ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards hit with rootkit

Chinese-speaking hackers are using 2016 malware injected into firmware images for ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards to turn over PCs.

Sales will drop by 25 per cent

Asus and Gigabyte managers are looking at doom-laden projections for the motherboard industry through the rest of 2022.

Asus states across the board cuts

It is starting to look like the days of GPU prices being high due to shortages could be a thing of the past.

Nowhere near MSRP

Although the Radeon RX 6500 XT has been announced with a rather reasonable $199 MSRP, it appears that retailers/e-tailers have a slightly different idea and those could cost €300 in Europe.

Buildzoid dubs the stuff up “rather silly”

Buildzoid, who runs the YouTube channel 'Actually Hardcore Overclocking' says a “rather silly oversight” from ASUS could be causing peoples' $599.99 ROG Maximus Z690 Hero DDR5 motherboards to burn up.

Nine routers had 226 potential vulnerabilities

Insecurity experts tested nine popular routers made by Asus, AVM, D-Link, Netgear, Edimax, TP-Link, Synology, and Linksys, and found that they were packed with 226 potential vulnerabilities.

A dual-fan cooler with recognizable brown fans

Although it was spotted earlier, the Asus RTX 3070 that was created in cooperation with cooling expert Noctua has been leaked online, by none other than the Asus Vietnam Facebook group.

Now appearing on all models

Asus says that it is bringing OLED screens to all its new models as part of a cunning plan to make its laptops look different from everyone else in the market. 

Cool but pricey

ASUS and Qualcomm have teamed up to make a smartphone that shows off Snapdragon tech.

First gaming notebooks coming this month

During its Computex 2021 event, AMD has announced its new Advantage design framework initiative, a program that will help notebook makers to create the best possible gaming notebooks.