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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google previews Wear OS 4, offering improved battery life and accessibility features, new tools for building watch faces in collaboration with Samsung, and more
Google previews Wear OS 4 with better battery life, third-party watch face support
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-previews-wear-os-4-with-better-battery-life-third-party-watch-face-support/
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Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company won’t raise salaries for full-time employees in 2023 and plans to reduce its budget for bonuses and stock awards
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-will-not-give-employees-salary-raise-this-year-insider-2023-05-10/
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Google plans to roll out a redesigned Home app on May 11, with a Favorites tab, new device type support, and an eventual iOS update to support Matter devices
The new Google Home app is finally here
A much-needed update brings greater control and customizability. Plus, Google updates its iOS app to support Matter devices.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717404/google-home-app-release-date-features-matter-io
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Google says its Project Starline team shrunk the 3D video chat tech from the size of a booth to a large TV, which Salesforce, T-Mobile, and WeWork are testing
Google’s Holographic Project Starline Shrinks to the Size of a TV
Exclusive: Google’s vision of 3D conversational chats is going from booth to flat screen.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/googles-holographic-project-starline-shrinks-to-the-size-of-a-tv/
While most people have chosen to avoid wearing VR and AR headsets for one-on-one group chats, Google’s Project Starline envisions some sort of happy medium between corporate Zooms and a future of floating holograms. The glasses-free 3D technology, which I got to demo last year, was originally designed to be a room-size installation. The latest prototype shown at Google’s I/O developer conference now shows it’s shrunken to the size of a large TV.
According to a Google blog post, the new prototypes are already being tested in trial groups at Salesforce, T-Mobile and WeWork. The goal is to shrink the experience down to something closer to a “more traditional video conferencing system.”
Starline, created by some of the Google team that helped build the company’s Daydream VR platform years ago, is a surprisingly convincing and sometimes uncanny full-size video chat experience.
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google announces a competitor to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding, and AI-assisted coding in its no-code AppSheet tool
Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-launches-a-github-copilot-competitor/
At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding and Google Cloud services, as well as AI-assisted coding in Google’s no-code AppSheet product.
At the core of virtually all of these new code completion and code generation tools is Codey. Based on Google’s PaLM 2 large language model, the company specifically trained Codey to handle coding-related prompts, but it also trained the model to handle queries related to Google Cloud in general (all of this, by the way, falls under Google’s Duet AI branding).
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Google yrittää kolmannen kerran surkeille tablettimarkkinoille
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14955-google-yrittaeae-kolmannen-kerran-surkeille-tablettimarkkinoille
Tammi-maaliskuussa maailmassa myytiin 31,7 miljoonaa tablettitietokonetta. Luku on pienin pandemian alun jälkeen ja lähes viidenneksen pienempi kuin vuotta aikaisemmin. Tämä ei haittaa Googlea, joka esitteli eilen uuden tablettinsa. Google uskoo, että kolmas kerta sanoo toden.
Canalys-tutkimuslaitoksen mukaan Apple myi ensimmäisellä neljänneksellä 12,4 miljoonaa iPadia, mikä oli 39 prosenttia kokonaismarkkinasta. Samsung myi 6,7 miljoonaa tablettia eli Android-tableteista joka kolmannen.
Loput valmistajat tyytyvät pienempiin siivuihin. Amazon myi 2,5 miljoonaa tablettia, Lenovo 1,9 miljoonaa, Huawei 1,6 miljoonaa ja kaikki muut 6,6 miljoonaa.
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Oppo closes its chip design unit Zeku due to global economic uncertainty; Zeku developed the MariSilicon X image-processing chip used in Oppo’s flagship devices — Oppo, China’s biggest domestic smartphone maker, is closing its chip design business as the global smartphone market extends a prolonged decline.
Top Chinese Smartphone Maker Exits Chip Design as Sector Reels
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-12/oppo-closing-zeku-chip-design-arm-as-smartphone-industry-reels#xj4y7vzkg
Oppo, China’s biggest domestic smartphone maker, is closing its chip design business as the global smartphone market extends a prolonged decline.
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The streaming wars are over, and it’s time for media to figure out what’s next
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/10/streaming-wars-are-over-whats-next.html
KEY POINTS
The media and entertainment industry is currently focused on raising prices and cutting costs.
Disney lost 4 million Disney+ subscribers in the quarter, most of which came from India.
At some point, the industry will need a new growth narrative. The most obvious candidate is gaming.
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Developer logs: Apple tests an M3 with 12 CPU cores, 18 GPU cores, and 36GB of RAM; Meta pulls Messenger from Apple Watch and launches WhatsApp on WearOS — As Apple prepares to launch its next M2 Macs, the company is already ramping up testing of M3 chips.
