Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 4 — the B2B shift, and we say farewell to Taipei
Premium In the final entry in our series of daily Computex blogs, our team ruminates on their thoughts from the show itself.
Qualcomm Roundtable Interview transcript — SVP of Compute and Gaming talks Snapdragon C, RTX Spark, and the agentic AI future
Premium Qualcomm 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.
AMD's Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects
Premium AMD’s first rack-scale AI machine is incoming.
Frore shows off LiquidJet Nexus coldplate for Nvidia Vera Rubin, other AI accelerators
Frore’s LiquidJet Nexus promises to enable 10% more token generation on Blackwell Ultra when compared to existing liquid-cooling solutions.
Reviews
Acer MA200 1TB SSD Review: Good enough, and that’s the point
The Acer MA200 is a competent M.2 2230 NVMe SSD with reasonably good performance and power-efficiency, even if it’s not the fastest drive out there.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review: thoroughly midrange
AMD's middle RDNA 4 graphics card delivers fine performance, but a bolder price would have truly changed the game
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x review: Snapdragon X2 Elite makes its case
The Yoga Slim 7x brings Snapdragon performance, long battery life, and an OLED display provided you’re fine with ARM apps and USB-C everything.
CPUs
Intel will reportedly upgrade to an 8-core config for its Wildcat Lake refresh next year
Wildcat Lake is seemingly due for a big upgrade next year.
Qualcomm Roundtable Interview transcript — SVP of Compute and Gaming talks Snapdragon C, RTX Spark, and the agentic AI future
Premium Qualcomm 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.
Graphics Cards
Unreleased RTX 3050 Ti engineering sample appears in photos and benchmarks — the RTX 3060 alternative that never happened
Hardware leaker shares photographs and benchmarks for Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 Ti desktop graphics card that was never released.
Laptops
8GB of RAM is back on laptops — companies are lowering memory offerings to make affordable notebooks during component crisis
At Computex, Dell and Acer both introduced systems starting with 8GB of RAM to compete with the MacBook Neo, following a rush to 16GB systems in the last two years to bolster local AI.
Features
Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 4 — the B2B shift, and we say farewell to Taipei
Premium In the final entry in our series of daily Computex blogs, our team ruminates on their thoughts from the show itself.
Qualcomm Roundtable Interview transcript — SVP of Compute and Gaming talks Snapdragon C, RTX Spark, and the agentic AI future
Premium Qualcomm 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.
PC Components
AMD B650 expansion cards hit retail starting at $199
A couple of new add-in cards exemplify the trend of slapping AMD's Promontory 21 chipset onto a card for extra I/O expansion.
Desktops and PC Building
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam — Camo Studio unlocks new uses for old smartphones in Windows 10 or 11 and OBS software
You don’t need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!
Deals
Get your hands on a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD for under $390
Deals Save $250 (39%) and pick up one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 SSDs at a reasonable-for-the-times price.
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