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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated] (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, capacity, cpus

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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, cpus, demand

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Programming the Gigatron (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: gigatron, cpu, gtemu.c

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New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: attack, attacker, branch

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Save $1,400 on this RTX 5090 gaming PC from HP with 64GB DDR5 right now; RAM and GPU cost $5k alone — $5,599 sale price for top-spec Omen Max 45L rig with 24-core Intel CPU and 2TB of SSD storage (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Ben Stockton | tags: best, deals, gaming

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Huge $750 saving makes this Gigabyte OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti an absolute steal right now — just $1,999 for 1600p rig with 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, and a 24-core Intel CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5070 ti, oled display

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AMD plummets 8% in premarket trading despite beating expectations (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: amd, nvidia, data center

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Crazed modder turns NAS into a gaming PC with RTX 5060 hanging from the side, boosts frame rate by 828% — Frankenstein rig hides dedicated PSU in drive bay, breaks Time Spy world record for the onboard CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nas, rtx 5060, intel core i5-1235u

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A less powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip is now officially a thing (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: snapdragon 8 elite gen 5, qualcomm, redmi k100 pro

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16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gpu vram, steam hardware, amd resurgence

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Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Pinterest Engineering | tags: kubernetes, pinterest, ray

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AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors could fix microstutters and improve 1% lows in games — Next-gen CPUs tipped to feature per-core optimizations for thermal and power budgets (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd zen 6, ryzen 10000, cpuc performance control

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der8auer tests PC chimney effect, dropping CPU temps by 19°C with a 110cm 3D-printed tower (techspot.com)

2026-08-02 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: pc chimney effect, der8auer, ryzen 7 9800x3d

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Score the ultimate AMD AM4 starter pack with a six-core CPU and 16GB RAM for only $280 — kickstart your next PC build with $138 in savings (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, ryzen 5 5500, b550m motherboard

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30 years of CPUs at Tom’s Hardware — looking back on three decades of processors, from the Pentium II to Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, intel, ryzen

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Tom’s Hardware’s 30th Anniversary — From Intel feuds and DIP switches to 30 years of unbiased testing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Paul Alcorn | tags: intel, nvidia, 3dfx

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Intel is giving a startup the keys to its x86 (Atom) CPU kingdom (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: intel, atom, rosaiclabs

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Save $900 on this RTX 5070 gaming PC from MSI in this limited-time Woot deal, now $1,399 — grab a huge saving on this Codex R2 rig with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: msi, rtx 5070, nvidia geforce

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Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Laurentiu Raducu | tags: logic gates, cpu, chip builder

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I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Laurentiu Raducu | tags: logic gates, cpu, chip builder

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Save up to $700 on these iBuyPower gaming PCs, fitted with an RX 9070 XT for 4K gaming — liquid-cooled AMD rigs feature either a 9800X3D or 9900X CPU, along with 32GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD, starting from $1,799 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ben Stockton | tags: ibuypower, amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, rx 9070 xt

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Re-examining the DDR4 gaming gap with Intel’s LGA 1700 CPUs in mid-2026 — performance drops of 14% on average, and up to 25% in some games (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Jake Roach | tags: intel, lga 1700, ddr4

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Microsoft laptop with Nvidia RTX Spark leaked and benchmarked before launch (techspot.com)

2026-07-28 | by Daniel Sims | tags: nvidia rtx spark, microsoft surface, redmond washington

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AMD splits Zen 7 into three EPYC families for 2028 and starts selling server CPUs by the agent — Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza to be applied across AI-focused product stack (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-27 | by Luke James | tags: amd, zen 7, epyc

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Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-27 | by Keegan Sheedy | tags: agentic ai, virtual cpu, system performance

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Minecraft system requirements raised for the first time in 17 years — Microsoft now recommends 16GB of RAM and a 2020s or newer CPU to run the Java Edition (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-26 | by Jowi Morales | tags: minecraft, microsoft, java edition

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'RAM Machine' case probably costs more than the entire build — Nvidia RTX 5060, Core Ultra 5 CPU, and 32GB DDR5-8200 RAM are hiding inside (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-25 | by Jowi Morales | tags: nvidia rtx 5060, patriot ddr5-8200, intel core ultra 5

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Grab an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 32GB RAM for under $1,200 — Thermaltake's View u2660T-170 slashed by 33% (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-25 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nvidia, rtx 5060 ti, thermaltake

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Leak details Ryzen 7 9800HX3D, AMD's first affordable 3D V-cache laptop CPU (techspot.com)

2026-07-25 | by Daniel Sims | tags: amd, ryzen 7 9800hx3d, 3d v-cache

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Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028 as its sales rise 25% year-over-year (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-24 | by Anton Shilov | tags: intel, 14a, tsmc