The year 2021 was strange, you can read more of it from A 2021 technology retrospective: Strange days indeed. But how strange will 2022 be? Here are some predictions for year 2022:
2022 preview: Will the global computer chip shortage ever end?
The growing demand for computer chips, used in everything from cars to fridges, has collided with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a global shortage that is likely to continue through 2022
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2022-2022-preview-will-the-global-computer-chip-shortage-ever-end/#ixzz7GqrP1H9A
Industry Transforming In Ways Previously Unimaginable
https://semiengineering.com/industry-transforming-in-ways-previously-unimaginable/?cmid=3dedf05d-0284-497a-b015-daf7747872e6
As we look back over 2021, there have certainly been some surprises, but the industry continues to take everything in its stride.
2022 tech themes: A look ahead
https://www.edn.com/2022-tech-themes-a-look-ahead/
The continued COVID-19 question mark: The world quickly and dramatically changed. It hasn’t yet reverted to pre-pandemic characteristics, and it very likely never will. Sad but true, the pandemic isn’t even close to being over yet.
Deep learning’s Cambrian moment: Look at today’s participant-rich deep learning silicon and software market, spanning both training and inference.
The ongoing importance of architecture: As the number of transistors that it’s possible to cost-effectively squeeze onto a sliver of silicon continues to slow, what you build out of those transistors becomes increasingly critical.
Open source processors’ time in the sun: There is a burgeoning RISC-V movement. It’s likely a little-known fact to some of you, that a public domain instruction set for v2 and earlier versions of the Arm ISA exists. And both Sun (with OpenSPARC) and IBM (OpenPOWER) have also joined the open-source silicon movement.
The normalization of remote work (and the “Great Resignation’s” aftershocks): I suspect that, to at least a notable degree, we won’t ever completely return to the “way it was before.” In fact, I’d wager that having a taste of a work-from-home or “hybrid” employment lifestyle is one of the key factors behind the so-called “Great Resignation” that tech and broader media alike inform me is well underway.
The metaverse starts to stir: Perhaps we’ll look back at 2022 as the year when the crossing of the chasm started in earnest.
Autonomy slowly accelerates: 2021 was another year filled with fully autonomous car tests and premature “coming soon” pronouncements; 2022 will likely be the same.
Batteries get ever denser, ever more plentiful, and ever cheaper
Space travel becomes commonplace
Global semiconductor industry forecasts for 2022
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20211229VL205.html
“2021 is the year that everyone remembered that chip mattered,” said Wired Magazine. So far 2022 seems likely to be another fruitful year for the semiconductor industry.
World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) also has predicted that the global semiconductor market is projected to grow by 8.8 percent in 2022, to US$ 601 billion, driven by double-digit growth of the sensors and logic category. All regions and all product categories are expected to continue positive growth. Wafer foundry manufacturers sales likely to remain strong due to tight supply. 5G smartphone silicon content increase to drive demand for foundry service higher. Demand for digital transformation is here to stay, no sign of weakening for foundry service sales.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation over the past two years. Work from home, virtual conference, and remote learning have driven up the demand for cloud computing, laptops, and servers, and hence the sales growth of related semiconductor products. Demands for CPU, GPU, AI accelerator (including FPGA) foundry services will remain strong in 2022 because trends such as virtual conferences, live streaming, and large capex of data centers are likely to stay. Long-term demands for customized chips in IoT, 5G infrastructure, HPC, and EV applications, like ADAS, autonomous driving, V2X, in-Vehicle Infotainment, will provide robust growth momentum for chip foundry services.
Chip crunch is not ending in 2022, as the lead time of some electronic components is stretching into 2023. Meanwhile, the increasing adoption of RISC-V open standard instruction set architecture is an important trend that can not be ignored. RISC-V market will double its size in 2022, compared to 2021, as it is attracting small and medium-size chip designers and manufacturers, especially those in China. RISC-V designs are now being used by Qualcomm, Samsung, Google, Microchip, Nvidia, and more.
Taiwan’s chip industry emerges as a battlefront in US-China showdown
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2022/01/01/2003770517
The country dominates production of chips used in almost all civilian and military technologies. That leaves the US and Chinese economies reliant on plants that would be in the line of fire in an attack on Taiwan. The vulnerability is stoking alarm in Washington
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The size of a standard mobile phone charger can be reduced by up to 40 percent when using GaN components or it can be designed to produce more power in the same size. GaN chargers are becoming the most popular charger technology for billions of devices, so it’s no wonder that European semiconductor giant STMicroelectronics is also excited about them.
