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The touchpad is not a piece of hardware that usually becomes faulty. But if yourtouchpad stops working, it will be an issue navigating the Operating system. Well, you can use an external mouse or keyboard shortcuts. However, these will not work if you do not have a mouse or do not know any keyboard shortcuts. If you are facing an issue where a touchpad on Asus laptops does not work, it is most likely due to the hotkey that enables or disables the touchpad....

AMD’s latestRyzen AI 300(Strix Point) chips are seemingly delayed after Best Buy moved back the availability date of Asus laptops that sport these chips by two weeks. Although Team Red did not give an exact release date for its latest laptop processors,multiple rumors have gone around sayingthat Ryzen AI 300 chips will be available on July 15, while the Ryzen 9000 processors will hit store shelves on the 31st of that month....

Germany’s IFA trade show is typically more about coffee makers and smart-home tech than CPUs and cool laptop concepts. But with Intel and Qualcomm launching major new mobile platforms in the days leading up to the main event —Lunar Lakeand lower-cost,8-core variantsof the Snapdragon X Plus — we knew there would be plenty of important and exciting products to cover. So we descended on Berlin, and soon found ourselves overwhelmed with new laptops and crazy concepts, next-gengaming handhelds, multi-screen keyboards, andAI, of course....

1.Quick Links2.Best Airflow PC Case Deals3.Best Glass and Dual-Chamber PC Case Deals4.Best Small Form Factor PC Case Deals You certainly shouldn’t skimp on the PC case when putting together your build; it’s more important than you think to have the correct functionality, performance, and looks when making your decision. Although the GPU and CPU will have the greatest impact on how your computer will perform, your choice of case can affect performance factors such as cooling, the size of the components used in your build, and, aesthetically, how your hardware is displayed....

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, better known as Prime Day October 2024, are now over. This event featured some great savings on gaming PCs, monitors, peripherals and key components such as SSDs, CPUs and graphics cards. However, even though Amazon’s sale is officially over the deals continue, especially on competitors such as Newegg and Dell. Whether you’re looking to upgrade an existing PC, build a system from scratch, improve your typing experience with a new keyboard or get a new laptop for gaming on the go, there are still great sales....

China has a grand plan to become completely self-sufficient for chip production. This will require the domestic companies to build their own wafer fab tools. While there are rather successful tool manufacturers in China for etching and deposition — Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China (AMEC) andNaura Technology— there is only one notable manufacturer of lithography tools, Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group (SMEE). That’s arguably not enough, and it looks like Naura is now going to enter this market as well, according to theSouth China Morning Post....

According to a report fromMathys & Squire, an intellectual property law firm, the number of semiconductor-related patent applications filed in China skyrocketed in 2023 – 2024, and Tianxia is now well ahead of the U.S. in terms of the number of applications. This happens amid the declining number of semiconductor companies in China and major restrictions imposed on the country’s microelectronics sector by the U.S. and some of its allies....

According to aBloomberg UK report, Guan Wenhui, a Chinese lawmaker, has proposed a new rule under which government-backed firms will be able to keep their foreign suppliers secret. This would help these companies bypass U.S. trade restrictions (or rather for the U.S. and other governments to reveal illegal shipments), which have made it increasingly difficult for China to acquire advanced processors, software, and chip making tools. Guan, a delegate at the National People’s Congress, proposed that companies blacklisted by the U....

Fresh out of China, Tryx is debuting a new AIO cooler design leveraging a panoramic, curved, AMOLED display. The design, which seems to be named “Panorama” or “Panorama Exhibition Area,” uses a curved screen alongside an eighth-gen Asetek AIO pump and optional RGB. We’ll be referring to it as just “Panorama” for simplicity’s sake since there seems to be a chance “Panorama Exhibition Area” was literally referring to where these photos were taken....

Most operating systems these days have started incorporating the recovery mode that helps repair computers in dire times. For Mac users, Command + R is the appropriate button configuration to access this mode. However, sometimes, this combination fails to work, and users are not able to enter the recovery window. In many such cases, the Command + R key combo is not used in the right way. Plenty of users fail to get the button timing wrong entirely....

The impact of the recentCrowdStrike outageis hitting the company where it hurts — in the wallet. Overnight predictions saw up to 21% being knocked off the company’s stock price, equal to around $16 billion in market cap. The situation is only moderately better in the cold light of day — we’ve been trackingMarketWatch, and at the time of publication, CrowdStrike has seen a 15% drop in its shares, wiping $12.5 billion off its market cap....

Mac gamer and YouTube creator Andrew Tsai tested Cyberpunk 2077 on four different Macs, where he found the game was able to perform relatively well on all models that are within spec. He shared the results of the test in aYouTube video, where he compared four MacBooks — an M4 MacBook Pro (16GB / 10-core GPU), an M3 Max MacBook Pro (48GB / 40-core GPU), an M1 Max MacBook Pro (32GB / 32-core GPU), and, lastly, an M1 MacBook Air (8GB / 8-core GPU)....

A DEC PDP-10 mainframe computer from the Paul Allen (co-founder ofMicrosoft) collection, will beauctionedat Christie’s in September. This mainframe computer is the same model Bill Gates and Paul Allen used at Harvard University to build Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s first commercial software product. However, the mainframe on sale was originally registered to Kiel University in Germany before Allen acquired it to restore. The Altair 8800 microcomputer appeared on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics....