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Tom's Hardware Premium: BC-250 gaming, Intel exec interview, PCIe 6.0

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Tom's Hardware Premium's August 14, 2026 edition features an in-depth look at the BC-250, a repurposed PlayStation 5 APU now used for gaming, complete with benchmarks and build guides. The publication also includes an unredacted interview with Intel's Robert Hallock, discussing upcoming CPU architectures like Arrow Lake and Nova Lake, and Intel's competitive landscape. Additionally, the premium content covers the emerging market for PCIe 6.0 devices, including high-capacity SSDs and controllers, and touches upon the ongoing AI data center buildout and associated protests. AI

IMPACT Highlights the growing impact of AI data center buildouts and the emergence of new hardware standards like PCIe 6.0.

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Tom's Hardware Premium: BC-250 gaming, Intel exec interview, PCIe 6.0

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Sayem Ahmed ·

    This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 14, 2026 — Testing the BC-250, our interview with Intel's Robert Hallock, and a big week for optical

    This week, we tested AMD's BC-250 in gaming workloads, published an unredacted interview with an AMD executive, and published a slew of articles surrounding a new flashpoint in the ongoing AI buildout: optical interconnects.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 14, 2026 — Testing the BC-250, our interview with Intel's Rob… This week, we tested AMD's BC-250 in gaming workloads

    This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 14, 2026 — Testing the BC-250, our interview with Intel's Rob… This week, we tested AMD's BC-250 in gaming workloads, published an unredacted interview with an AMD executive, and published a slew of articles surrounding a new flashpoint…

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