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a Mac Pro with an M2 Ultra but cancelled the M2 “Extreme” with double the compute power; the Mac Pro could be produced in Vietnam — The new high-end Mac Pro with Apple silicon is behind schedule, and you can blame changes to the company’s chip and manufacturing plans.
Apple Scales Back High-End Mac Pro Plans, Weighs Production Move to Asia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-18/when-will-apple-aapl-release-the-apple-silicon-mac-pro-with-m2-ultra-chip-lbthco9u
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Microsoft Begins Providing DirectX Shader Compiler Linux Binaries
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-DX-Shader-Linux-Build
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DYSON’S AIR-PURIFYING “BANE” HEADPHONES TO LAUNCH IN MARCH 2023
Also fitted with “industry-leading” noise cancelling technology, they will launch in the UK and Ireland in March 2023
https://mixmag.net/read/dyson-air-purifying-headphones-cost-749-zone-news
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7 foldable phone problems that haven’t been fixed yet
From the screen to pricing and more, here’s what we want to see addressed.
https://www.androidauthority.com/foldable-phone-problems-not-fixed-3224899/
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Che Pan / South China Morning Post:
Chinese media reports: Xiaomi begins laying off ~15% of its 35,314 employees, combating weaker sales due to COVID-19 lockdowns and slower consumer spending — Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi, which has an ambitious goal of unseating iPhone maker Apple from the No 1 spot globally by 2024 …
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi’s ‘personnel optimisation’ to affect 10 per cent of its workforce amid weak consumer spending
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3203870/chinese-smartphone-giant-xiaomi-said-cut-15-cent-its-workforce-amid-weak-consumer-spending
In China, lay-offs are often conducted in the name of ‘business optimisation’ to avoid scrutiny by labour authorities
Xiaomi had 35,314 employees as of September 30, with more than 32,000 in mainland China, according to its third-quarter financial results
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Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE:
Open-source database service MariaDB closed down 39.6% in its NYSE debut after a SPAC merger, reaching a $368M market cap, below its $672M valuation in February
MariaDB stock drops in early trading following IPO
https://siliconangle.com/2022/12/19/mariadb-stock-drops-early-trading-following-ipo/
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PFAS, the chemicals used in household products like Teflon and non-stick pans, have been linked to decreased birth weight and increased risk of kidney and testicular cancer.
3M Will Discontinue Use Of Hazardous PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ By 2025
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/12/20/3m-will-discontinue-use-of-hazardous-pfas-forever-chemicals-by-2025/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie&sh=eb5af0c31d01
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U.S., UK export controls hit China’s access to Arm’s chip designs -FT
https://www.reuters.com/technology/export-controls-hit-chinas-access-arms-chip-designs-ft-2022-12-14/
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd cannot buy some of the most advanced chip designs after the SoftBank-owned (9984.T) British chip tech firm Arm Ltd determined that U.S. and Britain would not approve licences to export technology to China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
This is the first known time that Arm has decided it could not export its most cutting-edge designs to China, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
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U.S. Chip Industry Urges Federal Aid for Chip Design, Too
Dec. 9, 2022
The U.S. risks losing its leadership in chip design unless the country commits to more federal aid, a top industry group warned.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21256122/electronic-design-us-chip-industry-urges-federal-aid-for-chip-design-too?utm_source=EG+ED+Auto+Electronics&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS221212109&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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https://hackaday.com/2022/12/20/the-gallium-nitride-revolution/
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Daniel Lanyon / AltFi:
Dealroom: the UK’s tech sector hit a combined $1T market valuation in 2022, doubling since 2019, compared to Germany’s $467.2B and France’s $307.5B
UK’s $1trn tech sector takes #1 spot in Europe in 2022
https://www.altfi.com/article/10227_uks-1trn-tech-sector-takes-1-spot-in-europe-in-2022
According to a report from Dealroom and the UK government, the UK has more high-growth companies than European peers includin 144 ‘unicorns’ and over 85,000 startups and scale-ups.
The UK’s tech sector hit a combined market value of $1trn in 2022, according to data from Dealroom.
This suggests since 2019 the UK’s tech sector has doubled in value from c.$500bn three years ago, despite the period’s well reported uncertainty through the covid pandemic, Brexit, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and mounting cost of living crisis.
Research, which ultimately came from UK’s Digital Economy Council (part of DCMS), suggests this places the UK’s tech ecosystem at the top of the European tables and third after the US and China.
Despite some rapid slowing of activity compared with 2021, during the past twelve months UK tech companies have raised more cash (£24bn), than France (£11.8bn) and Germany (£9.8 bn) combined. In the past five years, this suggests nearly $100bn (£97bn) of investment.
