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PremiumThe three-pronged future of custom PC building — from repurposing forgotten parts to ultra-premium works of gaming artThis is probably the worst time ever for PC building. Here’s how and why I think the hobby (and the market) still have a future to look forward to.
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PremiumNOR Flash and SLC NAND production are under threat as capacity gets routed to more profitable products — 'severe undersupply' threatens everyday electronicsNOR Flash and SLC NAND are the latest products to be impacted by the ongoing AI buildout, with capacities tightening and production being routed to more lucrative chips.
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PremiumValve Steam Frame interview — why it costs up to $1,300, Snapdragon power, and 10x foveated streamingWe chatted with Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Jeff Leinbaugh about launching the Steam Frame amid a global memory/storage supply crunch
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PremiumBenchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the priceThe repurposed APU for mining has come back home again.
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PremiumInside optical and the battle for scaleWith copper running out of road, photonic interconnects are becoming the new innovative solution for data centers.
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PremiumThe future of USB connectivity (2026) —bringing copper to its physical limitsThe USB ecosystem is entering another transition that will affect how laptops, desktops, storage devices, displays, and peripherals connect in the second half of the decade.
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PremiumWhile the U.S. flip-flops on chip sanctions, China is building its own chip supply marketAs the U.S. makes up its mind on export controls for Chinese chips, China has been developing its own supply chain, and associated trade network.
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PremiumSteam Machine interview full transcript: Valve engineers discuss $1,049 pricing, compact design, component shortages, and Windows supportValve's Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat talked to Tom's Hardware about the Steam Machine, it's pricing, engineering, and even Windows support.
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PremiumThe bifurcated laptop landscape of Computex 2026 – MacBook Neo competitors with 8GB of RAM, and expensive Nvidia laptops promising an agentic-focused future of Windows on ArmTake your pick: an expensive laptop promising an agentic AI future, or affordable options with RAM allotments stuck in the past.
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PremiumSolidigm VP talks PCIe 6.0 SSDs, next-gen floating gate NAND, liquid cooled storage and moreFloating gate NAND forever.
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PremiumDitching the cloud for local AI — how I use two mini PCs to process millions of tokens a day and save money on costly API feesAs new data center buildouts hit planning walls and AI inference providers hike costs, is the future of AI to roll your own models?
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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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