LG Display on esitellyt maailman ensimmäisen venyvän näytön, joka kykenee laajenemaan jopa 50 prosenttia. Uusi prototyyppi on 12 tuuman näyttö, joka venyy jopa 18 tuumaan ja tarjoaa samalla korkean 100 ppi:n (pikseliä tuumalla) tarkkuuden ja täyden RGB-värintoiston.
Protonäyttö esiteltiin viikonloppuna LG Science Parkissa Soulissa yli sadalle teollisuuden, akateemisen maailman ja tutkimuksen edustajalle. Venyviä näyttöjä pidetään näyttöteknologian tulevaisuuden muotona, koska ne voivat mukautua vapaasti eri muotoihin venyttämällä, taittamalla tai kiertämällä.
Näytön venyvyys on yli kaksinkertaistunut ensimmäisestä vuonna 2022 esitellystä prototyypistä, jolloin venyvyys oli 20 prosenttia. Tämä parannus avaa uusia mahdollisuuksia näytön suunnittelussa ja lisää teknologian kilpailukykyä kaupallistettaessa.
Näytössä käytetään mikro-LED-valolähdettä, jonka koko on enintään 40 mikrometriä.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Telefónica, one of the world’s largest carriers, plans to preinstall the Epic Games Store on every new compatible Android phone it sells, including Samsung’s
Reuters:
Forbes: Elon Musk’s net worth crossed $400B on December 12, boosted by Tesla stock and SpaceX’s valuation; Jeff Bezos has a $244B net worth, the second highest
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US teens aged 13 to 17 shows 73% use YouTube daily, 57% TikTok, 50% Instagram, and 20% Facebook; 17% use X daily, down from 23% in 2022 — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among U.S. teens; some say they’re on these sites almost constantly
Amid national concerns about technology’s impact on youth, many teens are as digitally connected as ever. Most teens use social media and have a smartphone, and nearly half say they’re online almost constantly, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 conducted Sept. 18-Oct. 10, 2024.
Overall, 73% of teens say they go on YouTube daily, making YouTube the most widely used and visited platform we asked about. This share includes 15% who describe their use as “almost constant.”
About six-in-ten visit TikTok daily. This includes 16% who report being on it almost constantly.
By household income
Access to a home computer or a tablet is most common among teens in high-income households.
Desktop or laptop computer: 93% of teens living in households whose annual income is $75,000 or more have access to a home computer. That share falls to about eight-in-ten among those whose annual household income is $30,000 to $74,999 (81%) or less than $30,000 (78%).
Tablet computer: About three-quarters of teens whose annual household income is $75,000 or more (73%) have access to a tablet at home, compared with 64% each among teens whose annual household income is $30,000 to $74,999 and those whose household income is less than $30,000.
Intel Foundry esitteli piirivalmistukseensa uuden materiaalin. Intel kuvaili lehdistötiedotteessaan sen olevan osa läpimurtoja, jotka vievät piirivalmistusteollisuutta kehittyneempään suuntaan.
”Subtraktiivinen” rutenium on metallisointimateriaali, jota voidaan käyttää piirivalmistuksessa. Intel suunnittelee ottavansa materiaalin tulevaisuudessa käyttöön piirivalmistuksessa.
Yhtiön uusi brändi ei ole vain pientä pintaremonttia, vaan perusta tuleville 25 vuodelle ja sen toivotaan auttavan kiinnittämään huomiota Firefoxin ohella myös yhtiön muihin projekteihin ja tavoitteisiin vapaamman ja turvallisemman internetin puolesta.
Dylan Martin / CRN:
Qualcomm says Snapdragon X-based PC return rates are “within industry norm”, after interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Holthaus claimed large percentage return rates
Qualcomm provided the statement in response to a claim made by interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus on Thursday that many retailers are seeing a large percentage of Arm PCs being returned due to software compatibility issues.
Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times:
The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project funded publicly, starting operations in 2030 — Communications network is EU’s most ambitious space project in a decade — Europe has launched its most ambitious space programme …
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Arm and Qualcomm’s chip licensing dispute heads to trial in Delaware, in a high-stakes battle set to last about a week over Qualcomm’s $1.4B Nuvia acquisition — Legal fight that started with a $1.4bn acquisition has severely strained companies’ relationship
Jack Ryan / Bloomberg:
Fastmarkets: the price of gallium, a metal used to make chips, rose to $595 per kilogram on December 13, the highest since 2011, after China restricted exports — – Metal has applications in semiconductors and TV screens — Prices assessed by Fastmarkets reached $595 per kilogram
Teknologiajätit Apple ja Samsung ovat kilpailleet älypuhelinmarkkinoiden ykkössijasta lähes 15 vuoden ajan. Vaikka Samsung piti pitkään hallussaan kärkipaikkaa, tammikuussa 2023 Apple kiilasi ohitse ja on siitä lähtien pitänyt paikkansa markkinoiden suurimpana älypuhelinvalmistajana.
