Withdozens of fabs being built in Chinaandcoming online over the next few years, China is poised to expand its chipmaking capacities dramatically. Most of these fabs will produce chips using mature process technologies, enabling China to flood the chip market on these nodes. Meanwhile, experts from market research companyTrendForcewarn that this could lead to an oversupply of capacity, making foundries cut their quotes, and some may go bankrupt. China currently has 44 wafer fabs, excluding seven inactive ones....

Earlier this week, a team ofsecurityresearchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum presented a pair of papers on two side-channel speculative execution attacks targeted at Apple silicon, dubbed SLAP and FLOP [h/tBleeping Computer]. A dedicated web page for the attacks, showing some examples, documentation, and links to the original two papers, is also available at the aptly-named URLPredictors.Fail. So, what are these attacks? To understand either, you first need a working understanding of what speculative execution attacks are....

Asus has added a new member to its NUC 14 family of mini-PCs. The newAsus NUC 14 Performancelives up to its suffix by packing in up to anIntel Core Ultra 9 185H‘Meteor Lake’ processor, andNvidia GeForce RTX 4070desktop GPU into a compact chassis. This new mini-PC, which supports up to five 4K displays, aims to provide “power, efficiency, and style,” to the business market. Pondering over the specs and design of the new Asus NUC 14 Performance it quickly becomes apparent that this is one of the newROG NUC gamingdevices wearing a business suit....

Gamers can purchase the anticipated AsusROG Ally Xat Best Buy for$749.99, $150 more than the regularROG Ally. Buyers can pick up Asus' latest gaming handheld console in-store on July 26 or have it shipped to them by the same date. The ROG Ally X uses AMD’s Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU with eight Zen 4 cores with SMT (simultaneous multithreading) and an iGPU with 12 RDNA 3 Compute Units. Its other vital upgrades over the standard ROG Ally include bigger storage, a larger 80Wh battery, and an improved cooling system to keep the device cool....

In July,Intel left the NUC business andgave Asus a licenseto produce its own designs. AtCES2024 in Las Vegas, Asus is showing off its first gaming-focused design, theAsus ROG NUC.There will be two configurations: one with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, and another with a Core Ultra 9 185H and RTX 4070 Laptop GPU. Those are all mobile parts to fit into a 2....

Asus released a new USB4 PCIe Gen4 x4 card that provides 40Gbps bi-directional I/O bandwidth for USB with display output, versatile daisy chaining, and quick charging for several devices. With this card and a compatible motherboard, you are future-ready for USB4 devices, compatible monitors with DP-ALT mode, and portable devices that take advantage of the 65W quick charging available for both ports. This USB4 PCIe Gen 4 card has two Type C USB4 ports and DP-IN ports....

Geekbench shared the percentage of processors that ran its Geekbench 6 benchmark in the past 30 days. Out of the 81,081 tests done on a Windows PC between June 16 and July 28, 2025, 5,304 were conducted on a device running the Snapdragon X SoC. It might be small compared to Intel’s 48,970 and AMD’s 26,807, but we must remember that these laptops launched on June 18. The Snapdragon X isn’t the first chip designed for Windows on Arm, but it’s the first to gain massive support fromMicrosoftand its partners like Acer, Asus,Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung....

Mechanical hard drives might seem like ancient technology, but there are still many places where they provide ‘good enough’ performance, and they easily offer the most amount of storage for the price. You do not always need the fast random access that thebest SSDsare designed to provide, and an HDD’s sequential performance is plenty for streaming and other tasks. There are still a lot of hard drives to choose from, so we’ve tested multiple drives in our labs to help ensure you pick the right one for your needs....

1.Quick Links2.Raspberry Pi Deals Find the perfect gift for the maker in your life with a great Raspberry Pi or Pi accessory deal. With more than 40 million units sold and a powerful community of makers and fans behind it,Raspberry Piis more than a single-board computer; it’s a huge platform with an even bigger ecosystem. The Pi is for you whether you want to build your robot, create an A.I.-poweredsecuritycamera, or just set up a simple computer for programming and web surfing....

TheRaspberry Pihas been around since 2012,selling around 57 million unitsas of February 2024. All of the main models of Raspberry Pi have historically been powered by Broadcom SoCs, including the latestRaspberry Pi 5. That all changed in January 2021 when we saw the first Raspberry Pi silicon, in the form of the RP2040 microcontroller. In a short space of time the RP2040 has become a major board in the maker community, selling approximatelyfour million units since release....

AsITHomereported, China is pushing its domestic GPU efforts into uncharted territory with Lisuan Tech’s first consumer and professional graphics cards, the 7G106 and 7G105. Built on TSMC’s 6nm N6 process, the 7G106 and 7G105 are powered by the company’s in-house TrueGPU architecture and aim to compete directly with mid-range offerings from Nvidia and AMD. While the spotlight is on gaming performance, Lisuan is positioning these chips as multi-purpose accelerators for AI, cloud rendering, and even metaverse applications....

Huawei, Samsung, and Qualcomm were the top international patent filers in 2023, with China-based companies well ahead of their high-tech rivals from South Korea and the US, according torecently released datafrom the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Despite heavy US sanctions severely impacting its ability to function in global markets, Huawei easily led the rest of the companies worldwide with the top number of patents filed. China-based entities led all other countries in terms of the total number of patents filed....

When the Dutch governmentretook export controls over ASML’s advanced immersion lithography toolsback on Friday, ASML said that it expected no changes to its business, which meant no obvious change to sales of these tools to Chinese entities. Nevertheless, Chinese authorities have now taken the time to express their feelings toward the situation, and they are “dissatisfied,” according to aReutersreport. “In recent years, to maintain its global hegemony, the United States has continued to … coerce certain countries to tighten export control measures for semiconductors and (related) equipment,” a statement by the Chinese government reads, as reported byReuters....