Tom's Hardware

2 days ago | tomshardware.com | Anton Shilov

Taiwan's decision to impose export restrictions on hundreds of Chinese companies, including Huawei and SMIC, has triggered a strong backlash from Beijing, which has vowed to respond in a bid to 'defend its economic and technological interests,' reports Bloomberg. "Such despicable acts are utterly contemptible," said Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, reports China's state-owned Global Times.

2 days ago | tomshardware.com | Anton Shilov

Intel has begun cutting jobs in California as part of its cost-cutting and restructuring strategy introduced by CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The move comes two months after Tan warned that staff reductions were unavoidable and that 15% - 20% of the company's staff would be laid off. Officially, Intel is eliminating excessive management layers, but a CRN report indicates that the company is surprisingly laying off chip design engineers and architects.

2 days ago | tomshardware.com | Anton Shilov

(Image credit: Biren Technology)A sudden flood of blacklisted Chinese chipmakers in both the GPU and CPU arenas are preparing to IPO over the coming months. The development comes as the rise of AI and U.S. sanctions against China's semiconductor and supercomputer sectors have had a drastic effect on the development of China's semiconductor industry.

3 days ago | tomshardware.com | Stewart Bendle

Great news for 3D printing deal hunters as Bambu Lab celebrates its 3rd anniversary with some superb discounts on a host of printer products and accessories. One that really stood out, though, was this amazing discount on the excellent Bambu Lab P1P - a high-speed Core XY printer that can blast prints out in next to no time, thanks to its up to 20,000 mm/s² acceleration.

4 days ago | tomshardware.com | Aaron Klotz

(Image credit: Microsoft)Microsoft is testing an aggregated gaming library for the Xbox app on PC that will show installed games from third-party storefronts listed in the app. An Xbox blog post reports that the feature is rolling out to Xbox Insiders this week and will be available starting with the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X handhelds later this year.