Tuoreimmat tilastot Stocklytics.com-sivustolta kertovat Applen päättävän vuoden 2024 vakuuttavalla 27,7 prosentin markkinaosuudella, joka on 4,5 prosenttiyksikköä suurempi kuin Samsungin vastaava osuus.
Financial Times:
Kioxia’s shares rose 6%+ on its first day of trading in Tokyo, giving the chipmaker a ~$5.2B market cap; a group led by Bain had paid $18B for Kioxia in 2018 — Private equity group finally floats Japanese flash memory provider at a valuation far below what it paid in 2018
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
As the AI industry booms, non-AI startups that raised a Series A 18 months ago are likely facing challenges in raising a Series B, even with good revenue growth — Earlier this year, IVP general partner Tom Loverro, proclaimed that the post-pandemic downturn is over, and companies …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
After a rough year, Intel says its $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU, which received near-universal praise from reviewers, has already sold out in most retailers
Intel is having an incredibly rough year — but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth celebrating. While we haven’t managed to review it ourselves due to a fluke issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU launched to nigh-universal praise, has already sold out most everywhere, and Intel tells The Verge it’s working to ship new units every week.
“Demand for Arc B580 graphics cards is high and many retailers have sold through their initial inventory. We expect weekly inventory replenishments of the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition graphics card and are working with partners to ensure a steady availability of choices in the market,” Intel spokesperson Mark Anthony Ramirez tells The Verge.
Mind you, in some ways the B580 is a glass of ice water in GPU hell, as its primary competition — the RTX 4060 and AMD RX 7600 — utterly failed to impress last year, following years of GPU prices that were more inflated than inflation itself. (Linus Tech Tips called the $300 4060 a “wet fart of a GPU” but considers the B580 “great and affordable” now.)
While reviewers have showed the B580 doesn’t beat the 4060 and 7600 in every game, especially for gamers who still play at 1080p resolution, it does seem to pull ahead on average, the drivers seem more mature than Intel’s earlier attempts, and the lower price and generous 12GB of video RAM make it relatively easy to recommend.
If you can find one at $250, that is — which you probably can’t, because they’ve sold out so quickly.
Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
Intel announces the first updates to address Arrow Lake’s gaming performance issues, fixing four of the five root causes, and plans a final update for January — Time to test. — Intel announced that its first wave of updates to address the gaming performance issues plaguing the Arrow Lake processors is now available.
IDC:
Global shipments of wrist-worn wearables hit 139M units in the first nine months of 2024, down 1% YoY; China was the largest market with 45.8M units, up 20% YoY — , the global wrist-worn device market shipped 139.0 million units in the first three quarters of 2024, a year-over-year decline of 1.0% …
IDC: China Becomes the Largest Wrist-Worn Device Market, Leading Global Growth https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prAP52895124
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B — The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending.
The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending. In 2024, global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reached $127 billion across the App Store and Google Play, up 15.7% from the prior year. However, those increases were driven by Apple’s App Store, as Google Play spending declined, according to new data from app intelligence firm Appfigures.
Though spending was up, there was another worrying sign about the overall health of the app ecosystem. This year, global app downloads were down by 2.3%, compared with 2023, reaching nearly 110 billion. This downward trend was seen across both app stores, the data indicates.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen signs that the app ecosystem’s massive growth may be finally starting to level out. As the app economy matures, the more recent focus has been on extracting revenue from the apps consumers are already using via ongoing subscriptions, rather than driving them to download new apps or paid apps.
Of note, only 5% of apps worldwide offered subscriptions last year, but they accounted for 48% of the app revenue across both app stores, Appfigures found. In addition, the top 10 earning apps globally generated 13.7% of all consumer spending, up 1.2% from 12.5% in 2023.
Huawei on tuonut markkinoille uusia laitteita, jotka hyödyntävät NearLink-teknologiaa, mahdollistaen huomattavasti nopeamman, energiatehokkaamman ja luotettavamman viestinnän kuin perinteinen Bluetooth. NearLink, jota johtaa Kiinan NearLink Alliance -konsortio, on suunniteltu haastamaan vallitsevat lyhyen kantaman langattoman viestinnän standardit.
NearLink tarjoaa jopa 12 Mbps nopeuksia alhaisen virrankulutuksen tilassa ja 1,2 Gbps huipputasolla, kun Bluetoothin maksiminopeus on vain 2 Mbps. Lisäksi NearLinkin latenssi voi olla vain 20 mikrosekuntia, kun taas Bluetoothilla se vaihtelee 20–200 millisekunnin välillä.
