This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: August 22, 2026 — foundries, supercomputers, China, and how to not overpay on a motherboard
The motherboard market is so bad that flagship boards are selling at entry-level prices
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Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent
This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) i…
Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer
Benchmarking AMD’s BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price
Synopsys validates a PCIe 6.0 PHY inside a face-to-face 3D stack at 64 GT/s — says it got there by pulling apart an existing 2D test chip
In monolithic chips, PCIe PHYs sit at the perimeter of the die, right next to the package I/O connections, helping keep traces to the substrate short so attenuation and reflections remain manageable. A 2.5D package prese…
Snap-on LCD brings mini displays to any 120mm PC fan — Thermalright’s Fan Frame Vision-1 lets you display information and custom themes on your case fans
Although this accessory mounts in front of your case fans, Thermalright claims it offers enough clearance that it doesn’t interfere with airflow. It connects to your PC via a USB 2.0 hub inside your case, although you co…
Logitech faces lawsuit for withholding $61M in tariff refunds from customers — lawsuit claims company extracted up to $97M from consumers in 2026 through tariff
The lawsuit [ PDF ] alleges that the company received a full refund of $61 million as of June 30, 2026, but it has yet to return or refund any of its customers who bought Logitech products at the inflated prices. In fact…
World’s largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna’s Archive says ‘time is
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Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras — SMS-triggered shell access and passwordless live feeds found in EU-funded rollout
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CPU-Z gets biggest update since 2001 with V3 — 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock tracking
The entire validation system has been revamped to better diagnose problems and better detect CPU and GPU frequencies for extreme overlockers.
Seasonic unveils world’s first 80 Plus Ruby ATX power supply — Prime Enterprise RX-1600 delivers 1600W with up to 95.4% efficiency
Seasonic did not share the hardware specifications of the new RX-1600, but, being part of the Prime sub-brand, we can expect the RX-1600 to pack some of the best internals Seasonic offers on a consumer-grade PSU. Our rev…
