Tom's Hardware

How to upgrade your PS5 storage with an SSD for as little as $73 (1TB) or $113 (2TB)

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Most PS5 consoles only come with about 600GB of usable disk space for installing games. My nephew ran headfirst into this problem as he had to start erasing games from his console and some games, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and NBA 2k25, weren’t even able to download… Read more

MSI’s two new Lunar Lake-powered gaming handhelds go up for preorders at Amazon — Claw 8 AI+ sells for $899, while Claw 7 AI+ costs $799

(Image credit: MSI) Amazon (via VideoCardz) has listed the upcoming MSI Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld for $899 with specifications, including the CPU and RAM options. This will be the first gaming handheld to feature Intel Lunar Lake CPUs. MSI will also release the refresh MSI Claw 7 AI+ with an earlier shipping date. The… Read more

Facebook parent company Meta plans to build its own sub-sea cable — the source says the company plans to “avoid areas of geopolitical tension”

Meta is planning to build a 40,000-kilometer fiber-optic subsea cable to span the entire length of the globe. This project is expected to cost over $10 billion, say some experts, and will connect the East Coast of the U.S. to South Africa, India, and Australia before going up across the Pacific to the West Coast…. Read more

AI created a Minecraft AI village with up to 1,000 inhabitants — Project Sid sees AI bots implement a taxation system and spread Pastafarianism religion

Speaking to the MIT Technology Review earlier this week, AI startup Altera disclosed that it had successfully run several experiments of varying scales. It deployed AI-powered “players” into a Minecraft server and saw them dynamically socialize based on their personalities, including picking their roles within the village to create a “society” of up to 1000… Read more

Samsung and SK hynix will detail GDDR7 with transfer rates up to 42.5 GT/s — Samsung 24Gb GDDR7 expected to deliver 170 GB/s of peak bandwidth

The GDDR7 SGRAM specification supports a maximum data transfer rate of 48 GT/s, but the first generation GDDR7 memory devices can operate with up to 32 GT/s data transfer rate. But it looks like GDDR7 will evolve pretty quickly as at the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), both Samsung and SK hynix plan to… Read more

Huawei’s homegrown AI chip examined — Chinese fab SMIC-produced Ascend 910B is massively different from the TSMC-produced Ascend 910

Die shots of Huawei’s HiSilicon Ascend 910 chip for AI produced by TSMC and its sibling Ascend 910B, allegedly manufactured by SMIC, reveal that while the chips have many similarities, they exhibit significant differences. The 910B features fewer cores. Kurnalsalts has published die shots of Huawei’s HiSilicon Ascend 910, Ascend 910B, and a currently unknown Ascend 610… Read more

Elegoo’s Editor’s Choice-winning Neptune 4 Pro 3D Printer drops to its lowest-ever price of $269

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware / Amazon) 3D Printing used to be expensive and difficult. I remember my first 3D printer was an Anet A8 and it printed OK, but it was difficult to use, and it looked like a droid found at the back of a Jawa’s Sandcrawler! Oh, and it had the nickname “Firestarter,”… Read more

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger visits Elon Musk’s Memphis data center, touts Xeon deployment — praises xAI team for building it “in such a short amount of time”

(Image credit: Future) Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of embattled tech company Intel, praised the xAI team after visiting Elon Musk’s Memphis Supercluster. He posted on X (formerly Twitter) that xAI uses Intel Xeon processors for its AI head node — the dedicated server that manages the entire 100,000-GPU-strong cluster — and that it’s “incredible what’s… Read more

New U.S. restrictions will hit Chinese chipmaking tool companies — sanctions aim to slow development of domestic chipmaking tools to replace ASML, others

(Image credit: SkyWater) According to Bloomberg, the outgoing Biden administration is preparing new rules to slow down or limit advancements in China’s semiconductor industry. Still, the new restrictions will not be as severe as initially expected. While the new measures will reportedly hit select chipmakers, their main purpose is to curb the development of China-based… Read more

NATO warships surround Chinese ship suspected of sabotaging undersea internet cables — ship allegedly dragged anchor 100 miles

(Image credit: Shutterstock) Two undersea internet cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Central Europe were cut last week, with authorities suspecting sabotage. According to the Wall Street Journal, investigators suspect that the Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier traveling to Egypt from Russia and loaded with fertilizer, deliberately dropped its anchor in Swedish waters… Read more

$25 active memory cooler reduces temperatures of ‘naked’ RAM by up to 41% — Corsair Vengeance Airflow cooler prevents 768GB DDR5-6400 of server RAM from overheating

Computer memory is a component predominantly known for operating with passive cooling or no cooling at all. However, Phoronix reports that DDR5 server memory operating at DDR5-6000 or greater can run very hot, depending on the workload level. Therefore, server builders must consider running active coolers to prevent overheating. Phoronix clarifies that pre-built DDR5-equipped servers… Read more

Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition GPU listed for $250 at US retailer — Battlemage prepares to rock the GPU market

Almost all indicators show that Intel aims to announce at least one Battlemage desktop GPU next month—the Arc B580—to compete against the best graphics cards. As spotted by momomo_us, Intel is seemingly cooking up an Arc B580 Limited Edition GPU for $250 based on preliminary listings. It is important to note that this $250 price… Read more

China debuts ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ chip to deliver networking solutions for AI — aims to compete with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium for next-generation interconnection technologies

Multiple Chinese tech firms recently launched several chips that will power ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ or GSE, a networking protocol designed to accommodate the large volumes of data and high transfer speeds that AI and other high-performance workloads require. According to The Register, state-owned China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the country, has been working… Read more

Samsung reshuffles semiconductor execs after poor performance in memory and NAND competitiveness

Samsung Electronics has revamped its leadership team to strengthen its memory and foundry chip divisions as it strives to compete with rivals SK hynix and TSMC in the rapidly growing AI market. The rearrangement includes significant promotions and role changes. Still, we can only wonder how this reshuffling can ultimately address issues with Samsung’s product and technology… Read more

Valve seemingly preps Steam Controller 2 and VR controller — “Ibex” and “Roy” controller renders spotted in SteamVR data mine

Yesterday on BlueSky, user Pavel Djundik (@xpaw.me) posted a thread of leaked renders for the upcoming Valve Steam Controller 2 (codenamed “Ibex”) and a few different prototype renders for next-gen VR controllers (codenamed “Roy”). While these designs are hardly finalized due to being found through a SteamVR update leak, they do indicate where Valve is… Read more