Hardware

Intel's new CEO warns employees about 'tough decisions', but Wall Street cheers
Wall Street analysts see Lip-Bu Tan's appointment as Intel's CEO as good news, but Intel employees are preparing for a major overhaul.
2025-03-14 16:09
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MSI skips RDNA 4 and will not manufacture AMD Radeon 9000-series GPUs
MSI has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that it won't make RDNA 4 GPUs. There are many potential reasons behind the decision, though MSI was reticent to share those.
2025-03-14 14:09
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Deepseek 'clearly not interested' in scaling up — 160-person team focused on developing new models
Deepseek is focused on keeping its team lean and propelling development towards new models, with the goal of reaching AGI, instead of scaling up its commercial product offerings.
2025-03-14 13:27
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Asus quietly updates Q-Release Slim — removes metal frame blamed for scratching GPUs
Asus updates the Q-Release Slim feature, removing a metal part in the PCIe bracket suspected of causing scratches to GPUs.
2025-03-14 13:13
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Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice
Non-profits that refurbish PCs and give them to the needy have a dilemma when it comes to Windows 11-ineligible computers. Should they give clients an insecure Windows 10 OS, turn to Linux or throw perfectly-good computers away?
2025-03-14 13:00
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ID-Cooling FX 360 INF Pink Review: Stylishly pink, but loud in more ways than one
We tested ID-Cooling’s new FX 360 INF Pink with Intel’s i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs. It performs well, but is loud in more ways than one.
2025-03-14 13:00
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Intel reaches 'exciting milestone' for 18A 1.8nm-class wafers with first run at Arizona fab
Intel's Fab 52 and Fab 62 in Arizona are getting ready to produce chips on 1.8nm-class process technology.
2025-03-14 11:57
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AMD's Radeon VP calls RX 9070 XT demand 'unprecedented' — RDNA 4 launch 'milestone event'
AMD VP and GM David McAfee called the demand for RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs "unprecedented" on a podcast appearance with Hot Hardware this week.
2025-03-14 10:43
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Xbox announces 'Copilot for Gaming' AI assistant — early access coming to Xbox mobile app, more details to come at GDC 2025
Xbox announces its new "Copilot for Gaming" AI assistant, which will seek to help gamers in real-time with all manner of gaming needs.
2025-03-13 19:46
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Nvidia teams up with Microsoft to put neural shading into DirectX, giving devs access to AI tensor cores
Microsoft will enabled neural shading and cooperative vectors in a DirectX preview this April. This will allow for better use of AI features mixed with shaders in games, and while it may be exclusive to Nvidia at first, we expect AMD and Intel GPUs to ...
2025-03-13 18:56
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AMD RDNA 3 professional GPUs with 48GB can beat Nvidia 24GB cards in AI — putting the 'Large' in LLM
AMD published DeepSeek R1 benchmarks of its W7900 and W7800 Pro series 48GB GPUs, massively outperforming the 24GB RTX 4090.
2025-03-13 18:45
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Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Apex is available for pre-order on Newegg — Launches April 4 at $749
Newegg is taking pre-orders for Asus' flagship-grade ROG Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard, designed for extreme overclocking.
2025-03-13 17:29
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24-hour BIOS update? User's attempt to flash motherboard becomes a marathon
Reddit user u/GoatWithAGun updated the BIOS of their old BioStar A320MH motherboard, and it's now taken over 24 hours (and counting) to finish the process.
2025-03-13 17:11
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Retailers selling base model RX 9070 GPUs at 22% markup compared to MSRP — 9070 XT now typically starts at $799
Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9700 XT graphics cards that are supposed to be sold at MSRP sell at prices that are 12%–22% higher in the U.S. And that's assuming you can even find cards in stock.
2025-03-13 16:46
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Public IPv4 addresses are now valuable loan collateral and can be worth millions
A new lending program that uses a borrower's IPv4 addresses as collateral has launched.
2025-03-13 15:38
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Raspberry Pi and AI power open source smart city monitoring project
Glossyio has created a Raspberry Pi-powered traffic monitor that uses AI to monitor traffic and look for statistics around specific travelers like cyclists and pedestrians.
2025-03-13 15:11
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ViewSonic XG2536 25-inch FHD IPS 280 Hz gaming monitor review: Incredibly quick and value priced
ViewSonic delivers tremendous performance at a low price with its XG2536. It’s a 25-inch FHD IPS gaming monitor with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync and HDR10. It’s incredibly fast and delivers solid value too.
2025-03-13 15:00
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AI tool tells user to learn coding instead of asking it generate the code
Cursor AI refuses to generate codes larger than 800 lines of code.
2025-03-13 14:47
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QNodeOS claims to be the first operating system for quantum networks, paving the way for future quantum applications
Researchers at the QIA have developed the world's first hardware-independent quantum-network operating system, supporting applications written with high-level code.
2025-03-13 13:52
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Singapore court grants bail to trio accused in $390 million Nvidia chip smuggling case
The action follows charges against three men for smuggling Nvidia chips and defrauding companies like Dell and Super Micro.
2025-03-13 13:50
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