Similarly, the combined value of Germany’s ($467.2bn) and France’s ($307.5bn) tech sectors fell short of the UK total by some way.
Over three million people are now working in the UK, the research found, following a number of years of increasing investment volumes from venture capital and other institutional investors.
The UK has more high-growth companies than European peers including created 144 ‘unicorns’ and over 85,000 startups and scale-ups
About one in five of these unicorns is a fintech company, according to AltFi’s own research. This year the UK’s fintech sector raised about $10bn from investors, a third of the total.
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“Intel’s Core i9-13900K Processor Gets Overclocked to 9GHz”
https://uk.pcmag.com/processors/144503/intels-core-i9-13900k-processor-gets-overclocked-to-9ghz
By using liquid helium as a cooling solution, the chip was able to break the 9GHz barrier and obtain a new world record.
Overclocking experts Jon Sandström and Pieter Plaiser helped set the record at an Asus office in Taiwan earlier this month. Normally, the Core i9-13900K is designed to only offer max boost speeds at 5.8GHz. However, the team was able to achieve far higher clock speeds by using liquid helium to cool the CPU.
Both Plaiser and Intel have published videos, documenting the achievement. The team first cooled the Intel processor to -196 degrees Celsius (-320.8 Fahrenheit) before bringing the temperatures further down to -260 degrees while trying to overclock the CPU.
the chip was finally able to reach a speed of 9,008MHz over a single Performance Core in the processor while the temperatures were at -250 degrees. The overclocking site HWBot has since confirmed the feat.
Overclockers typically use liquid nitrogen to achieve the insane clock speeds. However, Sandström chose liquid helium because the substance can reach even colder temperatures, thus giving the team a better chance of breaking the 9GHz barrier. But they only had enough liquid helium to attempt the overclocking for a span of a single hour.
The Core i9-13900K chip broke the 9GHz barrier after setting the previous CPU overclocking record at 8.8GHz back in October. That achievement managed to take the crown from a ten-year-old record held by AMD’s FX-8350 chip, which overclocked the CPU to 8.79GHz back in 2012.
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Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
Intel splits AXG graphics unit into two groups under gaming and data center units; AXG’s EVP Raja Koduri returns to his previous role as Intel Chief Architect
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-re-orgs-axg-graphics-group-raja-koduri-moves-back-to-chief-architect-role
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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Micron reports Q1 revenue down ~47% YoY to $4.09B and plans to reduce its workforce by ~10% over the next year; Micron had 48,000 employees in September 2022
Micron to Cut 10% of Workforce as Demand for Computer Chips Slumps
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-21/micron-gives-weak-sales-forecast-will-cut-headcount-by-10
Company to cut staff 10%, reduce capital expense, skip bonuses
Chipmaker sees revenue improving in second half of next year
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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple plans to postpone mass production or cancel the iPhone SE 4, set to launch in 2024, due to lower-than-expected middle- and lower-end iPhone shipments
Kuo: Apple to Cancel or Postpone 2024 iPhone SE 4
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/20/apple-to-cancel-or-postpone-iphone-se-4/
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Bloomberg:
Customs data: Chinese companies imported $2.3B worth of semiconductor manufacturing machines in November, down 40% YoY and the lowest level since May 2020
China’s Imports of Chip-Making Gear Drop to Lowest Since Mid-2020
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-22/china-s-imports-of-chip-making-gear-drop-to-lowest-since-mid-2020
Chinese firms bought $2.3 billion of machines to make chips
US increased export restrictions, pressuring allies to do same
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Intel Splits Out Its Graphics Group
Dec. 22, 2022
The company separated its GPU group into two divisions, one focusing on gaming and the other on the data center.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/resources/industry-insights/article/21256892/jon-peddie-research-intel-splits-graphics-group
Intel reasoned it could do what AMD and NVIDIA did by using a single, scalable GPU core (Xe) design and service multiple market segments such as gaming, notebooks (Xe-HPG), data center, and AI acceleration (Xe-HPC)—and they can, and are. But, those segments in Intel represent different fiefdoms with different ambitions, executive bonuses, and resource allocations.
All GPU market segments had been placed under Raja Koduri’s leadership, and he pulled in Intel’s one-size-fits-all API—oneAPI. All of that can be accomplished at the device level, but it’s simply too much for any one person to manage three to five business centers that also involve companion CPU and network processors.