Useat Huawein uudet tuotteet, kuten Mate 60 -sarjan älypuhelimet, FreeBuds Pro 3 -nappikuulokkeet ja M-Pencil -kynän kolmas sukupolvi, tukevat jo NearLink-teknologiaa. Esimerkiksi Huawei Pura 70 Pro ja Pro+ -mallit tukevat sekä Bluetoothia että NearLinkiä, mutta teknologian yleistyminen riippuu suurelta osin NearLink-tuotteiden laajemmasta saatavuudesta ja yhteensopivuudesta.
Will Judd / Eurogamer.net:
Sony details the PS5 Pro’s specs, including an AMD RDNA 2 GPU and ray tracing improvements, and announces a long-term machine learning partnership with AMD — Plus: what this all means for future PlayStation hardware. — When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro, it did so in a very different manner …
S.E. Smith / The Verge:
A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase all kinds of media; a Pew study says 38% of webpages accessible in 2013 are now gone — The internet is forever. But also, it isn’t. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?
New York Times:
Sources: the US’ proposed AI chip framework would block adversaries entirely, and give others quotas based on their US alignment, threatening Nvidia’s expansion — The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.
Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
Arm v. Qualcomm: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon called Arm’s Nuvia license cancellation and demand that Qualcomm destroy the IP after acquiring Nuvia “outrageous”
Qualcomm CEO Fires Back at Arm in Trial Over Licensing Dispute
Bloomberg:
Sony’s shares in Japan surged 50%+ from an August low to reach its new all-time high since 2000 last week, as investors are bullish on its gaming growth in 2025
According to a prominent analyst, Micron’s miss on Q3 earnings and guidance for the second quarter of next year might signal that the AI PC and smartphone supercycle isn’t happening. Most of the company’s woes stem from a weaker market than expected for memory products for PCs and smartphones, and multiple reports from other market analysis firms have pointed out that the AI PC ‘revolution’ simply isn’t happening. At least not yet.
In its latest financial report, the American memory manufacturer Micron reported Q3 revenue of $8.709 billion, somewhat below the $8.721 figure the market anticipated. Even worse, Micron’s guidance for the second quarter of 2025 was $7.9 billion instead of the $8.98 billion that Wall Street expected. At the time of writing, its stock is down over 16%.
Calling the miss and forecast a “big whiff,” semiconductor analyst Daniel Newman said in an X post that it’s not the “beginning of the end for the AI trade” and companies like Nvidia, which has grown to be one of the world’s biggest companies since AI chips took off earlier this year.
Although high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is set to become a big market for Micron, expected to grow from $16 billion in total addressable market value this year to $100 billion by 2030, Micron’s primary source of revenue today is making memory chips for PCs and smartphones.
“However, the core business is contracting as PC and smartphone shipments lag AND Micron is dealing with customer inventory that is selling off slowly leading to even lower booking/sell-through in this and the next quarter, “ Newman said. “Bad news is the AI PC and AI smartphone ‘supercycle’ has more or less been a bust.”
In 2024 and 2023, hopes were high that the PC industry would be supercharged by demand for AI PCs thanks to their new, AI-powered features. However, it seems that things didn’t shake out that way. One report by IDC Research in September said AI isn’t driving demand for AI PCs. Instead, it’s driven by the general desire to upgrade, as new chips with AI hardware also feature faster CPU and GPU cores.
In the first sign of changes to come after the formation of a new industry group, Intel has confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that it is no longer working on the x86S specification. The decision comes after Intel announced the formation of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, which brings together Intel, AMD, Google, and numerous other industry stalwarts to define the future of the x86 instruction set.
Intel originally announced its intentions to de-bloat the x86 instruction set by developing a simplified 64-bit mode-only x86S version, publishing a draft specification in May 2023, and then updating it to a 1.2 revision in June of this year. Now, the company says it has officially ended that initiative.
“We remain deeply committed to the x86 architecture, as demonstrated by the creation of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group in collaboration with AMD and other industry leaders. This initiative reinforces our dedication to securing a strong future for x86, building on decades of software compatibility. While we have pivoted away from the x86S initiative, our focus remains on driving innovation and collaboration within the x86 ecosystem.” – Intel spokesperson to Tom’s Hardware.
Back in May of 2023, Intel proposed a new 64-bit only “x86S” specification to streamline modern CPUs. The company wanted something to align with how most modern operating systems and apps including the likes of Windows 11 (which is 64-bit only) work. Intel reasoned that virtualization performance is currently strong enough to handle 16-bit or 32-bit scenarios.
However, after feedback and discussions with the recently formed x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, Intel has announced that it is killing off its x86S initiative. Intel confirmed it in a statement to Tom’s Hardware. Intel however did not disclose any specific reason behind it.
For those who may not have followed, the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group was created earlier this year in October “to shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation through a more unified set of instructions and architectural interfaces”. The consortium consists of Intel, AMD, as well as Microsoft, Google, HPE, Red Hat, and more.
