Tom's Hardware Premium weekly roundup covers TP-Link, Surface Laptop Ultra, tape storage, Deepseek V4-Flash-1017
Tom's Hardware published its weekly Premium roundup for the week ending October 24, 2026. The edition summarizes several subscriber-only articles. One piece examines TP-Link's regulatory challenges in the U.S., noting the company's pledge of nearly $1 billion in U.S. R&D and manufacturing and a letter of intent with Key Tronic to assemble Wi-Fi 8 routers in Mississippi. Another article reviews…
Key points
- TP-Link pledges nearly $1B in U.S. R&D and manufacturing, signs LOI with Key Tronic for Wi-Fi 8 router assembly in Mississippi
- Deepseek releases V4-Flash-1017 open-weight model; scores well but more prone to hallucination than GPT 5.6-Sol and Claude Opus 5
- Tape shipments jumped 57% year-on-year in Q1 2026; IBM, HPE, Quantum developing cartridges up to 365TB native capacity
Model page: GPT-5.6 Sol →
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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 24, 2026
Tom's Hardware · 24 October 2026
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