Here is collection of some predictions for year 2023. This is a collection of links to prediction articles followed by a short quote or quotes of what I see the main points in them.
Ennuste vuodelle 2023: Ongelmat helpottavat
“After a couple of exceptional years, the electronics market, challenged by the pandemic and pent-up demand, has signs of a calmer ride on the horizon. Mouser’s Mark Burr-Lonnon predicts slower, but more predictable growth”
“According to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, the global semiconductor market will grow by 13.9 percent in 2022 and continue to grow by 4.6 percent in 2023. While these statistics show that global demand for semiconductors is slowing, they still show steady growth in all key regions of the world as the electronics industry begins to settle into a more manageable state of equilibrium.”
AMD, Intel, and Nvidia Reportedly Slash Orders with TSMC
“Large customers revise orders to TSMC due to the economy slowdown.”
“According to the report, virtually all TSMC clients will experience a downturn and have to cut orders, so TSMC’s utilization will decline significantly in Q1 2023. For example, the utilization rate of TSMC’s N7-capable lines (7nm, 6nm-class technologies) will decline to around 50% in early 2023. Furthermore, even TSMC’s N5/N4-capable lines will be underutilized”
Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2023
“Big layoffs at Meta, Amazon, Snap and others? A global crypto fraud set in the Bahamas? Elon Musk buying and running Twitter? Look, not even Nostradamus could have seen all that coming.”
“The Metaverse, Now More Than Just Meta. For the last two years, we’ve said this is the year for virtual and augmented reality. But in 2023 we’re confident: headsets that give you a choice of VR (where you’re in a virtual world) and AR (where the virtual is overlaid in your real world) are coming. And they won’t just be from Meta, current holder of 90% of the VR market, according to research firm IDC.”
“Tech companies and their investors are grappling with the industry’s biggest downturn since at least 2008. The result is layoffs and hiring freezes at companies large and small. The PC and chip industries in particular have been clobbered by the biggest drop in sales in more than two decades. And while many survivors of past tech downturns preach that cuts should be deep, fast and early, it appears that the pain for tech workers will continue into 2023.”
“Account moochers, beware: The Netflix password crackdown is coming in early 2023. Netflix is the first streamer with an enforcement policy.”
“China and the U.S. are so interdependent—for manufacturing of smartphones and other electronics, for EV batteries and solar panels, for raw materials and intellectual property—it seems impossible they could go their separate ways with their own parallel supply chains and production bases. Yet it’s happening.”
“Artificial Intelligence Finds Real Use”
“Smart Home Gets Easier-ish”
“European Union legislation is changing Apple’s smartphones.”
Digipelaaminen ja e-pelimediat entistä suositumpia – kännykkäpelaaminen ei kasva enää
“Digital gaming and the consumption of game-related media content is increasingly popular, according to the Gamer Barometer 2022 study conducted at the University of Tampere. An increasing proportion of Finns play digital games at least occasionally, but the number of active mobile players is no longer growing at the previous pace.
Active mobile gaming has for the first time in the history of Gamer Barometers turned into a slight decrease, but still 59 percent of Finns still occasionally play mobile games.”
Xiaomin uusin sisältää tekniikkaa, jota ei ole vielä edes standardoitu
“Wi-Fi 7 support is of course interesting, when the IEEE standard is apparently not being completed until around 2024. Next year, however, a number of Wi-Fi 7-compatible smartphones will be introduced to the market. Xiaomi’s 13 Pro will probably be the first of them. Its arrival in Finland and prices will be revealed later.”
The tech IPO market collapsed in 2022, and next year doesn’t look much better
3 views: Predicting 2023’s key startup themes
“Anna Heim: The rise of API-first startups will continue in 2023
I am convinced that API-first will be a major trend in 2023, with this approach being both more widespread than it was previously, as well as more successful than less API-heavy options.
That APIs are on the rise isn’t exactly new — but API-first startups are a subgroup in this world, and one that is enjoying tailwinds.”
“The software company Tiobe measures the popularity of programming languages with its famous index, which measures search engine searches. Changes on the list happen slowly, but in December something happened right at the top of the list. C++ became the third most popular language over Java.”
“It’s not a trivial change, as C++ overtook Java for the first time in history. The top of the list is unchanged. Python and C are clearly in a class of their own.”
Sanna Marin: EU:n pitää katkaista teknologinen riippuvuus Kiinasta
“In an interview with Slush CEO Eerika Savolainen, Marin demanded that Europe break its technological dependence on China.
- We cannot depend on China. Economic relations should not be severed, but we cannot be in a position where an authoritarian country operating with a different logic is able to blackmail us, Marin said.
- I am afraid that we will make the same mistake with technology and digitality as with energy. We thought that a close economic relationship would prevent war, but we were wrong.”
Kyberturvan ammattilaisista on huutava pula
“There is an acute shortage of cyber security professionals. There is an estimated global shortage of three million professionals.”
Innovators 2023
These are some of the innovators and leaders in the electronics technology space.
Ennuste vuodelle 2023: Ongelmat helpottavat
“the demand for smarter and more networked products and systems has also spread to business-to-business sectors, where digitization and the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution have begun to take over the sector. For example, in manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), characterized by interconnected sensors, communication/data transfer, and advanced data analytics, has transformed the efficiency of production processes in the factory. The IIoT depends on highly advanced integrated circuits that provide intelligence for sensing, measurement and monitoring, power management, control and communication.”
