Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Netac NV7000-Q SSD is a QLC-based SSD with surprisingly good performance for the most part and excellent efficiency. But it’s currently a niche product that’s only available in 1TB capacity. Performance is mostly good Extremely power-efficient Only 1TB, at least for now The usual QLC flash drawbacks Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

Researchers have discovered a massivesecurityvulnerability inside AppleM1,M2, andM3silicon. The vulnerability,dubbed ‘GoFetch,‘steals cryptographic information from theCPU cacheenabling an attacking program to build a cryptographic key from stolen data, allowing the application to access sensitive encrypted data.Ars Technicafirst reported on the security flaw. GoFetch takes advantage of an overlooked security exploit in Apple silicon surrounding its state-of-the-art data memory-dependent prefetcher (DMP). A next-generation prefetcher only found in Apple silicon and Intel’sRaptor Lake CPU architecturesthat loads memory contents into cache before they are needed....

X-Silicon Inc. (XSi) has created a new RISC-V microprocessing chip architecture that combines a RISC-V CPU core with vector capabilities and GPU acceleration into a single chip. The CPU/GPU hybrid chip is open-standard and will reportedly be open-source as well,Jon Peddie Research reports, and it’s designed to handle a variety of different functions, including AI, which dedicated CPUs and GPUs would normally handle. The catch is that it’s supposed to do all this in a far more efficient manner....

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After a brief tease, Nintendo is finally detailing the Nintendo Switch 2 in full. It will launch on June 5, priced at $449. You can also purchase a Switch 2 bundle withMario Kart Worldfor $499. Preorders commence on April 9 in North America from “participating retailers.” The Switch 2 is physically larger than the original Switch, with bigger Joy-Cons to accompany it, as well as a new dock. The kickstand has been redesigned, and the Switch 2 has a second USB Type-C port....

Noctuadeveloped a custom 120mm fan grill for the Seasonic Prime TX-1600 Noctua Edition built for silence, and now anyone can get it for free. The company posted on itsX (formerly Twitter)account that it’s sharing the high-efficiency fan grill onPrintables, allowing anyone with a 3D printer or laser cutter to make one of their own. According to Noctua, the fan grill “ensures smooth pressure gradients as the fan blades pass the radial struts,” which results in higher airflow and a noise reduction of about 2dB(A) versus the stock power supply grill found on the Seasonic power supply....

Nvidia made a slew of announcements atComputex2025 here in Taipei, Taiwan, focused on its data center andenterpriseAI initiatives, including its new NVLink Fusion program that allows customers and partners to use the company’s key NVLink technology for their own custom rack-scale designs. The program enables system architects to leverage non-Nvidia CPUs or accelerators in tandem with Nvidia’s products in its rack-scale architectures, thus opening up new possibilities. Nvidia has amassed a number of partners for the initiative, including Qualcomm and Fujitsu, who will integrate the technology into their CPUs....

Nvidia’s AI-powered NPC engine debuted in Mecha BREAK, a multiplayer mech-based combat game. The technology behind this AI NPC is Nvidia’sAvatar Cloud Engine(ACE) for games, which launched inCOMPUTEX 2023. ACE is a custom AI model that allows developers to make intelligent NPCs (non-playable characters) with which players can interact naturally. What’s more interesting with the Mecha BREAK demo is that the AI processing is done locally if you have any RTX GPU — this includes models from the entry-levelRTX 2060to the currently most powerfulRTX 4090and beyond....

Thebest graphics cardsare great for gaming but can also help crack passwords.Hive Systems, a cybersecurity solution provider, has released the 2024 edition of its Hive Systems Password Table and some additional studies detailing how long it takes different Nvidia graphics cards to crack a password. Unlike other studies where firms usedAI to crack passwords, Hive Systems' approach is based on hashes. Hashing consists of scrambling the password into an enigmatic combination of letters and numbers....

In early August, customs inspectors at the Gongbei port of entry between mainland China and Macau became suspicious of a passenger in an electric wheelchair. Believing the wheelchair appeared to have been modified, officials performed an X-ray inspection of the wheelchair, finding that it was being used to smuggle old mobile phones into China. A customs release obtained byIT Homedetailed the discovery. A Macau resident named Chen entered mainland China on August 3 in an electric wheelchair, going through the “no declaration” queue of the Gongbei Port Passenger Inspection Hall in an electric wheelchair....

Processors with AI capabilities have recently become popular, especially with the launch of theQualcomm Snapdragon X,AMD Ryzen AI 300, and theIntel Core Ultra 200Vprocessors, which feature NPUs that deliver 40 TOPS and up. However,IDC Researchsays that the adoption of these AI PCs, especially the Windows Copilot+ PCs, is largely driven by the need to purchase new computers or upgrade existing laptops—not because of their AI capabilities. “While AI has been a buzzword of late, it has yet to be a purchase driver among PC buyers,” says Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers research manager Jitesh Ubrani....

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.Find out more about how we test. Phison E31T ES 2TB Performance Results Comparison Products As the E31T ES is a PCiE 5.0 SSD, we need to see how it handles the existing crop of 5.0 drives, along with upcoming drives as well. This breaks down to a few different basic hardware configurations....

It’s not the cheapest price seen for an RTX 4070 GPU, but it is one of the lowest we’ve seen recently. Devoid of any discount shenanigans such as rebates or money-off for buying on credit, this graphics card offer makes use of a discount code that you can apply at checkout for $15 off the cost of the GPU. If you apply codeNNCDNA33at checkout at Newegg, you can pick up the12GB Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Twin Edge GPU for $534and have yourself one of the best-value 40-series GPUs....