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Latest News - December 2025
- Ayaneo Pocket Vert Retro Gaming Handheld Gets A Great Pre-Launch Discount
- Top NVIDIA GeForce GPU Deals To Snag Before Prices Potentially Rise
- NASA's SPHEREx Completes First All-Sky Infrared Map Of Entire Universe And It's Stunning
- Think Your Gaming Monitor Is Fast? This One Hits A Blistering 1080Hz
- Samsung’s New Wireless Speakers Blend Immersive Audio And Home Design At CES
- AMD Radeon And NVIDIA GeForce GPU Price Hikes May Be Coming
- Leaker That Apple Sued Doubles Down With A Huge iPhone Foldable Leak
- CES Expected To Usher In Game-Changing TV Tech For 2026
- Year In Review: 5 Biggest Tech Wins Of 2025, Plus Two Epic Fails
- ASUS ROG Swift PG32UCDM Gen 3 Tackles Annoying OLED Issue With BlackShield Film
- New Motherboards With PhantomLink Seen Powering A Radeon RX 9070 XT Without Cables
- Microsoft's Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker Promises A Huge Performance Boost
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 With 192MB L3 Cache Spotted In Multiple Benchmarks
- AMD's Next-Gen RDNA 5 Radeon GPUs Rumored For TSMC N3P And 2027 Launch
- PS5 Is $100 Off And More Top Gaming Deals Still Available After Christmas
- LG's New UltraGear Evo Gaming Monitors Include A 5K2K OLED With AI Upscaling
- ASUS Responds To Rumors It Will Make DRAM To Alleviate The Memory Crisis
- 7 Best Game Deals On Humble Bundle To Fill The Holiday With Gaming
- Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays From Our Family To You And Yours
- Multiple Studies Say Video Games Can Boost Brain Power And Fight Burnout
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All News for December 2025
Ayaneo Pocket Vert is here, and if you hop on the bandwagon soon enough, you can get it for as low as $269 USD for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage configuration, or $349 for the top-end 12GB RAM + 256GB storage config (or $369 if you want it...
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Word on the web is that graphics card pricing is about to go up as add-in board (AIB) partners for both AMD and NVIDIA look to pass along the cost of rising DRAM prices. If the reports are true, we'll start to see higher-priced GPUs next...
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Less than a year into its mission, NASA’s SPHEREx has already completed its first full survey of the sky, producing a near-infrared map that captures the entire cosmos in a staggering 102 colors. Words can't really convey the true splendor...
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Old school PC geeks may remember a time when AMD and Intel were in a race to 1GHz and beyond, back before multiple cores, hybrid designs, and mountains of stacked cache took center stage. Those days may be gone forever, but now we have...
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Hold on a second, Samsung designers were allowed to actually design something? Ahead of the upcoming CES 2026, the South Korean company has unveiled not just a soundbar, but some very fresh-looking Wi-Fi speakers that combine artistic...
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While you're planning your New Year's resolutions, add-in board (AIB) partners for both AMD and NVIDIA are getting ready to ring in 2026 with a round of price increases, followed by more price hikes as the year goes on, according to multiple reports. The culprit, as you can probably guess, is...
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Ever dreamt of an iPhone that transforms into an iPad? If you have, the iPhone Fold renders leaked by Jon Prosser, aka YouTube's fpt., will be of interest. Jon uploaded a video showcasing the some official-looking renders of the upcoming...
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CES 2026 will be the launching pad for lots of new hardware, including a new wave of enhanced Mini LED TVs, which manufacturers are branding in a variety of ways. Some companies will call them "true color TVs", while others are being more literal -- like Hisense -- and calling out RGB Mini LED...
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It's been quite a year. We came into it struggling with a massive GPU shortage, and we're coming out of it with a brutal memory shortfall. Microsoft largely lost the plot with both Windows and Xbox, and the President of the United States...
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ASUS is evidently so excited about its new ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM Gen 3 gaming monitor that it's not waiting around for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas for its big unveiling. What has ASUS so geeked about the Gen 3 panel...
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Ahead of CES 2026, Sapphire is showing off a pair of "PhantomLink" (its equivalent to ASUS' BTF) AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPUs and motherboards. Both will come in white or black colorways and are (for now) China-exclusives.
This launch...
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For Windows' BitLocker drive encryption, performance has been a long-standing pain point, especially as high-speed NVMe drives have become more dominant in the market. Fortunately, Microsoft has taken note and will soon be introducing...
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The long-awaited "double X3D" CPU, which AMD once denied would ever happen, has finally confirmed its existence with new leaks over at Geekbench and Passmark. We'll cut to the chase: neither benchmark result is particularly interesting, as...
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Over on X, Kepler_L2, one of the more trusted leakers in the industry, claims that AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture is slated for a mid-2027 release date, with chips being built on TSMC's N3P process. This claim emerged...
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Santa is back at the North Pole kicking back and relaxing before getting started on next year's batch of gifts. A year is a long time to wait if you didn't get what you hoping for, but the good news is you can take matters into your own...
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LG is rolling out a brand new UltraGear evo (stylized with a lowercase 'e'), which it will show off in more detail at the Consumer Electronics Shows (CES) in Las Vegas early next month. In the meantime, LG is providing a few details about...
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Sorry folks, but ASUS is not likely to save us from the current DRAM crisis that is expected to not only persist through all of next year, but potentially far beyond. Rumor has it that ASUS is toying with the idea of making its own DRAM...
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A lot of gamers likely picked up new hardware thanks to the solid discounts that happened during the holiday shopping season. Now it’s time to buy some new games that can take advantage of those upgraded rigs, and thankfully Humble Bundle...
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We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, from our family here at Hot Hardware, to you and your family--we consider you all our larger extended family here on the web. We hope whatever...
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Two recent studies have highlighted gaming's potential benefits for mental health and acuity. The most recent is a study published this month by JMIR Serious Games, named Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi Games' Affordance of Childlike Wonder...
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Because of the way we interact with these features, it's easy to think of Intel XMP and AMD EXPO as binary, 'yes or no' features, but both standards have actually gone through a few revisions. Right now, we're on revision 1.1 of AMD's...
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and deal hunters far and wide, do yourself a solid and don't sleep on the Mac mini if you're in the market for a compact PC (yes, Macs are technically PCs too). They're great systems, and the model...
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