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The HyperX Omen 35L pairs a fresh black-and-white design with excellent gaming performance, but its entry-level configurations are too pricey.

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The JSAUX FlipGo features dual 16-inch touch displays and a built-in hub.

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Intel’s woes wipe out $1 trillion of semiconductor market cap in one day

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Intel's gloomy outlook for its PC business wipes out $1 trillion of semiconductor market capitalization in a day, barely affects Apple.

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Intel leaker reveals Moon Lake chip as a likely replacement for N-series SoCs

By Bruno Ferreira Published

An Intel leaker revealed Moon Lake chip as a likely replacement for N-series SoCs with four lower-power-efficiency cores, no performance cores, and a 6-watt TDP

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Intel confirms Nova Lake CPUs will use advanced 18A-P node, more details at CES

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Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop processors will be the first client product to use Intel's enhanced 18A-P node, CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed in the company's Q3 2026 earnings call.

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Nvidia store quietly pulls the RTX 5080 following RTX 5090 removal

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First the RTX 5090, now the RTX 5080. Nvidia quietly removes the RTX 5080 listing from the marketplace as prices explode to 2.2X MSRP on the retail market.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 prices hit $2,000, costing more than the RTX 5090 did at launch and with limited stock available

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It costs just as much to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 right now as the launch price for the RTX 5090, with prices now at least two times higher for this high spec GPU.

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TrashBench repurposes a trash AC radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC — RTX 3080 didn't run much above ambient temperature

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Someone listed a massive 300-rack AI supercomputer on eBay for $59.7M. Packed with 9,600 A100 GPUs and 4,200 EPYC CPUs, it even ships for free.

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