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Paul Kunert / The Register:
IDC says global used and refurbished handset sales rose 11.5% YoY to 282M in 2022 and forecasts a jump to 413.3M in 2026 after a 10.3% compound annual growth
Second-hand and refurbished phone market takes flight amid inflation hike
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Who needs shiny new blowers when there’s bills to pay and kids to feed? Answer: fewer and fewer folk
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/10/idc_secondhand_phones_sales_bright_spot_in_crappy_phone_market/
More and more cash-strapped people are opting to buy second hand and refurbished handsets in these tougher economic times with sales of used and refurbished devices estimated to have passed 282 million in 2022.
The unit growth for those 12 months is some 11.5 percent higher than the prior year, and IDC number-crunchers have calculated compound annual growth of 10.3 percent until 2026 when shipments are forecast to reach 413.3 million.
Anthony Scarsella, research manager with IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Phone Tracker, said the used market grew off the back of a 6.1 percent rebound in sales of new phones in 2021.
“Used devices demonstrate more resilience to market inhibitors than new smartphone sales as consumer appetite remains elevated in many regions,” he said.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14455-myoehaestynyt-neljaennen-polven-xeon-on-intelin-odotettu-vastaisku
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Reuters:
TSMC reports Q4 revenue up 26.7% YoY to $19.93B and net income up 78% YoY to $9.72B, beating estimates of ~$9.5B, even as the chip industry downturn continues — Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) reported a forecast-beating 78% rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, as strong sales …
TSMC cuts 2023 capex after record Q4 as chip demand weakens
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-q4-profit-up-78-beats-market-expectations-2023-01-12/
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces 365 Basic for $1.99 per month, replacing the 100GB OneDrive storage option, rolling out globally on January 30 with ad-free Outlook and more
Microsoft 365 Basic is a new $1.99 a month subscription with 100GB of storage and more / Microsoft 365 Basic launches later this month and is designed to replace the 100GB OneDrive storage option with some extra features on top.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23549800/microsoft-365-basic-cloud-storage-office-price-release-date-features
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Data.ai: in 2022, global mobile app spending fell 2% YoY to $167B, downloads grew 11% YoY to 255B, game spending fell 5% YoY, and non-game spending grew 6% YoY
The app economy slowed for the first time in 2022, with consumer spend down 2% to $167 billion
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/11/the-app-economy-slowed-for-the-first-time-in-2022-with-consumer-spend-down-2-to-167-billion/
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A Glimpse into Green Energy’s Future at electronica 2022
Jan. 12, 2023
Future Electronics waved the banner of “empowering a greener future” at this year’s electronica trade fair, highlighting different technologies and products for renewable energy, power efficiency, and other green alternatives.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/power-management/video/21256982/electronic-design-talking-about-green-energy-at-electronica-2022?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230105029&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/09/5-cloud-trends-to-track-in-2023/
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/09/microsoft-acquires-fungible-a-maker-of-data-processing-units-to-bolster-azure/
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A big CES 2023 trend: All battery power, everywhere, all the time
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/07/batteries-batteries-everywhere/
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A chip design that changes everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
Computer chip designs are expensive and hard to license. That’s all about to change thanks to the popular open standard known as RISC-V.
By Sophia Chenarchive page
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1064876/riscv-computer-chips-10-breakthough-technologies-2023/
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Visualizing the Changing World Population, by Country
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualizing-the-changing-world-population-by-country/
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Teknologiatrendit 2023
https://www.dna.fi/yrityksille/teknologiatrendit2023
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Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet
Need a New Year’s resolution? How about stop paying for memory you don’t need
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/02/nonbinary_ddr5_is_finally_coming/
We’re all used to dealing with system memory in neat factors of eight. As capacity goes up, it follows a predictable binary scale doubling from 8GB to 16GB to 32GB and so on. But with the introduction of DDR5 and non-binary memory in the datacenter, all of that’s changing.
Instead of jumping straight from a 32GB DIMM to a 64GB one, DDR5, for the first time, allows for half steps in memory density. You can now have DIMMs with 24GB, 48GB, 96GB, or more in capacity.
The added flexibility offered by these DIMMs could end up driving down system costs, as customers are no longer forced to buy more memory than they need just to keep their workloads happy.
What the heck is non-binary memory?
Non-binary memory isn’t actually all that special. What makes non-binary memory different from standard DDR5 comes down to the chips used to make the DIMMs.
Instead of the 16Gb — that’s gigabit — modules found on most DDR5 memory today, non-binary DIMMs use 24Gb DRAM chips. Take 20 of these chips and bake them onto a DIMM, and you’re left with 48GB of usable memory after you take into account ECC and metadata storage.
According to Brian Drake, senior business development manager at Micron, you can usually get to around 96GB of memory on a DIMM before you’re usually forced to resort to advanced packaging techniques.
Using through-silicon via (TSV) or dual-die packaging, DRAM memory vendors can achieve much higher densities. Using Samsung’s eight-layer TSV process, for example, the chipmaker could achieve densities as high as 24GB per DRAM module for 768GB per DIMM.
To date, all of the major memory vendors, including Samsung, SK-Hynix, and Micron, have announced 24Gb modules for use in non-binary DIMMs
As our sister site The Next Platform reported earlier this year, memory can account for as much as 14 percent of a server’s cost. And in the cloud, some industry pundits put that number closer to 50 percent.
“Doubling of DRAM capacity — 32GB to 64GB to 128GB — now produces large steps in cost. The cost per bit is fairly constant, therefore, if you keep doubling, the cost increments becomes prohibitively expensive,” Lam explained. “Going from 32GB to 48GB to 64GB and 96GB offers gentler price increments.”
What about CXL?
Of course non-binary memory isn’t the only way to get around the memory-core ratio problem.
“Technologies such as non-binary capacities are helpful, but so is the move to CXL memory — shared system memory — and on-chip high-bandwidth memory,” Lam said.