Apple Begins Testing Speedy M3 Chips as It Pursues Mac Comeback
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-14/apple-m3-chip-mac-specifications-and-features-cpu-gpu-and-ram-increase-details-lhngxmx4
As Apple prepares to launch its next M2 Macs, the company is already ramping up testing of M3 chips. Also: Meta shows its true feelings about the Apple Watch, and the executive in charge of the TV+ business is leaving. Lastly, Final Cut Pro is coming to the iPad — and what that may mean for Apple’s mixed-reality headset.
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Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google barely mentioned the next Android version, Android 14, during the 2023 I/O keynote, as the company prioritizes continuous updates over annual OS upgrades
ndroid 14 played a surprisingly small role in Google’s I/O keynote
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/13/23720419/android-14-google-io-keynote-announcements
Google barely mentioned Android 14… and that might actually be a good thing for Android.
I asked Sameer Samat, VP of Android ecosystem, why Android 14 specifically got so little airtime. He said that as Google has implemented ways for Android devices to receive updates outside of a once-a-year platform upgrade, like Play System and app updates, it’s become necessary to frame things a little differently. “So this year, we thought it’s important to show people what’s new in Android from a user experience standpoint, regardless of the OS version. While some features that we announced will launch with Android 14, many will arrive in people’s hands through these continuous updates,” he says.
Rather than lumping together a lot of new features in an OS upgrade that will roll out slowly (or not at all) to certain devices, the company is sprinkling features throughout the year as updates to Google Photos or Gmail. That’s a good thing, and it’s a side effect of Google’s efforts to solve the familiar problems of Android’s fragmentation. Google has more levers to pull now to get feature updates and security fixes to Android phones faster. It just means fewer of those features getting built into big-numbered versions of the OS.
It also means that what’s leftover isn’t terribly exciting. Android 14 has been in beta for a while now, and so far, highlights include updates that I’d classify as nice-to-haves: a different look for the back navigation arrow, support for a new backward-compatible HDR image standard, and lossless audio over USB headphones. Not bad, but not the kind of stuff that gets people jazzed up during a keynote.
Google has more levers to pull now to get feature updates to Android phones faster
There’s also the fact that the smartphone market has achieved a kind of maturity that means year-over-year upgrades are less exciting than they once were. See also: basically every device announced last year. Device makers, including Google, are shifting the focus to the earbuds, watches, and tablets that they sell and how they all work together to make our lives easier — so the sales pitch goes. Phones just aren’t the stars of the show anymore, and neither is the software they run on.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14965-pcim-vakiinnutti-paikkansa-tehoelektroniikan-ykkoesmessuna
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14966-oppo-lakkautti-oman-piirien-suunnittelun
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14968-applen-m3-prosessori-voi-muuttaa-markkinaa-mutta-ei-niin-kuin-apple-haluaa
Apple kehittää jo kolmannen polven omia M-prosessorejaan tietokoneisiinsa. Nyt verkkoon on tihkunut huhuja siitä, mitä saattaa olla tulossa. M3-sarja voi todella mullistaa kannettavien tietokoneiden markkinat, mutta ei ehkä ole sitä, mitä Apple haluaa.
Esimerkiksi Bloomberg on uutisoinut työn alla olevista uusista suorittimista. Kannattaa muistaa, että tammi-maaliskuussa Applen tietokonekauppa putosi IDC:n mukaan 40,5 prosenttia vuodentakaisista luvuista. Yhtiön siis pitää keksiä jotain piristääkseen omien laitteidensa myyntiä jatkuvasti kutistuvilla PC-markkinoilla.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14969-nokia-tukiasemakaappi-leikkaa-radikaalisti-tehonkulutusta
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14967-kodin-wi-fi-verkko-6-gigahertsille
Wi-Fi 6E on tekniikka, joka laajentaa kodin tai toimiston lähiverkon myös 6 gigahertsin taajuuksille. Netgear on nyt ryhtynyt myymään 6E-yhteensopivaa Orbi 960 -reititintä myös yksittäin. Paremmalle kaistalle ja kapasiteetille tulee kyllä hintaa, sillä reititin maksaa peräti 769 euroa.
RBKE960-reititin 6 GHz:n Wi-Fi-taajuusalueella neljän taajuusalueen teknologiaa, joka parantaa internetyhteyden nopeutta, tukee useampia laitteita ja vakauttaa yhteyden laatua. Laite tukee vanhoja 2,4 ja 5 gigahertsin taajuuksia sekä uutta 6E-tekniikkaa. Neljäs taajuus on optiona saatava 5 gigahertsin satelliittiyhteys.
