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'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up
5d agoSMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann
5d agoAMD taunts Apple's MacBook Neo for failing to run 75% of top PC games — Only 5 out of the 20 top PC games work on the Neo, while all run on AMD's budget offerings
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1w agoIBM spins off America's first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private funding — newly-minted 'Anderon' foundry to offer 300mm quantum wafer fab and manufacturing services
…Headquartered in Albany, New York, Anderon will operate a 300mm quantum wafer fab and offer its manufacturing services to competing quantum hardware vendors. The deal was the centerpiece of a broader $2…
Laptops Reviews | Tom's Hardware
…screen, and the latest Intel silicon, though its massive haptic touchpad isn’t the selling point it’s made out to be. Ultrabooks and Ultraportables Apple's MacBook Neo has all the…
Laptops Reviews | Tom's Hardware
…screen, and the latest Intel silicon, though its massive haptic touchpad isn’t the selling point it’s made out to be. Ultrabooks and Ultraportables Apple's MacBook Neo has all the…
AI cryptomining network's 320,000 RTX 3090-class GPUs allegedly burn 112 megawatts of power on ‘zero useful AI computation’ — GPU rental costs jump 38%, but Pearl’s cards are doing random matrix math, study claims
…The paper reports 44 pool-accepted shares on Nvidia and AMD hardware, with the same miner also benchmarked on a CPU and Apple Silicon, plus an on-chain payout earned by running…
$300 slashed from Apple's M4 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM — get a premium laptop for just $1,099
…Despite being supplanted by the newer M5 chip, the M4 is no slouch, and Apple silicon continues to offer some of the best bang for your buck in processing when it comes…
49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could be left powerless as AI data centers inhale electricity supply — power company looking to redirect power to 12 data centers, high demand plus a regulatory limbo equals a dim situation
…Most of the region's data center computers sit in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, and they're owned by the likes of Google , Microsoft , and Apple. Follow Tom's Hardware on…
Intel expands new game-boosting iBOT software with seven more games, up to a 27% improvement — Team Blue claims 12% average jump in newly-supported titles
…Instead, it's optimizing x86 applications to ensure they're using the latest, most efficient instructions. Intel does this optimization with Hardware Profile-Guided Optimizations, or HWPGO, tapping into the silicon to…
The custom AI ASIC state of play (May 2026) — Broadcom deals, Google TPUs, Meta MTIA & beyond
…Microsoft claims it offers 30% better performance per dollar than the best hardware in its existing fleet and calls it "the most performant first-party silicon from any hyperscaler." Maia 200 currently…
Best of Computex 2026: Innovating despite disruptions
…But because of AI’s continuing hardware demands, which have driven up prices while driving down general availability of things like RAM and storage, we saw a strange mix of products. Some…