Raspberry Pi 500+ Review: RGB clicky keys and NVMe storage, but with a $200 price tag
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-500-plus-review
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Elite chips for PCs stretch up to a record 5 GHz — 3nm Arm chips sport new Oryon Prime cores
Alibaba announces partnership with Nvidia despite Beijing’s bans — Chinese e-commerce giant is prioritizing AI with plans for global expansion
OpenAI may lease Nvidia GPUs instead of buying them — financial engineering deal could cut hardware costs in pursuit of 10GW buildout
https://www.tomshardware.com/openai-may-lease-nvidia-gpus-instead-of-buying-them
Manic Steam game collector first to surpass 40,000 game titles in library — $640,000 digital collection took 15 years to build
SMI SM2504XT ES 2TB SSD Review: A Mid-Range PCIe 5.0 Challenger
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/smi-sm2504xt-es-2tb-ssd-review
AMD keeps AM4 platform on life support with 2020-era Zen 3 CPU — Ryzen 3 5100 surfaces, nine years after AM4 launch
Check that you're ready for invasive DRM with new feature built right into Steam — Secure Boot and TPM status now listed right in the app
Microsoft develops breakthrough chip cooling method — microfluidic channels can cut peak temps by up to 65%, outperform conventional cold plates by up to 3x
Solidigm touts industry's first liquid-cooled enterprise SSD — D7-PS1010 is an E.1 PCIe 5.0 drive with a wrap-around cold plate
The Nvidia RTX 5080 drops to new lowest-ever price — grab the PNY OC model for $929 at Walmart
AI slop infects PC watercooling with Thermaltake's 'AI Forge' feature — adds generative AI to its MagFloe Ultra AIO screens for custom backgrounds
iBuyPower Y40 Pro Review: Style first
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/ibuypower-y40-pro-review
Find My Parking Cops uses data scraped from City website to track parking fines in real time — entire website dedicated to helping San Francisco motorists avoid parking tickets goes live
Intel could be working on its own multi-frame generation tech — XeSS MFG name and logo found in Arc graphics driver files
Nvidia and Intel’s RTX SoCs could pose an existential threat to AMD’s APUs — if two companies can actually pull it off
GPD Win 5 handheld soars with Strix Halo — gaming deck is almost twice as fast as Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 competitors at same power
China's latest GPU arrives with claims of CUDA compatibility and RT support — Fenghua No.3 also boasts 112GB+ of HBM memory for AI
You can get a PNY RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB card for only $379 — GPU drops to historical low price for the 16 GB variant
Nvidia's $100 billion investment in OpenAI raises big antitrust concerns — legal experts and policymakers raise eyebrows over potential for market imbalance