Reitittimessä on 10 gigabitin WAN-liitännän lisäksi kolme 2,5 gigabitin LAN-porttia, joihin voi liittää esimerkiksi kotipalvelimet tai muut laitteet, jotka vaativat erittäin korkeita siirtonopeuksia.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/tekniset-artikkelit/14972-taessae-neljae-megatrendiae-ic-piirisuunnitteluun
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14976-adi-laajentaa-tutkimusta-irlannissa-jaettipanostuksella
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https://etn.fi/index.php/tekniset-artikkelit/14972-taessae-neljae-megatrendiae-ic-piirisuunnitteluun
Megatrendi 1 – Järjestelmätoimittajien vertikaalinen integroituminen IC-suunnittelussa
Megatrendi 2 – Holistinen järjestelmäsuunnittelu (elektroniikan konvergenssi, mekaniikan ja ohjelmoinnin maailmat monipuolisina digitaalisina kaksosina)
Megatrendi 3 – 3D IC:stä tulossa valtavirtaa ja chipletit kiinnostuksen kohteena
Megatrendi 4 – Tekoäly ja koneoppiminen nyt kaikissa EDA-työkaluissa ja uusia EDA-innovaatioita tulossa
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SIM-kortin saattohoito alkaa tänä vuonna
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14971-sim-kortin-saattohoito-alkaa-taenae-vuonna
Jokainen tuntee SIM-kortin, jonka koko on vuosien varrella kutistunut jatkuvasti. Jo tänä vuonna SIM-kortti joutuu vähemmistöön, kun eSIM-sirujen osuus markkinoista kasvaa. Pian sen rinnalle on tulossa iSIM eli silloin käyttäjän tunnistaminen tapahtuu pelkän sovellusprosessorilla ajettavan koodin avulla.
Kaleido Researchin tuoreen ennusteen mukaan eSIM- ja iSIM-tunnistus löytyy tiensä 4,4 miljardiin laitteeseen vuonna 2028. eSIM-piirien käännekohta markkinoilla on 2023. Kaikkiaan eSIM- ja iSIM-käyttäjien määrä kasvaa vuosittain 63 prosentin vauhtia.
Sulautettu SIM:n eli eSIM-sirun yleistyminen on ollut aiemmin ennakoitua hitaampaa. Kaleidosin mukaan tähän vaikutti ennen kaikkea koronaepidemia, jonka takia eSIM-sirulla varustettujen keskihintaluokan puhelimien lanseerauksia myöhästytettiin.
Nyt suurin osa operaattoreista tukee eSIMin käyttöönottoa. Tekniikka tekee nyt vauhdilla tuloaan myös keskihintaluokan puhelimiin. Iso vaikutus tulee olemaan tuleva 3GPP_n SGP.32-määritys, joka käytännössä tuo eSIM-piirit IoT-laitteisiin.
SGP.32-spesifikaatio
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Oululaisprofessorit: tekoäly on avustaja, ei hallitsija
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14970-oululaisprofessorit-tekoaely-on-avustaja-ei-hallitsija
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14977-mediatekin-uusi-on-tehomylly-mutta-paljon-parempaa-on-tulossa
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Monica Chin / The Verge:
Framework Laptop 13 review: fully user-repairable, DIY kits, a 3:2 screen, long battery life, and better audio but pricey, a generic look, and a plasticky build
Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true
The 2023 Framework Laptop 13 remains a DIY dream while fixing many of the 2022 Framework Laptop’s biggest issues.
https://www.theverge.com/23725039/framework-laptop-13-2023-intel-review
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Is the Future of the Datasheet Interactive?
May 16, 2023
The new interactive datasheets from Nexperia aim to help engineers evaluate components with ease.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/power/article/21266041/electronic-design-is-the-future-of-the-datasheet-interactive?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230504039&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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https://www.engadget.com/whatsapp-now-lets-you-use-your-account-on-multiple-phones-163158921.html
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https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/intelin-historian-rumin-mahalasku-pian-heiluu-kirves/25dc290a-0486-435c-af62-2e92faaf90a5
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Kiinalainen piirivalmistaja esitteli ylpeänä uutta ja tehokasta suoritinta – epäillään Intelin vanhaksi prosessoriksi
https://muropaketti.com/tietotekniikka/tietotekniikkauutiset/kiinalainen-piirivalmistaja-esitteli-ylpeana-uutta-ja-tehokasta-suoritinta-epaillaan-intelin-vanhaksi-prosessoriksi/
Kiinalainen piirivalmistaja PowerLeader esitteli 1. sukupolven x86 -suorittimen nimeltään PowerStar, joka on suunnattu Kiinan sisämarkkinoille. PowerLeader väittää suorittimen olevan erittäin tehokas ja paljon nopeampi kuin tämän hetken muut kotimaiset suorittimet.
