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Tom's Hardware's weekly Premium roundup covers Tencent grabbing bargain chips, a Qualcomm-Huawei IP deal, and a Groq lawsuit.

Tencent's bargain-chip buying and the Qualcomm-Huawei IP deal show Chinese buyers and vendors sourcing compute and chip technology through their own channels, while the Groq lawsuit adds legal risk to the inference-chip field.

Trade pressSlicast · October 10, 2026 at 15:00 UTC · US · Source: Tom's Hardware

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In case you've been missing out on the action over on Tom's Hardware Premium, we're back with another roundup to fill you in on everything you missed. Central to this week's theme is how artificial intelligence and its subsequent buildout are impacting all areas of the semiconductor industry.

Headlining this week is our report on how smart software utilization may play a part in the electricity consumption of AI data centers. We sat down with experts in the domain to find out.

Sayem Ahmed is the Subscription Editor at Tom's Hardware. He covers a broad range of deep dives into hardware, both new and old, including CPUs, GPUs, and everything else that uses a semiconductor. He has worked as a professional tech journalist since 2015 and has written for GameSpot, IGN, and Dexerto.

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