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Qualcomm teases mini desktop PC, announces 8-core Snapdragon X chip to bring Arm-powered Windows CoPilot+ laptops down to ~$600 (www.tomshardware.com)

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Broader product range foments broader adoption.

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Vendor claims Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with Zen 5 cores and 3D V-Cache is ready for launch — manufacturer also asserts Arrow Lake-HX CPUs offer minimal performance improvements (www.tomshardware.com)

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AMD is resurrecting its previous naming scheme.

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G.Skill introduces CL28 DDR5-6000 for AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs — world's tightest timings for a DDR5-6000 memory kit (www.tomshardware.com)

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If you are after super responsive DRAM performance, it doesn't get better than G.Skill's new CL28 kits, at least for DDR5-6000.

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Power wire-less motherboards pump 1,500W over 50-pin connector (www.tomshardware.com)

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One power connector to rule them all.

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This upcoming Micro-OLED VR headset has absolutely everything and weighs less than 200 grams but of course it costs nearly 4x the Quest 3 (www.pcgamer.com)

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Chonky or super-expensive seems to be the main dilemma.

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South Korea greenlights the world's largest semiconductor hub (www.tomshardware.com)

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Set to challenge Taiwan and the U.S.

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Blackwell GPU reportedly takes 3X to 4X longer to test than Hopper (www.tomshardware.com)

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This drives demand for Advantest machines.

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TSMC's first new overseas fab in years begins to make chips — JASM coming online (www.tomshardware.com)

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Japan gets 16nm process technology.

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iStorage launches most advanced encrypted USB sticks available — 'world's first FIPS 140-3 Level 3' validated flash drives, pricing starts at $96 for 32GB (www.tomshardware.com)

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Drives validated in plenty of time for the 2026 sunsetting of FIPS 140-2.

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Putin's 'sovereign' gaming console projects detailed, found lacking (www.tomshardware.com)

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But what games will they play?

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Nvidia RTX 5080 and AMD RX 9070 GPUs listed ahead of launch (www.tomshardware.com)

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Retailers are prepping inventory for launch next month.

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Chinese chipmaker Phytium sells over 10 million homegrown CPUs (www.tomshardware.com)

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The local Chinese chipmaking industry is getting a massive boost from Beijing.

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OneXPlayer OneXFly F1 Pro review (www.pcgamer.com)

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The first Strix Point handheld becomes the most powerful and maybe most desirable, too.

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US Senate finds Commerce Department’s efforts to enact bans and sanction “inadequate” — investigation finds agency underfunded, must rely on voluntary compliance by chipmakers (www.tomshardware.com)

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The bans and sanctions weren't very effective...

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China's CXMT begins producing DDR5 memory — first China-made DDR5 sticks reportedly aimed at consumer PCs (www.tomshardware.com)

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Will it flood the market with cheap DDR5?

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Sony decided fully four years ago to develop its own AI hardware for the PS5 Pro rather than using AMD tech and the big question is why (www.pcgamer.com)

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Why doesn't AMD have any machine learning acceleration in its GPUs?

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Arm will seek a retrial against Qualcomm (www.tomshardware.com)

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Back to square one

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Qualcomm wins a legal battle over Arm chip licensing (www.theverge.com)

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The jury delivered a win for Qualcomm with a split verdict.

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US gov't set to ban Huawei intermediary Sophgo over AI chip supplies — partnership skirted US chip sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)

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One of many?

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Leak: This is Lenovo’s rollable display laptop (www.theverge.com)

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Seagate launches 32TB Exos M hard drive based on HAMR technology – Mozaic 3+ drives are the world’s first generally available HAMR HDDs (www.tomshardware.com)

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HAMR storage is finally here.

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Russia using homegrown Raspberry Pi-like computers in nuclear facilities — Elbrus ES3 certified for use in critical applications (www.tomshardware.com)

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Devices already used in nuclear applications.

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New details of TSMC's next-gen N2 chip tech aren't totally stellar but could provide a roadmap for new GPUs right through to 2031 (www.pcgamer.com)

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N2 is quite a bit more efficient but only a little more dense than N3.

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The Framework Laptop 16 just got a modular gadget that enables quadruple SSDs (www.theverge.com)

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Two with this new module, plus two in the original machine

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China's dual 16-core Hygon CPU server rack barely outperforms a quad-core Skylake Core i7-6700HQ mobile CPU in Geekbench AI (www.tomshardware.com)

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Hygon is relying on AMD's 2017 Zen 1 architecture for its CPUs and, as a result, gets beaten handily by all modern mainstream desktop CPUs.