With the launch of AMD’s Epyc 4 processors last fall and Intel’s upcoming Sapphire Rapids processors next month, customers will soon have another option for adding memory capacity and bandwidth to their systems. Samsung and Astera Labs have both shown off memory-expansion modules, and Marvell plans to offer controllers for similar products in the future.
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Lowe’s to sell power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen, as retailers take increasingly desperate measures to prevent theft
https://www.businessinsider.com/lowes-plans-stop-theft-power-tools-organized-crime-with-blockchain-system-2023?amp
Lowe’s is combining RFID and blockchain technologies to ensure stolen products are rendered inoperable.
The move comes as theft has ballooned into a nearly $100 billion problem for the retail industry.
Home Depot instituted a similar initiative in 2021 to sell power tools with point-of-sale activation.
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If you’ve ever upgraded a laptop’s memory, you need to read this story — you’ll need to buy an entirely new memory module to do so.
CAMM: The future of laptop memory has arrived
JEDEC has a SO-DIMM replacement in the works.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1473126/camm-the-future-of-laptop-memory-has-arrived.html
Goodbye, SO-DIMM: Memory overseer JEDEC will formally adopt the “CAMM Common Spec” as the next RAM module standard for laptops.
JEDEC, the memory group that homologates RAM standards, is in the process of hammering out the new spec to replace the basic SO-DIMMs that have been in use for 25 years, according to JEDEC committee member, and Dell Senior Distinguished Engineer Tom Schnell.
Schnell actually created the original CAMM—or Compression Attached Memory Module—design for Dell last year. JEDEC’s CAMM standard will be based on that CAMM design but is likely to be somewhat different as companies hammer it out.
While the adoption of new hardware standards can be fraught, with hand-wringing, foot-dragging, and all the friction of a negotiation among co-workers over where to get lunch, JEDEC seems to have managed it fairly easily.
“We have unanimous approval of the 0.5 spec,” Schnell told PCWorld. Schnell said JEDEC is targeting the second half of the 2023 to finalize the 1.0 spec, with CAMM-based systems out by next year.
Who are the companies that voted for it? Schnell can’t say, as that’s up to each member to reveal, but group covers the range of suppliers, from SoC, to connectors, to OEMs, and all unanimously voted to adopt the CAMM Common Spec, with no dissenters. There are currently 332 companies listed in JEDEC, from Apple to ZTE, each involved in different aspects of memory in different industries.
For those who haven’t followed it, Dell introduced its CAMM design in April 2022 with the aim of replacing the decades old SO-DIMM design that has been used in most gaming and workstation laptops up to now. CAMM’s main appeal is that it enables higher memory density while also scaling to ever higher clock speeds.
Some of the motivation for expediency likely comes from the fast-approaching “brick wall” facing laptops when SO-DIMMs hit at DDR5/6400.
Schnell said the CAMM spec is far from finalized, but the first JEDEC CAMM modules should take over right where SO-DIMM ends at 6400.
With CAMM being hammered out now, Schnell did lay out some possible paths for CAMM as it replaces SO-DIMM. DDR6 is an obvious road, he said, but CAMM even enables the possibility of LPDDR6 on a replaceable module.
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Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply
Recent shortages and fears of China’s ambitions to dominate the industry have led to a frenetic effort to rev up U.S. production
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chips-semiconductors-manufacturing-china-taiwan-11673650917?mod=djemalertNEWS
Only in the past two years has the U.S. fully grasped that semiconductors are now as central to modern economies as oil.
In the digitizing world, power tools commonly come with Bluetooth chips that track their locations. Appliances have added chips to manage electricity use. In 2021, the average car contained about 1,200 chips worth $600, twice as many as in 2010.
The supply-chain crunch that created a chip shortage brought the lesson home. Auto makers lost $210 billion of sales last year because of missing chips, according to consulting firm AlixPartners. Competition with China has stoked concerns that it could dominate key chip sectors, for either civilian or military uses, or even block U.S. access to components.
Now the government and companies are spending billions on a frenetic effort to build up domestic manufacturing and safeguard the supply of chips. Since 2020, semiconductor companies have proposed more than 40 projects across the country worth nearly $200 billion that would create 40,000 jobs, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
It’s a big bet on an industry that is defining the contours of international economic competition and determining countries’ political, technological and military advantage.
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Before FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the Bahamas synonymous with the crypto crash, the country was known as a pioneer of digital fiat.
Taiwan Is Still Semiconductor Leader as Chip Exports Rise Again
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-15/taiwan-is-still-semiconductor-leader-as-chip-exports-rise-again
Overseas shipments of IC chips increase 18.4% in 2022
Taiwan is ‘irreplaceable’ in short term for chips: Barclays
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Energy, Chips, Taiwan: Flashpoints for 2023 in a Fractured World
https://www.bloomberg.com/europe
Energy, Chips, Taiwan: Flashpoints for 2023 in a Fractured World
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-16/five-global-issues-to-watch-in-2023-chip-shortage-energy-china-taiwan?srnd=premium-europe&leadSource=uverify%20wall
Business chiefs gathered in Davos are weighing new risks in a global economy where great-power politics loom large and governments are much readier to intervene
A new age of great-power rivalry is redrawing the map of the world economy and forcing business chiefs to navigate around a growing number of global flashpoints.
With a hot war raging in Europe and a cold one escalating between the US and China, the rest of the world is under pressure to pick sides. Political leaders are imposing new economic priorities, as they battle to avert shortfalls of vital commodities — from natural gas to semiconductors — and use the ones they control as leverage.
