HARDWARE·July 28, 2026ASRock officially announces Radeon RX 9050 with 8GB VRAM — RDNA 4 card offers boost clock of up to 2600MHz (updated)Tom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of chip smuggling probe; company says he was held on suspicion of falsifying business documents, calling smuggling 'a nonstarter'Tom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026Re-examining the DDR4 gaming gap with Intel’s LGA 1700 CPUs in mid-2026 — performance drops of 14% on average, and up to 25% in some gamesTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training materialTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing 'correspondence chess with a shotgun' — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per secondTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the wayTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breachTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models while being 2-3x easier to runTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered this year to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMTTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 28, 2026Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 years ago — legendary chip dethroned AMD Athlon, restoring the chipmaker’s performance leadTom's Hardware
