AMD says it will reinstate firmware memory encryption (TSME) on non-PRO Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs through a BIOS update in July, following the feature's removal through an earlier firmware update.

Grab a great discount on these officially licensed PlayStation 5 SSDs at Woot. The WD Black SN850P in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities is discounted up to 46% today, or until stocks run out.

As part of an experiment, an enthusiast has written one petabyte of data on a legacy Sandisk P4 SATA II SSD that was released 16 years ago.

Nvidia dupes keep getting more sophisticated as time goes on, with the latest example using a plastic die instead of real silicon on an RTX 4090.

We test Noctua’s first attempt at an all-in-one liquid cooler, focusing specifically on pump performance to determine whether Noctua’s AIO is truly a viable alternative to swapping the fans on another unit and the brand’s own legendary air cooler.

A UK man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to the unauthorized mixing and selling of music CDs, and thus breaking copyright laws. It is 2026.

CCP directives can be lifebuoy for Chinese producers of DRAM modules and solid-state drives as domestic memory makers may be obliged to support the module industry.

Nvidia has updated RTX Remix with a bunch of new features that will help improve the fidelity and reduce the file size of modded games, along with the complexity of developing said mods.

We now have the first confirmed details about AMD's Zen 6-based Threadripper CPUs, code-named Mustang Peak.

Save $500 on Acer’s Predator Helios Neo 16 AI Gaming laptop and score a powerful gaming laptop with 32GB of RAM and RTX 5070 for only $1,499.99.

Save $100 off the price of this 1TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD. Amazon's 31% discount fights off the current storage price rises.

This 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM kit is on sale at Woot for $339.99 right now, $45 less than its next-best rival.

Nvidia may be ahead of AMD and Intel with PCIe Gen6-supporting platform for client PCs due to its client agentic AI ambitions, and that roadmap has suppliers like Silicon Motion paying attention.

AMD has reportedly stripped TSME from consumer Ryzen processors after years of working support, with testing suggesting newer AGESA firmware disables the memory-encryption feature while Pro and EPYC CPUs remain unaffected.

Chinese memory brands Gloway and KingBank have begun using homemade chips to produce DDR5 memory kits in lieu of Samsung, Micron, or SK hynix DRAM.

The SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 is a top-tier drive with excellent performance, exceptional random read latency, and good power efficiency. As you'd imagine, it just has a pricing issue.

The Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 usually retails for $319..99, but the premium motherboard has gone on sale for $249.99.

Vice president of client storage solutions at Silicon Motion warns that the retail SSD market has almost disappeared as NAND makers prioritize shipments of memory to AI data centers.

Noctua just dropped its NL-LC1 AIO coolers on Amazon, with the 240mm option starting at $219.95. It also comes with an optional 80mm auxiliary fan to help keep other components cooler and reduce case fan speed.

Silicon Motion's Nelson Duann discusses NAND supply crisis in the consumer SSD market and the future of consumer storage.

The MSI MPG Coreliquid P22 360 is a new AIO with a low price tag, strong thermal performance, and a 2.1-inch IPS display. We’ve tested this liquid cooler paired with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU to benchmark thermal efficiency.

The AGI AI858 is a wallet-friendly entry into the high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD playground with good random read latency, a bundled heatsink, and minimal trade-offs.

Intel’s next-gen desktop plans are starting to take shape, and Computex entertained a lot of murmurs about what’s coming from Team Blue over the next year at the event.

Save $32 on this Samsung P9 Express microSD card with read speeds up to 800MB/s.

Next-generation data center processors from AMD and Intel with 16 DDR5 memory channels are even bigger than today’s designs.

Intel's cancelled "Arctic Sound" AI GPU based on the original Xe-HP architecture has been pictured sporting two tiles and 32GB of HBM2E.

Get 43% off this excellent Asus ROG Strix OLED monitor.

AMD acquires MEXT to get Predictive Memory Engine that offloads infrequently accessed data from DRAM to NAND storage.

These Newegg bundles for Intel and AMD gaming PC builds feature 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM from only $240, featuring Gigabyte motherboards.

Samsung's 990 Pro 2TB is one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs around, delivering excellent performance and efficiency and backed by a 5-year warranty - now priced at $369.99, it's not the cheapest around, but is a well-rounded storage upgrade for any build.

