There's been a trend the last two or three years in gaming laptops (and elsewhere) that no one likes: Prices are going up. It hasn't been surprising to see systems with the most powerful graphics, along with high-refresh displays, mechanical keyboards, or tons of RAM, to cost anywhere between $3,000 and $5,000, and more. See some of our most powerful picks like the

Released in December of 1993 after an unbelievable amount of hype among PC gamers hooked up to the then-novel Internet, DOOM codified the standards of the nascent first-person shooter genre and was so popular that " Doom clone" was the way we described first-person shooters for years after its release. Gamers have put millions, if not billions of hours, into the title in the nearly 32 years since its launch, thanks to a virtual cornucopia

SMIC, the largest foundry in China, is test-driving one of China's first domestic immersion DUV lithography tools, reports Financial Times . The system was developed by Shanghai Yuliangsheng Technology Co., which is linked to Huawei's SiCarrier , and is believed to be a significant part of China's effort to become self-sufficient in wafer fab equipment.

SMIC's test platform from Yuliangsheng involves a DUV machine that uses immersion lithography and is reportedly designed for 28nm

Cooler Master showed off its 3D Heatpipe technology back at Computex 2025, and now it's finally coming to the public just a few months later. This quick turnaround time can be attributed to perhaps the ingenious simplicity of this solution. Instead of having the heatpipes only go up against the edges of the heatsink fin stack, another one cuts through the center, allowing for more even heat dissipation — and now Cooler Master is bringing it to its legendary Hyper

President Donald Trump ended the de minimis exemption for goods coming from China and Hong Kong in May 2025, with imports from the rest of the world following suit at the end of July 2025. This means that products entering the U.S. are now subject to customs duties and import taxes, even if their value is less than $800. This change most heavily affected online shoppers, especially those who are used to purchasing cheap goods from abroad

Contract prices for both NAND and DRAM have jumped by an estimated 15-20% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to numbers published by DigiTimes on September 17, an off-season surge the publication ties directly to AI infrastructure build-outs and supply tightness.

“Supply shortages led to aggressive procurement from cloud service providers, with high-stack 3D NAND products nearly sold out,” writes DigiTimes , adding that, “3D NAND…

AMD released a bunch of new Zen 3, Zen 4, and Zen 5 processors yesterday , refreshing both existing and older families of CPUs. During this time, the company also silently launched its new enterprise lineup: Ryzen PRO 9000 . These include three new SKUs built on the same Zen 5 "Granite Ridge" architecture as the mainline Ryzen 9000 series, but they feature cut-down silicon in favor of enterprise management and security features not present on standard CPUs

A bevy of tech companies have announced over $40 billion in collective investment in the UK to coincide with the second state visit of President Trump. With announcements of cooperation from Nvidia, OpenAI, Google , Microsoft , and others, the UK is set to build new data centers, as well as AI and energy infrastructure, reports Reuters . The British government hopes that having a lighter approach to AI legislation and planning will allow the country to attract further investment from technology