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Samsung delivers premium 4K gaming and glasses-free 3D with its Odyssey 3D G9. It’s a 27-inch IPS panel with 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and wide gamut color.

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/gaming-monitors/samsung-odyssey-3d-g9-gaming-monitor-review

Get 17% off this MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G VENTUS 3X OC, now just £545 at Amazon.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/this-17-percent-msi-rtx-5070-discount-is-tempting-me-to-upgrade-my-3070-thanks-to-its-lowest-ever-price

Scan-of-the-month over at Reddit shows off what the Nintendo Switch 2 looks like under a CT scan and confirms the hardware inside.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-switch-2-gets-a-ct-scan-that-shows-off-internals-layer-by-layer-including-a-scan-of-the-nvidia-tegra-soc

KAIST has a roadmap projecting the evolution of high-bandwidth memory from HBM4 to HBM8 through 2038, detailing major gains in bandwidth, capacity, I/O width, power, and even system architecture.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/hbm-development-roadmap-revealed-hbm8-with-a-16-384-bit-interface-and-embedded-nand-in-2038

The Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 monitor is marked down to $999 again at Amazon, down from its recommended price of $1,799.

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/gaming-monitors/the-enormous-49-inch-samsung-odyssey-oled-g9-is-under-usd1k-again

An electronics enthusiast has created what they say is the 'first custom PlayStation 1 motherboard created in 30 years.'

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/first-reverse-engineered-sony-ps1-motherboard-enables-fixing-broken-systems-bare-pcbs-for-usd40-boards-with-chips-for-usd95

Two of the most important companies behind China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency and AI supremacy hopes were dealt a blow on Saturday, with their addition to Taiwan’s strategic high-tech commodities entity list.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/taiwan-bans-chip-exports-to-huawei-smic-ban-comes-after-huawei-tricked-tsmc-into-making-

Jon Bringus of Bringus Studios explored one of the first iterations of the Steam Deck gaming console.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/usd3-000-steam-deck-prototype-disassembled-concept-units-had-discrete-gpu-support-smaller-joysticks-circular-touchpads

A Chineese repair YouTube recieved four faulty RTX 4090 graphics cards only to find three of them were fake, based on RTX 3080/3080Ti and RTX 3090 GPU dies.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/customer-sends-four-rtx-4090s-to-a-repair-technician-finds-out-three-are-fake-new-counterfeiting-technique-uses-modded-30-series-chips

The OXS Thunder Pro+ is a 7.1.2 soundbar with built-in RGB lighting and an (optional) satellite neck speaker.

https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/oxs-thunder-pro-review