Qualcomm will license patents behind Huawei’s LogicFolding chip architecture, report says

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Tom’s Hardware • Shane Downing • October 7, 2026

Qualcomm has reached a deal to license Huawei patents behind the LogicFolding chip-stacking method, Bloomberg reports. The technology, which is used in the Kirin 9050 Pro, splits nearly every block across two bonded dies, and a teardown and die shots show the lower die holds mostly cache and I/O.

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These 15 under-$50 gadgets have upgraded my tech life, and they’re all on sale

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Tom’s Hardware • Matt Safford • October 7, 2026

As much as I love high-priced tech like my potent RTX 4090-equipped custom gaming rig or the 65-inch LG OLED TV I use as my monitor, most of us can’t spend several hundred dollars on a tech purchase or gift all the time. But you can still improve your tech life (or the lives of your friends and family) while spending a comparatively small amount of money.

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The best Switch 2 accessories on sale now

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

Amazon is currently running Prime Big Deals Days 2026, offering discounts on various Nintendo Switch 2 accessories. The article notes that both official and third-party options are available at different price points to enhance gameplay or add personalization. Key items include a microSD Express memory card from Samsung, which was originally $79.99 but is now $69.99. This card helps expand storage for the console.

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Seagate and Toshiba battle for TDK’s HDD head business, a critical hard drive component

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Tom’s Hardware • Anton Shilov • October 7, 2026

Seagate Technology and Toshiba are reportedly competing to acquire TDK’s hard disk drive magnetic head business in a transaction valued at several billion dollars, according to Bloomberg reports. For Seagate, the deal would expand its internal supply of HDD heads, while for Toshiba, TDK is currently the only source of these components. If Seagate were to buy the operation, Toshiba’s HDD business would depend on supply from Seagate instead.

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Why I upgraded to a 4K OLED PC gaming monitor

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Tom’s Hardware • Joe Shields • October 7, 2026

The author upgraded from a 27-inch 1440p IPS panel to a 32-inch 4K OLED monitor, citing the need for more screen real estate and sharper text. The previous setup split two monitors between work tasks and video streaming, but the new single display allows running multiple windows without losing space. For gaming, specifically First-Person Shooters like Call of Duty and PUBG, the author sought a higher refresh rate to reduce input lag. While the old panel ran at 165Hz, the new MSI MPG 321URX supports up to 240Hz. To achieve these high frame rates on the OLED, the author relies on an RTX 5090 graphics card and technologies like Nvidia’s DLSS and MFG, noting that previous generations required more effort to reach similar speeds.

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Researcher ports Doom to $8,000 Hasselblad X2D

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

An independent researcher named Radium Wang has created software that allows photographers to play the video game Doom directly on a Hasselblad X2D camera. This project is hosted in a GitHub repository titled Hasselblad-X-System-CIM-Firmware-Research-Feature-Extensions, which also explores features not present in factory units. Wang states that his work consists only of source code, offline tools, tests, and sanitized research findings, and he does not intend to upgrade the camera’s standard capabilities.

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Get a Wi-Fi 7 mesh network for a discounted $149.99 — TP-Link Deco 7 BE25 offers 5,012 Mbps speeds and coverage for 150 devices

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Tom’s Hardware • Kunal Khullar • October 7, 2026

The TP-Link Deco 7 BE25 mesh Wi-Fi 7 dual-pack is currently available on Amazon for $149.99, down from its original price of $199.99. A triple-pack version is also on sale for $198.19, which represents savings of over $100 off its listed price of $299.99. This system combines fast wireless speeds with wide-area coverage, making it a practical option for homes containing multiple devices such as smartphones, gaming PCs, smart TVs, and smart home gadgets.

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Musk rejects rumors of TSMC takeover of Terafab — Intel reaffirms 14A node deal as Musk floats cleanroom ‘sublease’

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Tom’s Hardware • Anton Shilov • October 7, 2026

Intel will remain a part of Elon Musk’s Terafab project, Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive of Intel, told reporters on Wednesday. Around the same time, Elon Musk, chief executive of SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI, said that Terafab remains committed to building and operating its fab itself, but proposed to lease a part of the fab to TSMC.

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This $7.99 TP-Link gigabit switch lets you cheaply upgrade your home network, and it’s back at its lowest ever price

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Tom’s Hardware • Ben Stockton • October 7, 2026

Wi-Fi is great until you hit lag, network congestion, or interference. If you need to expand your network, you’ll want a network switch with gigabit speeds. Luckily, Amazon’s big sale means you can pick up this TP-Link Lightwave 5-port unmanaged Ethernet switch for just $7.99 right now , bringing it back down to its lowest-ever price.

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New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup

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Tom’s Hardware • Zak Killian • October 7, 2026

Gregory Price and his team at Meta have developed CRAM, a new memory compression model designed to avoid traditional swap layers. Unlike existing Linux options like ZRAM and Zswap, which function as swap-layer features, CRAM keeps compressed data entirely within RAM. The developers state that the primary performance bottleneck in current systems is not the compression process itself, but rather the fault handling and swap behavior associated with them.

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