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Intel's roadmaps examined — 14A, Nova Lake, Diamond Rapids & AI accelerator push
By Luke James published
Premium Intel's CPU roadmap is unlike any the company has published in recent years, because its manufacturing ambitions and its product launches have to succeed simultaneously.

How to protect yourself from bad external SSDs during the PC hardware apocalypse
By Matt Safford published
Premium If 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.

Shortages of crucial chip packaging material threatens AI accelerator supply chains
By Chris Stokel-Walker published
Premium The T-glass supply is becoming an issue for the AI revolution, and the market is unlikely to unwind until 2027 at the earliest.

Motherboard buying advice for the PC building apocalypse
By Joe Shields published
Premium Match 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.

Exploring the future of Artificial Intelligence — today's models, tomorrow's agents, and the big privacy problem
By Bruno Ferreira published
Premium The 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.

Behind the scenes of our massive CPU retest for Bench — testing at 1080p, choosing new apps, and gathering data for a decade of CPUs
By Jake Roach published
Premium We’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.

The great Bench GPU retest begins — how we're testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still out
By Jeffrey Kampman published
Premium It's time to test. Here's how the sausage is made.

The state of China's decade-long semiconductor push: still a decade behind, despite hundreds of billions spent and significant progress
By Anton Shilov published
Premium After 10 years and hundreds of billions of investments, China's semiconductor supply chain is still decades behind chip supply chain in America and Taiwan.

The future of Quantum computing — the tech, companies, and roadmaps that map out a coherent quantum future
By Francisco Pires published
Premium In this roadmap, we analyze what the future of Quantum Computing might look like over the next decade, including the future of qubit scaling, trapped ions, and superconducting chips.
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