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Today β€” 24 March 2026Latest from Tom's Hardware

Huawei unveils new Atlas 350 AI accelerator with 1.56 PFLOPS of FP4 compute and up to 112GB of HBM β€” claims 2.8x more performance than Nvidia's H20

The Atlas 350 is using the Ascend 950PR chip, but it looks like a cut-down version with less compute. Translation overhead aside, previous reports and announcements have already revealed the full specs of this silicon, such as 128 GB of HBM and up to 2 PFLOPS of FP4 compute, but the Atlas 350 is being reported just a smidge below those numbers.

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review: The new best $200 CPU

24 March 2026 at 17:12
Intel’s new Core Ultra 5 250K Plus establishes a new baseline for performance in the $200 CPU category. After running it through an extensive suite of benchmarks across games and applications, our testing shows it can match the competition, at worst, and far exceed other options at best.

Get an entire RTX 5090 Alienware gaming PC for just 17% more than the GPU's standalone cost β€” 9800X3D beast with 32GB DDR5 and 1TB SSD drops below $4,450 at Dell, saving you a massive $1,200

24 March 2026 at 16:25
This Alienware Area-51 gaming PC is one of the most powerful pre-built rigs you can buy. It's on sale with a $1,200 discount, fitted with an RTX 5090, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for only $4,449.99, with an RTX 5080 variant even cheaper.

AWS Bahrain suffers major disruption due to the ongoing US-Iran conflict β€” drone activity blamed for service interruption

Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Bahrain site has been disrupted due to the ongoing conflict. It's been said that drone activity is causing the service interruption, and that the company is requesting its clients to migrate their workloads to other regions.

FCC bans import of new consumer routers not made in the US over security threat β€” agency says foreign-made devices pose β€˜unacceptable risk’ to US persons

The FCC says that it will no longer certify foreign-made routers, effectively making them illegal to sell in the U.S., unless the manufacturer can secure a "Conditional Approval" from the Department of War or the Department of Homeland Security.

Microsoft says, for once, Windows update isn't to blame for Galaxy Book4 laptops losing access to C: drive β€” the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit, and it's been taken down from Microsoft Store

Microsoft and Samsung investigated a widely reported issue with Galaxy Book 4 devices and said the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit. These laptops were losing access to the C: drive and, initially, people thought it had something to do with Windows Update. Microsoft has posted recovery steps for those that were affected.

Yesterday β€” 23 March 2026Latest from Tom's Hardware

Intel's long-rumored Core Ultra 3 205 CPU finally appears for sale at French retailer β€” priced at $182, early listing confirms previously-known specs for the chip

The Core Ultra 3 205 is an 8-core chip with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, part of the Arrow Lake family, branded as the Core Ultra 200S series. It never officially launched despite being listed at several OEMs as a "tray" chip and even being mentioned in Intel's own documents. Its newest spotting is on a French retailer's website where it's only available on order.

Before yesterdayLatest from Tom's Hardware

Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset Review

21 March 2026 at 17:35
The Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless pairs exceptional comfort with impressive sound quality for a mid-tier price. The microphone leaves something to be desired, but overall, it’s a solid all-day wear, even when you’re not gaming.

Xbox Series X transformed into a gaming PC with 3D printed components, low-profile RTX 5060, and NUC 12 Extreme

A YouTuber has modded an Xbox Series X with PC parts, featuring a NUC 12 Extreme with a Core i7-12700, low-profile Gigabyte RTX 5060, and PSU while keeping the console's DVD drive intact.

New Fortnite 'Rivalry' includes chance to win RTX 5080 β€” top five players will be awarded GPU hardware in Chapter 7 Season 2 competition

Fortnite's new season not only brings new content for the players but also gives them a chance to earn real-life rewards, such as an RTX 5080. If you're good enough at the game and win enough "rivalries" in matches every week and rank among the top five players in the world, Epic will give you a free RTX 5080.

AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RX 9000-series GPUs β€” new update delivers better Ray Regeneration, finer upscaled detail, and higher FPS

AMD has added Ray Regeneration 1.1 and FSR 4.1 upscaling to its RDNA 4 GPUs, bringing it to parity with Sony's PSSR 2 on the PS5 Pro. Games that support these features will have better ray tracing quality with more accurate shadow detail, while also getting a sharper-looking image through ML-based upscaling.

Acer Predator XB273U F5 27-inch QHD 360 Hz gaming monitor review: Utilizing G-Sync Pulsar to deliver phenomenal blur reduction

20 March 2026 at 18:00
G-Sync Pulsar blur reduction tech makes its debut in Acer’s Predator XB273U F5. It’s a 27-inch QHD IPS screen with 360 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR500, and wide-gamut color. It brings the quickness and smoothness of OLED to the LCD realm.

Arctic's $1,400 AMD Strix Point fanless mini-PC hides under your desk β€” Senza AI 370 features Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, 32GB RAM, and 1TB SSD

If you've been looking for a mini PC that goes beyond just decluttering your desk β€” one that basically doesn't even remind you of its existence, then Arctic has got just the thing for you. The new Senza AI 370 features a powerful AMD chip with a decent iGPU, 32 GB of fast RAM, a 1 TB SSD, and plenty of ports. It costs almost $1,400, though, but at least it's fanless.

Save $350 on the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti laptop with an OLED display β€” Acer's excellent Predator Helios Neo 16S AI with 32GB of RAM is just $1,549 right now

Powerful laptops with impressive specs are often overpriced and only make sense when on sale. Thankfully, Acer has put its Helios Neo 16S AI with an RTX 5070 Ti, 32 GB of RAM, 240 Hz OLED display, and a Core Ultra 9 275HX processor on a steep discount. It's the best Windows laptop you can likely find at this price.

8BitDo launches $40 Nintendo 64-inspired wireless controller with 2.4 GHz connection β€” dedicated wireless receiver even works with the original N64

8BitDo has released the 2.4 GHz version of its popular 8BitDo 64 controller; it ships with a Retro Receiver inside the box that can even be connected to an actual N64 console. The receiver can also be bought separately to work over a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection with most 8BitDo first-party controllers, and other third-party ones, too.

Intel's new feature can improve game loading times by up to 3x β€” Precompiled Shader Delivery comes to Arc Xe2 and Xe3 GPUs following DirectX SDK release

Following in Nvidia's footsteps, Intel has now officially adopted Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to make shader compilation much faster in games. Intel is calling it Precompiled Shader Distribution and it's available on a bunch of Arc GPUs right away, supported in 11 games at launch, with more likely to follow. AMD is now the only company left who hasn't officially embraced this feature.

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