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Zombie fabs plague China's chipmaking ambitions, failures burning tens of billions of dollars

Tom's Hardware | July 10, 2025, 5:48 a.m. | Original

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China's aggressive push to develop a domestic semiconductor industry has largely been successful. The country now has fairly advanced fabs that can produce logic chips using 7nm-class process technologies as well as world-class 3D NAND and DRAM memory devices. However, there are numerous high-profile failures due to missed investments, technical shortcomings, and unsustainable business plans. This has resulted in numerous empty fab shells — zombie fabs — around the country, according to DigiTimes .

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RTX 5080 laptops are starting to actually feel affordable with this $600 off deal on Asus's latest G16, and savings on cheaper models, too

Tom's Hardware | July 10, 2025, 5:38 a.m. | Original

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Asus has just dropped a massive discount on three of its 2025 ROG Strix G16 laptops, including a whopping saving of $600 on the RTX 5080 model, now $2,399 . New for 2025, the trio all boast a 16-inch display, with internals provided by Intel and Nvidia.

$600 off gaming laptops at Amazon Prime Day

Amazon Prime Day is entering its third of four

Add 2TB of storage to your handheld gaming PC for just $149 with this new Prime Day deal — score a massive 40% off WD's SN770M, now at its lowest-ever price

Tom's Hardware | July 10, 2025, 4:44 a.m. | Original

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This is a great deal! Now with 40% off the MSRP, the 2TB WD Black SN770M is a great buy for your Steam Deck and many other handheld gaming PC. It will even work extremely well inside my Khadas Mind .

The crop of 2230 size storage is getting better and better, but this little drive, first released in late 2023, still represents great value for money and offers a significant

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Intel's 14th Gen CPUs are discounted as low as $190, with up to $178 of free SSDs, coolers, RAM, or games tossed in — Is Intel cleaning out its closets?

Tom's Hardware | July 10, 2025, 3:52 a.m. | Original

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When it comes to value for performance, especially for gaming, Intel's 14th generation CPU range is better than its more recent Arrow Lake Core Ultra lineup. So if you're on the hunt for a new processor that won't cost you the earth during the Prime Day sales, Newegg has a range of discounts complemented by epic free stuff. At its cheapest, you can score an i5-14600K for $18

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Bambu just gave its Lab A1 3D printer a $60 discount to rival the Amazon Prime Day sale

Tom's Hardware | July 10, 2025, 2:27 a.m. | Original

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We gave the Bambu Lab A1 an Editor's Choice award when we reviewed it in 2023, and now this great printer has a healthy discount for Amazon Prime Day. Right now, you can get one for $60 off direct from Bambu, now $339 instead of $399 .

This is a great 3D printer to introduce the world of 3D printing to a new user. Why? Because it

Two great Gigabyte gaming monitors paint fast, crisp, and colorful pixels at all-time low prices — your choice of a 1440p 240Hz or a 4K 144Hz model

Tom's Hardware | July 9, 2025, 7:59 p.m. | Original

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If you're a gamer with some upgrade cash burning a hole in your pocket, but you're not impressed with any of the graphics card deals out there right now, it might be time to take a long, hard look at your gaming monitor.

Check out all the monitor deals in Amazon's Prime Day Sale

A 60 Hz display might not be showing you all the frames your powerful gaming PC can create, and if you're still playing at 10

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Microsoft's Surface Laptop and other Snapdragon notebooks see discounts for Prime Day — up to 36% off four Arm-based laptops with superb battery life

Tom's Hardware | July 9, 2025, 6:43 p.m. | Original

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With the Snapdragon X series of processors, Qualcomm has made its biggest leap yet into the Windows PC ecosystem. Windows on ARM is now available on more laptops than ever before, and for Amazon Prime Day and other competing sales events, many of these laptops are on sale.

Check out Snapdragon laptop sales in Amazon's Prime Day Sale

All of the Snapdragon laptops are Copilot+ PCs, featuring Windows 11's local AI features. But what they're really best

ASRock’s 27-inch Phantom Gaming monitor is just $104 — 240 Hz at 1080p on the cheap

Tom's Hardware | July 9, 2025, 3:48 p.m. | Original

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When searching for a high-refresh-rate gaming monitor, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by flashy 360 Hz to 480 Hz IPS and OLED monitors that cost between $500 and $1,000. But for people looking to hold the line on pricing, there’s an enticing deal on an ASRock 27-inch Phantom Gaming monitor that should easily fit into the budget of even the tightest penny pinchers. The monitor has a

Two Asus 27-inch TUF Gaming monitors drop to all-time low pricing below $200 – One is fast, the other is faster

Tom's Hardware | July 9, 2025, 2:29 p.m. | Original

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If you're still on the lookout for a budget-friendly gaming monitor, Amazon’s Prime Day deals roll into day two with the Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ. This 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor, originally priced at $279, is now available for an all-time low price of $199, representing a savings of approximately $80. Additionally, there is the TUF Gaming VG27AQ3

Samsung's premium Odyssey G8 QD-OLED is just $899 right now — Get 4K 240Hz performance for 31% less, $400 off

Tom's Hardware | July 9, 2025, 2:12 p.m. | Original

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Samsung's ultra high-end Odyssey G8 (G81SF) 27" 240Hz QD-OLED is 31% off for Prime Day, bringing a class-leading gaming experience down to $899.99 (was originally $1,299.99) .

The G81SF is one of Samsung's latest QD-OLED gaming monitors to reach the market. The panel takes on the

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