Tom’s Hardware

It’s time to retire that rusty old screwdriver and treat yourself to an upgrade before your next PC build or DIY project. This pre-Black Friday deal on Hoto’s original mini electric precision screwdriver is an absolute steal at the moment, thanks to Amazon, scoring you a portable driver with a rechargeable battery and all kinds of goodies, and all for a record-low price.

That’s because Amazon has dropped the price of this Hoto screwdriver to just £29.98, a half-price saving that you’ll find…

Micron has disclosed another major postponement for its fabs near Clay, New York, which will pull out the facilities coming online only in late 2033, reports Syracuse, citing recently released documents from Micron. The delay, if true, marks a major struggle for a major semiconductor production cluster that was once set to start production in 2025 in the state of New York. But while the company delays its fabs near Clay, it is accelerating its Idaho fabs and reallocating CHIPS Act funding to that…

Leading action-and webcam brand Insta360 has gifted real gold keycaps to its most valued employees. SCMP reports that this generosity has become something of a tradition in recent years at the Shenzhen, China-based imaging technology firm. On ‘Programmer’s Day’ last month, for example, 21 keycaps were gifted, worth up to $45,000 each.

The firm’s practice of sharing out golden gifts reportedly started around four years ago. This likely coincided with the firm gaining traction and a good…

As an unprecedented DRAM crisis unfolds, artificial intelligence is sowing chaos on another front: storage. Data centers using nearline HDDs are switching to SSDs to avoid lead times, which has led to a supply squeeze for NAND flash memory — one that’s set to only worsen as the insatiable appetite for AGI continues to grow. As reported by Digitimes, Phison CEO Khein-Seng Pua confirmed that NAND prices have more than doubled in the past six months and that he expects it to stay this way for a while….

China has lifted its ban on exports of gallium, germanium, and antimony to the United States, temporarily halting restrictions that had reshaped global materials markets over the past year. The decision, effective November 9, comes as part of a broader de-escalation package reached by Presidents Xi and Trump during recent bilateral talks, and is currently set to expire on November 27, 2026.

While the suspension covers a wide range of materials, including certain graphite products and rare-earth…

Black Friday might not officially start until 28th November, but Black Friday sales start earlier and earlier with each passing year. Our favourite retailers have already begun ramping up the discounts across the board here in the UK, and we’re already hard at work, searching high and low on the information superhighway for the best of them to share with our readers. We use our expert knowledge, including the experience we’ve gained through our in-depth reviews and benchmark testing, along with…

China-based Mini PC manufacturer Minisforum has just globally launched the MS-R1, the company’s first foray into the ARM market, with a compact yet powerful device. Building on the interest in Nvidia’s DGX Spark, the ongoing AI boom has made desktop-class ARM systems a hot topic, and Minisforum’s MS-R1 differentiates itself by including support for dedicated GPUs and a UEFI.

Lowering defect densities and increasing yields are the key challenges for chipmakers and chip designers who use hundreds of methods for both tasks. This is because semiconductor fabrication technologies involve thousands of steps, and each can affect defect rates and yields. A recent discovery by researchers at Chinese universities has revealed how resists behave during development and how the post-exposure bake (PEB) step can reduce defect density by up to 99% in some cases, according to a paper…

It might seem like all of today’s best webcams are packed with crazy features — 4K resolution, AI-powered tracking and focusing, giant sensors, and next-level color and level balancing. But not everyone is looking for a webcam that they can shoot an Academy Award-winning motion picture with — some people just want to…

Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla’s AI6 chip will be manufactured at both Samsung’s Taylor facility and TSMC’s Arizona fab. The update from the company’s CEO follows earlier comments in which he described Samsung’s site as technically superior — remarks that had suggested a one-fab strategy for Tesla’s most advanced silicon. That’s no longer the case.

According to Musk, both AI5 and AI6 are being built by Samsung and TSMC, with each foundry producing slightly different physical versions…