GlobalFoundries to produce silicon interposers for TSMC’s CoWoS in the US — Five-year agreement valued at $2 billion

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Tom’s Hardware • Anton Shilov • October 8, 2026

GlobalFoundries and TSMC have signed a five-year manufacturing agreement valued at $2 billion. Under this deal, GlobalFoundries will produce silicon interposers for TSMC’s CoWoS advanced packaging technology in the United States. These interposers are custom pieces of silicon that connect logic chiplets to high-bandwidth memory stacks, enabling complex multi-die processors for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Volume production is scheduled to ramp up in the first half of 2028 at GlobalFoundries’ facility in Malta, New York.

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AMD attempted to crush the ‘Megahertz myth’ with its Performance Rating system on this day 25 years ago

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Tom’s Hardware • Mark Tyson • October 9, 2026

Twenty-five years ago today, AMD launched its Athlon XP processor family based on the Palomino core. These chips ran at lower raw clock speeds than Intel’s Pentium 4 rivals but delivered comparable or better application and gaming performance. To address this marketing imbalance, AMD introduced a Performance Rating (PR) system alongside the slogan "Performance matters more than MHz." This campaign aimed to challenge the industry standard that equated higher megahertz with superior performance.

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Kioxia unveils E1.L SSDs for hyperscalers with up to 122.88TB capacity

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Tom’s Hardware • Anton Shilov • October 9, 2026

Kioxia introduced its LD4-series solid-state drives (SSDs) in an E1.L form factor with capacities up to 122.88 TB on Friday, designed for hyperscale data centers. The manufacturer states these drives use proven BiCS8 3D QLC NAND technology and target read-intensive workloads such as AI data repositories and object storage. While Kioxia lists PCIe 5.0 compliance, the drives operate at PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds of up to 16 GT/s per lane, providing a theoretical maximum bandwidth of approximately 7.88 GB/s in each direction.

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Arc Raiders publisher developing AI anti-cheat stack in escalating war with cheaters

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Tom’s Hardware • Jowi Morales • October 9, 2026

Arc Raiders publisher Embark Studios is developing its own artificial intelligence models to detect cheating as it faces an escalating arms race with cheaters. While the company previously kept details scarce to hinder cheat developers, it has now released information about its new measures. Aleks, the executive producer, confirmed that Embark uses kernel-level protection from Denuvo and detection services from Anybrain’s AI. Additionally, the studio is building in-house models based on machine learning and other data to identify suspicious behavior before taking action.

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Save $200 on the 2026 M5 MacBook Air right now, undoing Apple’s June price hike with prices starting from $1,099

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Tom’s Hardware • Stewart Bendle • October 9, 2026

Apple raised prices for its entire MacBook and iPad lineup in June, with the MacBook Air increasing by $200. However, Amazon is currently selling the 2026 MacBook Air with the M5 chip at these reduced rates during Prime Day sales. The base model with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD is priced at $1,099, while the 16GB/1TB configuration costs $1,399 and the 24GB/1TB version is $1,599. These discounts are not available directly from Apple, which has kept its prices higher than what Amazon offers right now.

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Grab this 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor from ASRock for the super low price of $596

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Tom’s Hardware • Stewart Bendle • October 9, 2026

Newegg currently offers the ASRock PGO32UFS Phantom Gaming Monitor at $596, down from its previous list price of $899. This represents a saving of $303 on this 32-inch 4K OLED display. While prices for RAM and storage have risen recently, gaming monitor prices are actually declining. The monitor features dual-mode refresh rates and resolution switching to support both high-performance gaming and competitive esports titles.

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Mistral’s new Large 4 trails some Chinese open models in independent tests

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Tom’s Hardware • Shane Downing • October 9, 2026

Mistral recently launched its Large 4 (ML4) model, which uses a mixture-of-experts architecture trained on Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell GPUs in European datacenters. Artificial Analysis (AA), an independent benchmarking firm, ranked ML4 as the most intelligent open-weight model outside the U.S. and China with a score of 38 on its Intelligence Index v4.3.2. However, five Chinese models scored higher overall, including MiMo-V2.6-Pro at 46 and GLM-5.3 (max) at 45. Unlike these competitors, ML4 is not yet open; Mistral states its weights will be released by the end of October.

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PC shipments tumble over 20% in 3Q26 as chip shortages bite

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Tom’s Hardware • Jowi Morales • October 9, 2026

Global PC shipments fell by 20.1% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2026, representing a drop of 15.8 million units. According to IDC Global, this decline is steeper than the 3.8% decrease seen last quarter and down 9.1% from the second quarter of this year. Many research firms had warned about this trend since late last year, with IDC predicting the market could shrink up to 9%, particularly in the budget sector. Some experts estimate the situation will not improve until 2029, while Tom’s Hardware readers stated they do not plan to upgrade their systems in the next two years.

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13 tech bargains for only $13 or less to upgrade your desktop PC setup

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Tom’s Hardware • Stewart Bendle • October 7, 2026

It’s day two of the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sales event, and time is running out to grab a deal on some of your favorite tech items. If you’ve not managed to spot a great discount on a new GPU or monitor, there’s always room for a little impulse purchase on those often-overlooked little gadgets that can add value to our setups.

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Florida sues TP-Link for ‘lying about the safety of its routers’

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Tom’s Hardware • Jowi Morales • October 7, 2026

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that the state is suing TP-Link for allegedly lying about the safety of its routers and their ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In a video clip posted on X, Uthmeier stated that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have exploited TP-Link routers in American homes. He noted that many affected models cannot update themselves automatically and that TP-Link has stopped supporting them. Additionally, Uthmeier claimed that TP-Link told Floridians they split from China and build products in the U.S., but this is fiction according to his office.

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