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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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PremiumHow to protect yourself from bad external SSDs during the PC hardware apocalypseIf you’re shopping for a new external SSD, you might want to buy a drive soon, and something that was released before the AI demand seemingly gobbled up all the good flash.
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PremiumShortages of crucial chip packaging material threatens AI accelerator supply chainsThe T-glass supply is becoming an issue for the AI revolution, and the market is unlikely to unwind until 2027 at the earliest.
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PremiumMotherboard buying advice for the PC building apocalypseMatch your board to your build, use case, and future plans to avoid bottlenecks and wasted upgrades. Spend smart now to prevent paying out more later, even with a budget motherboard.
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PremiumExploring the future of Artificial Intelligence — today's models, tomorrow's agents, and the big privacy problemThe world of AI is getting more complex, and we assess the current state of LLMs, what makes them tick, and explore the risks and features that companies are looking to integrate in the future.
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PremiumBehind the scenes of our massive CPU retest for Bench — testing at 1080p, choosing new apps, and gathering data for a decade of CPUsWe’re retesting a decade’s worth of CPUs for our CPU hierarchy and Bench database, and we’re taking Tom’s Hardware Premium users behind the scenes to show you how it’s done.
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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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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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