Se on tarkoitus tuoda myyntiin lähiaikoina, ja suorittimen arkkitehtuurin nimeksi PowerLeader on antanut ”storm core”. PowerLeader odottaa toimittavansa 1,5 miljoonaa PowerStar P3-01105 -suoritinta vuodessa.
Asiantuntijat epäilevät, että kyseessä ei olisi PowerLeaderin oma suoritin. Se nimittäin näyttää identtiseltä Intel Core i3-10105(F) ”Comet Lake” -suorittimelta, jossa on neljä ydintä ja kahdeksan säiettä.
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Google passkeys are a no-brainer. You’ve turned them on, right?
The passkey ecosystem is far from complete, but Google’s implementation is now ready to use.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/passwordless-google-accounts-are-easier-and-more-secure-than-passwords-heres-why/
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AMD is steadily taking over the upper tiers of computing performance.
AMD Now Powers 121 of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
By Paul Alcorn published 1 day ago
AMD’s silicon churns out the flops.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-now-powers-121-of-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=tomsguide
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” deal with Broadcom to develop and manufacture 5G and wireless components, including FBAR filters, in the US — Apple has announced a major new partnership with Broadcom, one of its long-time supplier partners.
Apple expands US investment with new multibillion-dollar Broadcom deal for 5G tech
https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/23/apple-broadcom-investement-announcement/
Apple has announced a major new partnership with Broadcom, one of its long-time supplier partners. This new partnership, which Apple says is a “multibillion-dollar deal,” will see Broadcom develop and build a number of key 5G radio frequency components in the United States.
In a press release on Tuesday, Apple announced:
Today Apple announced a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement with Broadcom, a leading U.S. technology and advanced manufacturing company. Through this collaboration, Broadcom will develop 5G radio frequency components — including FBAR filters — and cutting-edge wireless connectivity components. The FBAR filters will be designed and built in several key American manufacturing and technology hubs, including Fort Collins, Colorado, where Broadcom has a major facility.
Apple says that it already helps support more than 1,100 jobs at Broadcom’s FBAR filter manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. The partnership with Apple will allow Broadcom to “continue to invest in critical automation projects and upskilling with technicians and engineers.”
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Maailman ensimmäinen täysin lyijytön muistimoduuli
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/15002-maailman-ensimmaeinen-taeysin-lyijytoen-muistimoduuli
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/15003-autotallista-miljardiyritykseksi-rutronik-on-50-vuotias
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/15004-swappie-lupaa-premium-vaihdokeille-uudenveroisen-akun
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft launches Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform that centers on the company’s OneLake data lake, but also works with Amazon S3 and soon GCP
Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/microsoft-launches-fabric-a-new-end-to-end-data-and-analytics-platform/
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https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/robotics/video/21266465/electronic-design-working-dogbot-robot-loaded-with-sensors-and-cameras?utm_source=EG+ED+Connected+Solutions&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230518094&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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The Verge:
Sony announces a handheld device, known as Project Q, with an 8-inch screen for streaming games from a PS5 via Remote Play over Wi-Fi, launching later in 2023 — Sony has officially confirmed it’s working on a PlayStation handheld to make it easier to play your PS5 games.
Sony’s new Q handheld is official: 8-inch screen, streams PS5 games
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/24/23736595/sony-project-q-playstation-handheld-official-showcase
/ Sony’s “Project Q” portable device is coming later this year to Remote Play games from your PlayStation 5 over Wi-Fi.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: some Meta employees say important work has been at a standstill and the company’s 2023 product roadmap is undecided, as its final round of layoffs ends — Meta Platforms Inc. employees received news Wednesday of the final round of previously announced job cuts …
Meta’s ‘Efficiency’ Layoffs Take a Toll on Employee Productivity
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-24/meta-caps-rounds-of-job-cuts-offering-staff-a-cold-clarity#xj4y7vzkg
While waiting on job cuts, workers felt uncertain about priorities and their own futures
Meta Platforms Inc. employees received news Wednesday of the final round of previously announced job cuts, which affected thousands of workers in the company’s business departments. Now, remaining staff are hoping an uncomfortable limbo at the company can end.
The layoffs complete the bulk of the restructuring Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced in March to eliminate 10,000 positions. Initial reductions affected the company’s recruiting and human resources departments, and in late April jobs in Meta’s tech groups were slashed. Zuckerberg has said further cuts will come in only a “small number of cases” for the rest of the year, giving those people left a cold sense of relief.
