Buying gifts for someone who owns a 3D printer can feel surprisingly tricky. Makers are picky about their tools, and not every gadget on the market is actually useful. Whether you're shopping for a beginner with their first machine or a seasoned hobbyist who already has a crowded workbench, this
3D Printing Holiday Gift Guide: What to Buy for Makers in 2025
Arduino Uno Q Review: The board with two brains
Tom's Hardware Verdict
An interesting, if flawed, first entry from the Qualcomm / Arduino stable. The Arduino Uno Q is a little quirky to use, but once you get used to the workflow, you’ll soon be creating AI and microcontroller projects.
Pros
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Follows the Arduino design legacy
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Compact design
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Easy to use
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Arduino quality
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Pre-trained LLM models are just fast enough
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“SBC mode” is slow
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AI / LLM performance is poor for untrained models
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Semiconductor industry enters unprecedented ‘giga cycle’, says report — scale of artificial intelligence is rewriting compute, memory, networking, and storage economics all at once
A growing body of forecasts from AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, and major research firms now points toward a semiconductor market that passes the trillion-dollar threshold before the decade closes, driven by an AI infrastructure buildout several times larger than any previous expansion in the industry’s history.
New analysis from Creative Strategies is calling this shift a "giga cycle," arguing that the unprecedented scale of AI demand is restructuring the economics of compute, memory, networking, and storage simultaneously. Global semiconductor
Latest Steam Client Beta backport keeps Windows 7 and Windows 8 gaming PCs on life support — unofficial solution gives a lifeline to legacy users
While Steam may no longer support Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, the passionate community keeps gaming thriving on older PCs. Eazy Black (via The Bob Pony ) has managed to unofficially bring the latest Steam Client Beta (December 4, 2025 build) to these beloved, unsupported systems.
The backport works best on 64-bit versions of Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows 8.x. You'll need
This DDR4 RAM and B550 motherboard bundle saves you $110 — 32GB of G.Skill Ripjaws memory paired with Asus's TUF gaming mobo for only $199
The RAM-pocalypse is still very much in full swing, with RAM prices continuing to rise daily, and supplies running low, as cheaper kits get snapped up by either enthusiasts or scalpers. There are already lots of eye-watering prices on listings from retailers like Amazon and Newegg, and eBay brings up some even more ludicrous entries. We've covered quite a few bundled deals since before Black Friday, and that continues to be the trend for finding some of the best deals on
This GitHub script claims to wipe all of Windows 11's AI features in seconds — "RemoveWindowsAI" can disable every single AI feature in the OS, from Copilot to Recall and more
Windows is becoming more AI-focused with every passing update, and the latest major revision — 25H2 — added so many AI features that some might genuinely be opposed to upgrading. Most of the additions are opt-in, while others work automatically in the background, and Microsoft has already said how it wants Windows to become an agentic OS one day. But what if you don't?
That's where this new script comes in, claiming it
HAVN BF360 Flow case review: Air scoop design delivers low GPU temps
Tom's Hardware Verdict
HAVN’s BF360 Flow forgoes ARGB in favor of a black aesthetic with a stone-textured front panel. It also notably incorporates an “air scoop” design, which results in some of the lowest GPU temperatures we’ve seen yet.
Pros
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Excellent GPU temperatures
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Great cable management support
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Gripped panel tabs for easy removal of sides
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Stone textured front panel
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Supports up to ten 2.5-inch drives (eight by default)
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1-year
Intel boosts India's chip push with new Tata Group strategic partnership — includes manufacturing and packaging of Intel products for local markets
Intel has signed a strategic partnership with the Tata Group, one of India’s biggest global enterprises, in a bid to boost the country’s indigenous semiconductor and compute ecosystem. According to the announcement , the deal focuses on consumer and enterprise hardware enablement via an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding), which will include manufacturing and packaging of Intel products for local markets as well as advanced packaging in India.
As per a report by the Indian Express , the Tata Group is working on building
This £289.99 Intel Core Ultra 265K gaming CPU bundle is a huge bargain for a PC build — includes free MSI 360mm AIO cooler and Battlefield 6 code
There’s an incredible bundle on offer that lets you score a 20-core Intel gaming CPU, along with an MSI 360mm AIO cooler, for just under £290 at Scan right now. To sweeten the deal even further, however, you’re also able to take advantage of Intel’s holiday bundle giveaway, which lets you claim a free copy of Battlefield 6 , or alternatively, one of three other AAA games,
Trump approves Nvidia H200 exports to China, with 25% fee attached — report suggests that companies will have to follow strict Beijing rules to import foreign chip, AMD and Intel to benefit from polic
The U.S. will allow Nvidia to export its H200 chips to "approved customers" in China, President Donald Trump announced on Monday, setting off a fresh round of political and regulatory manoeuvring on both sides of the Pacific.
The decision authorises shipments of Nvidia’s second-tier Hopper-generation chip in exchange for a 25% fee collected when parts arrive in the United States for security review before re-export. The Commerce