Graphics Division Gets Divided
In the second half of December 2022, Intel announced it was splitting up its graphics group to separately address the gaming and data-center markets by placing it under two other business units. Koduri, who was the executive vice president of the AXG business unit, will go back to his role as Intel’s chief architect for GPUs. A setup not unlike that of AMD and NVIDIA.
Koduri’s business unit operated independently and labored to get its products to market on a schedule it had announced. It now has GPUs for consumer PCs and for accelerator chips used by data centers and supercomputers, as well as the Flex series for intelligent visual cloud/edge computing.
Intel said it remains fully committed to its existing roadmap of Arc consumer discrete GPUs, and that the recently launched Alchemist series will be joining by its second-generation Battlemage and third-gen Celestial gaming GPUs as planned.
Koduri will work on high-performance technical programs and lead the integration of GPU, CPU, and AI architectures that will show up in products like Falcon Shores and Intel’s zettascale ambitions.
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Qianer Liu / Financial Times:
Experts say Hua Hong, China’s second-largest chip foundry, is barely affected by US sanctions and its focus on older chips could make it Beijing’s new favorite — US restrictions on advanced tech help foundry benefit from Beijing’s shifting view of the semiconductor supply chain
Hua Hong gives China new hope with old chip technology
https://www.ft.com/content/76d153a1-968b-4d3d-92b5-7827d1d1dfa0
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Justin Garrison / Justin Garrison:
Stack Overflow’s 2022 Developer Survey: 40.2% use a Linux-based system, up from 25.3% in 2021 and 23.2% in 2018, compared to 62.3% for Windows and 31.1% for Mac — Thanks to the 2022 StackOverflow developer survey we can finally say 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop!
2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop
https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/year-of-linux-desktop/
Thanks to the 2022 StackOverflow developer survey we can finally say 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop!
Linux as a primary operating system had been steadily climbing for the past 5 years. 2018 through 2021 saw steady growth with 23.2% , 25.6% , 26.6% , 25.3% , and finally in 2022 the usage was 40.23%. Linux usage was more than macOS in 2021, but only by a small margin. 2022 it is now 9% more than macOS.
There is a slight difference between all respondents and professional developers, but that doesn’t take into account the 15% of WSL users on Windows or the 63% respondents that use Docker which uses a Linux VM on macOS and Windows.
It’s safe to say more people use Linux as part of their development workflow than any other operating system.
2022 also saw more than a million people gaming on Linux via the Steam deck. It has been quite a year of Linux desktop usage.
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Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware:
Jon Peddie Research: there are 18 companies globally developing and producing GPUs; eight out of the 11 PC and data center GPU designers are based in China — There are 18 GPU developers worldwide today. — The number of GPU startups in China is extraordinary as the country tries …
The Rise of China GPU Makers: AI and Tech Sovereignty Drive New GPU Entrants
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ai-and-tech-sovereignity-drive-number-of-gpu-developers-in-china
The number of GPU startups in China is extraordinary as the country tries to gain AI prowess as well as semiconductor sovereignty, according to a new report from Jon Peddie Research. In addition, the number of GPU makers grew worldwide in recent years as demand for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and graphics processing increased at a rather unprecedented rate. When it comes to discrete graphics for PCs, AMD and Nvidia maintain lead, whereas Intel is trying to catch up.
GPU Microarchitecture Is Relatively Easy, Hardware Design Is Expensive
Meanwhile, it should be noted that while there are a bunch of GPU developers, only two can actually build competitive discrete GPUs for PCs. That is perhaps because it is relatively easy to develop a GPU architecture, but it is truly hard to properly implement it and to design proper drivers.
CPU and GPU microarchitectures are essentially at the intersection of science and art. They are sets of sophisticated algorithms that can be developed by rather small groups of engineers, but they might take years to develop, says Peddie.
“[Microarchitectures] get done on napkins and white boards,” said Peddie. “[As for costs] if it is just the architects themselves, that [team] can be as low as one person to maybe three – four. [But] architecture of any type, buildings, rocket ships, networks or processors is a complicated chess game. Trying to anticipate where the manufacturing process and standards will be five years away, where the cost-performance tradeoffs are, what features to add and what to drop or ignore is very tricky and time-consuming work. […] The architects spend a lot of time in their head running what-if scenarios — what if we made the cache 25% bigger, what if we had 6,000 FPUs, should we do a PCIe 5.0 I/O will it be out in time.”
