Inside the history of DRAM price-fixing lawsuits — how HBM allocations could make a difference after two decades of failed cases
Premium 17 plaintiffs sued Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in late June.
The bifurcated laptop landscape of Computex 2026 – MacBook Neo competitors with 8GB of RAM, and expensive Nvidia laptops promising an agentic-focused future of Windows on Arm
Premium Take your pick: an expensive laptop promising an agentic AI future, or affordable options with RAM allotments stuck in the past.
Chinese Z.ai's latest model tops AI ranking charts amid Anthropic Fable 5 ban
Premium Within a week of Fable's ban, GLM-5.2 had climbed to the top of the openly available leaderboards.
Imec's 2026 roadmap details 0.3nm nodes by 2038, CFET transistors become viable at 0.7nm
Premium As CPP shrinking stalls, chipmakers find a new way to increase transistor density. Imec foresees 0.3nm in 2038, CFET insertion in 2038, HLSI era.
Reviews
Turtle Beach KP7 Review: The accessory that does everything
Turtle Beach's KP7 keypad can be used with its KB7 keyboard or as a standalone macropad. And it's nice — but pricey.
Montech NX600 Review: A budget dual tower with jet-engine fans
Montech’s NX600 is a new dual-tower air cooler powered by six heatpipes and two 28mm thick high-performance 120mm fans. We’ve tested it with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D to benchmark its thermal efficiency.
Asus B850-Creator Wifi Neo motherboard review: AM5 Creator mobo looks the part, but is missing useful features
Asus' B850-Creator Wifi Neo offers fast dual 5 GbE, 3x video outputs, and loads of EZ PC DIY/AI features, but lacks enough USB ports (no 40 Gbps at all) and is expensive for the B850 platform.
Best Picks
Best MicroSD Express Cards For The Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026
We’ve carefully chosen the best microSD Express cards to meet the needs and budgets of all Switch 2 owners, based on our detailed lab testing.
CPUs
Intel reportedly adding two new 22-core SKUs with game-boosting cache to Nova Lake-S lineup
Midrange offerings with a lot of cache.
Graphics Cards
Possible AMD RX 7900 XTX engineering sample with red PCB surfaces
It seems like a never-before-seen engineering sample for AMD's last-gen Radeon RX 7900 XTX has just popped up online, featuring specs that indicate it's a binned down model.
Laptops
HP has slashed $1,300 off this colossal 5080 gaming laptop for July 4
Deals Get $1,300 off this HP Omen Max Gaming laptop with Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5080, and 32GB of RAM.
The bifurcated laptop landscape of Computex 2026 – MacBook Neo competitors with 8GB of RAM, and expensive Nvidia laptops promising an agentic-focused future of Windows on Arm
Premium Take your pick: an expensive laptop promising an agentic AI future, or affordable options with RAM allotments stuck in the past.
Features
The bifurcated laptop landscape of Computex 2026 – MacBook Neo competitors with 8GB of RAM, and expensive Nvidia laptops promising an agentic-focused future of Windows on Arm
Premium Take your pick: an expensive laptop promising an agentic AI future, or affordable options with RAM allotments stuck in the past.
PC Components
Inside the history of DRAM price-fixing lawsuits — how HBM allocations could make a difference after two decades of failed cases
Premium 17 plaintiffs sued Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in late June.
Desktops and PC Building
Commodore drops Callback flip phone by $100 by defaulting to recycled memory chips and unbundling the earphones
Commodore has slashed the starting price of its Callback 8020 flip phone to $399, down from $499.
Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’
After some teasing and a couple of red herrings Commodore today unveiled a retro-styled flip phone dubbed the Callback 8020.
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
Deals
Save up to 47% on Dell and Alienware gaming PCs and laptops in this July 4th flash sale
Deals Grab a bargain on these Dell and Alienware PCs, laptops, and monitors over the July 4th holiday weekend.
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Turtle Beach KP7 Review: The accessory that does everything
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Brand new Steam Machine hit with 'red line of death' GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky for just five minutes
Here we go again.
Save up to 47% on Dell and Alienware gaming PCs and laptops in this July 4th flash sale
Deals Grab a bargain on these Dell and Alienware PCs, laptops, and monitors over the July 4th holiday weekend.
You can save up to 71% in HP's July 4 sale
Get up to 71% off HP gaming desktops, laptops, and accessories this July 4.
Up to $129 off Secretlab gaming chairs and desks in July 4 sale
Deals Save up to $129 on Secretlab gaming chairs and desks thanks to a July 4 sale.
Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras
Singaporean scientists outfitted remote-controlled cockroaches with scuba suits in a bid to use them in rescue operations and explore extreme environments like Mars.