Linus Torvalds is one of the luminaries of the group and interestingly, a few days back, he expressed concern, or rather annoyance, about the various x86-64 architecture levels which may be complicating things further rather than helping.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Näyttötekniikan läpimurto: 12-tuumainen venyy 18-tuumaiseksi
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16940-naeyttoetekniikan-laepimurto-12-tuumainen-venyy-18-tuumaiseksi
LG Display on esitellyt maailman ensimmäisen venyvän näytön, joka kykenee laajenemaan jopa 50 prosenttia. Uusi prototyyppi on 12 tuuman näyttö, joka venyy jopa 18 tuumaan ja tarjoaa samalla korkean 100 ppi:n (pikseliä tuumalla) tarkkuuden ja täyden RGB-värintoiston.
Protonäyttö esiteltiin viikonloppuna LG Science Parkissa Soulissa yli sadalle teollisuuden, akateemisen maailman ja tutkimuksen edustajalle. Venyviä näyttöjä pidetään näyttöteknologian tulevaisuuden muotona, koska ne voivat mukautua vapaasti eri muotoihin venyttämällä, taittamalla tai kiertämällä.
Näytön venyvyys on yli kaksinkertaistunut ensimmäisestä vuonna 2022 esitellystä prototyypistä, jolloin venyvyys oli 20 prosenttia. Tämä parannus avaa uusia mahdollisuuksia näytön suunnittelussa ja lisää teknologian kilpailukykyä kaupallistettaessa.
Näytössä käytetään mikro-LED-valolähdettä, jonka koko on enintään 40 mikrometriä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is now the first person to have a net worth surpassing $400 billion. https://trib.al/TfigID5
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Telefónica, one of the world’s largest carriers, plans to preinstall the Epic Games Store on every new compatible Android phone it sells, including Samsung’s
Epic’s dream is starting to come true — its store will be preinstalled on ‘millions’ of Android phones
/ Telefónica will bring the Epic Games Store to Samsung devices in the UK, Germany, Spain, and Latin America, among others.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24319206/epic-games-store-preinstall-telefonica-samsung-uk-europe-latin-america
Tomi Engdahl says:
Reuters:
Forbes: Elon Musk’s net worth crossed $400B on December 12, boosted by Tesla stock and SpaceX’s valuation; Jeff Bezos has a $244B net worth, the second highest
https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-net-worth-tops-400-bln-forbes-billionaires-list-shows-2024-12-12/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US teens aged 13 to 17 shows 73% use YouTube daily, 57% TikTok, 50% Instagram, and 20% Facebook; 17% use X daily, down from 23% in 2022 — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among U.S. teens; some say they’re on these sites almost constantly
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024
YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among U.S. teens; some say they’re on these sites almost constantly
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/12/12/teens-social-media-and-technology-2024/
Amid national concerns about technology’s impact on youth, many teens are as digitally connected as ever. Most teens use social media and have a smartphone, and nearly half say they’re online almost constantly, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 conducted Sept. 18-Oct. 10, 2024.
Overall, 73% of teens say they go on YouTube daily, making YouTube the most widely used and visited platform we asked about. This share includes 15% who describe their use as “almost constant.”
About six-in-ten visit TikTok daily. This includes 16% who report being on it almost constantly.
By household income
Access to a home computer or a tablet is most common among teens in high-income households.
Desktop or laptop computer: 93% of teens living in households whose annual income is $75,000 or more have access to a home computer. That share falls to about eight-in-ten among those whose annual household income is $30,000 to $74,999 (81%) or less than $30,000 (78%).
Tablet computer: About three-quarters of teens whose annual household income is $75,000 or more (73%) have access to a tablet at home, compared with 64% each among teens whose annual household income is $30,000 to $74,999 and those whose household income is less than $30,000.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://muropaketti.com/tietotekniikka/tietotekniikkauutiset/kiinalle-tulee-taas-kirittavaa-intel-ja-nvidia-ilmoittivat-loytaneensa-isoja-kehitysaskeleita-piirivalmistukseen/
Intel Foundry esitteli piirivalmistukseensa uuden materiaalin. Intel kuvaili lehdistötiedotteessaan sen olevan osa läpimurtoja, jotka vievät piirivalmistusteollisuutta kehittyneempään suuntaan.
