US Congressman accuses SMIC of making 7nm chips for China, violating U.S. sanctions
Michael McCaul accuses SMIC of evading U.S. sanctions, helping Huawei, calls for investigation and more stringent export controls.…
Buggy Windows Update starts automatically ‘upgrading’ Windows 2022 servers to Windows Server 2025
Windows Server 2022 machines are getting automatically upgraded to Windows Server 2025, without system administrator content or awareness.…
Intel resumes free coffee and tea for its employees — $100-million-per-year program partly reinstated to boost employee morale
Intel is reinstating free coffee and tea for its employees months after it suspended the beverage benefit to…
ASE to bolster North American semiconductor supply chain — new packaging and test facility in Mexico expected to hire 500 engineers and technicians in first year
ASE’s subsidiary, ISE Labs, will build an OSAT facility in Mexico. ASE’s subsidiary, ISE Labs, will build an…
Both Trump and Biden expected to attend TSMC’s Arizona fab grand opening ceremony — Fab 21 opens in December
High-ranking U.S. politicians and Morris Chang will attend the TSMC’s Fab 21 opening ceremony in Arizona in early…
Ryzen 7 9800X3D gutted to get a look inside AMD’s gaming champion – die shot reveals CPU cores and 3D V-Cache
A Bilibili user sacrificed his 9800X3D in order to get a look at the chip’s CCD and 3D…
Intel engineer’s Linux patch would alert users of outdated microcode — Flagging the system as vulnerable
A Linux patch suggests automatically alerting the user that their Intel CPU is using an old microcode. A…
This Raspberry Pi automatically archives a stack of Amiga floppy disks
Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes…
Crucial T500 4TB SSD review: More of a good thing
The long-anticipated 4TB Crucial T500 has arrived. It doesn’t really change performance or improve on the original design,…
AMD’s desktop PC market share skyrockets amid Intel’s Raptor Lake CPU crashing scandal — AMD makes biggest leap in recent history
AMD’s desktop x86 CPU market share rises 5.7% in one quarter as company launches Ryzen 9000 CPUs amid…