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Noctua's first-ever AIO features a silenced Asetek Emma V2 pump and NF-A12/14 fans — 240mm NL-LC1 starts at around $250, could cost $325 for 420mm cooler All models rock the company's SecuFirm2+ mounting, but US prices are unconfirmed Noctua originally announced and showed off it

Google Bets on Virtual Power Plants for Data Center Growth Google and Voltus launch a 100 MW capacity deal in PJM, testing whether hyperscalers can secure power without waiting for new generation or transmission. Google and demand response provider Voltus have signed what the com

Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 2 — Interviews, roundtables, and the first day at the Nanggang Exhibition Center Check in with our team at Computex 2026 for the latest in our series of daily blogs. With the first few days firmly behind our team on the ground at Comp

32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building Lower-priced kits are disappearing by the day As the demands of AI continue to consume manufacturing capacity at every level of the PC hardware supply chain, 32GB of DDR5 RAM — broadly understood t

Corsair shows off gaming mouse with dedicated Stream Deck launch button — wireless mouse also gets almost 50 hours of 8K battery life It's not the first Stream Deck-integrated mouse, but it's the first with a Stream Deck button. Corsair showed off its new Stream Deck-integrated g

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GoPro warns 'substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue' in regulatory filings — AI memory shortage hits action camera maker The massive demand for memory chips in AI data centers means other consumer products like cameras aren't getting what they need. GoPro, the

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Fusion startup Xcimer Energy on Wednesday flipped the switch on its Phoenix laser system, which the company says is the largest privately owned example in the world. Xcimer’s approach to fusion power is modeled after the National Ignition Facility (NIF), which proved in December

Intel's 5.7 GHz Xeon 6377P features 12 P-cores and a desktop-class LGA1700 socket — unusual server CPU prioritizes clock speed over core count Bartlett Lake server chip targets workloads where frequency beats core count Intel has published specifications for the Xeon 6377P, a 12-

AMD says new EXPO ‘Ultra Low Latency’ DDR5 memory should be 'effectively the same price' as current kits — feature will work on existing chipsets, but will require new DIMMs After a small mention in its Computex announcements, AMD’s David McAfee provides a bit more color on what

Listen to this post: Good morning, I don’t normally give away my interview subjects ahead of time, but I’m going to make an exception this week given the subject and the below Update. I am writing this in San Francisco where I interviewed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella after his Bui

DIGITIMES surveyed the global top five notebook brands (excluding Apple) and top three notebook ODMs' shipments in April 2026 (excluding detachable models). In April, with global channel retailers taking a break in re-stocking inventory, it led to a combined sequential shipment d

Github Copilot customers report up to 100-fold price hikes — AI sticker shock bites as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing The AI investment chickens have come home to roost. The enormous amount of money shuffling through AI's circular economy has created a money pit, and t

The rise of local agentic computing faces a brutal reality: rising DRAM prices — RTX Spark, Gorgon Halo chips subject to 63% DRAM contract price hike this quarter Local AI PCs are scaling memory capacity at the worst possible moment to buy it. This week at Computex 2026, we saw N

Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers — up to 80 accelerators can be scaled up using PCIe alone You can never have enough PCIe 6.0 lanes. Astera Labs demonstrated its recently introduced Scorpio X-Series 320 Lane Smart Fabric S

SpaceX is expected to start trading on the Nasdaq in just over two weeks, but Morningstar analysts have warned that Elon Musk's tech behemoth is "significantly overvalued." The hotly-anticipated debut is expected to be the largest ever initial public offering, with SpaceX reporte

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In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impact by actually increasing water for local communities. AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix The company promises to r

New Data Center Developments: June 2026 We look at some of the latest data center developments announced over the past month. The demand for new data centers isn’t showing any sign of slowing. With new projects announced each week, keeping track of the latest data center developm

The companies that can provide the most economic value from the power their AI uses will ultimately command the highest valuations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC on Wednesday. Srinivas said that whichever company can provide the "most token value per watt per user" wi

Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google’s AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out

Sales of Tesla's China-made electric vehicle rose by nearly 40% in May amid a broader recovery in the country's EV market. The automaker in May delivered 85,982 new energy vehicle units from its Shanghai Gigafactory — where it produces Model 3 and Model Y units for China and seve

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Alphabet's plan to sell $80 billion in shares to fund its artificial intelligence commitments leaves markets in "unprecedented territory", co-chief executive officer at Goldman Sachs International Anthony Gutman told CNBC in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. The Google parent

Off the Wire Press Releases GRENOBLE, France, June 3, 2026 — Quobly, a French quantum computing company, today announced the closing of a €115 million Series A financing to accelerate the industrialization of its silicon-based quantum computers and bring its first commercial prod

Microsoft has been a major player in the artificial intelligence boom, providing key cloud infrastructure and services and taking multibillion-dollar equity stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic. Now the company is making a concerted effort to compete with proprietary models. At its Bui