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Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI

Every show now is an AI show, and that included this year's Computex…

Steam Machine summer launch confirmed in hopeful update, but still no price

The Steam Machine and Steam Frame have been hit by rising component costs even before launch, but Steam still seems...…

Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking

Today marks 22 years since I started Phoronix.com to focus on Linux hardware reviews…

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)

Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware : Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time” — Bot (autom…

Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer

Valve now says that the delayed Steam Machine PC and Steam Frame VR headset are set to launch sometime this summer. In a Thursday blog post detailing its Verified programs for both…

Frore shows off LiquidJet Nexus coldplate for Nvidia Vera Rubin, other AI accelerators — offers up claimed 10% token generation boost over rival liquid-cooling solutions

Made using semiconductor manufacturing technologies: edge and bond.…

FSR 4.1 made older Radeon cards interesting again, but not for the reason AMD wants

AMD has brought their cutting-edge upscaler to last-gen hardware, but it's hard to tell why…

The first DRAM-less SSD controller to max out PCIe Gen5 is also a power efficiency champion in the making

Phison's Gen 5 DRAM-less SSD controller could be a top choice for the efficiency-conscious consumer.…

Nanomagnets control diamond qubits, pointing to more scalable quantum hardware

Quantum computing, once only a theoretical possibility, promises to deliver faster, more energy-efficient computers—but only if scientists can build and scale the hardware needed t…

Microsoft’s powerful RTX Spark mini PC will be sold to consumers

A top Microsoft Surface exec confirmed this week that the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box will be available to whoever wants to buy it, and won't be limited to developers.…

Intel's Panther Lake looks great, but it's not the upgrade desktop owners were hoping for

Desktop owners are being left out to dry for a little bit longer…

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ brings Intel Arc G3 Extreme to handhelds — 8-inch, 120 Hz display and new ergonomic grips

Any color you want, as long as it's 'Void Purple'…

Lian Li's Edge Platinum V2 PSUs have an LED dust indicator, magnetic filter, and a snap-on fan and USB header hub — Edge line's trademark 90-degree power connector also returns

They should arrive in September, at up to 1350 watts.…

ASRock shows off a slew of new AIOs, Power Supplies, and 10th Anniversary hardware — a monster 3KW Taichi power supply for AI and hybrid Taichi Aqua AIO/custom loop stand out in the crowd

No new CPUs or GPUs, so it’s down to power supplies, cooling, and AI machines…

This new microATX PC case comes with a Venom-like black liquid that reacts to sound and magnets, and I find it weirdly alluring

A case with a different kind of screen.…

Noctua shows off improved thermosiphon prototype — passively circulated liquid cooler gets Q3 2027 projected launch date

Simple in principle, challenging in execution…

AMD executives react to Nvidia’s RTX Spark — ‘you’re just wrong if you don’t get a Strix Halo notebook’

AMD welcomes the competition, and postures that it has the superior platform.…

We got eyes on Ducky's sleek Year of the Horse gaming keyboard, and I can say I like it more than its last horse one

Though the lack of lettering looks like a bit of a mare.…

Corsair’s Warthog is the PC case for Halo fans

It looks like something the Imperial Guard would lug around while getting devoured by Tyranids. Corsair also shows off a see-through power supply, if you want to build the total op…

Acer’s new Intel gaming handheld picked a terrible time to show up

The Predator Atlas 8 would have made a lot more sense about a year ago.…

NZXT showcases H6 mid-tower chassis, new Ultra RGB fans, and a white H2 offering — boundless RGB customization options take this case to a whole new level

Up your RGB game with the new H6 chassis and Ultra RGB fans…

Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42

But the price tag will stop you in your tracks.…

The best $22 I’ve ever spent on my gaming PC

Adding this cheap peripheral to my PC setup was so worth it…

A first look at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface Dev Box

Microsoft has focused on performance, battery life, and display for its Surface Laptop Ultra.…

Future-proof your PC for under $90 — Thermaltake's Toughpower PF3 PSU lets you power today's PC hardware and tomorrow's upgrades with this limited-time deal at Newegg

Thermaltake's Toughpower PF3 1050W PSU gets a huge price cut, now under $90 at Newegg…

Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of 'agent-first' enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps

Microsoft ditches Windows to build OS on Android…

Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'

And I like the look of it.…

Land an RTX 5060-powered OLED gaming laptop for just $1,099 — HP's Omen Transcend features an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H 16-core CPU, 3K resolution, and WiFi 7

Compact and affordable gaming laptop…

Every Byte Matters

I have spent a large portion of my career working in Java. In that time, you get used to huge classes. New functionality? Just add a new method and field to the class. The cost of …

Noctua's first-ever AIO features a silenced Asetek Emma V2 pump and NF-A12/14 fans — 240mm NL-LC1 starts at around $250, could cost $325 for 420mm cooler

