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PremiumDemand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsibleThe massive AI gold rush has a new bottleneck set in its sights, CPUs. But what's driving the demand? We interview industry experts to find out.
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PremiumTom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 4 — the B2B shift, and we say farewell to TaipeiIn the final entry in our series of daily Computex blogs, our team ruminates on their thoughts from the show itself.
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PremiumQualcomm Roundtable Interview transcript — SVP of Compute and Gaming talks Snapdragon C, RTX Spark, and the agentic AI futureQualcomm has Snapdragon C to compete in the exciting low-cost laptop market, but it's also looking to build an entire agentic AI ecosystem on Qualcomm silicon.
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PremiumA deeper look at the tightened chipmaking supply chain, and where it may be headed in 2026We interview two industry analysts to gauge the current state of the chipmaking ecosystem, including constraints across the entire supply chain, and where it might be headed next.
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PremiumHere's why HBM is coming for your PC's RAMSurging prices, diverted wafer capacity, and multi-year delays in relief are pushing memory out of reach for consumers.
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PremiumThe data center cooling state of play (2025) — Liquid cooling is on the rise as thermal density demands skyrocket in AI data centersFrom the air outside to de-ionized water inside.
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PremiumSplave's Cave: Overclocking the Asus RTX 5090 Astral and setting the 3DMark Port Royal world recordOverclocker Splave documents the trials and tribulations of overclocking the RTX 5090 Astral from Asus, resulting in a 3DMark world record.
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PremiumWhy copper markets are feeling the pinch due to aggressive AI data center expansionAlongside energy, water and computer chips, the supply squeeze is being felt further up the chain, too.
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PremiumThe web's infrastructure has a concentration problem, exposing us all to crushing outagesFirst it was AWS. Then Azure went down – and with it, large chunks of the web, apps and services we use every day. Are hypescaler cloud providers a victim of their own success?
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PremiumExplosive AI buildout brings into question water supply concernsExplosive data center construction projects under the new AI boom may threaten to damage local water sources and compete with citizens for access to clean drinking water.
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SemiconductorsAmerican startup Substrate promises 2nm-class chipmaking with particle accelerators, at a tenth of the cost of EUVIf it can build a fab to match its tool.
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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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