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Another step towards technological self-sufficiency
Huawei patents EUV lithography tools used to make <10nm chips
Another step towards technological self-sufficiency
https://www.techspot.com/news/97072-huawei-patents-euv-lithography-tools-used-make-10nm.html
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WSJ: Sirupula alkaa helpottaa, ja siksi uuden tietokoneen voi nyt saada halvalla
Tietokonevalmistaja HP:n mukaan pc-tietokoneita voi nyt löytää poikkeuksellisen edullisesti.
https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000009292302.html
MAAILMAA koronaviruspandemian jälkimainingeissa piinannut sirupula alkaa näyttää helpottamisen merkkejä, uutisoi amerikkalainen talouslehti The Wall Street Journal.
Lehden mukaan useiden suurien siruvalmistajien varastot ovat nyt poikkeuksellisen täynnä.
Esimerkiksi muistisiruja valmistava Micron Technology kertoi viime viikolla, että se aikoo vähentää henkilöstönsä määrää 10 prosentilla ensi vuoden aikana.
”Kysynnän ja tarjonnan epäsuhdasta johtuen, uskomme kannattavuuteemme kohdistuvan haasteita koko vuoden 2023 ajan”, sanoi yhtiön toimitusjohtaja Sanjay Mehrotra viime keskiviikkona uutistoimisto Reutersin mukaan.
SIRUPULAN helpottaminen johtuu talouden yleisestä alhosta. Hintojen ja korkojen nousun takia ihmisillä on aiempaa vähemmän rahaa kulutettavanaan. Se on vähentänyt elektroniikan kysyntää ja sitä kautta myös helpottanut sirupulaa.
Micron sets 10% job cuts in 2023 due to ‘supply-demand mismatch’
https://www.reuters.com/technology/micron-forecasts-quarterly-revenue-above-expectations-2022-12-21/
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Behind the rise of “cozy” games that encourage players to take their time in open worlds devoid of competition and went from niche to video game fixture in 2022
In 2022, cozy games went from niche to video game fixture
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/27/23523251/cozy-games-animal-crossing-stardew-world-of-warcraft-dragonflight
TikTok and Instagram brought together a community of gamers obsessed with comfort over competition.
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Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC begins mass producing its next-gen 3nm chips in Taiwan, which need ~35% less power than 5nm chips, following Samsung, and also promised to build 2nm plants
TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-29/tsmc-mass-produces-next-gen-chips-to-safeguard-global-lead
Firm mass produces 3 nm chips, to adopt 2nm in Taiwan plants
Concern grows over global reliance on Taiwan for high-end tech
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Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware:
Report: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and others are slashing their TSMC orders, which could reduce the contract manufacturer’s Q1 2023 sales by an estimated 15% QoQ — Large customers revise orders to TSMC due to the economy slowdown. — Being the world’s No. 1 foundry, TSMC was almost immune …
AMD, Intel, and Nvidia Reportedly Slash Orders with TSMC
By Anton Shilov
published 2 days ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-intel-nvidia-slash-orders-to-tsmc
Large customers revise orders to TSMC due to the economy slowdown.
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New York Times:
Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye banking, retail, health care, and manufacturing amid tech layoffs — Most tech jobs are now in mainstream industries like health care, banking and retail, which are increasingly in need of workers with digital skills.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/business/silicon-valley-tech-talent-mainstream-industries.html
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Washington Post:
Sources: Meta is struggling to move hardware manufacturing out of China; after abandoning its smartwatch plans, the company is still working on a wrist wearable — The company needs China’s factories as it pushes to become a hardware producer — SAN FRANCISCO — For more than a year …
Made-in-China labels become a problem for Meta’s anti-China stance
The company needs China’s factories as it pushes to become a hardware producer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/31/facebook-china-label/
SAN FRANCISCO — For more than a year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a point of stoking fears about China. He’s told U.S. lawmakers that China “steals” American technology and played up nationalist concerns about threats from Chinese-owned rival TikTok.
But now Meta has a growing problem: The social media service wants to transform itself into a powerhouse in hardware, and it makes virtually all of it in China.
So the company is racing to get out.
That transition has been harder than expected. While hardware giants like Apple have moved some production to places like India and Vietnam in recent years — responding to growing tariffs, former president Donald Trump’s trade war, and rising wages in China — Facebook has hit walls, say three people familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations.
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Verizon decommissioned its 3G network on December 31, the last major US carrier to do so after AT&T and T-Mobile turned off their services in February and March
Farewell to 3G
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/31/23490721/3g-sunset-verizon-history-december-2022
Verizon’s in the process of kicking the remaining customers off its old network — the last one in the US.
