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Lenovo’s updated take on the ThinkPad gets a lot right, despite ditching the traditional keyboard and TrackPoint.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-x9-review

Grab AMD's top-of-the-line 16-core workhorse for its lowest-ever price of $532

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-non-x3d-ryzen-9-9950x-processor-hits-an-all-time-low-in-amazons-big-spring-sale-2025

Goblinhan Yıkan has created a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered fight stick that has extra buttons for throwing random combos while playing fighting games.

https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-pico-fightstick-randomly-mashes-buttons-for-fighting-game-combos

A YouTuber has procured a modded blower-style RTX 4090 48GB, designed for the Chinese market, with the teardown revealing a rather sturdy and well-built PCB for what is a custom GPU.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/blower-style-rtx-4090-48gb-teardown-reveals-dual-sided-memory-configuration-pcb-design-echoes-the-rtx-3090

Microsoft's modern Resilient File System supports files and volumes up to 35 petabytes.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/new-advanced-filesystem-format-option-found-in-windows-11-preview-build-refs-supports-up-to-35-petabytes

Nvidia's Jensen Huang mulls about next-generation process technologies, suggests that the typical improvement from any process node change worth shifting to is only 20%.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidias-jesnen-huang-expects-gaa-based-technologies-to-bring-a-20-percent-performance-uplift

Huawei-linked Chinese startup has developed a nearly complete suite of semiconductor manufacturing tools to enable fully domestic chip production amid escalating export controls.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-sicarrier-challenges-u-s-and-eu-with-full-spectrum-of-chipmaking-equipment-huawei-linked-firm-makes-an-impressive-debut

This 6-core, 12-threaded Zen 5 architecture chip is great for mid-range gaming.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-5-9600x-hits-all-time-low-price

Grab Crucial's 2TB T705 (heatsink version) for $259, one of its lowest prices.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/crucials-2tb-t705-the-fastest-available-consumer-gen-5-ssd-has-sold-out-at-amazon-but-you-can-get-the-same-drive-with-a-heatsink-for-an-extra-usd20

A Chinese tech channel uncovered another fake RTX 4090 featuring a GA102 die inside. The card was allegedly bought for a mere $530, but it showed no visible damage or marks outside that would suggest the GPU was modified. Closer inspection reveals how far scammers will go to attempt to dupe people.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/gpu-scam-res