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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Tomi Engdahl says:
John Herrman / New York Magazine:
Amazon’s third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company’s revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
The Junkification of Amazon Why does it feel like the company is making itself worse?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html
Let’s say you’re a regular Amazon shopper in need of a spatula. You might start your journey by typing the word “spatula” into the search box with a qualifier or two (“silicone,” “fish,” “magenta”). In response, Amazon will produce a very large list presented in a large paginated grid or, on a phone, a bottomless scroll. You have, it is implied, thousands of options within immediate reach; Amazon presents them to you in a particular but mostly unexplained order. Some of the spatulas you encounter first will carry brand names you’ve heard of before, like KitchenAid or Rubbermaid, while others will have names like IOCBYHZ, BANKKY, or KLAQQED. Some of them will appear identical to one another or even share the same product photos with different names and prices. Other listings will disclose, usually in small gray text, that they’re “sponsored.” (Of the 81 clickable, buyable products on my first page of search results for “spatula” — product listings, banners, and recommendation modules — 29, or more than a third, were some form of ad.)
Many products will be described in SEO-ese: “Silicone Spatula Turner, VOVOLY 3-Pack Spatula Set for Nonstick Cookware, BPA Free Rubber Spatulas, Heat Resistant Kitchen Utensil, No Scratch or Melting, Ideal for Egg, Cookie, Crepe, Burger, Pancake.” Most, maybe all, will be eligible for Prime.
You’ll have options! So many options that, unless you have strongly held preferences about spatula brands — unlikely, given that you just typed “spatula” into Amazon — you’re going to need some guidance. BANKKY or KLAQQED? Should you give IOCBYHZ a look or just pay extra for the Oxo? Your eyes are drawn to the only relevant, useful information on the page: star ratings. On this first page, sponsored or not, they’re all hovering between 4 and 5 stars and mostly between 4.6 and 4.9: 403 ratings, 4.7 stars; 10,845 ratings, 4.8 stars; 27 ratings, 4.7 stars; 20,069 ratings, 4.7 stars.
You read a little feedback to quell your doubts or ease your mind, then eventually, or quickly, you pluck a spatula out of the cascade. There’s a good chance, however, that it won’t actually be sold by Amazon but rather by a third-party seller that has spent months or years and many thousands of dollars hustling for search placement on the platform — its “store,” to use Amazon’s term, is where you will have technically bought this spatula. There’s an even better chance you won’t notice this before you order it. In any case, it’ll be at your door in a couple of days.
The system worked. But what system? In your short journey, you interacted with a few. There was the ’90s-retro e-commerce interface, which conceals a marketplace of literally millions of sellers, each scrapping for relevance, using Amazon as a sales channel for their own semi-independent businesses. It subjected you to the multibillion-dollar advertising network planted between Amazon users and the things they browse and buy. It was shipped to you through a sprawling, submerged logistics empire with nearly a million employees and contractors in the United States alone. You were guided almost entirely by an idiosyncratic and unreliable reputation system, initially designed to review books, that has used years of feedback from hundreds of millions of customers to help construct an alternative universe of sometimes large but often fleeting brands that have little identity or relevance outside of the platform. You found what you were looking for, sort of, through a process that didn’t feel much like shopping at all.
This is all normal in that Amazon is so dominant that it sets norms. But its essential weirdness — its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon’s one-click magic trick to hide.
Interacting with Amazon, for most of its customers, broadly produces the desired, expected, and generally unrivaled result: They order all sorts of things; the prices are usually reasonable, and they don’t have to think about shipping costs; the things they order show up pretty quickly; returns are no big deal. But, at the core of that experience, something has become unignorably worse. Late last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon’s customer satisfaction had fallen sharply in a range of recent surveys, which cited COVID-related delivery interruptions but also poor search results and “low-quality” items. More products are junk. The interface itself is full of junk. The various systems on which customers depend (reviews, search results, recommendations) feel like junk. This is the state of the art of American e-commerce, a dominant force in the future of buying things. Why does it feel like Amazon is making itself worse? Maybe it’s slipping, showing its age, and settling into complacency. Or maybe — hear me out — everything is going according to plan.
Like most tech companies, Amazon’s corporate outlook at the beginning of 2023 wasn’t ideal: falling stock price, rising costs, geopolitical concerns, real inroads by labor organizers, the end of the “pandemic shopping habits” that were, just two years ago, predicted to accelerate e-commerce adoption by leaps and bounds.
Tomi Engdahl says:
John Herrman / New York Magazine:
Amazon’s third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company’s revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
The Junkification of Amazon Why does it feel like the company is making itself worse?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html
Let’s say you’re a regular Amazon shopper in need of a spatula. You might start your journey by typing the word “spatula” into the search box with a qualifier or two (“silicone,” “fish,” “magenta”). In response, Amazon will produce a very large list presented in a large paginated grid or, on a phone, a bottomless scroll. You have, it is implied, thousands of options within immediate reach; Amazon presents them to you in a particular but mostly unexplained order. Some of the spatulas you encounter first will carry brand names you’ve heard of before, like KitchenAid or Rubbermaid, while others will have names like IOCBYHZ, BANKKY, or KLAQQED. Some of them will appear identical to one another or even share the same product photos with different names and prices. Other listings will disclose, usually in small gray text, that they’re “sponsored.” (Of the 81 clickable, buyable products on my first page of search results for “spatula” — product listings, banners, and recommendation modules — 29, or more than a third, were some form of ad.)
Many products will be described in SEO-ese: “Silicone Spatula Turner, VOVOLY 3-Pack Spatula Set for Nonstick Cookware, BPA Free Rubber Spatulas, Heat Resistant Kitchen Utensil, No Scratch or Melting, Ideal for Egg, Cookie, Crepe, Burger, Pancake.” Most, maybe all, will be eligible for Prime.
You’ll have options! So many options that, unless you have strongly held preferences about spatula brands — unlikely, given that you just typed “spatula” into Amazon — you’re going to need some guidance. BANKKY or KLAQQED? Should you give IOCBYHZ a look or just pay extra for the Oxo? Your eyes are drawn to the only relevant, useful information on the page: star ratings. On this first page, sponsored or not, they’re all hovering between 4 and 5 stars and mostly between 4.6 and 4.9: 403 ratings, 4.7 stars; 10,845 ratings, 4.8 stars; 27 ratings, 4.7 stars; 20,069 ratings, 4.7 stars.
You read a little feedback to quell your doubts or ease your mind, then eventually, or quickly, you pluck a spatula out of the cascade. There’s a good chance, however, that it won’t actually be sold by Amazon but rather by a third-party seller that has spent months or years and many thousands of dollars hustling for search placement on the platform — its “store,” to use Amazon’s term, is where you will have technically bought this spatula. There’s an even better chance you won’t notice this before you order it. In any case, it’ll be at your door in a couple of days.
The system worked. But what system? In your short journey, you interacted with a few. There was the ’90s-retro e-commerce interface, which conceals a marketplace of literally millions of sellers, each scrapping for relevance, using Amazon as a sales channel for their own semi-independent businesses. It subjected you to the multibillion-dollar advertising network planted between Amazon users and the things they browse and buy. It was shipped to you through a sprawling, submerged logistics empire with nearly a million employees and contractors in the United States alone. You were guided almost entirely by an idiosyncratic and unreliable reputation system, initially designed to review books, that has used years of feedback from hundreds of millions of customers to help construct an alternative universe of sometimes large but often fleeting brands that have little identity or relevance outside of the platform. You found what you were looking for, sort of, through a process that didn’t feel much like shopping at all.
This is all normal in that Amazon is so dominant that it sets norms. But its essential weirdness — its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon’s one-click magic trick to hide.
Interacting with Amazon, for most of its customers, broadly produces the desired, expected, and generally unrivaled result: They order all sorts of things; the prices are usually reasonable, and they don’t have to think about shipping costs; the things they order show up pretty quickly; returns are no big deal. But, at the core of that experience, something has become unignorably worse. Late last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon’s customer satisfaction had fallen sharply in a range of recent surveys, which cited COVID-related delivery interruptions but also poor search results and “low-quality” items. More products are junk. The interface itself is full of junk. The various systems on which customers depend (reviews, search results, recommendations) feel like junk. This is the state of the art of American e-commerce, a dominant force in the future of buying things. Why does it feel like Amazon is making itself worse? Maybe it’s slipping, showing its age, and settling into complacency. Or maybe — hear me out — everything is going according to plan.
Like most tech companies, Amazon’s corporate outlook at the beginning of 2023 wasn’t ideal: falling stock price, rising costs, geopolitical concerns, real inroads by labor organizers, the end of the “pandemic shopping habits” that were, just two years ago, predicted to accelerate e-commerce adoption by leaps and bounds.
Your favorite tech giant wants you to know it’s a startup again
Facebook, Google, and Amazon are trying to get their groove back.
https://www.vox.com/recode/23573432/tech-layoffs-cuts-startup-facebook-google-amazon
When Meta’s head of people, Lori Goler, posted a memo to the company’s internal employee message board last summer asking employees to work with “increased intensity,” many workers pushed back.
In internal comments Recode reviewed, some employees took issue with the idea that they weren’t working hard enough already. Others felt the problems weren’t with the rank and file, but with management and the company’s massive size and bureaucratic structure, which some said made it hard to move quickly on daily work or to give feedback to leadership. Another complaint was simply that some Meta employees didn’t want to do more work for the same amount of money. Because many Meta employees are paid in company stock, which has declined precipitously in the past year, the workers would actually be doing more for less.
The real topic at hand was whether a tech giant can or should try to behave like a startup.
Tomi Engdahl says:
When Meta’s head of people, Lori Goler, posted a memo to the company’s internal employee message board last summer asking employees to work with “increased intensity,” many workers pushed back.
In internal comments Recode reviewed, some employees took issue with the idea that they weren’t working hard enough already. Others felt the problems weren’t with the rank and file, but with management and the company’s massive size and bureaucratic structure, which some said made it hard to move quickly on daily work or to give feedback to leadership. Another complaint was simply that some Meta employees didn’t want to do more work for the same amount of money. Because many Meta employees are paid in company stock, which has declined precipitously in the past year, the workers would actually be doing more for less.
The real topic at hand was whether a tech giant can or should try to behave like a startup.
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com pulls the plug on Indonesia and Thailand sites in Southeast Asia logistics pivot
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3208431/chinese-e-commerce-giant-jdcom-pulls-plug-indonesia-and-thailand-sites-southeast-asia-logistics
JD Central and JD.ID in Thailand and Indonesia, respectively, will cease operations in March, as parent JD.com refocuses on logistics and China growth
The internet retailer plans to grow its supply chain operations in the region after setbacks amid competition from the likes of Shopee and Lazada
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:
A draft EU proposal details plans to ask Netflix, Alphabet, and other “large traffic generators” to help pay for next-generation internet infrastructure
EU Weighs Proposal to Charge Data-Heavy Streamers for Telecom Upgrades
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/eu-mulls-ways-to-charge-data-heavy-steamers-for-telecom-upgrades
The European Union is weighing a proposal to make technology companies that use the most bandwidth, like Netflix Inc. and Alphabet Inc., to help pay for the next generation of internet infrastructure, according to a draft document seen by Bloomberg.
