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Intel surpasses one million High-NA EUV wafers processed, outpaces the rest of the industry combined — company also trailblazing giant 6×12 photomasks to speed

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Moving from 6×6-inch to 6×12-inch photomasks would require substantial changes across the existing mask ecosystem, including mask blanks and deposition, etching, inspection and metrology, cleaning, pellicles, mask writer…

Single-slot low-profile 75W RTX 3060 with no power connectors disappoints in tests — GPU runs entirely off the PCIe slot, but offers severely crippled performan

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Hassam Nasir Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news…

Bitcoin mining data center condemned after leaking 3 million gallons of water and forcing school closures — facility operated for years under a city stop-work o

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Mark Tyson Social Links Navigation News Editor Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom’s Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of rea…

Xbox Game Pass imposes monthly cloud gaming limits, just 15 hours per month for Ultimate — subscribers and non-subscribers can buy more hours to keep gaming

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But nothing about the timing appears coincidental. Grand Theft Auto VI , arguably the most anticipated title of the decade, will launch on November 19. Microsoft’s new Xbox Cloud Gaming policy is set to take effect in th…

Sales of CD and vinyl music sees strong resurgence amid physical media backlash — US sales of ‘retro media’ were up 59% and 18%, respectively, in H1 2026

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Mark Tyson Social Links Navigation News Editor Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom’s Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of rea…

Xbox Game Pass imposes monthly cloud gaming limits, just 15 hours per month for Ultimate — subscribers and non-subscribers can buy more hours to keep gaming

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But nothing about the timing appears coincidental. Grand Theft Auto VI , arguably the most anticipated title of the decade, will launch on November 19. Microsoft’s new Xbox Cloud Gaming policy is set to take effect in th…

One-slot, low-profile Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GB with two monitor outputs breaks cover at Newegg for $496 — bus-powered model looking for a use case in local LLM wor

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Bruno Ferreira Social Links Navigation Contributor Bruno Ferreira is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware. He has decades of experience with PC hardware and assorted sundries, alongside a career as a developer. He’s …

Arm debuts next-gen semi-custom Neoverse CSS N4 ‘Falcon’ platform — compute subsystem packs up to 128 cores per die on TSMC N3P

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Although Arm has talked a lot about AGI, including a deep dive into the chip’s architecture at Hot Chips , we’ve yet to see real-world performance numbers. That’s not uncommon, especially among more recent Arm-based chip…