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Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
How Apple’s supply chain is leaving China: moving some iPad and MacBook production to Foxconn’s Vietnam plants, expanded iPhone production in India, and more
Tech war: Apple looks to India, Vietnam as iPhone maker’s supply chain comes under the spotlight in US-China decoupling
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3206759/tech-war-apple-looks-india-vietnam-iphone-makers-supply-chain-comes-under-spotlight-us-china
Apple reportedly cut back on orders citing weakening demand in potential blow to its Chinese suppliers that are heavily dependent on the US giant
Analysts have lowered their shipment predictions across a range of Apple products
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Touchscreen Macs will help Apple further unify its software and services, keep up with a touch-first generation, and pick up a bigger piece of the PC market
Apple Needs Touch-Based Macs to Unify Apps and Keep Users Happy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-01-15/why-is-apple-finally-working-on-macs-with-touch-screens-2025-oled-macbook-pro-lcxhohiv
Apple’s upcoming move to Macs with touch screens is about the future of its user base. Also: The company kicks its in-house technology plans into high gear, working on new wireless chips and its first microLED displays. In other news, Tim Cook takes a 40% pay cut and the heir apparent at Apple’s services division is mysteriously out.
Last week in Power On: Apple will talk up its mixed-reality headset in 2023 but not much else.
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Morgan Meaker / Wired:
Europe’s rapid delivery market has consolidated down to three companies: Getir, the largest player that operates in seven European countries, Flink, and Gopuff
https://www.wired.com/story/getir-europe-delivery-wars/
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14466-st-tuo-32-bittiset-8-bittisten-tilalle
STMicroelectronics on laajentanut suositun 32-bittisen STM32-mikro-ohjainperhettään tähän asti edullisimmilla ohjaimilla. STM32C0 on siinä mielessä merkityksellinen piiriperhe, että sillä voidaan korvata vanhoja 8-bittisiä ohjaimia monissa sulautetuissa sovelluksissa.
STM32-ohjainpiirejä käytetään miljardeissa älykkäissä teollisuus-, lääketieteen ja kuluttajatuotteissa maailmanlaajuisesti. Uusi STM32C0-perhe on tarkoitettu kodinkoneisiin, teollisuuspumppuihin, tuulettimiin, palovaroittimiin, ja muihin yksinkertaisempiin laitteisiin, joissa tyypillisesti käytetään yksinkertaisempia 8- ja 16-bittisiä mikro-ohjaimia.
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https://hackaday.com/2023/01/15/stadia-says-goodbye-with-bluetooth-and-crap-game/
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PC-myynnistä suli lähes kolmannes
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14469-pc-myynnistae-suli-laehes-kolmannes
Korona kiihdytti tietokonemyyntiä, mutta tilanteen muututtua normaalimmaksi PC:n jo ennen koronaa alkanut luisu jatkui. Gartnerin mukaan PC-myynti kutistui vuoden 2022 viimeisellä neljänneksellä 28,5 prosenttia.
Maailmanlaajuiset PC-toimitukset olivat loka-joulukuussa 65,3 miljoonaa konetta. Pudotus oli suurin neljännesvuosittainen toimitusten lasku sen jälkeen, kun Gartner aloitti PC-markkinoiden seuraamisen 1990-luvun puolivälissä.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14470-ni-on-kaupan
NI eli kesään 2020 asti nimellä National Instruments tunnettu amerikkalainen mittauksen, testauksen ja instrumentoinnin erikoisyritys on myytävänä. Yhtiön hallitus ilmoitti tarkastelevansa kattavasti eri vaihtoehtoja, joilla omistajien osakkeiden arvolle saataisiin paras mahdollinen tuotto. Tämä tarkoittaa myös yrityksen myynnin tarkastelua.
Yhtiön hallituksen puheenjohtaja Michael McGrathin mukaan NI on viimeisen viiden vuoden aikana toteuttanut laajan strategisen muutoksen ja keskittynyt entistä enemmän kokonaisratkaisuihin nopeasti kasvaville vertikaalisille markkinoille. – Olemme järjestäytyneet teollisuuden liiketoimintayksiköiden ympärille
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https://cdn.baseplatform.io/files/base/ebm/electronicdesign/document/2022/04/Digital_Transformation_2022_A1_ES2.625ede81efb72.pdf
More and more, digital transformation will rapidly reshape whatever analog lives consumers still
have. Here is a look at some trends that show great promise for the future.
Living in a 5G world
Enter 5G, a 5th generation mobile network that is the new global wireless standard to follow after
today’s 4G networks.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Hand in hand with the adoption of 5G worldwide, many IoT solutions will find a more
conducive environment compared to 4G. The faster data rates alone will open up the possibilities
for developers as IoT devices are highly dependent on fast, secure and reliable connections.
Alongside an increase in data capacity, developers in this space will find applications in
healthcare, logistics, and wearable tech – to name a few – that will take advantage of seamless
connectivity onto a 5G network.
Electric Vehicles (EV)
With the worst of the chip shortage seemingly behind us, the recent Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) 2022 presentations paint an amazing picture of what’s to come in the automotive industry.
Key partnerships within the industry drive development towards the total digitalization of the vehicle
Blockchain
2021 saw the rise of NFTs or Non-fungible tokens. Digital artists like Beeple, who sold his art
for a whopping $69 million, have taken the art world by storm. Since then, many other NFT-
backed art work were sold through the auction house, Christie’s. While selling digital art may
not seem appealing to all, the underlying blockchain technology underneath NFTs has a lot of
promise for business applications, and with it, comes the development of IoT solutions that
support those.
This is where IoT plays a vital role in the ecosystem. With 5G on the rise, blockchain utilizes a
new ecosystem of devices that create tamper-proof records of shared transactions within a
blockchain network. Combining blockchain with IoT helps developers add another layer of
security to protect precious data from malicious attacks outside their networks.
Adding blockchain into the agriculture industry, for example, provides the transparency of the
entire supply chain starting from the farm, to the local groceries and onto the dinner table. Any
information collected by IoT sensors from the field can be secured safely within the blockchain
network. Even the tracking of these items through transportation and warehousing.