”Subtraktiivinen” rutenium on metallisointimateriaali, jota voidaan käyttää piirivalmistuksessa. Intel suunnittelee ottavansa materiaalin tulevaisuudessa käyttöön piirivalmistuksessa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.cio.com/article/3620172/10-most-in-demand-enterprise-it-skills.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mozilla uudistaa brändiään rajusti
https://www.io-tech.fi/uutinen/mozilla-uudistaa-brandiaan-rajusti/
Yhtiön uusi brändi ei ole vain pientä pintaremonttia, vaan perusta tuleville 25 vuodelle ja sen toivotaan auttavan kiinnittämään huomiota Firefoxin ohella myös yhtiön muihin projekteihin ja tavoitteisiin vapaamman ja turvallisemman internetin puolesta.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/nothing-phone-3-beats-samsung-google-apple-ai_id165629#Echobox=1733662247
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-really-wants-you-to-set-firefox-as-default-windows-browser/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware
‘Forever unbrickable’ Wi-Fi 6 box from Banana Pi comes packaged or in kit form
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/openwrt_one_foss_wifi_router/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.xda-developers.com/open-source-tools-to-make-proxmox-even-better/
Tomi Engdahl says:
RHEL 9.5 debuts alongside AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Oracle updates
Plus, soon you’ll be able to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a supported option under WSL
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/rhel_95_now_on_wsl/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-proxmox-better-esxi/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://overclock3d.net/news/software/steam-sets-a-new-record-with-over-39-million-concurrent-players/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0ItQqGeU5gRK980S-fRiscM2cJqQgtUUAHdOso7D5RdlBp7VdpOV-IfZs_aem_VUlyvvb42wkmjKjUjjIvZg
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.coolaudio.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHLXLdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRBwdmQMdag-CxfGoZATZN2Ez9xJzpsq9lLv6YsURM9fsSz0luXu02WWjA_aem_cMNPzfobc0bCrojF9a0M1Q
Tomi Engdahl says:
Älysormuksen kehittämisessä on 2 suurta teknologista haastetta, kertoo Ouran teknologiajohtaja ja paljastaa, mikä työpaikalla saa sapen kiehumaan
Diplomi-insinööri Lauri Vuornos, aloitit viime syksynä älysormuksia kehittävän Ouran teknologiajohtajana. Mikä on vaikein teknologinen asia älysormuksen kehittämisessä?
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/alysormuksen-kehittamisessa-on-2-suurta-teknologista-haastetta-kertoo-ouran-teknologiajohtaja-ja-paljastaa-mika-tyopaikalla-saa-sapen-kiehumaan/c7d1e2ed-0980-4637-bf93-021ca647903c
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-monitor-review
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-companies-are-reportedly-reluctant-to-adopt-homegrown-chips-domestic-solutions-are-technologically-too-far-behind
Tomi Engdahl says:
Undeterred, Qualcomm believes Arm-based processors could power about 50% of client PCs in the coming years
Intel claims retailers are facing high return rates for Snapdragon PCs, Qualcomm denies it
Undeterred, Qualcomm believes Arm-based processors could power about 50% of client PCs in the coming years
https://www.techspot.com/news/105962-intel-claims-retailers-facing-high-return-rates-snapdragon.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ll8NWlKCph_B0vJ0gV6Uuo95pIESjnEdnAmOJqvtam4tLdsFGo5VtlVE_aem_tPwfcFVP01vbRb2ueaX7hw
Tomi Engdahl says:
Dylan Martin / CRN:
Qualcomm says Snapdragon X-based PC return rates are “within industry norm”, after interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Holthaus claimed large percentage return rates
Qualcomm: Return Rates For Snapdragon X PCs Are ‘Within Industry Norm’
By Dylan Martin
December 13, 2024, 3:50 PM EST
https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2024/qualcomm-return-rates-for-snapdragon-x-pcs-are-within-industry-norm
Qualcomm provided the statement in response to a claim made by interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus on Thursday that many retailers are seeing a large percentage of Arm PCs being returned due to software compatibility issues.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Government
US Updates a Science and Technology Pact With China to Reflect Growing Rivalry and Security Threats
The new agreement has a narrower scope and additional safeguards to minimize the risk to national security.
https://www.securityweek.com/us-updates-a-science-and-technology-pact-with-china-to-reflect-growing-rivalry-and-security-threats/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times:
The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project funded publicly, starting operations in 2030 — Communications network is EU’s most ambitious space project in a decade — Europe has launched its most ambitious space programme …
https://www.ft.com/content/8e75ed31-0c72-4160-b406-1ca6aa36a84f
Tomi Engdahl says:
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Arm and Qualcomm’s chip licensing dispute heads to trial in Delaware, in a high-stakes battle set to last about a week over Qualcomm’s $1.4B Nuvia acquisition — Legal fight that started with a $1.4bn acquisition has severely strained companies’ relationship
https://www.ft.com/content/fa569924-bbde-4c59-b8da-8dbab782a60a
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jack Ryan / Bloomberg:
Fastmarkets: the price of gallium, a metal used to make chips, rose to $595 per kilogram on December 13, the highest since 2011, after China restricted exports — – Metal has applications in semiconductors and TV screens — Prices assessed by Fastmarkets reached $595 per kilogram
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-13/gallium-rises-to-highest-since-2011-following-china-export-curbs
Tomi Engdahl says:
Apple ykkösenä älypuhelinmarkkinoilla
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16962-apple-ykkoesenae-aelypuhelinmarkkinoilla
Teknologiajätit Apple ja Samsung ovat kilpailleet älypuhelinmarkkinoiden ykkössijasta lähes 15 vuoden ajan. Vaikka Samsung piti pitkään hallussaan kärkipaikkaa, tammikuussa 2023 Apple kiilasi ohitse ja on siitä lähtien pitänyt paikkansa markkinoiden suurimpana älypuhelinvalmistajana.