It’s well and truly curtains for 3G, one of the key technologies that helped usher in the age of the smartphone. Throughout December, Verizon has been disconnecting its customers who were still using the tech, cutting off their phones’ ability to use data, make calls, and send texts. It was the last major US carrier to do so — AT&T turned off its 3G service in February, and T-Mobile started winding its old networks down the month after.
Verizon customers with 3G devices have had plenty of warning. It previously said the network would be going offline in 2019, but with one delay after another, the date has slowly been pushed back to December 31st, 2022. In the meantime, it’s sent people new, LTE-capable phones, as well as letters explaining exactly what’s going to happen. Verizon has told customers with 3G devices that their lines will be suspended starting the day before their December billing cycle begins, according to Fierce Wireless.
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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the longest tech boom so far, including crypto’s rise and fall, VR falling short of its hype, the marketplace economy’s growth, pizza robots, and more — From pizza robots to the crypto meltdown, the long bubble has shown us the hilarious, the regrettable, and the unexpectedly triumphant
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The Craziest Moments From the Longest Tech Boom (So Far)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-craziest-moments-from-the-longest-tech-boom-so-far-11672441140?mod=djemalertNEWS
From pizza robots to the crypto meltdown, the long bubble has shown us the hilarious, the regrettable, and the unexpectedly triumphant
It’s been a singular year for tech, one that marked the apparent end to a heady, madcap boom that changed how we think about the industry.
Over the past dozen or so years, a tidal wave of money poured into a collection of technologies—from cloud computing and artificial intelligence to smartphones and two-sided marketplaces—that transformed whole industries and changed many aspects of how we live and work. Major businesses were born or grew into global giants, proving the durability of Silicon Valley’s underlying inspiration: that ideas that seem crazy or unworkable at first may yet prevail.
At the same time, the era of tech since the 2008-09 financial crisis produced a lot of ridiculous experiments, laughable products and oft-repeated mistakes.
To jog our memories, here are just a few highlights—and some deep cuts—from the past decade-plus of tech’s torrid growth:
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Brian Merchant / The Atlantic:
Meta’s dramatic implosion, Elon Musk’s Twitter train wreck, and Amazon’s labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech
The End of the Silicon Valley Myth
The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/big-tech-fall-twitter-meta-amazon/672598/
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Wall Street Journal:
Predictions for 2023: Apple’s AR/VR headset debut, Big Tech belt tightening, Netflix password crackdown, AI in more tech tools, less talk of crypto, and more
The tech IPO market collapsed in 2022, and next year doesn’t look much better
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/29/tech-ipo-market-collapsed-in-2022-next-year-doesnt-look-much-better.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
In the introduction to last year’s retrospective, this engineer quoted John Lennon’s “Nobody told me there’d be days like these.” This year was thankfully more of a (Beatles) “Here comes the sun” situation, although the storm clouds stubbornly stuck around and haven’t yet dissipated….
A tech Look back at 2022: We can’t go back (And why would we want to?)
https://www.edn.com/a-tech-look-back-at-2022-we-cant-go-back-and-why-would-we-want-to/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/24/this-year-in-tech-felt-like-a-simulation/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
A look back at 2022 as a dismal year for startups, from plummeting investments to scarce public listings, as data suggests 2023 could be even more difficult — Founders and investors face potential further declines before venture-capital market recovers — Startups had a dismal year …
Startups End a Bruising 2022, Stare Down Another Challenging Year
Founders and investors face potential further declines before venture-capital market recovers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-end-a-bruising-2022-stare-down-another-challenging-year-11672527313?mod=djemalertNEWS
Tomi Engdahl says:
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the longest tech boom so far, including crypto’s rise and fall, VR falling short of its hype, the marketplace economy’s growth, pizza robots, and more — From pizza robots to the crypto meltdown, the long bubble has shown us the hilarious, the regrettable, and the unexpectedly triumphant
The Craziest Moments From the Longest Tech Boom (So Far)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-craziest-moments-from-the-longest-tech-boom-so-far-11672441140?mod=djemalertNEWS
From pizza robots to the crypto meltdown, the long bubble has shown us the hilarious, the regrettable, and the unexpectedly triumphant
Tomi Engdahl says:
I Have to Pirate COLOURS Now?? – Pantone Connect + Adobe split
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMWAY8Cdsz0
Pantone recently decided that their expensive plastic chips and colour matching binders were not making enough money. Now, even old files will stop working if you don’t pay up.
CHAPTERS
—————————————————
0:00 Intro
1:26 Who is Pantone and what do they do?
2:49 Adobe x Pantone comes to an end
3:50 That doesn’t make sense…
4:19 It’s literally just business
5:48 Adobe pockets the money and Pantone double-dips
7:51 Why is it bad when Pantone does it?
