and AI used to slash nuclear reactor component construction time ‘from weeks to days’

Mark Tyson published 5 August 25

3D printing is tipped to have a pivotal part to play in 'a new era of nuclear construction.'

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Deals Dropping to just £67.99, Ugreen's 25,000mAh power bank is the perfect travel companion for keeping your devices charged.

Western Digital

Sandisk unveils colossal new 256TB SSD with new UltraQLC flash memory

Anton Shilov published 5 August 25

Sandisk introduces its UltraQLC 256TB NVMe SSDs with direct QLC NAND writes for hyperscale AI and cloud workloads.

AWS

AWS accused of a ‘digital execution’ after it deleted 10 years of users' data without warning

Mark Tyson last updated 5 August 25

A software engineer has warned against trusting cloud data storage services after suffering a ‘digital execution’ at the hands of AWS

Two TSMC employees arrested, face up to 12 years in jail, $3 million fine over alleged attempt to leak 2nm chip development details

Jon Martindale published 5 August 25

Two employees of major semiconductor manufacturer and design company TSMC have been arrested over claims they stole proprietary technology.

Ben Holmen's wooden Kilopixel display

Enthusiast spends 6 years building 'world's most impractical display'

Mark Tyson published 5 August 25

An engineer spent six years crafting 'the world's most impractical 1,000-pixel display' using wooden pixels.

xTool

Desktop laser cutter maker xTool Opens U.S. Headquarters in Silicon Valley

Denise Bertacchi published 5 August 25

xTool puts down roots in California.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

AMD quietly announces Radeon RX 9060 alongside new Adrenalin driver

Kunal Khullar published 4 August 25

A new RX 9000-series graphics card for prebuilts, not builders

Monster hands typing on keyboard

CrowdStrike report details scale of North Korea's use of AI in remote work schemes

Nathaniel Mott published 4 August 25

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is using generative AI tools to land agents jobs at tech companies to fund its weapons programs.

Ryzen 9000 CPU

New Ryzen 9000X3D CPU could deliver EPYC levels of game-boosting L3 cache — rumored chip reportedly sports 16 Zen 5 cores, 192MB L3 cache, 200W TDP

Zhiye Liu published 4 August 25

Hardware leaker shares the alleged specifications for new Ryzen 9000X3D processors that may be in the works.

Crypto Hacker

$3.5 billion Bitcoin hack from 2020 dwarfs Mt. Gox in value, is worth $14.5 billion today

Aaron Klotz published 4 August 25

Arkham Intelligence has uncovered the largest Bitcoin heist ever, amounting to $14.5 billion worth today. The heist was conducted in 2020 against the Chinese mining pool LuBian.

Bolt Graphics

GPU startup's cherry-picked path tracing test shows 13x edge over Nvidia's RTX 5090

Anton Shilov published 4 August 25

Bolt Graphics claims its Zeus GPUs outperform Nvidia's RTX 5090 by up to 13x in internal ray-tracing tests, though real-world gains remain unknown.

Modos Paper Dev Kit displays

E-paper hits 75 Hz to better suit productivity tasks

Mark Tyson published 4 August 25

Modos Tech has announced that its fast and responsive e-Paper monitors for productivity users have become available for pre-order.

An early Amiga prototype

Original Amiga prototype spotted at VCF West 2025 vintage computing show — rarely seen forerunner to Amiga 1000 from early 1984

Mark Tyson published 4 August 25

A very early pre-Commodore Amiga computer prototype was on public display at VCF West 2025 this weekend.

Battlefield 6 cover art

Battlefield 6 has fragmented install feature that allows you to slim a full 80GB installation down to 55GB on PC

Hassam Nasir published 4 August 25

Optimization in the big 2025? Wow.

A major FMS 2025 announcement. — Sandisk unveils colossal new 256TB SSD with new UltraQLC flash memory A major FMS 2025 announcement.

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Two employees of major semiconductor manufacturer and design company TSMC have been arrested over claims they stole proprietary technology. — Two TSMC employees arrested, face up to 12 years in jail, $3 million fine over alleged attempt to leak 2nm chip development details Two employees of major semiconductor manufacturer and design company TSMC have been arrested over claims they stole proprietary technology.

An engineer spent six years crafting 'the world's most impractical 1,000-pixel display' using wooden pixels. — Enthusiast spends 6 years building 'world's most impractical display' An engineer spent six years crafting 'the world's most impractical 1,000-pixel display' using wooden pixels.

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Reviews

ASRock B850 Steel Legend WiFi

ASRock B850 Steel Legend WiFi Motherboard review: flagship audio meets value

By Joe Shields published 4 August 25

B850 Steel Legend offers a silver appearance and all-around value

Thermaltake Toughpower GX3 850W PSU

Thermaltake Toughpower GX3 850W power supply review

By E. Fylladitakis published 4 August 25

Thermaltake's Toughpower GX3 850W is a budget-oriented, non-modular power supply unit that barely meets the mark with concerning compromises in design and thermal performance.