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google expands Play Games Beta on PC to Europe and New Zealand, bringing the offering to 56 countries total and over 100 Android games — As telegraphed earlier this year, the Google Play Games on PC Beta is now available in Europe and New Zealand. … This is a big expansion …
Google brings Play Games for PC Beta to Europe in big expansion
https://9to5google.com/2023/05/24/google-play-games-pc-europe/
This is a big expansion, with the beta previously limited to 13 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States. With this expansion to Europe and New Zealand, the Play Games PC Beta is now available in 56 countries.
Meanwhile, over 100 Android games are now available on PC. Google first teased the effort in December of 2021 to expand its multiscreen gaming platform from Android phones, tablets, and ChromeOS to Windows.
You need a 4-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, 10GB of free SSD space, Intel UHD Graphics 630 or comparable, and at least Windows 10 (v2004). However, Google recommends a “Gaming-class GPU – like Nvidia GeForce MX450,”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Anna Gross / Financial Times:
Sources: after closing Arm Research last year, Arm plans to limit “blue sky” research and focus on commercially viable products, ahead of this year’s IPO
https://www.ft.com/content/60c023d5-78d1-45eb-ad18-28894e2ab72d
Tomi Engdahl says:
Stephen Witt / Rest of World:
An influx of digital nomads, about half from the US, to Medellín, Mexico City, and other cities boosts local economies, but locals complain of being priced out
https://restofworld.org/2023/digital-nomads-visa-pricing-out-locals/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg:
European gaming giant Embracer says a “groundbreaking strategic partnership” worth $2B+ collapsed and slashes its 2023 profit forecast; EMBRAC-B drops 40%+
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-24/gaming-firm-embracer-slashes-forecast-after-2-billion-deal-lost#xj4y7vzkg
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tom Warren / The Verge:
AMD’s $269 Radeon RX 7600 and Nvidia’s $399 RTX 4060 Ti both disappoint for 1440p gaming, are more suited for 1080p, but offer good performance at their prices
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/24/23734022/nvidia-rtx-4060-ti-amd-rx-7600-gpu-graphics-card-benchmark-test
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intel Announces an Integrated Neural AI Accelerator in Meteor Lake
The so-called VPU will be part of the SoC tile on Intel’s 14th generation CPUs.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-announces-an-integrated-neural-ai-accelerator-in-meteor-lake
Tomi Engdahl says:
Zen 5 Leak: AMD Will Continue to Offer a 16-Core, 170W Flagship CPU
The company will stick with 16 cores on its flagship offering for the third generation in a row.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/zen-5-leak-amd-will-continue-to-offer-a-16-core-170w-flagship-cpu
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.edn.com/why-embedded-chipmakers-are-acquiring-ml-software-firms/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Leaked Gigabyte Roadmap Suggests 600W CPUs Are Coming Sooner Than You Think
https://hothardware.com/news/leaked-gigabyte-roadmap-600w-cpus
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-to-drop-core-i-branding-in-favor-of-core-ultra-for-meteor-lake
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/microsoft-launches-fabric-a-new-end-to-end-data-and-analytics-platform/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intel wants feeback for a proposed 64-bit only CPU architecture called x86S
https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-wants-feeback-for-a-proposed-64-bit-only-cpu-architecture-called-x86s/
Right now, 64-bit apps and operating systems are becoming the norm, rather than the exception, for Windows users. Microsoft stopped offering 32-bit versions of Windows to its PC OEM partners in 2020. However, current CPUs, including ones made by Intel, still support running apps and OSs with 32-bit platforms.
Now, Intel is starting to at least think about developing a CPU architecture that just runs 64-bit apps and operating systems. The company quietly posted an update to its webpage with info, and a whitepaper on this 64-bit CPU, which it currently calls x86S.
Intel points out that right now, current CPUs have to go through older legacy modes. However, they offer “little utility in modern operating systems besides bootstrapping the CPU into the 64-bit mode.”
Intel claims that a 64-bit CPU would help to simplify both the software and hardware designs of such a chip by getting rid of older software development ideas.
Tomi Engdahl says:
This palm-sized PC might contain the future of gadget cooling / Could AirJet replace the fan? Frore’s first real test is coming this year.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23733592/frore-airjet-zotac-mini-desktop-pc-zbox-pi430aj-price
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intel proposes the x86-S architecture for a simpler, more efficient CPU instruction set
It’s finally the end of the x86-compatible PC as we know it.
https://www.techspot.com/news/98773-intel-proposes-x86-s-architecture-simpler-more-efficient.html