The suggestions are part of a “fair-share” vision from the EU’s executive arm that could require large tech businesses, which provide streaming videos and other data-heavy services, to help pay for the traffic they generate. The draft document, which is part of a consultation with the industry, suggested firms might contribute to a fund to offset the cost of building 5G mobile networks and fiber
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $5.6B, vs. $5.5B est., net income down 98% YoY to $21M, and Client unit revenue down nearly 51% YoY due to weak PC sales
AMD beats on sales and profit but warns of a 10% revenue decline in Q1
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/amd-earnings-q4-2022.html
AMD reported fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations for sales and profit, but guided analysts to a 10% decline in year-over-year sales in the current quarter.
AMD reported earnings as many of its rival chipmakers have stumbled in recent weeks, citing lower consumer demand for finished electronics and gluts of parts needed to make PCs and servers.
AMD said it expected $5.3 billion in sales in the current quarter, slightly lower than a Refinitiv estimate of $5.47 billion. AMD’s estimate suggests a 10% decline in sales in the current quarter. AMD’s sales rose 44% in the December quarter.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times:
The real aim of the Big Tech layoffs is to bring workers to heel and cultivate an insecure workforce, as an actual recession has yet to hit the tech sector
Column: The real aim of big tech’s layoffs: bringing workers to heel
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel
In Silicon Valley, the new year began as the last one ended — with tens of thousands of tech workers losing their jobs. Just a few days into 2023, Amazon Chief Executive Andrew Jassy announced that there would be 18,000 layoffs across the company. Within weeks, Microsoft revealed it was slashing its head count by 10,000 and Google said that it was terminating 12,000 employees. IBM looks to be next, with nearly 4,000 workers on the chopping block.
This follows 2022’s bloodbath, when tens of thousands of jobs were lost at Meta Platforms, Twitter and Salesforce. According to an industry layoff tracker, the tech sector has eliminated some 220,000 jobs since the start of last year. If the laid-off tech workers formed a city, it’d be one of the most populous in the United States, bigger than Des Moines or Salt Lake City.
The question is: Why have many of the most profitable companies of our generation — most of which are still very much profitable — announced staggering rounds of layoffs, one after the other? And why now?
A common refrain from analysts and reporters is that the companies are “tightening their belts” after profligate pandemic hiring sprees, in order to streamline operations. The executives overseeing the cuts, for their part, cite adverse economic circumstances. “We hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today,”
No recession has yet hit the U.S. or its tech sector. Inflation hurts, but the U.S. economy added hundreds of thousands of jobs last month. Still, certain shareholders have been vocal about their desire to see head counts trimmed — and trimmed further still.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
A look at Microsoft’s prized 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo, after a leadership overhaul, layoffs, and more; sources detail a pivot to Unreal Engine — Microsoft Corp. says it’s going to keep making new games in the popular Halo franchise at its prized 343 Industries studio — despite rumors to the contrary.
Microsoft Studio Behind Halo Faces a Reboot on Years of Turmoil
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-31/microsoft-studio-343-industries-undergoing-reorganization-of-halo-game-franchise
The title has suffered multiple delays, development setbacks and staff changes
Microsoft Corp. says it’s going to keep making new games in the popular Halo franchise at its prized 343 Industries studio — despite rumors to the contrary. But after a leadership overhaul, mass layoffs and a host of big changes, the outfit is all but starting from scratch.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sources: Sony halves its PlayStation VR2 shipment forecast to ~1M units in Q1 after early preorders disappointed; the headset is slated to launch on February 22 — Sony Group Corp. reduced projections for the initial launch of its PlayStation VR2 headset dramatically after early pre-orders disappointed …
Sony Slashes PlayStation VR2 Headset Output After Pre-Orders Disappoint
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-31/sony-playstation-vr2-headset-pre-order-disappointment-leads-to-production-cut?leadSource=uverify%20wall
High price seen as a limiting factor for wider adoption
Sluggish demand exacerbates lackluster momentum for VR sector
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:
A draft EU “fair-share” document proposes making Netflix, Alphabet, and other “large traffic generators” to help pay for next-generation internet infrastructure — The European Union is weighing a proposal to make technology companies that use the most bandwidth …
EU Weighs Proposal to Charge Data-Heavy Streamers for Telecom Upgrades
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/eu-mulls-ways-to-charge-data-heavy-steamers-for-telecom-upgrades
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia:
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit down 69% YoY to ~$3.5B, its lowest since Q3 2014, and revenue down 8% YoY to ~$57.3B, citing weak chip and smartphone demand — South Korean tech giant’s slump expected to continue in first half of this year — SEOUL — Samsung Electronics said Tuesday …
Samsung Electronics Q4 profit plummets amid global chip downturn
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Samsung-Electronics-Q4-profit-plummets-amid-global-chip-downturn
South Korean tech giant’s slump expected to continue in first half of this year
Tomi Engdahl says:
Reuters:
Samsung reports ~$1.38B in Q4 mobile profit, down from ~$2.15B in Q4 2021, and does not plan to slash chip investment from 2022 to 2023, in contrast to rivals
https://www.reuters.com/technology/samsung-electronics-q4-profit-falls-69-device-demand-drops-2023-01-31/
Tomi Engdahl says:
John Herrman / New York Magazine:
Amazon’s third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company’s revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel cuts employee pay to preserve cash for investment, ranging from 25% for CEO Pat Gelsinger, 15% for executive leadership, to 5% for mid-level managers — Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope with a shaky economy …
Intel Slashes CEO Pay by 25% as Part of Companywide Cuts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-01/intel-cuts-pay-across-company-to-preserve-cash-for-investment?leadSource=uverify%20wall
Chipmaker looks to preserve cash for turnaround efforts
Company’s leadership team to have pay reduced by 15%
Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope with a shaky economy and preserve cash for an ambitious turnaround plan.
Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger is taking a 25% cut to his base salary, the chipmaker said Tuesday. His executive leadership team will see their pay packets decreased by 15%. Senior managers will take a 10% reduction, and the compensation for mid-level managers will be cut by 5%.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ashley Gold / Axios:
A report by the White House’s NTIA describes Apple and Google as “gatekeepers” of mobile app stores and suggests legislation to improve competition and choice
Biden admin report criticizes Apple, Google app stores
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/01/biden-admin-report-criticizes-apple-google-app-stores
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
PayPal plans to lay off ~2,000 employees, or ~7% of its workforce, “over the coming weeks”, as the company addresses the “challenging macroeconomic environment” — – PayPal on Tuesday announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees, or around 7% of its workforce.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/paypal-to-lay-off-2000-employees-in-coming-weeks-about-7percent-of-workforce.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nilay Patel / The Verge:NEW
An interview with Chris Miller, a Tufts professor and author of the book Chip War, on EUV lithography, ASML’s role in global chip manufacturing, TSMC, and more — Professor Chris Miller’s new book Chip War explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone.
Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing
https://www.theverge.com/23578430/chip-war-chris-miller-asml-intel-apple-samsung-us-china-decoder
Professor Chris Miller’s new book Chip War explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Politico:
Sources: the UK’s semiconductor plan, which missed a publication deadline last fall, has suffered from government disarray, as the US and EU move forward
Britain’s semiconductor plan goes AWOL as US and EU splash billions
https://www.politico.eu/article/britains-semiconductor-plan-goes-awol-as-us-and-eu-splash-billions/
The UK’s long-awaited chips strategy remains mired in Whitehall wrangling.
LONDON — As nations around the world scramble to secure crucial semiconductor supply chains over fears about relations with China, the U.K. is falling behind.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the world’s heavy reliance on Taiwan and China for the most advanced chips, which power everything from iPhones to advanced weapons. For the past two years, and amid mounting fears China could kick off a new global security crisis by invading Taiwan, Britain’s government has been readying a plan to diversify supply chains for key components and boost domestic production.
Yet according to people close to the strategy, the U.K.’s still-unseen plan — which missed its publication deadline last fall — has suffered from internal disconnect and government disarray, setting the country behind its global allies in a crucial race to become more self-reliant.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Europe needs to dial down its anxiety over the Inflation Reduction Act
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-europe-electric-car-needs-to-dial-down-its-anxiety-over-the-inflation-reduction-act/
There’s a whiff of hypocrisy about the EU’s response to America’s electric vehicle subsidies — a matter of do what I say rather than do what I do.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $5.6B, vs. $5.5B est., net income down 98% YoY to $21M, and Client segment revenue down 51% YoY due to weak PC chip sales — – AMD reported fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations for sales and profit, but guided analysts …
AMD beats on sales and profit but warns of a 10% revenue decline in Q1
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/amd-earnings-q4-2022.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Financial Times:
The US and India launch an initiative to cooperate on critical and emerging technologies, including quantum computing, AI, and semiconductors, to counter China — Effort designed to counter China in the Indo-Pacific and wean New Delhi off its reliance on Russia for weapons
US and India launch ambitious tech and defence initiatives
https://www.ft.com/content/0fad1ae7-07f8-44cc-9df6-c8e2e03d404f
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
As memory prices plunge, SK Hynix reports a ~$1.4B Q4 operating loss, its biggest quarterly operating loss yet, vs. ~$900M est., and a 38% YoY drop in revenue — South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. reported its biggest quarterly loss on record, due to plunging prices in memory chips as tech demand fell worldwide.
Hynix Posts Record Loss on Slump in Memory-Chip Prices
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-31/hynix-reports-biggest-loss-on-record-on-memory-slump
Chipmaker sees inventory peaking in first half of this year
Memory maker halving capex this year while awaiting recovery
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Catherine Thorbecke / CNN:
A look at Blind, an anonymous professional networking site that has emerged as a lifeline for tech workers seeking information and advice about the mass layoffs
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/31/tech/blind-app/
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Kiina ei pysty valmistamaan edistyneimpiä mikropiirejä
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14540-kiina-ei-pysty-valmistamaan-edistyneimpiae-mikropiirejae
Kiina on investoinut valtavia rahoja ottaakseen kiinni lännen ja Taiwanin etumatkan piirien valmistuksessa. Nyt tielle on tullut korkea muuri, sillä kiinalaiset puolijohdetalot eivät voi saada käyttöönsä uusinta askelvalotustekniikkaa.
