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Inside Meta and AMD's $100 billion deal, and why AMD is giving up a slice of the company in return for GPU orders

By Sayem Ahmed published 25 February 26

Premium Deal mirrors OpenAI agreement from 2025.

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Sambanova introduces new AI accelerator, partners with Intel to deploy Xeon CPUs for inferencing and agentic workloads

By Anton Shilov published 25 February 26

Premium Intel teams up with a new kid on the block.

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AI boosted US economy by 'basically zero' in 2025, says Goldman Sachs chief economist

By Jon Martindale published 24 February 26

Premium US companies are spending big, but most of that money goes overseas.

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OpenAI couldn’t finance its data centers, so it took control of the hardware instead

By Luke James published 24 February 26

Premium OpenAI spent much of 2025 trying to build its own AI data centers, only to find that it couldn’t secure financing on competitive terms.

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Trump tariff turbulence risks handing TSMC a win over American chip manufacturers

By Jon Martindale published 23 February 26

Premium That's if pre-existing tariff exemptions still apply.

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US imports from Taiwan now exceed exports from China for the first time in decades

By Anton Shilov published 23 February 26

Premium Thanks, AI servers.

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Reviews

Razer Iskur V2 NewGen gaming chair review: A much-needed ‘cooler’ update to an already solid chair

By Brandon Hill published 25 February 26

The Razer Iskur V2 NewGen replaces the Iskur V2 in the lineup, and upgrades materials to make you cooler.

Gaming Chairs

Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDM3 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: Asus delivers a true flagship OLED

By Christian Eberle published 23 February 26

32-inch Quantum Dot OLED with 4K resolution, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, Dolby Vision, BlackShield Film, DisplayHDR 500, and wide gamut color

Gaming Monitors

Be quiet! Silent Loop 3 420 review: Performance cooling with minimal noise

By Albert Thomas published 22 February 26

Be Quiet’s Silent Loop 3 420 outperforms most 360mm AIOs while running quieter than the competition. This review is tested with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X CPU and includes noise-normalized benchmarks.

Liquid Cooling

Corsair Makr Pro 75 Review: Not DIY-priced (or DIY)

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal published 21 February 26

Corsair's Makr Pro 75 is a pre-built magnetic switch version of its DIY Makr 75 series. It's a nicely-built board, and feels and sounds pretty good out of the box, but it's hard to justify the price.

Gaming Keyboards

Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra review: Premium creator pick

By Charles Jefferies published 20 February 26

Upscale design and top-notch performance come together in the Galaxy Book6 Ultra, though be prepared to spend for it.

Ultrabooks and Ultraportables

Best Picks

The Best Wi-Fi Routers We've Benchmarked in 2026 — the best of Wi-Fi 7 from budget to premium

By Brandon Hill last updated 22 February 26

The right Wi-Fi router can make a huge difference in your day-to-day productivity and gaming experience. We’ve tested a slew of models to help you find the best one.

Wi-Fi Routers

Best Power Supplies 2026

By E. Fylladitakis last updated 19 February 26

Here are the best power supplies for gaming PCs. These PSUs offer the best reliability, performance and protection for your PC components.

Power Supplies

A collection of eight recent motherboards, in their boxes, on a desk, showcasing the types of boards that typically land on our lest of best motherboards we have benchmarked.

Best Motherboards 2026 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset

By Joe Shields last updated 19 February 26

Here are the best motherboards we've tested, for recent AMD and Intel platforms.

Motherboards

CPUs

Nvidia's N1/N1X SoCs tipped for release in first half of 2026, debuting on Dell & Lenovo laptops

By Hassam Nasir published 24 February 26

N1 silicon is finally right around the corner.

CPUs

Intel preps CPUs with 'Unified Core' architecture — job listing hints at evolution beyond Intel's hybrid design

By Anton Shilov published 23 February 26

Intel's confirms 'Unified Cores' project in a job listing, but actual CPUs with these unified cores could be years away.

CPUs

AMD Zen 6 and Intel Nova Lake CPUs reportedly arriving late, delayed to CES 2027

By Hassam Nasir published 21 February 26

Zen 6 and Nova Lake are supposed to release this year.

CPUs

Graphics Cards

Modder pushes rare 20GB RTX 3080 Ti past 550W with risky power shunts and liquid metal cooling

By Ben Stockton published 25 February 26

An unreleased what-if Nvidia GPU pushed to its limits

GPUs

Amateur burglar steals three GPUs worth $11,000 from computer shop in Korea

By Hassam Nasir published 24 February 26

Should've taken the RAM instead.

