Zak Killian
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Posted today after the release of its quarterly financials on Friday, Intel's latest 10-Q filing paints a sobering picture for its ambitious foundry business. Buried in the report is a telling remark, where the company admits that it has...
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GamePad Digital is apparently aiming straight for the crown of "most powerful handheld ever" with its upcoming GPD Win 5. The company, who originated the concept of the x86 gaming handheld, posted a teaser on its YouTube channel 4 days ago...
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Chinese tech YouTuber Geekerwan's latest video shows just how far you can push AMD's new Threadripper Pro 9995WX, a 96-core, 192-thread Zen 5 workstation chip that costs a staggering ¥100,000 (~$13,800). And when we say "push," we mean...
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Yesterday, Intel published a blog post titled "Lip-Bu Tan: Steps in the Right Direction," described as "a message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees." In it, he addresses the turmoil at the company recently, and talks about...
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Outside of gamers and enthusiasts, desktop PCs have largely fallen by the wayside in favor of small-form-factor and "mini" PCs. That's understandable, as if you don't need the massive power of discrete GPUs and the expansion offered by a...
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On July 23, 1985, Commodore unveiled a machine that would rewrite the rules of personal computing. The Amiga 1000 launched not just as a new computer, but as a paradigm shift in multimedia performance—a system so far ahead of its time that four decades later, it remains a revered icon among...
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AMD has officially enabled Stable Diffusion on its latest generation of Ryzen AI processors, bringing local generative AI image creation to systems equipped with XDNA 2 NPUs. The feature arrives through integration with Amuse, a free and...
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If you're the kind of person who thinks "warranty void" sounds like a challenge, Prema, a well-known American overclocker and modder, has something wild for you. In a recent video from GizmoSlipTech, Prema's shunt-modded Eluktronics Hydroc...
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In its 2024-25 annual financial report, Ubisoft paints a picture of a company that has taken some hits but is ready to bounce back in 2026 and 2027, banking on titles that have been delayed to assure quality. While net income fell...
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Like the rest of the review circuit, we're fairly well enamored with Intel's Arc B-series GPUs. The Arc B570 offers killer entry-level value, and the Arc B580 offers solid 1440p performance without charging you extra for 'sufficient' video...
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The next all-new CPUs from Intel should be the Panther Lake series of mobile processors, hitting late this year or (more likely) early next year. Around the same time or shortly after, though, we expect to see Wildcat Lake, a smaller...
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Just yesterday we learned of the existence of an "AX" model of Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors. Intel uses letters to describe its mobile processors' power budgets, scaling through "Y", "U", "P", "H", and then "HX" at the top with...
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ASUS ROG Strix G16 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop: As tested $2,499 With solid performance and attractive design and minimal comprmises, ASUS' latest gaming laptop is compelling for fans of the form factor. Strong Performance At Its Price...
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Before AMD revealed its Ryzen AI MAX ("Strix Halo") processors, we had many leaks and rumors about the capabilities of the chips: massive integrated GPU, desktop-class CPU horsepower, and a double-wide 256-bit memory interface to feed it...
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Intel's next major processor release is expected to be the Panther Lake family of mobile processors, directly succeeding last year's popular Lunar Lake chips. Those parts will be fabricated on Intel's own 18A process, which by all accounts...
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If you're in the market for a new gaming handheld, we have some good news for you. We now know how much the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally machines are likely going to cost. This information comes courtesy of a web design oversight in the page of...
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Regular HotHardware readers will know that I, your author, am generally a fan of handheld gaming PC devices, as well as that I specifically like to champion the smaller vendors, such as GamePadDigital, OneNotebook, and of course, Ayaneo...
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TeamGroup Industrial has just rolled out its latest industrial-grade SSD, the P250Q, and it's packing more than just high performance. The standout feature? A built-in self-destruct mechanism designed to wipe data completely and...
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JEDEC, the standards body responsible for defining how much of our digital world communicates behind the scenes, has just rolled out the specs for LPDDR6 memory. This next-gen RAM is aimed squarely at high-performance, power-sensitive...
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The MSI Claw A8 Ryzen Edition has officially landed in China, bringing with it AMD's new Ryzen Z2 Extreme—a mobile SoC that trims the fat from the desktop-class HX 370 while keeping the good bits: the full 8-WGP RDNA 3.5 iGPU and a hybrid...
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It's Prime Day, folks, and you know what that means: killer deals on some seriously fast PC parts. While the GPU market has been struggling recently, the rest of the PC parts market is ripe for the picking, and so we've put in a couple of...
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Intel's Core Ultra 200S desktop processors, codenamed Arrow Lake, didn't exactly blow the doors off of the competition—including Intel's own last-generation processors—when they launched late last year. There were a variety of reasons for...
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