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Lees meerMarkets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles Demand for chips needed to make smartphones and PCs has dropped "like a rock" – but mostly in China, according to Zhao Haijun, the CEO of China's largest chip…
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Lees meerThe idea? To get investors muttering: DRAM, those gross margins are stable... Memory and storage maker Micron Technology has revealed a new business model intended to address the volatility in the memory market that has resulted in sharp swings in p…
Lees meerLess than 5% of users are spam accounts? Show us your working Elon Musk has hit the brakes on his proposed takeover of Twitter in light of the platform's insistence that spam accounts accounted for less than 5 percent of its daily active users.…
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Lees meerAs well as chip design licensing, 5G smartphones, cars ... who needs Nvi-whatchamacallit? With Arm looking to re-enter the public market at some point, the British chip designer is hoping to get would-be investors excited with figures that indicate …
Lees meerGuess you could call this Mercury Ryzen Here's a new data point that will rile Intel up: AMD now accounts for nearly 30 percent of x86 CPU market share, and the chip designer got there during an industry downturn.…
Lees meerLess demand will see prices fall, and gaming laptop sales rise – which is nice as the rest of the PC market has cooled Taiwanese hardware giant ASUSTeK says demand for GPU used to mine cryptocurrency is "disappearing" – and so is about ten percent o…
Lees meerOK includes an outage, plummeting cryptocurrencies, falling stock price Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has scrambled to alleviate fears that customers storing cryptocurrencies at the digital cash exchange will lose everything if the biz goes under.…
Lees meerIf your stock or crypto-coin holdings look like crap today, this might help you feel better SoftBank lost a lot of money over the past 12 months.…
Lees meerThat bit in Ghostbusters when they shut off the containment unit? That, but with social networks On Wednesday, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to undo a preliminary injunction that for the past few months has been blocking Texas's law …
Lees meerStartup aims to add more than 150 workers by the end of 2022 Cloud storage company Panzura has received an $80 million injection in a Series B funding round, which CEO Jill Stelfox says it'll use to build a "different" kind of storage company.…
Lees meerPlease season with pinches of salt as necessary Apple may ditch its exclusive Lightning port in favor of the more widely used USB-C for future iPhone models.…
Lees meerYour essential de-hyped guide to what the Chocolate Factory teased at developer shindig Google IO Google I/O, the ad biz's annual developer conference, returned to the Shoreline Amphitheater in California's Mountain View on Wednesday, for the first…
Lees meerRecords for revenue, gross margin in Q1 as others take a hit While some chipmakers have reported a hit to their revenue due to COVID-19 lockdowns in China and other effects, New York-based GlobalFoundries said its business stood strong in the face o…
Lees meerClassical internetworking and standards matter less, now that CDNs and private networks dominate traffic Analysis The internet has become smaller – the result of a necessary re-thinking of when and where to use the net's original architecture. But …
Lees meerSlips some extra grunt into Snapdragon X70 5G chipset before devices launch Qualcomm has updated its Snapdragon X70 5G chipset to extend range and balance the transmit power for better performance. It also claims the Snapdragon modem will be the fir…
Lees meerPlus: iXsystems' NAS OS has a new Linux-based sibling called SCALE BSD vendor iXsystems has released the latest version of its FreeBSD-derived Network Attached Storage (NAS) OS, TrueNAS 13.0.…
Lees meereVocore processor line aimed at high-performance, real-time compute applications MIPS is back, but this time the company is bringing processors to market based on the RISC-V open instruction set architecture, rather than the MIPS architecture the ch…
Lees meerBy 2030 we'll be shipping 1.2 billion cellular-module devices each year, says analyst 4G will continue to be the dominant cellular connectivity technology used by IoT devices until 2028, according to a report from Counterpoint Research.…
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