Tom's Hardware

Ant Group reportedly reduces AI costs 20% with Chinese chips

Ant Group, the financial technology giant backed by Alibaba, has announced a major achievement in artificial intelligence (AI) by successfully training a model using domestically produced semiconductors. According to Bloomberg, a source said that Ant Group leveraged chips from Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Huawei to train its AI model, reaching performance levels comparable to… Read more

Pat Gelsinger becomes executive chairman, head of technology at church-focused platform Gloo

(Image credit: Intel) Pat Gelsinger, former CEO of Intel and VMWare, announced on Monday that his role at faith-focused technology company Gloo has been expanded, and he will become the company’s executive chairman as well as head of technology who will be in charge of products development. After nearly 10 years as a board member… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 FFT sound spectrum analyzer visualizes audio via OLED display

There are all sorts of cool audio-based Raspberry Pi projects out there but sometimes you need something a little more niche. Today we’re sharing a really cool creation put together by Dan McCreary that uses a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 to drive a custom FFT sound spectrum analyzer. This gadget provides real time visual output… Read more

U.S. asks Malaysia to ‘monitor every shipment’ to close the flow of restricted GPUs to China

(Image credit: Nvidia) Ever since the U.S. government restricted sales of advanced AI and HPC processors to China, Chinese entities have used various loopholes to acquire Nvidia’s GPUs. Smuggling GPUs from nearby countries to China was one of the easiest ways to get the desired processors, but it looks like it is not going to… Read more

Gigabyte G34WQCP 34-inch WQHD VA 190 Hz curved gaming monitor review: Faster than ever

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Gigabyte G34WQCP delivers a premium play feel and top-notch gaming performance for $350. It also presents a bright, sharp and colorful image for SDR and HDR. It’s hard to imagine a better 34-inch ultra-wide for the price. Pros + Sharp, bright and colorful image for SDR and HDR content + Does… Read more

Samsung launches its glasses-free Odyssey 3D monitor — 27-inch 4K OLED G8 and 144 Hz G9 variant now also available

(Image credit: Samsung) Samsung Electronics is lifting the veil off its latest lineup of monitors which it showed off at CES earlier this year. The Odyssey lineup sees a new addition in the form of a glasses-free 3D gaming monitor, alongside Samsung’s first high-density 27-inch 4K OLED offering, and a new 49-inch variant under the… Read more

Raspberry Pi’s new PoE+ Injector supports all generations of PoE HATs

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is nothing new to the Raspberry Pi. Introduced with the Raspberry Pi 3B+, PoE provides power over a network connection and is handy for installing a Raspberry Pi in a remote or awkward location. The new $25 Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector may not be the PoE HAT+ that we have been… Read more

New LED displays packing 90nm ‘virus-sized’ pixels can deliver 127,000 PPI visuals

Researchers have created pixels that are as small as a virus, or approximately 90nm in size. Claimed to be the “world’s smallest LEDs,” a blog post shared by Zhejiang University says that the new ‘nano-PeLED’ pixels can be packed close enough to create displays with a stunning 127,000 pixels per inch (PPI). Current micro-LED technology… Read more

Arm’s ASR upscaler for mobile devices is finally available — Plugins planned for Unity and Unreal Engine

(Image credit: Arm) Months after announcement, Arm is finally making its ASR (Accuracy Super Resolution) upscaler open to developers to integrate into their games. At the GDC (Game Developer Conference) 2025, Arm promised pre-built and easy-to-integrate plugins for games developed using the Unity and Unreal Engine game engines by the end of the year. Arm’s… Read more

Maker builds Raspberry Pi ASCII camera, turning video frames into text-based imagery

There are some Raspberry Pi projects that are just so cool, you don’t have to bother to ask why someone would ever create them. In our opinion, some of the best Pi projects come from makers who ask, “Why not?” and that’s exactly what maker and developer André Esser has done with his latest creation…. Read more

Compal Adapt X modular laptop design wins award after taking a leaf from the Framework playbook

Leading laptop ODM Compal has won another iF Design Award 2025 for a quirky concept product. The Compal Adapt X is described as a modular laptop, and it is immediately quite clear it takes a leaf out of the Framework laptop playbook. It is also something of a hybrid / convertible, with the components being… Read more

The ‘Playstacean’ is a crab-u-lous PS One mod

A games console modder has revealed a crab-themed PS One creation dubbed the ‘Playstacean.’ GingerOfOz’s real-world remake of an artwork of the same name by Anh Dang, a concept artist on League of Legends, is crab-solutely stunning. It is a fully functional Sony PS One, as demonstrated in the video, but GingerOfOz humbly admits that… Read more

The week in chip news: Nvidia’s GTC 2025 blitz, new NVMe HDDs and watercooled SSD, Intel’s restructuring begins

(Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia’s GTC 2025, an annual event where the company lays out its roadmap of new products and vision for the coming year, created a flood of news as the company extended its roadmap out to a four-year horizon with plenty of mind-bendingly powerful new AI GPUs and systems. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang… Read more

Data suggests RTX 5090 prices are slowly stabilizing — The average selling price on eBay has dropped to $4,000

(Image credit: Nvidia) Since launch, Nvidia’s scarce GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card has been almost impossible to secure unless you’re willing to hand 2-3x the MSRP to scalpers. The same trend extended to other GPUs in the Blackwell family, reminiscent of the pandemic-struck days. A user at r/nvidia has aggregated data on RTX 5090 Founders… Read more

Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti final specs and launch day allegedly leaked

(Image credit: Nvidia) According to a well-known hardware leaker, wxnod, Nvidia and graphics card makers will reportedly release the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards on April 16 at 9 p.m. to compete against the best graphics cards. Meanwhile, VideoCardz has allegedly received and published the final specifications of Nvidia’s first mainstream Blackwell-based GPUs today…. Read more