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Intel, SK hynix shares surge following reports of chip packaging partnership — SK is said to be testing Intel's 2.5D EMIB for HBM integration

… Neither SK nor Intel has confirmed the rumors. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News , or add us as a preferred source , to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. …

May 11, 2026 · Luke James

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Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages

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

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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

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We went hands-on with Qualcomm's new '$300 and up' ARM laptop platform with mystery eight-core CPU — active-cooled Snapdragon C laptop surfaces in Acer Aspire Go 15

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First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement

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May 16, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira

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$499 case turns your PC into a liquid cooling masterpiece for your wall — Portal Advanced comes with an integrated distribution plate and reservoir to start of your build

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May 14, 2026 · Zhiye Liu

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

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Jun 3, 2026 · Sarah Jacobsson Purewal

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Blazing-fast 1TB WD Black SN8100 SSD with integrated heatsink plummets to an all-time low price of $209 — act fast before this deal disappears

… This deal is not going to last very long for obvious reasons, so if you want in with a chance of picking up this latest SSD on the cheap, you'd better act fast. ● Grab this deal at Newegg The WD Black SN8100 is a superfast PCIe Gen 5 x4 NVMe 2.0 drive with some of the fastest read and write speeds … …

May 13, 2026 · Stewart Bendle

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Intel adds iGPU-less mobile chips to Core 200H lineup — Raptor Lake-based Core 7 230H and Core 5 205H sport disabled graphics for small form factor desktop boards

… The Core 200 series is made up of CPU dies made from Intel’s older Raptor Lake Refresh architecture, and thus does not have any of the architectural enhancements that have been made on Intel’s newer Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, and Arrow Lake architectures. …

Jun 7, 2026 · Aaron Klotz

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Chinese university builds 3D chip design tool tailored to Huawei's ‘LogicFolding’ architecture — 3D design delivers increased performance and better thermal management

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May 28, 2026 · Luke James

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Google Chrome 'silently' downloads 4GB AI model to your device without permission, report claims — researcher says practice may violate EU law, waste thousands of kilowatts of energy

Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as "That Privacy Guy," has published a new analysis claiming that Google Chrome is silently downloading a roughly 4GB on-device AI model to users' machines without notice or consent. …

May 6, 2026 · Zak Killian

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AMD's Frank Azor pushes back against claim that FSR 4.1 won't be ported to RDNA 3.5 GPUs — says 'no such decision' has been made

… FSR 4.1 is the latest iteration of the FSR feature set, including an improved upscaler that better preserves detail in motion and Ray Regeneration 1.1. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News , or add us as a preferred source , to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. …

Jun 4, 2026 · Aaron Klotz

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SoftBank to spend up to $87 billion on French AI data centers — country offers ample nuclear grid that US sites lack

… The €75 billion figure is also a ceiling; only the €45 billion first phase and its 3.1GW are firm commitments, with the remaining sites described as plans for later. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News , or add us as a preferred source , to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. …

May 31, 2026 · Luke James