9:14 It’s not in itself as big a problem as you think
10:45 Some ways around the problem
11:48 DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE
12:23 You can’t own Creative Cloud
14:08 Adobe can do whatever they want and you have no say
15:30 Conclusion – Make some noise
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/03/2022-as-the-hardware-world-turns/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/17/these-are-the-2022-cnbc-disruptor-50-companies.html
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Tomi Engdahl says:
‘Elden Ring’ Was The Second Best-Selling Video Game Of 2022
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2023/01/18/elden-ring-was-the-second-best-selling-video-game-of-2022/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainFB&sh=3b5356456869
The top 20 best-selling games of 2022 were:
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Elden Ring
Madden NFL 23
God Of War: Ragnarök
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Pokémon: Scarlet/Violet
FIFA 23
Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Horizon II: Forbidden West
MLB: The Show 22
Mario Kart 8
Call Of Duty: Vanguard
Gran Turismo 7
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
NBA 2K23
Sonic Frontiers
Gotham Knights
Minecraft
Nintendo Switch Sports
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
As you can see, many of these are releases from previous years including several Nintendo Switch titles.
Tomi Engdahl says:
MWC23: Nokia kurottautuu pilveen – uusi logo lähes Kian tyyliin
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/02/26/nokialle-logo-lahes-kian-tyyliin-kurottautuu-pilveen/
Nokia julkisti tänään päivitetyn strategian, teknologiastrategian sekä uuden brändin Mobile World Congress 2023 -tapahtumassa Barcelonassa. Yhtiön logo muistuttaa tyyliltään paljolti korealaisen autonvalmistaja Kian aasialaista logotyyliä. Sillä mennään aina metaversiumiin asti.
Nokia esitteli Barcelonan mobiilimessuilla tähtäävänsä edelläkävijäksi tulevaisuuden pilviteknologiaan pohjautuvissa verkkoratkaisuissa aina metaversiumiin asti. Muutos on tulossa, sillä verkkojen merkitys kasvaa tulevaisuudessa, kun yritykset ympäri maailmaa panostavat digitalisaation hyödyntämiseen. ’
’Verkkojen todellisesta voimasta on nähty vasta häivähdys – tulevaisuuden kehittyneet, aistivat ja ajattelevat verkot eivät pelkästään yhdistä ihmisiä ja laitteita, vaan ne ovat mukautuvia, itsenäisiä ja helposti käytettäviä’’, sanoi Nokian toimitusjohtaja Pekka Lundmark Barcelonassa.
Nokia on saanut Lundmarkin mukaan jo ensimmäisen vaiheen eli teknologisen perustan kuntoon onnistuneesti päätökseen vuoden 2021 aikana. Vuonna 2022 yhtiö siirtyi strategian kiihdytysvaiheiseen ja aikoo jatkaa tämän eteenpäin viemistä sekä valmistautua skaalausvaiheeseen teknologiajohtajuuden ja kasvaneen asiakaskunnan vauhdittamina.
Päästäkseen uusiin tavoitteisiin Nokia keskittyy Lundmarkin mukaan erityisesti Nokia-brändin kehittämiseen, oikean osaamisen varmistamiseen, pitkän aikavälin tutkimus- ja kehitystyöhön erityisesti 6G:ssä sekä digitalisaation hyödyntämiseen omassa toiminnassaan. Siitä on saatu jo näyttöä kun yritys on saanut 5G-laitteiden piiri- ja teknologiakehityksen uuteen lentoon.
Tomi Engdahl says:
MIT mullistaa datan dekoodaamisen
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14626&via=n&datum=2023-02-23_15:15:14&mottagare=30929
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nokia taas ennätykseen kuidussa
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14629&via=n&datum=2023-02-23_15:15:14&mottagare=31202
Nokia ilmoitti tänään rikkoneensa kaksi optisen siirron ennätystä todellisissa kenttäkokeissa GlobalConnectin optisessa verkossa Euroopassa. Demonstraatiossa käytettiin Nokian kuudennen sukupolven PSE-6s-piirisarjaa, jonka avulla yllettiin 1,2 terabitin sekuntinopeuteen vain yhdellä aallonpituudella. Toisessa kokeessa data saatiin siirtymään 2019 kilometrin matka 800 gigabitin sekuntinopeudella.
1,2 terabitin nopeuteen päästiin käyttämällä 150 gigahertsin taajuutta GlobalConnectin WDM-verkossa. GlobalConnect operoi Pohjois-Euroopan suurinta yhteenliitettyä kuituverkkoa, jossa on yli 150 000 kilometriä kuitua.
