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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 14, 2026
By Sayem Ahmed Published
Exclusive testing, unredacted interviews, and much more.

Just one instruction on AMD's 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control
By Bruno Ferreira Last updated
Just one instruction on AMD CPUs gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families cracks open secret memory areas

AMD borrows $4.75 billion for 'general corporate purposes'
By Anton Shilov Published
In a surprising move, AMD announces plans to raise $4.75 billion and does not give a clue how it plans to spend them.

Best SSDs 2026: From blazing-fast M.2 NVMe down to budget SATA
By Paul Alcorn Last updated
We recommend the best SSDs for every need and budget based on our extensive lab tests.

AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D
By Jake Roach Published
AMD's marketing director shared a screenshot of the Amazon CPU best sellers list, but the four-year-old, $80 Ryzen 5 5500 was at the top of the charts.

Benchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price
By Jake Roach Published
Premium The repurposed APU for mining has come back home again.

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs
By Kunal Khullar Published
AMD's 3D V-Cache takes on Intel's latest Core Ultra architecture as we compare the two across various metrics including gaming, productivity, power consumption, and value.

CPU Price Index 2025
By Stewart Bendle Last updated
In our CPU price index, we find the lowest prices on the most popular CPUs so you don't have to.

Best Laptops 2026: Our benchmarked picks for productivity, portability, and battery life
By Andrew E. Freedman Last updated
We test dozens of laptops a year for their performance, screen quality, and battery life, to find the best laptops right now across Windows, macOS, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm notebooks.
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