GPUs

MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPUs listed on eBay for almost $27,000

By Jowi Morales published 23 February 26

Resellers are now putting up MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Zs on eBay, pricing it from $6,700 all the way to nearly $27,000.

GPUs

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Jeffrey Kampman

Senior Analyst, Graphics

A machine that converts espresso into game benchmarks.

Anj Bryant

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Stephen Warwick

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Paul Alcorn

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Matt Safford

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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal

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Andrew E. Freedman

Senior Editor: Laptops and Desktops

Needs the right screwdriver bit for this upgrade.

Brandon Hill

Senior Editor - Monitors and Networking

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Les Pounder

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Sayem Ahmed

Subscription Editor

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Laptops

Nvidia's Chinese competitor Moore Threads launches new "MTT AI Book" laptop featuring custom 12-core Arm chip

By Hassam Nasir published 22 February 26

The GPU specs are unknown.

Laptops

Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra review: Premium creator pick

By Charles Jefferies published 20 February 26

Upscale design and top-notch performance come together in the Galaxy Book6 Ultra, though be prepared to spend for it.

Ultrabooks and Ultraportables

Features

The great Bench GPU retest begins — how we're testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still out

By Jeffrey Kampman published 20 February 26

Premium It's time to test. Here's how the sausage is made.

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The state of China's decade-long semiconductor push: still a decade behind, despite hundreds of billions spent and significant progress

By Anton Shilov published 20 February 26

Premium After 10 years and hundreds of billions of investments, China's semiconductor supply chain is still decades behind chip supply chain in America and Taiwan.

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The future of Quantum computing — the tech, companies, and roadmaps that map out a coherent quantum future

By Francisco Pires published 16 February 26

Premium In this roadmap, we analyze what the future of Quantum Computing might look like over the next decade, including the future of qubit scaling, trapped ions, and superconducting chips.

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PC Components

Get 20TB of Seagate external storage for just $16 per terabyte — rare discount lands during the AI-driven storage crunch

By Stephen Warwick published 23 February 26

Deals This 20TB Seagate expansion drive is a great external storage solution that defies the AI price crunch.

Deals

Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs

By Jowi Morales published 22 February 26

Flying to another continent is apparently cheaper than buying locally.

HDDs

Be quiet! Silent Loop 3 420 review: Performance cooling with minimal noise

By Albert Thomas published 22 February 26

Be Quiet’s Silent Loop 3 420 outperforms most 360mm AIOs while running quieter than the competition. This review is tested with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X CPU and includes noise-normalized benchmarks.

Liquid Cooling

Desktops and PC Building

How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam — Camo Studio unlocks new uses for old smartphones in Windows 10 or 11 and OBS software

By Les Pounder published 29 January 26

You don’t need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!

Android

The NexPhone connected to a monitor and peripherals running Windows 11

Windows Phone makes a spiritual comeback thanks to NexPhone, which can triple-boot Windows, Android, and Linux

By Kunal Khullar published 22 January 26

Designed as an all-in-one computing device, NexPhone lets users switch between Android, Linux, and Windows 11 depending on the task

Phones

Passive-aggressive iPhone 17 pro Max cooling

Monstrous SSD cooling solution strapped to iPhone 17 Pro Max delivers unparalleled performance

By Mark Tyson published 2 October 25

A smartphone performance enthusiast has shown pictures of their PC SSD cooler-boosted iPhone 17 Pro Max on Reddit.

iPhone

Deals

Newegg’s 25th anniversary sale is here, unlocking huge discounts on gaming PCs, laptops, RAM, SSDs, and more

By Ben Stockton published 25 February 26

Deals To celebrate Newegg's 25th anniversary, the retailer is releasing some epic Doorbuster deals at 9 am PT, with huge discounts on a range of tech.

Deals

Save $349 on a 9850X3D, bundled with 32GB of RAM and a motherboard at Newegg

By Stephen Warwick published 25 February 26

Deals Get an AMD Ryzen 9850X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5, and an X870E Aorus motherboard at Newegg.

Deals

Dell’s Aurora gaming PC offers $500 in instant savings

By Sponsored published 24 February 26

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Dell's Alienware Aurora (ACT1250) gaming desktop with a Core Ultra 7 265F and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is $500 off its regular price.

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