Tuoreimmat tilastot Stocklytics.com-sivustolta kertovat Applen päättävän vuoden 2024 vakuuttavalla 27,7 prosentin markkinaosuudella, joka on 4,5 prosenttiyksikköä suurempi kuin Samsungin vastaava osuus.
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Financial Times:
Kioxia’s shares rose 6%+ on its first day of trading in Tokyo, giving the chipmaker a ~$5.2B market cap; a group led by Bain had paid $18B for Kioxia in 2018 — Private equity group finally floats Japanese flash memory provider at a valuation far below what it paid in 2018
Chipmaker Kioxia rises on debut at the end of Bain’s long road to IPO
https://www.ft.com/content/72ee21bf-2063-45ce-bfba-d9432a3d865c
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Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
As the AI industry booms, non-AI startups that raised a Series A 18 months ago are likely facing challenges in raising a Series B, even with good revenue growth — Earlier this year, IVP general partner Tom Loverro, proclaimed that the post-pandemic downturn is over, and companies …
AI boom masks fundraising struggles for non-AI startups
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/17/ai-boom-masks-fundraising-struggles-for-non-ai-startups/
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16971-uusi-hdmi-standardi-luvassa-jo-laehiaikoina
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
After a rough year, Intel says its $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU, which received near-universal praise from reviewers, has already sold out in most retailers
Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews / Intel says it expects to restock the GPU “weekly”.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/17/24323888/intel-arc-b580-sold-out-availability
Intel is having an incredibly rough year — but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth celebrating. While we haven’t managed to review it ourselves due to a fluke issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU launched to nigh-universal praise, has already sold out most everywhere, and Intel tells The Verge it’s working to ship new units every week.
“Demand for Arc B580 graphics cards is high and many retailers have sold through their initial inventory. We expect weekly inventory replenishments of the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition graphics card and are working with partners to ensure a steady availability of choices in the market,” Intel spokesperson Mark Anthony Ramirez tells The Verge.
Mind you, in some ways the B580 is a glass of ice water in GPU hell, as its primary competition — the RTX 4060 and AMD RX 7600 — utterly failed to impress last year, following years of GPU prices that were more inflated than inflation itself. (Linus Tech Tips called the $300 4060 a “wet fart of a GPU” but considers the B580 “great and affordable” now.)
While reviewers have showed the B580 doesn’t beat the 4060 and 7600 in every game, especially for gamers who still play at 1080p resolution, it does seem to pull ahead on average, the drivers seem more mature than Intel’s earlier attempts, and the lower price and generous 12GB of video RAM make it relatively easy to recommend.
If you can find one at $250, that is — which you probably can’t, because they’ve sold out so quickly.
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Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
Intel announces the first updates to address Arrow Lake’s gaming performance issues, fixing four of the five root causes, and plans a final update for January — Time to test. — Intel announced that its first wave of updates to address the gaming performance issues plaguing the Arrow Lake processors is now available.
Intel announces Arrow Lake performance fix is now available — another update coming next month
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intels-arrow-lake-performance-fix-is-now-available-another-update-coming-next-month
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IDC:
Global shipments of wrist-worn wearables hit 139M units in the first nine months of 2024, down 1% YoY; China was the largest market with 45.8M units, up 20% YoY — , the global wrist-worn device market shipped 139.0 million units in the first three quarters of 2024, a year-over-year decline of 1.0% …
IDC: China Becomes the Largest Wrist-Worn Device Market, Leading Global Growth
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prAP52895124
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B — The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending.
App downloads decline 2.3% in 2024, but consumer spending grows to $127B
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/18/app-downloads-decline-2-3-in-2024-but-consumer-spending-grows-to-127b/
The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending. In 2024, global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reached $127 billion across the App Store and Google Play, up 15.7% from the prior year. However, those increases were driven by Apple’s App Store, as Google Play spending declined, according to new data from app intelligence firm Appfigures.
Though spending was up, there was another worrying sign about the overall health of the app ecosystem. This year, global app downloads were down by 2.3%, compared with 2023, reaching nearly 110 billion. This downward trend was seen across both app stores, the data indicates.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen signs that the app ecosystem’s massive growth may be finally starting to level out. As the app economy matures, the more recent focus has been on extracting revenue from the apps consumers are already using via ongoing subscriptions, rather than driving them to download new apps or paid apps.
Of note, only 5% of apps worldwide offered subscriptions last year, but they accounted for 48% of the app revenue across both app stores, Appfigures found. In addition, the top 10 earning apps globally generated 13.7% of all consumer spending, up 1.2% from 12.5% in 2023.