Wall Street Journalin mukaan Hollanti ASML:ää myymästä joitakin litografialaitteistoja Kiinaan. Erityisesti kielto koskee uusimpia EUV-laitteistoja, joita tarvitaan käytännössä kaikkien alle 10 nanometrin piirien valmistukseen. ASML on ainoa EUV-askelvalottimien valmistaja.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kännykkämarkkinoilta katosi yli 50 miljardia euroa
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14535-kaennykkaemarkkinoilta-katosi-yli-50-miljardia-euroa
Vuosikausien ajan matkapuhelinmarkkina tarkoitti ikuista kasvua, mutta ei enää. IDC:n tuoreet tilastot kertovat, että loka-joulukuussa myytiin 300,3 miljoonaa älypuhelinta. Määrä on 18,3 prosenttia pienempi kuin vuotta aikaisemmin.
Koko viime vuoden aikana myytiin hieman yli 1,2 miljardia älypuhelinta. Se on yli 350 miljoonaa laitetta vähemmän kuin edellisvuonna. Myytyjen laitteiden keskihinta on hieman kasvanut, mutta valmistajien jakamasta kakusta katosi vuodessa yli 50 miljardia euroa. Summa on valtava.
Tomi Engdahl says:
New DDoS-as-a-Service platform used in recent attacks on hospitals https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-ddos-as-a-service-platform-used-in-recent-attacks-on-hospitals/
A new DDoS-as-a-Service (DDoSaaS) platform named ‘Passion’ was seen used in recent attacks by pro-Russian hacktivists against medical institutions in the United States and Europe. A DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack is when threat actors send many requests and garbage traffic to a target server to overwhelm the server and cause it to stop responding to legitimate requests. DDoSaaS platforms rent their available firepower to those looking to launch disruptive attacks on their targets, absolving them from the need to build their own large botnets or coordinate volunteer action
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results/default.aspx
Tomi Engdahl says:
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Samsung debuts the $1,200+ Galaxy S23 Ultra, similar to the S22 Ultra but with a 200MP camera, more robust optical image stabilization, and better battery life — The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is an S22 Ultra with an extra layer of polish — figuratively speaking.
The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is a minor update to a spec monster
https://www.theverge.com/23578361/samsung-galaxy-s23-ultra-camera-specs-price-hands-on
The kitchen sink of phones gets a 200-megapixel camera this year, a souped-up Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, and a slightly boxier design.
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Chris Velazco / Washington Post:
Samsung is working with Google and Qualcomm to produce XR products and experiences running an unannounced Android version for devices such as wearable displays — The company is working with Google and Qualcomm on new products and the ecosystem to nurture them
Looking beyond phones, Samsung plans to make ‘extended reality’ devices
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/01/samsung-headset-qualcomm-google-android/
The company is working with Google and Qualcomm on new products and the ecosystem to nurture them
For the most part, Samsung Electronics is staging its Unpacked product launch event in Northern California to reveal a trio of new Galaxy S23 smartphones, plus a handful of laptops. But that’s not all.
Beyond updating some of its core product lines, the company also unveiled plans to develop new “extended reality” products and experiences with help from key partners including Google and Qualcomm.
Extended reality, or XR, is a blanket term to describe a handful of related technologies that include virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. And because these technologies reflect different ways of physically looking at your software, services and the world around you, Samsung’s announcement all but confirms the company is developing a new wearable display or headset.
“Many different companies … have been making these announcements about different realities,” TM Roh, the president and head of Samsung’s mobile experience business, told The Washington Post in an interview. “So we have also been making similar preparations, no less than any others.”
“For the chipset, it is going to be a strategic collaboration with Qualcomm. The hardware will be us,” Roh said. And the software, he added, will be provided by Google.
“For the ecosystem, we were trying to determine which platform to work with,” Roh said. “And in the end, we decided that it was going to be Google,” he added, referring to a new, previously unannounced version of the Android operating system meant specifically to power devices such as wearable displays.
Google and Qualcomm separately confirmed the partnership on XR.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said at the launch event that with the shared expertise from its partners, “we have the foundation to make these opportunities a reality and drive the future of the spatial internet.”
Roh also said Samsung’s venture into extended reality would involve service partnerships with Meta and Microsoft, although he declined to elaborate on specifics.
Creating reasons to use — and continue using — these kinds of extended reality devices is arguably more important than word of a new gadget, which is why Samsung played up its partnerships instead of a concrete product announcement at its launch event.
“We believe that the ecosystem has to be somewhat ready for the product to be launched and for the product to be successful as well,” Roh said. “And as you know, there have been many attempts by other companies so far, but not as successful as had been hoped because perhaps the ecosystem was not as ready as it should have been.”
That Samsung is working on a head-worn computing gadget should not be a surprise — it has a lot of history there. In 2015, it offered people an affordable first taste of virtual reality with the Gear VR headset, into which users inserted their smartphones. (The company periodically updated the headset’s design until it stopped developing new ones a few years later.) Then, in 2017, it debuted the Odyssey — a headset meant for use with Windows PCs — and released a revised model the following year.
After that, Samsung backed away from building such products while companies including Facebook owner Meta made immersive computing devices the cornerstone of their corporate strategies. Since then, however, layoffs have recently forced Meta and other companies, including Microsoft, to scale back their extended-reality teams, in the process casting some doubt on their visions of the metaverse.
Meanwhile, Apple is widely expected to reveal its first XR device as early as this spring. That product — a reportedly pricey mixed reality headset
Although much of the extended-reality hype has been focused on Meta and Apple, a tie-up of three companies with collective expertise in screens, software and chip design may help this new endeavor find its footing in a soon-to-be crowded market. And that could mean more options for consumers as the devices we use to be productive and stay connected change in shape and scope.
