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PremiumThe current state of PCIe 6.0 SSDs and controllersMicron and Samsung already have actual SSDs
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PremiumBenchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the priceThe repurposed APU for mining has come back home again.
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PremiumInside optical and the battle for scaleWith copper running out of road, photonic interconnects are becoming the new innovative solution for data centers.
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PremiumMotherboard buying advice for the PC building apocalypseMatch your board to your build, use case, and future plans to avoid bottlenecks and wasted upgrades. Spend smart now to prevent paying out more later, even with a budget motherboard.
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PremiumExploring the future of Artificial Intelligence — today's models, tomorrow's agents, and the big privacy problemThe world of AI is getting more complex, and we assess the current state of LLMs, what makes them tick, and explore the risks and features that companies are looking to integrate in the future.
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PremiumBehind the scenes of our massive CPU retest for Bench — testing at 1080p, choosing new apps, and gathering data for a decade of CPUsWe’re retesting a decade’s worth of CPUs for our CPU hierarchy and Bench database, and we’re taking Tom’s Hardware Premium users behind the scenes to show you how it’s done.
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PremiumThe great Bench GPU retest begins — how we're testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still outIt's time to test. Here's how the sausage is made.
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PremiumThe state of China's decade-long semiconductor push: still a decade behind, despite hundreds of billions spent and significant progressAfter 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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PremiumWi-Fi 7 promises made, but not kept — the mysteries of MLO and AFC, and looking toward Wi-Fi 8Wi-Fi 7 has been a mess of unfulfilled promises and fragmentation, and Wi-Fi 8 doesn’t seem like it will bring any further clarity
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PremiumUltra Ethernet: The data-center interconnection of tomorrow detailedWe take a look at the Ultra Ethernet 1.0.1 specification in a bid to find out what has changed compared to the traditional Ethernet — and how it will change tomorrow's data-center connectivity.
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PremiumCPU scaling with DLSSIn a time of ubiquitous upscaling, your CPU can quickly become a performance bottleneck.
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PremiumPhotonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneckGenerative AI is pushing demand in all areas of the industry, and data interconnects, such as Silicon Photonics, may well be the next big bottleneck that hyperscalers need to be paying attention to.
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