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Reverse-Engineering the RK3588 NPU: Hacking Limits to Run Vision Transformers (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | by Adhitya Mohan | get Neural Network Processing Unit → | tags: compiler, hardware, model

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With a standout $1739.99 price tag, this packed CyberPower PC features both the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Radeon RX 9070 XT for an amazing prebuilt gaming setup — beat the AI crunch with 32GB of DDR5 and a 2TB NVMe SSD (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Stewart Bendle | get CyberPower PC → | tags: deals, gaming, hardware

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Sapphire rep predicts DRAM prices will begin to stabilize in the next 6-8 months, but warns 'it may not be the prices we want' — GPU vendor says memory crisis is similar to tariff uncertainty (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Hassam Nasir | get Sapphire → | tags: crisler, going, hardware

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AI-designed Linux computer with 843 components boots on first attempt — dual-PCB Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Mark Tyson | get Linux computer → | tags: design, hardware, human

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Dual-PCB Linux computer with 843 components designed by AI boots on first attempt — Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Mark Tyson | get Dual-PCB → | tags: design, hardware, human

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The 'ExtrudeX' machine wants to turn your 3D printing waste into reusable filament, all at home — this Kickstarter project is itself 3D-printable with minimal hardware costs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-15 | by Hassam Nasir | get Extruder → | tags: credit, extrudex, filament

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First truly 3D chip fabbed at US foundry, features carbon nanotube transistors and RAM on a single die — future devices could have up to 1000x improvement in energy-delay product (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Luke James | get Carbon Nanotube Transistor → | tags: fold, hardware, performance

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id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Commander Keen → | tags: hardware, id software, keen

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Russian media finally admits Putin is under fire from angry citizens, but it's for the recent Roblox ban — Kremlin says kids have written 63,000 complaint letters, half said they wanted to leave Russia due to the ban (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Roblox → | tags: children, roblox, russia

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Dev hacks Xiaomi's Smart Humidifier to free it from the cloud, now works with Home Assistant locally — custom firmware allows the product to evade planned obsolescence (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Hassam Nasir | get Smart Humidifier → | tags: assistant, esphome, hardware

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Experiment to train rats to play Doom reaches a new level; rats can now shoot enemies — wraparound AMOLED screen provides virtual environment for neuroengineers' expanded open source project (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Zak Killian | get Smartphone → | tags: doom, engine, game

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Nvidia details new software that enables location tracking for AI GPUs — opt-in remote data center GPU fleet management includes power usage and thermal monitoring (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-13 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: fleet, hardware, nvidia

553.

Slab is the first MIDI controller built exclusively for Serato Studio (theverge.com)

2025-12-13 | by Terrence O'Brien | get MIDI Controller → | tags: hardware, maschine, pads

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Nvidia weighs expanding H200 production as new China orders rush in, report claims — ByteDance and Alibaba listed as suitors for 'large orders' in the wake of sanctions lift (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Luke James | get Graphics Card → | tags: capacity, china, chinese

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PNY's RTX 5070 GPU falls $50 below its MSRP launch price — grab one quickly via Walmart while stocks last (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Stewart Bendle | get NVIDIA GeForce → | tags: deals, hardware, image

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MSI's RTX 5070 GPU falls $50 below its MSRP launch price — grab one quickly via Walmart while stocks last (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Stewart Bendle | get NVIDIA GeForce → | tags: deals, gaming, hardware

557.

Here are the top ten PowerShell commands in Windows that will get you started (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Les Pounder | get PowerShell → | tags: command, commands, directory

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CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC packs 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM and an RTX 5080 GPU for $2499 — that's $700+ of RAM in today's market (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Stewart Bendle | get GPU → | tags: credit, deals, gaming

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Biwin Black Opal OC Lab Gold Edition DDR5-6000 C28 4x48GB Review: High-Performance Memory For Demanding Applications (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Zhiye Liu | get Memory → | tags: credit, credit tom, hardware

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UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate busted repeatedly sabotaging rival student's computer, causing $46,000 in damages — hidden camera sting catches perp causing "sparks to fly out of the laptop," student arrested on three felony counts (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Mark Tyson | get Laptop → | tags: computer, damage, hardware

561.

AI Promises Peak Productivity. Are Your Enterprise PCs Ready For It? (cnet.com)

2025-12-10 | by Cnet Brandx For Amd | get Enterprise PCs → | tags: amd pro, amd ryzen, hardware

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China starts list of government-approved AI hardware suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei are in, Nvidia is not (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Anton Shilov | get Cambricon → | tags: china, chinese, domestic

563.

I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-10 | get GPU → | tags: grace, hardware, hopper

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Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Sunny Grimm | get DeepLearning → | tags: china, deepseek, gpus

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China holds 'emergency meetings' to discuss Nvidia H200 purchases following export rule change, report claims — ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba asked to assess demand (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, chip, hardware

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Nvidia develops software-based tracking for AI GPUs to quash smuggling concerns — solution devised to prevent shipments to nations with export controls in place (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: hardware, nvidia, reuters

567.

Prusa CORE One L 3D printer review: Bigger and better (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Denise Bertacchi | get Prusa Slicer → | tags: core, hardware, print

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How Google’s TPUs are reshaping the economics of large-scale AI (venturebeat.com)

2025-12-10 | get Tensor Processing Units → | tags: cloud, google, gpus

569.

Arduino Uno Q Review: The board with two brains (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-09 | by Les Pounder | get Microcontroller → | tags: arduino, arduino uno, hardware

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Semiconductor industry enters unprecedented ‘giga cycle’, says report — scale of artificial intelligence is rewriting compute, memory, networking, and storage economics all at once (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-09 | by Luke James | get Semiconductor → | tags: billion, hardware, market