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A new retro gaming console that supports the old PlayStation One system is coming on the market soon, based on the MiSTer FPGA open-source project. Popular YouTuber and Bluesky userTaki Udonshared on social media that the SuperStation One will launch on theRetro Remake websitefor $149. The associated SuperDock, similar to the PSone Combo pack, is also pre-selling for $5, with a target price of $35. This console plays PlayStation One games natively, meaning it doesn’t have to deal with the overhead required by emulators....

The U.S. has placed bans and sanctions on Russia, preventing it from acquiring the latest American chips. Despite that, Russian weapons in the Ukrainian battlefields still contain semiconductors from AMD, Texas Instruments, Micron, and Intel. According to aNew York Timesreport, these chips were shipped to Russian corporations by several suppliers, many of which are based in one Hong Kong address—Room 704 at 135 Bonham Stand, located near Hong Kong’s financial district....

Seagateon Wednesday introduced the industry’s first hard disk drive (HDD) platform that uses heat-assisted media recording (HAMR). The new Mozaic 3+ platform relies on several all-new technologies, including new media, new write and read heads, and a brand-new controller. The platform will be used for Seagate’s upcomingExos hard drivesfor cloud datacenters with a 30TB capacity and higher. The Mozaic 3+ Platform Heat-assisted magnetic recordingis meant to radically increase areal recording density of magnetic media by making writes while the recording region is briefly heated to a point where its magnetic coercivity drops significantly....

GoogleResearch scientists have released their paper onGameNGen, an AI-based game engine that generates originalDoomgameplay on a neural network. Using Stable Diffusion, scientists Dani Valevski, Yaniv Leviathan, Moab Arar, and Shlomi Fruchter designed GameNGen to process its previous frames and the current input from the player to generate new frames in the world with surprising visual fidelity and cohesion. AI-generating a complete game engine with consistent logic is a unique achievement. GameNGen’sDoomcan be played like an actual video game, with turning and strafing, firing weapons, and accurate damage from enemies and environmental hazards....

An AI research team from the University of California, Berkeley, led by Ph.D. candidate Jiayi Pan, claims to have reproduced DeepSeek R1-Zero’s core technologies for just $30, showing how advanced models could be implemented affordably. According to Jiayi Pan onNitter, their team reproduced DeepSeek R1-Zero in the Countdown game, and the small language model, with its 3 billion parameters, developed self-verification and search abilities through reinforcement learning. Pan says they started with a base language model, prompt, and a ground-truth reward....

This week, Altera officially raised a flag with its own name near its headquarters in San Jose, California, marking its spinoff from Intel and becoming an independent company. The newly formed company, whichremains owned by Intel, will focus on expanding its FPGA offerings with greater flexibility while maintaining a strategic partnership with Intel. “Today marks a proud milestone as we officially raise the Altera flag as an independent FPGA company,” a statement by Altera published inan X postreads....

As the launch of AMD’sEPYC ‘Turin’ processorcomes closer, its benchmark results begin to emerge. Case in point, hardware enthusiast blogger@9550profound and leaked alleged performance numbers of 128-core AMD EPYC 9755 ‘Turin’ in the 7zip compression/decompression benchmark. Compared to AMD’s 128-core EPYC 9654 ‘Bergamo’, the new processor is almost two times faster. But there are a lot of catches here. As it turns out, AMD’s 128-core AMD EPYC 9755 ‘Turin’ is massively — around two times — faster in compression/decompression workloads than the 128-core EPYC 9654 ‘Bergamo’ processor....

AMD’s unreleasedRadeonRX 8800 XT graphics card based on RDNA 4 has surfaced atSeasonic’s wattage calculatorthanks to userTennessee__at X - suggesting a 220W TDP (Thermal Design Power) for the graphics card. It is important to mention that in July, Seasonicaccidentallypublished the TDP of Nvidia’s Blackwell RTX 50 family. However, we cannot confirm the authenticity of both leaks - which could very well result from a small typo or a mishap. Slated for launch in January, the Radeon RX 8800 XT has been listed with a TDP of 220W....

If you’re building a PC on a budget, it helps to cut corners where you may. But you don’t want to compromise performance when building a quality gaming rig. One of the best ways to lower costs is to invest in a processor like theAMD Ryzen 5 8600G APUwith integrated graphics. It debuted with a price of $229, but right now, it’s marked down to just $181. We had the opportunity to review theRyzen 5 8600Gin March earlier this year and were overall pleased with the experience, rating it at 3....

The U.S. recently issued fresh restrictions on AI chip exports to China and other countries, further reducing the maximum allowable performance that manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD can deliver to their customers in the affected regions. Because of this, AMD reported in anSEC filingthat it might suffer “charges of up to approximately $800 million in inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves.”The U.S. government has been taking steps to limit Beijing’s access to America’s most advanced chips to ensure the U....

AMD’s highly potentRyzen 9 9950X3D processoris currently available for its lowest price ever, at $663 on Amazon for Prime Day, but the event is in the final hours, so these deals will expire tonight. To an impassioned observer, this sticker price might be ‘just $30 off’ the X3D flagship processor’s MSRP. However, PC DIYers know all too well that grabbing the choicest components at or near MSRP has been increasingly difficult, if not impossible, over recent years....

AMD has expanded support for machine learning (ML) development on its RDNA 3 GPUs withRadeonSoftware for Linux 24.10.3 and ROCm 6.1.3. This enables developers using frameworks like PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, or TensorFlow to perform ML tasks on a local workstation featuring Radeon RX 7000 and Radeon Pro W7000-series GPUs and avoid the usage of expensive cloud-based solutions. Normally, AMD only supported AI/ML frameworks on Instinct accelerators based on the CDNA architecture for AI and HPC applications, but recently it changed its mind and enabled AI acceleration on its RDNA 3-based GPUs....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Arbiter Studio took its already-impressive Polar 65, upped it to a more convenient layout, and improved it just enough to make it really good. Sounds amazing Feels amazing Rapid Trigger and Snap Tap (SOCD) No macro recording Hot-swappable but switch compatibility isn’t clear; only linear switches available Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....