Applications in this field are wide open, especially for industries that require a lot of remote
instrumentation.
The way forward
Despite the chip shortages caused by the worldwide pandemic, developments in these fields (and
more) are indeed promising. Electronics manufacturers, big and small, shall be clamoring for
supply to catch up as mankind forges further into the 21st century. Just imagine what the horizon
will look like again in 10 years’ time once supply catches up
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://cdn.baseplatform.io/files/base/ebm/electronicdesign/document/2022/04/When_will_the_global_chip_shortage_end_A4_ES.625ee404718ae.pdf
Tomi Engdahl says:
Unix is dead. Long live Unix!
Don’t expect to see any more big AIX news. This means the last Unix left is… Linux
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/
It’s the end of an era. As The Reg covered last week, IBM has transferred development of AIX to India. Why should IBM pay for an expensive US-based team to maintain its own proprietary flavor of official Unix when it paid 34 billion bucks for its own FOSS flavor in Red Hat?
Here at The Reg FOSS desk, we’ve felt this was coming ever since we reported that Big Blue was launching new POWER servers which didn’t support AIX – already nearly eight years ago.
Within Oracle, Solaris is in maintenance mode. Almost exactly six year ago, we reported that the next major release, Solaris 12, had disappeared from Oracle’s roadmap.
HPE’s HP-UX is also in maintenance mode because there’s no new hardware to run it on. Itanium really is dead now and at the end that’s all HP-UX could run on.
The last incarnation of the SCO Group, Xinuos, is still around and offers not one but two proprietary UNIX variants: SCO OpenServer, descended from SCO Xenix, and UnixWare, descended from Novell’s Unix.
There used to be two Chinese Linux distros which had passed the Open Group’s testing and could use the Unix trademark: Inspur K/UX and Huawei EulerOS. Both companies have let the rather expensive trademark lapse, though. But the important detail here is that Linux passed and was certified as a UNIX™. And it wasn’t just one distro, although both were CentOS Linux derivatives. We suspect that any Linux would breeze through because several many un-Unix-like OSes have passed before.
Which means that the last officially trademarked commercial UNIX™ is Apple’s macOS 13, which underneath the proprietary GUI layer is mostly an open source OS called Darwin anyway. The kernel, XNU, is based on Mach with an in-kernel “Unix server” derived from FreeBSD.
So, as of 2023, open source really has won. There are more Unix-like OSes than ever, and some very un-Unix-like OSes which are highly compatible with it, but the official line is, to all intents and purposes, dead and gone. All the proprietary, commercial Unixes are now on life support: they will get essential bug fixes and security updates, but we won’t be seeing any major new releases.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.mapspeople.com/3-reasons-why-your-smart-building-needs-an-indoor-map
Tomi Engdahl says:
Taantuma peruttu, ennustaa pankkijätti euroalueesta – arviot kohenevat, koska talouden isossa kuvassa on kaksi suurta muutosta
https://yle.fi/a/74-20012835
Vasta marraskuussa Goldman Sachs ennusti euroalueen taloudelle 0,1 prosentin supistumista. Nyt se odottaakin talouden kasvavan 0,6 prosenttia.
Euroalueelle vuodelle 2023 pitkään povattua taantumaa ei tulekaan, ennustaa yhdysvaltalainen pankkijätti Goldman Sachs tuoreessa raportissaan (siirryt toiseen palveluun).
Pankki ennustaa euroalueen talouden kasvavan tänä vuonna 0,6 prosenttia. Vasta marraskuussa Goldman arvioi, että euroalueen talous supistuisi 0,1 prosenttia.
– Arvioimme yhä, että euroalueen kasvu on talvikuukausina energiakriisin vuoksi heikkoa, mutta emme enää odota teknistä taantumaa, Goldman Sachsin ennusteryhmä arvio (siirryt toiseen palveluun)i.
Maanantaina EU:n talouskomissaari Paulo Gentilo arvioi, että myös EU voisi välttää taantuman.
Kohentuneet talousennusteet johtuvat ennen kaikkea energian hinnanlaskusta ja Kiinan koronalinjan täyskäännöksestä.
Energia on halventunut jyrkästi
Suomen Pankin ennustepäällikkö Meri Obstbaum ja tutkimuslaitos Laboren tutkija Ilkka Kiema pitävät energian halpenemista ja Kiinan avautumista positiivisina signaaleina myös Suomen taloudelle.
Kaksikko on vielä kuitenkin selvästi Goldmanin ennustetta varovaisempia.
Obstbaum sanoo, että vaikka energian hinta onkin laskenut todella paljon, vielä ei ole aika huokaista helpotuksesta. Siitä nimittäin ei ole mitään takeita, että energian hinta myös säilyy halvempana.
– Energian hinta on vaihdellut erittäin rajusti.
Suomalaisasiantuntija: Kiinan talous on yhä kysymysmerkki
Tomi Engdahl says:
Dell toi uutta rautaa vaikeille palvelinmarkkinoille
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14479-dell-toi-uutta-rautaa-vaikeille-palvelinmarkkinoille
Dell on esitellyt peräti 13 uutta palvelinta PowerEdge-sarjaansa. Lisätehoa tuodaan neljännen sukupolven Intel Xeon -prosessoreilla. Samaan aikaan markkina muuttuu palvelimissa yhä vaikeammaksi.
Viime vuonna X86-pohjaisia palvelimia myytiin IDC:n mukaan 110,3 miljardilla dollarilla. Kasvua tuli viime vuoteen 18,6 prosenttia. Tänä vuonna kasvu käytännössä pysähtyy ja nousua tulee vain 3,2 prosenttia.