Intel's Raptor Lake family might be coming back for a third time and sit alongside Nova Lake on shelves as the budget-oriented offering from the company.

MSI's prebuilt gaming desktop pairs a Zen 4 processor with Nvidia's latest RTX 5060 Ti graphics card and comes housed in an airflow-focused chassis with ARGB lighting.

Nvidia now sells the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards for $13,250, while partner offerings start at $11,359.99.

The name came up a few times during our conversations at Computex. Intel has declined to comment on it.

Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its Arm-based Vera server CPUs could be available as soon as August.

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card has finally penetrated the Steam Survey video card results table, going straight in at position 25.

Wiwynn is among the first to demonstrate Nvidia SCADA server that promises to offer AI systems petabytes of ultra-fast storage thanks to GPU-accelerated storage acceleration.

New BIOS updates featuring AMD EXPO Ultra Low Latency support are being released across a plethora of 600-series motherboards by multiple vendors.

Newegg slashes ~$185 off this 2-item combo, dropping the RAM to an affordable $255 - just $514.99 gets you a solid Gigabyte X870 motherboards, and 32GB of RAM in this incredible Newegg combo deal.

Graphics card manufacturer Manli adds new GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050 SKUs to its portfolio.

Biwin signs a 24-months supply agreement with an unknown NAND maker to get memory worth $1.86 billion.

Save $230 on this fast Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus CPU with a Z890 motherboard and 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory, now just $769.99.

Notebookcheck reports that 8TB SD cards will soon hit the retail market, although an exact launch date and pricing remain a mystery.

Right to Repair activist Louis Rossman threatens to sue Samsung after the SSD maker failed to replace his dead 990 Pro 4TB SSD under warranty.

The Z990 PCH for Nova Lake motherboards is apparently 22% smaller than Z890, despite featuring a higher power maximum power draw of up to 14W. The leaked picture of the PCH shows a 11.15 x 6.5mm die and 25 x 24mm package, but we're unsure what motherboard it actually comes from.

AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia's Vera by 3.3x in a rack-level deployment.

Gigabyte's Gaming OC Radeon RX 9070 XT is now just $649 in today's Amazon deal.

Levelplay took to Computex with some interesting cooling concepts, like magnetic fans that can be reversed in seconds, and an AIO that puts a big tactile knob for fan control on top of your CPU.

Intel is expanding its performance-boosting iBOT feature with seven new games.

The massive AI gold rush has a new bottleneck set in its sights, CPUs. But what's driving the demand? We interview industry experts to find out.

Nvidia and SK hynix have inked a multi-year collaboration agreement under which the companies will co-develop next-generation memory technologies for Nvidia's upcoming platforms and SK hynix will supply them to Nvidia.

June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.

Grab an RTX 5060 GPU deal while you still can. The $324 deal is selling out fast in Amazon's limited-time sale.

The Anycubic Photon Mono 4 is on-sale at $189.99, giving you a $50 discount and saving you 21% off its retail price.

AIB partners for AMD at the Computex 2026 show floor have said they expect next-gen RDNA 5 gaming GPUs to land sometime in the second half of 2027, or maybe even in early 2028. That launch schedule lines up closely with Nvidia's RTX 60 series, which is also expected in late 2027 based on current rumors.

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out and it's showing positive signs of growth for AMD, while Intel is unfortunately on a decline. The Red Team posted its best-ever CPU market share numbers in May 2026 with 45% of all CPUs on Windows being from AMD, while Intel is down to 55%, which is still more for now.

YouTuber challenges himself to alleviate a CPU bottleneck with a Core i7-6700K paired with an RTX 3080 through overclocking.

Intel introduces two new Raptor Lake CPUs in its Core 200H series lineup featuring disabled integrated graphics chips. The new CPUs are likely geared towards SFF desktops rather than laptops and 2-in-1 devices.

A couple of new add-in cards exemplify the trend of slapping AMD's Promontory 21 chipset onto a card for extra I/O expansion.

Even though power supplies and CPU coolers have remained unaffected by the AI boom, storage costs have skyrocketed, which makes this deal even more lucrative. You're getting a blazing-fast 2TB SSD, a genuinely solid power supply, and a decent AIO that can help you stop worrying about the small things and focus on sourcing cheaper memory and GPUs.

The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.