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Onko Kiina hylkäämässä Bluetoothia?
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16977-onko-kiina-hylkaeaemaessae-bluetoothia
Huawei on tuonut markkinoille uusia laitteita, jotka hyödyntävät NearLink-teknologiaa, mahdollistaen huomattavasti nopeamman, energiatehokkaamman ja luotettavamman viestinnän kuin perinteinen Bluetooth. NearLink, jota johtaa Kiinan NearLink Alliance -konsortio, on suunniteltu haastamaan vallitsevat lyhyen kantaman langattoman viestinnän standardit.
NearLink tarjoaa jopa 12 Mbps nopeuksia alhaisen virrankulutuksen tilassa ja 1,2 Gbps huipputasolla, kun Bluetoothin maksiminopeus on vain 2 Mbps. Lisäksi NearLinkin latenssi voi olla vain 20 mikrosekuntia, kun taas Bluetoothilla se vaihtelee 20–200 millisekunnin välillä.
Useat Huawein uudet tuotteet, kuten Mate 60 -sarjan älypuhelimet, FreeBuds Pro 3 -nappikuulokkeet ja M-Pencil -kynän kolmas sukupolvi, tukevat jo NearLink-teknologiaa. Esimerkiksi Huawei Pura 70 Pro ja Pro+ -mallit tukevat sekä Bluetoothia että NearLinkiä, mutta teknologian yleistyminen riippuu suurelta osin NearLink-tuotteiden laajemmasta saatavuudesta ja yhteensopivuudesta.
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Will Judd / Eurogamer.net:
Sony details the PS5 Pro’s specs, including an AMD RDNA 2 GPU and ray tracing improvements, and announces a long-term machine learning partnership with AMD — Plus: what this all means for future PlayStation hardware. — When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro, it did so in a very different manner …
PS5 Pro deep dive reaction: GPU and RT improvements, PSSR and Sony’s new AMD Amethyst partnership
https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-ps5-pro-deep-dive
Plus: what this all means for future PlayStation hardware.
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S.E. Smith / The Verge:
A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase all kinds of media; a Pew study says 38% of webpages accessible in 2013 are now gone — The internet is forever. But also, it isn’t. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?
How to disappear completely
The internet is forever. But also, it isn’t. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?
https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture
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New York Times:
Sources: the US’ proposed AI chip framework would block adversaries entirely, and give others quotas based on their US alignment, threatening Nvidia’s expansion — The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/technology/nvidia-chip-sales-us-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik4.DX1n.j-5igq-ZwMaO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
Arm v. Qualcomm: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon called Arm’s Nuvia license cancellation and demand that Qualcomm destroy the IP after acquiring Nuvia “outrageous”
Qualcomm CEO Fires Back at Arm in Trial Over Licensing Dispute
Tech firms are sparring in weeklong jury trial in Delaware
Closing arguments are expected Thursday in federal court
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-19/qualcomm-ceo-fires-back-at-arm-in-trial-over-licensing-dispute
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Bloomberg:
Sony’s shares in Japan surged 50%+ from an August low to reach its new all-time high since 2000 last week, as investors are bullish on its gaming growth in 2025
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-20/sony-s-record-climb-makes-investors-more-bullish-on-gaming-boom
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AI PC revolution appears dead on arrival — ‘supercycle’ for AI PCs and smartphones is a bust, analyst says
AI PC revolution appears dead on arrival — ‘supercycle’ for AI PCs and smartphones is a bust, analyst says
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-pc-revolution-appears-dead-on-arrival-supercycle-for-ai-pcs-and-smartphones-is-a-bust-analyst-says-as-micron-forecasts-poor-q2?utm_content=tomsguide&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR09NLwIiWMbMx3s5JN81HF-WTimuEcfh0u7MpBuskuZ9FIUrYdGWtvOTYs_aem_klztGLU4um5O_cCv2GXq8g
Not great news for the AI industry.
According to a prominent analyst, Micron’s miss on Q3 earnings and guidance for the second quarter of next year might signal that the AI PC and smartphone supercycle isn’t happening. Most of the company’s woes stem from a weaker market than expected for memory products for PCs and smartphones, and multiple reports from other market analysis firms have pointed out that the AI PC ‘revolution’ simply isn’t happening. At least not yet.
In its latest financial report, the American memory manufacturer Micron reported Q3 revenue of $8.709 billion, somewhat below the $8.721 figure the market anticipated. Even worse, Micron’s guidance for the second quarter of 2025 was $7.9 billion instead of the $8.98 billion that Wall Street expected. At the time of writing, its stock is down over 16%.
Calling the miss and forecast a “big whiff,” semiconductor analyst Daniel Newman said in an X post that it’s not the “beginning of the end for the AI trade” and companies like Nvidia, which has grown to be one of the world’s biggest companies since AI chips took off earlier this year.