Nokian PSE-6s -piirisarjalla päästään jopa 2,4 terabitin datanopeuteen, koska alusta tukee piirien välistä suoraa liitäntää. Tämän takia prosessorit voidaan ottaa käyttöön pareittain. Edellispolveen verrattuna ratkaisun siirtokyky kasvaa kolminkertaiseksi.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mobiiliverkkoihin sertifioitiin viime vuonna 649 laitetta
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14631&via=n&datum=2023-02-23_15:15:14&mottagare=30929
GCF eli Global Certification Forum on julkistanut sertifiointitilastonsa viime vuodelta. Kaikkiaan järjestö sertifioi 649 laitetta, joista 240 oli älypuhelimia. Langattomien moduulien sertifiointimäärä kasvoi edellisvuodesta selvästi ja oli nyt 238 eli käytännössä moduuleja sertifioitiin yhtä paljon kuin puhelimia.
5G:n osuus sertifioitujen laitteiden määrässä jatkoi kasvuaan viime vuonna. Älypuhelimista 5G-tuki oli 49 prosentilla sertifioiduista laitteista. Kaikista laitteista 5G löytyi joka kolmannesta. Suurin osa 5G-laitteista tuki ns. toisen polven tekniikkaa eli SA/standalone-yhteyksiä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
It-laitteiden myynti laskee tänäkin vuonna
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14628&via=n&datum=2023-02-23_15:15:14&mottagare=30929
Viime vuonna kuluttajat laittoivat rahaa uusiin tietokoneisiin, tablet-laitteisiin ja matkapuhelimiin 10 prosenttia vähemmän kuin vuonna 2021. Tänä vuonna lasku jatkuu viiden prosentin vauhdilla, kertoo osakekauppasivusto TradingPlatforms.com.
Arvion mukaan suurin syy kulutuksen vähentämiseen on inflaatio. Inflaatio murentaa edelleen kuluttajien ostovoimaa, mikä näkyy IT-laitteiden, kuten tietokoneiden, tablettien ja matkapuhelimien kysynnässä. IT-laitteiden kokonaiskulutus putoaa lähes 150 miljardilla dollarilla kahdessa vuodessa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Global Spending on PCs, Tablets and Mobile Phones to Drop by 5% in 2023, Following a 10% Decline Last Year
https://tradingplatforms.com/blog/2023/02/22/global-spending-on-pcs-tablets-and-mobile-phones-to-drop-by-5-in-2023-following-a-10-decline-last-year/
As inflation continues to crumble consumer purchasing power, the global demand for IT devices, such as PCs, tablets, and mobile phones, remains low. With consumer spending budgets cut down, and massive layoffs across industries, global spending on IT devices is set to drop for the second year in a row.
According to data presented by TradingPlatforms.com, global spending on PCs, tablets and mobile phones is expected to drop by 5% in 2023, following a 10% decline last year.
Total Spending on IT Devices Slumped by Almost $150B in Two Years
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees and consumers had technology refresh of tablets, laptops, and mobile phones, mainly due to remote work and education. Still, according to a Gartner survey, the economic uncertainty and pandemic-caused layoffs had a huge impact on IT devices spending, which dropped by 2% to $697bn in 2020.
In 2021, consumers and enterprises worldwide spent $807.6bn on PCs, tablets and mobile phones, showing a huge 15% growth year-over-year. Still, it was downhill from there, with IT devices now being the only IT market segment with a two-year decline.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Where Do You Utilize Hardware Test Equipment?
Feb. 15, 2023
COVID-19 changed when and where we worked. This also can dictate the type of equipment we have available to us.
https://www.mwrf.com/technologies/test-measurement/article/21260135/microwaves-rf-where-do-you-utilize-hardware-test-equipment?utm_source=RF+MWRF+Wireless+for+Consumers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230217089&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
Test equipment like oscilloscopes and digital multimeters are invaluable tools needed for developing new systems and diagnosing problems in existing systems (see figure). Costs can range from a few dollars to tens of thousands, and their size can be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand or take up a sizable chunk of a room.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The shift forgoes Epic’s allegedly “high quality” curatorial insight and instead just lets publishers pay $100 to get their game on the platform.
Get ready for a flood of self-published games on the Epic Games Store
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03/epic-opens-up-its-games-store-to-everyone-with-self-publishing-tools/?utm_source=facebook&utm_brand=ars&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned
Previous “high-quality” curation replaced by access for anyone who can pay $100 fee.
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