Palvelimissa myyntiä ovat kasvattaneet uudet Arm-pohjaiset laitteistot. Niitä myytiin viime vuonna 11,2 miljardilla dollarilla eli muiden kuin X86-prosessorien osuus palvelimissa on noin kymmenesosa. Tämä raha on tietenkin pois perinteisiltä palvelinpelureilta.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sirumarkkinoiden kasvu tyrehtyi loppuvuonna
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14480-sirumarkkinoiden-kasvu-tyrehtyi-loppuvuonna
Puolijohteita myytiin viime vuonna 601,7 miljardilla dollarilla. Summa on uusi ennätys, mutta vain 1,1 prosenttia suurempi kuin edellisvuonna. Syyt löytyvät Venäjän hyökkäyssodasta, koronasta, inflaatiosta, kasvavista energiakustannuksista ja korkojen noususta, analysoi Gartner.
Vuosi alkoi kovin toisenlaisissa merkeissä. Vielä elokuussa Gartner ennusti 7,4 prosentin kasvua. Analyytikko Andrew Norwoodin mukaan pula komponenteista johti pidentyneisiin toimitusaikaan ja nouseviin hintoihin. – Tämä johti elektroniikkatuotannon vähenemiseen monilla loppumarkkinoilla. Tämän seurauksena OEM-valmistajat alkoivat suojautua pulalta varastoimalla siruja.
Viime vuonna kasvua toi esimerkiksi etätöiden yleistyminen korona-aikana. Moni joutui päivittämään kotikonettaan, kun työpaikalle ei ollut asiaa. Vuoden jälkimmäisellä puoliskolla kuluttajat alkoivat vähentää kulutustaan PC- ja älypuhelimien kysynnän kärsiessä. Yritykset seurasivat perässä, mikä kaikki vaikutti puolijohteiden yleiseen kasvuun.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tuleeko vuodesta 2023 sodan vuosi? Näillä alueilla ruutitynnyri voi räjähtää seuraavaksi
Vuodesta 2023 voi tulla konfliktien vuosi.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/e2957f3c-c176-42de-9ada-734406893c70
Vuosi sitten maailma seurasi jännittyneenä, hyökkääkö Venäjä Ukrainaan vai ei. Uusi vuosi ei ala juuri toiveikkaammissa tunnelmissa, sillä Venäjän laiton hyökkäyssota jatkuu edelleen.
Kaiken lisäksi jännitteet eri alueilla ja useiden maiden välillä ovat kiristyneet Ukrainan sodan varjossa. Viime vuoden aikana muun muassa Myanmarin, Jemenin, Kongon, Etiopian ja Afganistanin konfliktit, kriisit, sodat ja hätä ovat jääneet laajalti vähälle huomiolle.
Näiden lisäksi kansainväliset ajatushautomot, järjestöt ja mediat ovat varoittaneet, että vuosi 2023 voi olla konfliktien vuosi. Ne ovat listanneet useita räjähdysalttiita alueita, joilla on vaara konfliktin eskaloitumisesta.
Voisiko Kiina toteuttaa uhkaukset Taiwanin valtaamisesta? Entä mitä tapahtuu Koreoiden välillä? Lisäksi muun muassa Serbian ja Kosovon välit ovat kireinä. Myös Länsirannalla tilanne on tulenarka.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting ~5% of its workforce, or ~11,000 jobs, and could announce the layoffs in the coming days, before company earnings — Microsoft is finalising plans to become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce amid a global economic slowdown, Sky News learns.
Microsoft to axe thousands of jobs in latest cull by tech giant
https://news.sky.com/story/microsoft-to-axe-thousands-of-jobs-in-latest-cull-by-tech-giant-12788916
Microsoft is finalising plans to become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce during a global economic slowdown, Sky News learns.
Microsoft is preparing to axe thousands of jobs in the latest move by one of the world’s biggest technology companies to reduce its workforce in the face of a slowing global economy.
Sky News has learnt that the US software giant could announce plans to cull a significant number of posts around the world within a matter of days.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jon Porter / The Verge:NEW
Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra specs allegedly leak, showing 6.1, 6.6, and 6.8-inch screens, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the Ultra’s 200MP sensor, and more — Spec sheets for all three devices in Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S23 series, appear to have leaked online.
Galaxy S23 spec leak leaves few surprises ahead of February launch
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/18/23560307/galaxy-s23-plus-ultra-specs-leak-news-features-camera-battery-screen
The leak confirms previously rumored specs including a 200-megapixel camera on the S23 Ultra, as well as the designs of all three devices.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple announces updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or M2 Max, Wi-Fi 6E, 8K HDMI, up to 96GB of RAM, and more, starting at $1,999 and $2,499 — Apple today announced the next-generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with faster 5nm-based M2 Pro and M2 Max chips …
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/17/apple-announces-m2-pro-macbook-pro/
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max, built on a second-gen 5nm process, with 20% more transistors than the M1 Pro and double the M2′s, 200GB/s bandwidth, and more
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/17/apple-unveils-m2-pro-and-m2-max-chips/
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple updates its Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro options, improved graphics performance, up to 32GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and more, starting at $599
https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/17/apple-launches-new-m2-mac-mini/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4 2022 and 2022 shipments fell 11% YoY to under 1.2B, the lowest quarterly and annual levels since 2013 — One of these days I’ll have some positive news to share about the global smartphone market. Today is not that day.
2022 global smartphone shipments were the lowest in nearly a decade
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/2022-global-smartphone-shipments-were-the-lowest-in-nearly-a-decade/
One of these days I’ll have some positive news to share about the global smartphone market. Today is not that day. The industry capped off another dismal year with a 17% year over year drop for Q4. That number puts the full year’s shipping figures 11% below 2021, per new numbers from Canalys, which refer to it as “an extremely challenging year for all vendors.”