Although high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is set to become a big market for Micron, expected to grow from $16 billion in total addressable market value this year to $100 billion by 2030, Micron’s primary source of revenue today is making memory chips for PCs and smartphones.
“However, the core business is contracting as PC and smartphone shipments lag AND Micron is dealing with customer inventory that is selling off slowly leading to even lower booking/sell-through in this and the next quarter, “ Newman said. “Bad news is the AI PC and AI smartphone ‘supercycle’ has more or less been a bust.”
In 2024 and 2023, hopes were high that the PC industry would be supercharged by demand for AI PCs thanks to their new, AI-powered features. However, it seems that things didn’t shake out that way. One report by IDC Research in September said AI isn’t driving demand for AI PCs. Instead, it’s driven by the general desire to upgrade, as new chips with AI hardware also feature faster CPU and GPU cores.
People don’t buy AI PCs because of AI — report shows the need for upgrades drives AI PC adoption
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/people-dont-buy-ai-pcs-because-of-ai-report-shows-the-need-for-upgrades-drives-ai-pc-adoption
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Intel terminates x86S initiative — unilateral quest to de-bloat x86 instruction set comes to an end
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-terminates-x86s-initiative-unilateral-quest-to-de-bloat-x86-instruction-set-comes-to-an-end
A pivot here, a pivot there.
In the first sign of changes to come after the formation of a new industry group, Intel has confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that it is no longer working on the x86S specification. The decision comes after Intel announced the formation of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, which brings together Intel, AMD, Google, and numerous other industry stalwarts to define the future of the x86 instruction set.
Intel originally announced its intentions to de-bloat the x86 instruction set by developing a simplified 64-bit mode-only x86S version, publishing a draft specification in May 2023, and then updating it to a 1.2 revision in June of this year. Now, the company says it has officially ended that initiative.
“We remain deeply committed to the x86 architecture, as demonstrated by the creation of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group in collaboration with AMD and other industry leaders. This initiative reinforces our dedication to securing a strong future for x86, building on decades of software compatibility. While we have pivoted away from the x86S initiative, our focus remains on driving innovation and collaboration within the x86 ecosystem.” – Intel spokesperson to Tom’s Hardware.
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Intel kills 64-bit only x86S designed around modern Windows and other OS
https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-kills-64-bit-only-x86s-designed-around-modern-windows-and-other-os/
Back in May of 2023, Intel proposed a new 64-bit only “x86S” specification to streamline modern CPUs. The company wanted something to align with how most modern operating systems and apps including the likes of Windows 11 (which is 64-bit only) work. Intel reasoned that virtualization performance is currently strong enough to handle 16-bit or 32-bit scenarios.
However, after feedback and discussions with the recently formed x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, Intel has announced that it is killing off its x86S initiative. Intel confirmed it in a statement to Tom’s Hardware. Intel however did not disclose any specific reason behind it.
For those who may not have followed, the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group was created earlier this year in October “to shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation through a more unified set of instructions and architectural interfaces”. The consortium consists of Intel, AMD, as well as Microsoft, Google, HPE, Red Hat, and more.
Linus Torvalds is one of the luminaries of the group and interestingly, a few days back, he expressed concern, or rather annoyance, about the various x86-64 architecture levels which may be complicating things further rather than helping.
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It-jätti perui yllättäen 700 miljoonan dollarin diilin – ”jotain, mitä emme ole kuulleet pitkään aikaan”
Suvi Korhonen20.12.202412:31|päivitetty20.12.202416:34TekoälyPalvelimetDigitalous
Tekoälybuumi paisuttaa laitetoimittajien tilauskirjoja. On epätavallista, että toimittaja purkaa sopimuksen.
https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/it-jatti-perui-yllattaen-700-miljoonan-dollarin-diilin-jotain-mita-emme-ole-kuulleet-pitkaan-aikaan/f0e7fdfa-7f15-43e0-957c-6ad808fc2674
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Mighty HAMR – Seagate launches their first 32TB Hard Drive
https://overclock3d.net/news/storage/mighty-hamr-seagate-launches-their-first-32tb-hard-drive/
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https://www.techspot.com/news/106030-wireless-mouse-doubles-docking-station-offering-hdmi-usb.html
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https://www.pcgamer.com/games/only-15-percent-of-all-steam-users-time-was-spent-playing-games-released-in-2024/
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2461415-ultra-thin-diamond-wafers-for-electronics-made-using-sticky-tape/#Echobox=1734635691
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Rapidus is first Japanese company to install ASML’s cutting-edge EUV machine — chipmaking tool for 2nm chips expected to be operational in early 2025
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/rapidus-is-first-japanese-company-to-install-asmls-cutting-edge-euv-machine-chipmaking-tool-for-2nm-chips-expected-to-be-operational-this-year
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.techspot.com/bestof/cpu-value-24-25/