Daily Tech News 6 January 2026

• AMD's Ryzen 9850X3D CPU is here, the new fastest gaming CPU. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's identical the the previous fastest gaming CPU, the Ryzen 9800X3D, but bumps the clock speed up from 5.2GHz to 5.6GHz.
  
  And that's the most exciting announcement today.
  
  
  
• AMD also announced the Ryzen 400 laptop CPU series, which is 2% faster than the 300 series. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And in certain areas, slower than the equivalent 200 series.
  
  
  

• Intel announced its Panther Lake "Series 3" - or is that Series 3 "Panther Lake" - laptop CPUs. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The earlier leaks were correct in every detail.
  
  Only four performance cores on even the fastest models, but up to eight efficiency cores and eight low power cores. Plus up to twelve graphics cores - but only if you sacrifice expandable memory.
  
  
  
• OWC announced a Thunderbolt 5 desktop storage array that can hold 192TB of SSD and deliver data at 6.6GB per second. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which is actually not that fast; a singe PCIe 5.0 SSD can do double that.
  
  As for the 192TB model, keep dreaming: No price and the 96TB model is already $15,500.
  
  
  
• Stack Overflow's demise in a single picture. (Stack Exchange)
  
  The founders sold the company a few years ago for $1.9 billion. Now it is dead.
  
  
  
• HP's Eliteboard G1a features an eight core Ryzen 350 CPU, up to 64GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD. (Hot Hardware)
  
  There's just one strange thing: It's a keyboard.
  
  
  

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