All models rock the company's SecuFirm2+ mounting, but US prices are unconfirmed…

Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 2 — Interviews, roundtables, and the first day at the Nanggang Exhibition Center

Check in with our team at Computex 2026 for the latest in our series of daily blogs.…

32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

Lower-priced kits are disappearing by the day…

Cooler Master is stuffing its latest cases with truly humongous fans for high airflow and quiet operation

Up to 220 mm.…

Corsair shows off gaming mouse with dedicated Stream Deck launch button — wireless mouse also gets almost 50 hours of 8K battery life

It's not the first Stream Deck-integrated mouse, but it's the first with a Stream Deck button.…

How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China (Kylie Robison/Core Memory)

Kylie Robison / Core Memory : How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside…

Trezor says your crypto is safe after Ledger audit exposes a hardware flaw

The flaw affects only one of the wallet's multiple security layers and would require physical access, specialized equipment and advanced expertise to exploit.…

Intel's 5.7 GHz Xeon 6377P features 12 P-cores and a desktop-class LGA1700 socket — unusual server CPU prioritizes clock speed over core count

Bartlett Lake server chip targets workloads where frequency beats core count…

AMD says new EXPO ‘Ultra Low Latency’ DDR5 memory should be 'effectively the same price' as current kits — feature will work on existing chipsets, but will require new DIMMs

After a small mention in its Computex announcements, AMD’s David McAfee provides a bit more color on what exactly EXPO ULL is.…

The rise of local agentic computing faces a brutal reality: rising DRAM prices — RTX Spark, Gorgon Halo chips subject to 63% DRAM contract price hike this quarter

Local AI PCs are scaling memory capacity at the worst possible moment to buy it.…

Wooting's big knob is much more than a volume dial, set to arrive later this year for 80 HE

There's more to this knob than meets the eye.…

Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers — up to 80 accelerators can be scaled up using PCIe alone

You can never have enough PCIe 6.0 lanes.…

Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Are the Kick in the Ass Gaming PCs Needed

Emulation is emulation, but Nvidia shows us that we can have a very strong gaming PC without a shitty battery life.…

I’m currently using an Intel UHD Graphics 610, an Intel Pentium Gold G6400, and 8GB of RAM. I installed Plasma 6 on FreeBSD, but it’s extremely laggy. Other desktop environments either have bugs or just don’t look good. Since I’m a student, I can’t upgrade my hardware. I also want to run lightweig

AURA: Action-Gated Memory for Robot Policies at Constant VRAM

The KV-cache is the right memory for datacenters but the wrong memory for robots. Datacenter inference batches many short requests and resets them, amortizing an attention cache ac…

I just tested Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra — Nvidia RTX Spark brings life to one of the best laptops I’ve ever tried

RTX Spark is almost like a side character here…

AMD extends Socket AM5 support through at least 2029; AM4 refuses to die

The 5800X3D returns at $349, while the 7700X3D debuts at $329.…

Sony’s new fight stick and gaming monitor launch in August

Sony is sharing new details about some of its upcoming gaming-focused hardware, including pricing and August launch dates for its FlexStrike fight stick and its 27-inch monitor. Th…

Asus gives the ROX Xbox Ally the OLED screen it deserves

But the hardware refresh is tethered to a bundle with pricey AR glasses.…

Nvidia says RTX Spark offers up to 20 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of "100 FPS 1440p gaming" or running 120B-parameter models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware : Nvidia says RTX Spark offers up to 20 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of “100 FPS 1440p gaming” or running 120B-para…

Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launching in 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware : Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launchi…

Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’

This fall, Nvidia will officially become a consumer PC chipmaker like Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm, putting a complete computing chip - not just graphics - into the very heart o…

Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on the Xe3P architecture, described as "built for agentic AI"; they use LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware : Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on the Xe3P architecture, described as “built for agentic AI”; they use LPDDR5X memory i…

Intel unveils six Xeon 6+ data center CPU SKUs, says the 6990E+ has 30% better single-thread performance and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD Epyc 9965 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware : Intel unveils six Xeon 6+ data center CPU SKUs, says the 6990E+ has 30% better single-thread performance and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD…

AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it

Computex 2026 is underway in Taiwan, and we're expecting all manner of flashy computers with jaw-dropping pricetags (or no pricetags at all) as the entire industry navigates RAMage…

Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal

This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon …

Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

Europe, Australia, and Asia can still get it while the getting's good.…

How do you document your homelab hardware?

This Kubb mini PC certainly isn't wallet-friendly, but it'll easily tackle any task you throw at it - and look good doing it too

Bleu Jour’s fanless mini PC turns expensive passive cooling into a luxury statement for creative professionals and AI workloads…

Your motherboard's fancy specs don't matter nearly as much as you think

I stopped paying for premium motherboard features like PCIe Gen5, extra USB ports, Wi-Fi and audio after realizing they rarely matter in real use.…

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.…