But this first peek into Samsung’s next frontier comes at a critical time for the company. Smartphone shipments shrank by 12 percent globally in 2022, according to the research firm Canalys, and depressed demand for consumer gadgets recently led to Samsung’s lowest quarterly profit in years.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Samsung unveils the 6.1″ Galaxy S23 for $800+ and the 6.6″ Galaxy S23+ for $1,000+, with a better selfie camera and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, shipping on February 17 — Samsung’s S-series phones actually look like they belong together this year. The S23 and S23 Plus have adopted the floating camera design …
https://www.theverge.com/23579106/samsung-galaxy-s23-plus-price-screen-battery-specs-hands-on
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Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
Samsung refreshes its Galaxy Book lineup, adding the Galaxy Book3 Ultra with a 16″ 120Hz 3K display and Nvidia’s RTX 4050 or 4070, coming February 17 from $2.4K
Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Ultra hands-on: NVIDIA RTX 4070 power in a super slim frame
The company’s latest is a lean, mean beast of a machine.
https://www.engadget.com/samsung-galaxy-book-3-ultra-laptop-hands-on-nvidia-rtx-4070-180029774.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaG1lbWUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB-ETnN2KGNzK0huR3SujaIr-sFldHURv2wlcJ8KG_n6mJpmheK_xrxALh1YXBaUAloMosl-pfjeqhy9eBsE1GJi0hcWYMNvZdk3TUhXle9EXMfaimjlvt0FuWchNFQrPOUlNHQK5mRP3Kmh7DQhMn_uNxiSktpxVxprNcs7JjUh
Tomi Engdahl says:
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Samsung says the Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra will ask users to install Adobe Lightroom when handling DNGs and make the app the default raw photo editor
Galaxy S23: Adobe and Samsung Partner to Bring Pro-Level Photo Editing
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/galaxy-s23-adobe-and-samsung-partner-to-bring-pro-level-photo-editing/
Exclusive: If you’re an enthusiast shooting with the latest Samsung smartphones, Adobe’s software will handle their raw photos and sync them to Samsung PCs.
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia is working on an OTA update to fix a Discord bug that slows the memory clocks by up to 200MHz on some of its GPUs, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti
Discord is slowing down some Nvidia graphics cards
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579759/discord-nvidia-graphics-cards-memory-slowdown
A recent update has introduced a bug that slows down memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs.
Discord is slowing down graphics card memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A recent Discord update has introduced a bug that slows down memory clocks by up to 200MHz on some Nvidia models, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti. Nvidia says it’s working on a fix.
Reddit users and Linus Tech Tips forum posters spotted the bug, and Nvidia was quick to acknowledge the problem and offer a temporary workaround. If you notice your memory clocks are dropping by up to 200MHz, you can download a GeForce 3D profile manager and apply a fix early. The full details are available in an Nvidia support article, but if you’re willing to wait, Nvidia says a fix will be sent to users’ PCs “via an over the air update at a later date.”
Discord recently started rolling out an update that enables AV1 streaming with GeForce RTX 40-series cards. This update appears to have introduced the memory clock issues on some RTX 30-series cards, but Reddit users with RTX 40-series cards haven’t experienced the same slowdowns.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix adds spatial audio to its $20 per month Premium plan, available on 700+ of its most-watched titles; Standard and Basic plans will get limited support
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/netflix-spatial-audio-premium-plan-1235504475/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14544-200-megapikseliae-mutta-muuten-konservatiivinen-uutuus
Tomi Engdahl says:
Will 2023 be the year of AI and metaverse actualisation? Five experts weigh in
Will 2023 be the year of AI and metaverse actualisation? Five experts weigh in
We asked five experts whether AI and the metaverse will become a bigger part of life this year
https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-metaverse-web3-brnd/?utm_medium=paid-social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=bc_inhouse&utm_content=bcgx_30012023&fbclid=IwAR0LDan_wHTpTCKRCM6yQCnrlHwJHUHAg4Jcd70I-p-aKRt5kHAPqWcwtOw
Tomi Engdahl says:
Deluge of Non-EV Automotive ICs Accelerates Forward
Jan. 19, 2023
There’s a seemingly insatiable need for both general-purpose and application-specific automotive-qualified ICs.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/21258373/electronic-design-deluge-of-nonev-automotive-ics-accelerates-forward?utm_source=EG+ED+Auto+Electronics&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230119093&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
Autojen komponenttipula ei hellitä tänä vuonna
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14550-autojen-komponenttipula-ei-hellitae-taenae-vuonna
Uusia autojen joutuu edelleen ottamaan kuukausia, erityisesti jos haluaa mukaan kaikki autonvalmistajan suunnittelemat ominaisuudet ja toiminnot. Komponenttipula on vaivannut alaa pitkään, eikä helpotusta ole luvassa ainakaan tänä vuonna.
Näin katsoo komponentteja verkossa kauppaava Sourcengine. Nyt käynnissä oleva pula ja sen myötä tullut tuotannon hidastuminen johtuu useista tekijöistä, joista suurin osa on taloudellisia. Kehittyneiden prosessien kysyntä putosi kuin kivi vuoden 2022 lopulla. Äkillinen heikkeneminen johti tuotannon leikkauksiin ja irtisanomisiin maailmanlaajuisesti. en sijaan vanhojen yli 28 nanometrin prosessissa valmistettujen sirujen kysyntä on edelleen korkea.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Androidin vanha ongelma ei hellitä
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14549-androidin-vanha-ongelma-ei-hellitae
ScientiaMobile on esitellyt viime vuoden älypuhelintilastoja. Androidin osuus markkinoista oli vuoden lopulla 66 prosenttia ja iOS:n 33 prosenttia. Androidin helmasynti on kuitenkin ennallaan: markkinoilla olevissa laitteissa on suuri määrä eri versioita, myös vanhoja versioita.