It’s been one thing after another from the industry. Slowing figures pre-dated 2020, while the pandemic and its various knock-on effects have continued tossing up roadblocks. For 2022, the same macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted practically every facet of life took their own toll on the industry. Notably, the figures for the quarter and the year were at their lowest in nearly a decade. The firm tells TechCrunch, “we have to go back to 2013 to find lower numbers — and back then the market situation was very different as the technology was a lot more emerging.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bloomberg:
Amazon begins laying off 18,000+ employees, impacting around 1% of its total workforce and 6% of its corporate staff, mostly in its retail and HR departments — Amazon.com Inc. is set to begin a round of layoffs ultimately affecting more than 18,000 employees in the largest job cull in its history …
Amazon Kicks Off Round of Job Cuts Affecting 18,000 People
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/amazon-is-set-for-new-round-of-job-cuts-affecting-18-000-people
Latest layoffs will fall on retail division, human resources
Cuts represent 6% of Amazon’s 350,000 corporate employees
Amazon.com Inc. is set to begin a round of layoffs ultimately affecting more than 18,000 employees in the largest job cull in its history, which it announced earlier this month.
The cuts come as the retailer grapples with slowing online sales growth and braces for a possible recession affecting the spending power of its customers.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google’s Nest team appears to be working on AirTag-like location trackers, codenamed Grogu, with Bluetooth LE and UWB support, for a possible I/O launch in May
Google reportedly working on AirTag-like location trackers
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558531/google-location-trackers-leak-airtag-uwb-bluetooth-finder
The tracker is allegedly codenamed ‘Grogu’ and may finally make use of the UWB support featured on the Pixel 6 Pro and Pixel 7 Pro.
Google is reportedly working on a location tracking tag to compete with the likes of Apple’s AirTags and Tile trackers, according to developer (and reliable leaker) Kuba Wojciechowski. Wojciechowski discovered references that indicate Google is working on support for locator tags in Fast Pair — Google’s method for quickly pairing nearby Bluetooth devices — and claims in a Twitter thread that Google is developing its own first-party tracker to use with the feature (seen via Sammobile).
The tracker, according to Wojciechowski, is codenamed “Grogu” (the name of the baby Yoda character from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian) alongside the alternate names “GR10” and “Groguaudio,” and is currently being developed by the Google Nest team. That doesn’t mean it’ll launch as a Nest-branded product, but Wojciechowski suggests the tracker might be released in multiple color options and include an onboard speaker to help users locate a missing device via sound, similar to that of an Apple AirTag.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Russia’s 48-core CPU is now ready for production.
Russian 48-Core Baikal-S CPU Powers First Storage Device
By Anton Shilov published 2 days ago
Based on a sample version of the Baikal-S processor
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/48-core-baikal-for-storage?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=tomsguide&utm_source=facebook.com
A Curious Motherboard
Eliptech, a company that used to be a part of Sber, one of Russia’s largest state-controlled bank and cloud service providers, has developed a motherboard based on the BE-S1000 server-grade system-on-chip featuring 48 Arm Cortex-A75 cores at 2.50 GHz at 120W. The SoC has six 72-bit memory interfaces supporting up to 768 GB of DDR4-3200 ECC memory in total (i.e., 128GB per channel), five PCIe 4.0 x16 (4×4) interfaces, one USB 2.0 controller, two 1GbE interfaces, and various general purpose I/O. While on paper this thing may look good, it will hardly ever enter our list of best CPUs for workstations.
Given the rather rich input / output capabilities of the Baikal BE-S1000 SoC, Eliptech’s ET113-MB motherboard can support a rather vast set of storage devices. We are talking about two PCIe 4.0 x4 SSDs as well as multiple SATA hard drives or solid-state drives. The motherboard has four U.2 connectors, so there are some limitations to is expansion capabilities.
How?
Which brings us back to the fact that this could be the only motherboard featuring the Baikal BE-S1000 processor. This SoC was supposed to be made by TSMC on its 16FFC fabrication technology. Yet, due to sanctions against Russia for its invasion in Ukraine, this CPU will never be shipped to Baikal Electronics. Russia’s own semiconductor production capabilities are limited to thick process technologies.
Given the fact that almost no chip can be shipped to Russia from Taiwan, a question that now arises is “How a16FFC-based Baikal BE-S1000 chip was obtained?” This question will perhaps remain unanswered.
Russia’s inability to supply proprietary hardware for its military tasks is well offset by its large-scale process to procure chips, as reported by Reuters back in December. The huge operation included Hong Kong and Turkey and what was discovered by the highly respected news agency is a tip of an iceberg to put it mildly.
Why?
Despite all sanctions, Russia is a huge nation (with 140+ million inhabitants) and a big economy that can pour in vast amounts of money in pretty much everything. It can barely fund an Nvidia H100-kind of chip, but for things like the BE-S1000, it has deep pockets. This is when new government-funded companies emerge.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.dna.fi/yrityksille/teknologiatrendit2023?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=linkad&utm_content=ALL-opas-teknologiatrendit2023&utm_campaign=A_ALL_ALL_22-01-22_teknologiatrendit&fbclid=IwAR3TzupDT7e5aPaZeFhaFGYijn_TbZDXSYGVKdooBo9yUxftKVNOneWHMEg
Tomi Engdahl says:
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Memo: Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees through March 31, reducing its headcount by less than 5%, and take a $1.2B charge tied to severance and more — Citing a need to “align our cost structure with our revenue and where we see customer demand,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday …
Full memo: Microsoft to cut 10k jobs, about 5% of workforce, and take $1.2B restructuring charge
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/full-memo-microsoft-to-cut-10k-jobs-about-5-of-workforce-and-take-1-2b-restructuring-charge/
Citing a need to “align our cost structure with our revenue and where we see customer demand,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday that the company will cut 10,000 jobs between now and the end of March.