DeepCool Assassin VC Elite

DeepCool Assassin VC Elite Review: The best cooler you can’t buy in the USA

By Albert Thomas published 3 August 25

Banned from sale in the US, DeepCool’s Assassin VC Elite features an upgraded vapor chamber coldplate. We tested it with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Intel’s Core i7-14700K CPUs.

Alienware 16 Aurora

Alienware 16 Aurora review: Long on endurance, short on performance

By Brandon Hill published 2 August 25

The Alienware 16 Aurora is thin and long-lasting, but it's not a powerful gaming laptop.

xTool M1 Ultra

xTool M1 Ultra Review: Four in One Crafting Machine

By Denise Bertacchi published 1 August 25

The Swiss Army Knife of laser cutters, the xTool M1 Ultra burns, cuts, draws, and prints with ink.

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Best Sub-$1,500 Gaming Laptops

Best Gaming Laptops Under $1,500

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You can spend less than $1,000 on a gaming laptop, and we've tested several to find the best budget gamer available.

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 GX550

Best Gaming Laptops 2025: Tested, benchmarked and reviewed

By Andrew E. Freedman last updated 5 August 25

Here are our favorite gaming laptops for every need, based on our testing and reviews.

CPUs

Ryzen 9000 CPU

New Ryzen 9000X3D CPU could deliver EPYC levels of game-boosting L3 cache — rumored chip reportedly sports 16 Zen 5 cores, 192MB L3 cache, 200W TDP

By Zhiye Liu published 4 August 25

Hardware leaker shares the alleged specifications for new Ryzen 9000X3D processors that may be in the works.

Alder Lake

Intel prepares for Nova Lake CPUs with new Linux support

By Hassam Nasir published 3 August 25

Nova Lake seems to be on track.

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Graphics Cards

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

AMD quietly announces Radeon RX 9060 alongside new Adrenalin driver

By Kunal Khullar published 4 August 25

A new RX 9000-series graphics card for prebuilts, not builders

Bolt Graphics

GPU startup's cherry-picked path tracing test shows 13x edge over Nvidia's RTX 5090

By Anton Shilov published 4 August 25

Bolt Graphics claims its Zeus GPUs outperform Nvidia's RTX 5090 by up to 13x in internal ray-tracing tests, though real-world gains remain unknown.

Nvidia H20 GPUs reportedly caught up in U.S. Commerce Department's worst export license backlog in 30 years

By Jon Martindale published 4 August 25

Officials claim this is the worst commerce backlog in over 30 years.

Laptops

Best Sub-$1,500 Gaming Laptops

Best Gaming Laptops Under $1,500

By Andrew E. Freedman last updated 5 August 25

You can find a powerful gaming laptop without breaking the bank. We’ve tested to help you find the best.

Best Laptops under 1000

Best Gaming Laptops Under $1,000

By Andrew E. Freedman last updated 5 August 25

You can spend less than $1,000 on a gaming laptop, and we've tested several to find the best budget gamer available.

Raspberry Pi

Argon40 Laptop

The dream of a Raspberry Pi laptop becomes a reality — ArgonOne Up Review

By Les Pounder published 26 July 25

Argon40’s new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5-powered laptop has it all, but the price makes it a considered purchase.

Raspberry Pi

This Raspberry Pi Zero camera instantly prints photos using thermal paper

By Ash Hill published 30 March 25

Spacerower is using a Raspberry Pi Zero to power this custom 3D-printed camera that instantly prints out photos using thermal paper.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Pico fightstick randomly mashes buttons for fighting game combos

By Ash Hill published 27 March 25

Goblinhan Yıkan has created a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered fight stick that has extra buttons for throwing random combos while playing fighting games.

Deals

Tech Deals cover featuring a Ugreen Nexode power bank.

The massive Ugreen Nexode 25,000mAh power bank is at an all-time low Amazon pricing — power all the things, including your laptop and Switch 2

By Stewart Bendle published 5 August 25

Deals Dropping to just £67.99, Ugreen's 25,000mAh power bank is the perfect travel companion for keeping your devices charged.

Tech Deals

The best CPU for gaming, AMD's 9800X3D, hits an all-time low price of £399 at Amazon — The lowest price in the UK right now

By Stewart Bendle published 31 July 25

Deals The best price in the UK, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is £399 at Amazon — an all-time low.

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Logitech's MX Master 3S productivity mouse is close to all-time low pricing at Amazon — the perfect mouse for back-to-school shoppers

By Stewart Bendle published 24 July 25

Deals Close to its all-time low price, Logitech's MX Master 3S productivity mouse is marked down to just £72

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