At under $270, the Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite Wifi7 Plus is a worthwhile mainstream motherboard. Fast networking and ample storage options are just two of the highlights of this refreshed Z890 offering.

Industry insiders say that RAM prices will continue to go up in the next eight to nine months, as the memory chip crisis goes from bad to worse. While retailers make moves to temporarily reduce prices, these will eventually run out, so if you need to buy RAM, you should buy it now.

Taiwanese startup FormulaV Line wants to break into the U.S. market with these two new and unique cases. It also showed off a plethora of other components, including PSUs, cooling solutions, and even a gaming chair on the showfloor at Computex 2026.

AMD's EXPO Ultra Low Latency program, announced at Computex 2026, aims to give users a one-click route to lower memory latencies than its existing EXPO profiles

Hardware leaker shares photographs and benchmarks for Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 Ti desktop graphics card that was never released.

Intel's Wildcat Lake refresh that's supposedly debuting next year will shift focus to a more upmarket audience, only refreshing its Core 5 and Core 7 tiers. The new silicon at the top-end would feature 8 cores, up from 6 cores on Wildcat Lake right now, with the 4 P-cores and 4 LP-E cores. The Core 3 parts are claimed to remain unchanged.

The Acer MA200 is a competent M.2 2230 NVMe SSD with reasonably good performance and power-efficiency, even if it’s not the fastest drive out there.

For almost a year, the RTX 50 Super series has been part of the rumor mill, but with the AI boom snatching production lines, causing memory prices to skyrocket, hype for the lineup had died down. Now, a potential RTX 5060 Super with 12GB of VRAM is apparently in the works, with the 50 Super series as a whole allegedly getting "back on track."

AMD's Frank Azor hits back against allegations suggesting AMD will skip RDNA 3.5 integration with FSR 4.1.

Qualcomm has Snapdragon C to compete in the exciting low-cost laptop market, but it's also looking to build an entire agentic AI ecosystem on Qualcomm silicon.

Sales of Silicon Motion’s SSD controllers are record high, but supply of NAND for client applications may get worse in 2027, the company tells us.

We stopped by Hyte at Computex 2026.

Back to the (stone) DDR4 age.

Quickly grab the cheapest RTX 5070 GPU available right now. Lenovo deal strips $80 off the list price.

Frore’s LiquidJet Nexus promises to enable 10% more token generation on Blackwell Ultra when compared to existing liquid-cooling solutions.

TeamGroup released a plethora of new SSDs and RAM kits at Computex 2026, offering a mixture of design, performance, and security.

Lian Li's Edge V2 PSUs add a dust-detecting LED indicator, a removable filter, and a snap-on hub for fans and USB devices. They should arrive in September, at up to 1350 watts.

Tom's Hardware stopped by the ASRock booth, and was greeted by a wide variety of products at this year's Computex.

Computex 2026 is in full swing in Taipei

Noctua showed off a refined version of its passively circulated thermosiphon liquid cooler at Computex 2026 with an improved evaporator design. The company is confident enough in its progress with this product to set a Q3 2027 launch window.

AMD welcomes Nvidia into the market with RTX Spark, saying that its Strix Halo and upcoming Gorgon Halo products will be superior.

Counterfeit memory modules with G.Skill and V-Color badges sold at Chinese marketplaces use identical PCBs and heat spreaders, are hard to identify.

Tom's Hardware stopped by NZXT at Computex 2026 to get a look at their latest offerings.

Noctua is officially entering the AIO market on June 16 with its new "NL-LC1" liquid cooler that starts at 220 EUR (around $250) for the 240mm variant. It features a customized Asetek Emma V2 pump with a lot of soundproofing, NF-A12x25 G2 or NF-A14x25 G2 fans and SecuFirm2+ mounting.

32GB of DDR5 RAM can now no longer be found for less than $374.97.

Higher memory costs and lower sales is hitting GoPro hard. The company isn't filing for bankruptcy yet, but it might end up doing that if it does not resolve the issue sooner.

AMD provides us with a bit more detail about its upcoming EXPO Ultra Low Latency mode, which should be available from leading memory partners soon.

Intel has unveiled the Xeon 6377P, a 12-core Bartlett Lake server processor featuring a 5.7 GHz boost clock, ECC support, and a 95W TDP. The unusual Xeon targets entry-level enterprise workloads where single-threaded performance matters more than massive core counts.