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This week in Tom's Hardware Premium: October 31, 2026 — Vera CPUs available on Oracle clusters, building an agentic CPU benchmark and a primer to LLMs

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In case you're not yet subscribed to our Tom's Hardware Premium subscription service, here's what you've been missing out on this week. We detail our thoughts on Anthropic's filings pre-IPO, Cadence's new suite of LLMs to power its EDA tools, how Nvidia is securing its entire supply chain to serve AI data center demand, how Vera CPUs are landing in the cloud, an update to the ongoing TP-Link saga, and more. Remember, to access any of the articles listed here, you'll need to arm yourself with a subscription .

We've been hard at work behind the scenes to determine exactly how locally-run AI models and workloads stress consumer-level components. While throughput and tokens per second are indeed important factors, our resident CPU expert Jake Roach has begun laying out his vision for how Agentic workloads tax CPUs, and how we're building benchmarks in this newfangled AI world that the PC hardware space finds itself increasingly entrenched in.…

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