The layoffs represent about 5% of Microsoft’s workforce of more than 220,000 employees.
In addition, the company will take a $1.2 billion charge in its second fiscal quarter when it releases its full financial results next week. Nadella told employees that the charge is “related to severance costs, changes to our hardware portfolio, and the cost of lease consolidation as we create higher density across our workspaces.”
The memo did not provide more detail on the areas to be impacted.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on an iPad-based smart display with smart home controls, video, and FaceTime and on a new Apple TV for H1 2024 with a faster processor — Apple Inc. is working on a slate of devices aimed at challenging Amazon.com Inc. and Google in the smart-home market …
Apple to Expand Smart-Home Lineup, Taking On Amazon and Google
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/apple-to-expand-smart-home-lineup-taking-on-amazon-and-google
An iPad-based device will offer smart-home controls and video
New Apple TV set-top box coming in 2024 with faster processor
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Cybersecurity firm Sophos lays off 10% of its global workforce and sources say ~450 employees were let go; Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos for $3.9B in March 2020 — Sophos is laying off about 10% of its global workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Sophos confirmed the layoffs in an email to TechCrunch.
Sophos to lay off 450 employees globally
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/18/sophos-global-layoffs/
Sophos is laying off about 10% of its global workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Sophos confirmed the layoffs in an email to TechCrunch.
“Sophos today announced an internal restructuring which has resulted in job losses and the start of consultation periods that potentially will affect 10% of our global employee base,” said Jitendra Bulani, a spokesperson for Sophos. The company said the layoffs were to ensure the company achieves “the optimal balance of growth and profitability,” amid the ongoing and deepening economic global slowdown.
TechCrunch learned that about 450 people were let go during this round of layoffs, though Sophos would not confirm the exact number of affected employees.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple enables a temperature and humidity sensor in the HomePod mini and second-generation HomePod, helping users create automations to execute household tasks — The reintroduced HomePod offers a temperature and humidity sensor, but Apple is also enabling the feature on the existing HomePod mini.
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/18/homepods-now-feature-temperature-humidity-sensor/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Apple announces a second-generation HomePod with a similar design to the original from 2018, Matter support, S7 chip, and more, shipping on February 3 for $299
Apple announces revamped full-size HomePod two years after discontinuing original
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/18/23553366/apple-homepod-2022-price-release-date-specs-features
Tomi Engdahl says:
Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal:
Gartner says 2022 global IT spending dropped 0.2% to $4.38T, below an estimated 0.8% rise, and expects 2.4% growth in 2023, weighed down by economic uncertainty
Global IT Spending Decreased in 2022
Citing economic uncertainties, Gartner lowers its enterprise tech forecast for 2023
https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-it-spending-decreased-in-2022-11674002496?mod=djemalertNEWS
Companies worldwide made deep cuts in enterprise technology spending last year, with tighter information-technology budgets likely to stretch well into the year ahead.
Global IT spending contracted 0.2% in 2022, dropping to $4.38 trillion—a rare instance of corporations spending less on digital business tools than in the previous year, according to IT consulting and research firm Gartner Inc.
Gartner had initially estimated that IT spending had increased 0.8% last year.
The firm now expects spending to increase 2.4% this year, less than half the rate of its previous estimate in October, as economic uncertainties continue to rattle markets, Gartner said in a report Wednesday.
PCs, smartphones and other devices are seeing the biggest cuts, following a surge in spending after the Covid-19 outbreak to outfit employees for remote work, Gartner said. The devices segment of its spending forecast is projected to fall 5.1% this year, to roughly $685 billion, after dropping more than 10% in 2022.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
As Apple shifts away from China, experts worry India will struggle with iPhone production due to supply chain issues, labor woes, a lack of automation, and more
https://www.ft.com/content/74f7e284-c047-4cc4-9b7a-408d40611bfa
Tomi Engdahl says:
What Else Is An M.2 WiFi Slot Good For?
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/19/what-else-is-an-m-2-wifi-slot-good-for/
Many mainboards and laptops these days come with a range of M.2 slots, with only a subset capable of NVME SSDs, and often a stubby one keyed for ‘WiFi’ cards. Or that’s what those are generally intended to be used for, but as [Peter Brockie] found out when pilfering sites like AliExpress, is that you can get a lot of alternate expansion cards for those slots that have nothing to do with WiFi.
Why this should be no surprise to anyone who knows about the M.2 interface is because each ‘key’ type specifies one or more electrical interfaces that are available on that particular M.2 slot. For slots intended to be used with NVME SSDs, you see M-keying, that makes 4 lanes of PCIe available. The so-called ‘WiFi slots’ on many mainboards are keyed usually for A/E, which means two lanes of PCIe, USB 2.0, I2C and a few other, rather low-level interfaces. What this means is that you can hook up any PCIe or or USB (2.0) peripheral to these slots, as long as the bandwidth is sufficient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXP8IVUVJbg
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14483-nokia-jatkaa-oppon-jahtaamista
Elokuussa Nokia onnistui samaan oikeuden päätöksen, joka esti kiinalaisen OPPOn ja sen tytäryhtiö OnePlussan puhelimien myynnin Saksassa. OPPO reagoi lopettamalla laitemyynnin Euroopan suurimmilla markkinoilla, mutta yritysten välinen kiista jatkuu edelleen muissa maissa ja eri markkinoilla, kertoo IP-alaa seuraava Florian Müller FOSS Patents -sivuillaan.