Tämä fagmentoituminen on iso ongelma, erityisesti tietoturvan takia. Uusin versio käyttöjärjestelmästä olisi aina se kaikkein turvallisin, mutta kaikista älypuhelimista Android 13 löytyy vain 0,29 prosentista laitteita.
Suosituin Android-versio on 12, ja se löytyy onneksi jo useammasta kuin joka viidennestä älypuhelimesta. Markkinaosuus on tarkalleen 22 prosenttia. toiseksi suosituin Android-versio on 11 (16,8 prosenttia) ja kolmanneksi suosituin 10 (11,9 prosenttia).
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Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B, and employees up 22% YoY to 190,234
Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Results
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube’s ad revenue dropped 7.8% YoY from $8.63B to $7.96B in Q4, below analyst estimates of $8.2B
Alphabet Misses Q4 Earnings Estimates, YouTube Ad Revenue Drops by Nearly 8%
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/alphabet-google-q4-2022-earnings-youtube-revenue-falls-1235510514/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bloomberg:
Brookfield’s $15B commitment to help finance Intel’s Arizona complex may drive private equity firms’ infrastructure funds to reassert US chip competitiveness
Intel’s Planned US Chip Plant Has Bankers Looking for Similar Deals
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-02/intel-s-planned-chip-plant-in-arizona-has-bankers-looking-for-more-deals
Brookfield’s financing arrangement has caught the interest of other infrastructure funds
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP’s $15 billion commitment last year to help finance Intel Corp.’s giant new semiconductor complex in Arizona, the first deal of its kind, sent investors and bankers racing to find similar opportunities.
Brookfield, a major infrastructure investor, put up $2 billion in equity and borrowed $13 billion from a mix of foreign banks, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the details weren’t public. That model isn’t new to infrastructure assets, just to semiconductors, says Scott Peak, Brookfield Infrastructure’s
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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Qualcomm reports Q1 revenue down 12% YoY to $9.46B, net income down 34% YoY to $2.24B, and Q2 2023 revenue guidance between $8.7B and $9.5B, vs. $9.55B est.
Qualcomm revenue falls 12%, guidance implies more pain this quarter
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/qualcomm-qcom-earnings-q1-2023.html
Qualcomm’s top line fell short for the quarter, with handset revenue declining 18%.
The company called for a sharper decline in the next quarter.
It announced plans to invest in Renault Group’s electric and software company.
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Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft will collectively incur more than $10B in charges related to mass layoffs, real estate, and other cost savings
Big Tech groups disclose $10bn in charges from job culls and cost cutting
https://www.ft.com/content/9daf27f6-dde7-40d8-b01d-33b70844aa69
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Jennifer Rankin / The Guardian:
A group of MEPs launches a website for European parliament staff and EU officials to warn about “shady lobbying” by Big Tech and other interest groups
MEPs launch site for EU officials to report ‘shady lobbying’ by big tech
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/02/meps-launch-site-for-eu-officials-to-report-shady-lobbying
Exclusive: Dutch MEP hopes site will give early warning of suspicious tactics such as use of front organisations
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Onko kodissasi vaarallinen ja pian kielletty lamppu? Voi tietää useiden satojen laskua
Loisteputkilamput poistuvat markkinoilta. Kielto astuu voimaan asteittain.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/asumisartikkelit/a/b86e20e8-4216-42a4-93c4-dc0aae0529a3
Euroopan unioni kieltää loisteputkilamput. Ensimmäisenä EU-direktiivi iskee pienoisloistelamppuihin, joiden tuotanto ja tuonti kielletään 24. helmikuuta.
– Muutos koskettaa monia. Pienoisloistelamppuja on kylvetty omakotitaloissa kaikkialle: pesuhuoneisiin, varastoihin, ulkovalaistukseen, sanoo Pohjois-Suomen Sähkön toimitusjohtaja Juha Lounatvuori.
Elokuussa markkinoilta poistuvat T5- ja T8-malliset loisteputket.
Syynä kieltoon on elohopea, jota loisteputkissa on. Elohopean tiedetään olevan uhka ympäristölle ja ihmisten terveydelle.
EU-alueella elohopean käytöstä on luovuttu asteittain jo vuodesta 2006 lähtien. Haitallisten aineiden käyttöä sähkö- ja elektroniikkalaitteissa säätelee RoHS-direktiivi.
Euroopan komissio on aiemmin sallinut elohopean käytön direktiivistä poiketen tietyissä käyttötarkoituksissa. Yksi näistä käyttötarkoituksista on ollut valaistus.
Elohopean käyttöä on perusteltu sillä, että riittävän energiatehokkaita elohopeattomia lamppuja ei ole ollut saatavilla. Nykyään T8- ja T5-loisteputket on kuitenkin helppo korvata led-valoilla eikä loisteputkien salliminen erillisellä direktiivillä ei ole enää tarpeellista.
Yleensä vaihdon voi tehdä omatoimisesti
Kielto näkyy kuluttajalle konkreettisesti, sillä loisteputkilamput on korvattava uusilla vaihtoehdoilla viimeistään siinä vaiheessa, kun vanhoja lamppuja ei ole enää saatavilla.
Yksityistalouksissa kiinteistön omistaja tai vuokra-asunnossa vuokralainen on vastuussa valonlähteen vaihdosta ja siihen liittyvistä kustannuksista.
Lounatvuoren mukaan led-lamppujen vaihtaminen loisteputkien tilalle maksaa kuudesta eurosta kahteenkymmeneen euroon.
Kun lasketaan kaikki yksityisasunnon polttimot ja asennus yhteen, lamppujen vaihtaminen voi maksaa sadasta kahteensataan euroon.
Isojen julkisten rakennusten, kuten vanhan koulun kohdalla puhutaan jopa kymmenistä tuhansista euroista.
Yleensä loisteputken vaihtaminen led-valoputkeen onnistuu helposti vaihtamalla valaisimeen uuden putken tai sytyttimen. Se luonnistuu myös tavalliselta kuluttajalta, eikä vaihtoon tarvita sähköalan ammattilaista.
– Led-valonlähteen vaihtaminen loisteputken tilalle on monesti yhtä helppoa kuin led-polttimon vaihtaminen hehkulampun tai pienloistelampun tilalle, Prykäri sanoo.
Ammattilaisen puoleen kannattaa kääntyä, jos ei ole varma, minkä mallinen led-valo korvaa loisteputkilampun.
Jos led-valosta haluaa ottaa kaiken hyödyn irti energiatehokkuuden kannalta, valaisimesta pitää poistaa myös vanhan putken liitäntälaite. Tätä kuluttaja ei saa tehdä itse, vaan liitäntälaitteen poistaminen vaatii aina ammattilaisen.
Loisteputkia on markkinoilla lukuisia erilaisia ja erimallisia, Lounatvuori muistuttaa. Jos väärän ledin asentaa väärään liittimeen omin päin, voi seurauksena olla hajonnut led-lamppu.
Lounatvuori kehottaakin kääntymään ammattilaisen puoleen led-polttimoita valitessa, jotta vahingoilta vältyttäisiin.
– Kannattaa kuitenkin huomioida, että loisteputki kuluttaa led-valoa enemmän energiaa ja vanhat elinkaarensa loppupäässä olevat loisteputket voivat olla myös paloturvallisuusriski, Prykäri huomauttaa.
Loisteputket ovat ongelmajätettä ja ne pitää hävittää sen mukaan. Loisteputkia otetaan maksutta vastaan vaarallisen jätteen ja sähkölaiteromun vastaanottopaikoissa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/02/chinas-new-100-mph-train-runs-on-hydrogen-and-supercaps/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Apple:
Apple reports Q1 revenue down 5% YoY to $117.2B, marking its largest annual quarterly revenue decline since 2016, and net income down 13% YoY to $30B — Installed base crosses 2 billion active devices and hits all-time high for all major product categories — Services set new all-time revenue record
Apple reports first quarter results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/02/apple-reports-first-quarter-results/
Installed base crosses 2 billion active devices and hits all-time high for all major product categories
Services set new all-time revenue record
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone down 8% YoY to $65.8B, Mac down 29% YoY to $7.7B, iPad up 30% YoY to $9.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% YoY to $13.5B — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Apple missed expectations for revenue, profit, and sales for many of its lines …
Apple sales drop 5% in largest quarterly revenue decline since 2016
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/apple-aapl-earnings-q1-2023.html
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
Tim Cook says iPhone revenue would have grown without supply constraints, currency fluctuations were a challenge, and layoffs are a “last resort kind of thing” — Revenue in holiday quarter fell for the iPhone maker for the first time in nearly four years
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-aapl-q1-earnings-report-2023-11675281851?mod=djemalertNEWS
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac:
Apple reports Q1 Services revenue up 6% YoY to $20.8B and says its install base crossed 2B active devices, up from 1.8B devices the company reported in Q1 2022
Apple hits milestone of 2 billion active devices as Services set new revenue record
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/02/apple-hits-2-billion-active-devices/
Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia:
Apple reports Q1 revenue in Greater China fell 7.3% YoY to $23.9B, revenue in Japan fell 5% to $6.8B, and revenue in the rest of Asia-Pacific fell 2.8% to $9.5B
Apple suffers 1st revenue drop since 2019 on lower demand, China woes
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Apple-suffers-1st-revenue-drop-since-2019-on-lower-demand-China-woes
Greater China takes biggest hit but ‘production back where we want it to be’
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intelin markkina-arvo romahti 8 miljardia – ”Mitkään sanat eivät pysty kuvaamaan”
Suvi Korhonen30.1.202320:01DIGITALOUSOSAKKEET
Analyytikot laskivat tyrmistyneinä yhtiön tavoitehintaa.
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/intelin-markkina-arvo-romahti-8-miljardia-mitkaan-sanat-eivat-pysty-kuvaamaan/98c431b7-c5fe-47b6-8473-209ed75c6819
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mobile World Congress 2023
https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/promopages/mobile-world-congress/
Driving decarbonization and digitalization. Together.
Semiconductors are crucial to power the digital transformation and master the energy challenges of our time. As a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, we are committed to delivering the microelectronics solutions capable of driving decarbonization and digitalization – together with our customers and partners.
At MWC 23 from 27 February through 2 March 2023 in Barcelona, you will see how we are unleashing the game-changing potential of digitalization as more and more “things” connect to the IoT to save resources and help shape an easier and greener future.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Top Trends in Technology for 2023 – Amy Webb
https://www.nbforum.com/newsroom/blog/top-trends-in-technology-for-2023-amy-webb-webinar-summary/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Yes, You Can (and Should) Recycle Batteries. Here’s How.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/how-to-recycle-batteries/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/26/whalesync-wants-to-simplify-the-process-of-syncing-data-between-saas-apps/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/01/27/kasvuyrityksilla-merkittava-rooli-tk-panostuksissa/