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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Exclusive: US, Dutch set to hit China’s chipmakers with one-two punch
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-dutch-set-hit-chinas-chipmakers-with-one-two-punch-2023-06-29/
The United States and the Netherlands are set to deliver a one-two punch to China’s chipmakers this summer by further restricting sales of chipmaking equipment, part of the countries’ ongoing effort to prevent their technology from being used to strengthen China’s military.
While the Dutch are planning to curb certain equipment from national champion ASML, and other companies, the U.S. is expected to go one step further and use its long reach to withhold even more Dutch equipment from specific Chinese fabs.
The Dutch government and ASML declined to comment
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US plans to require AWS and other cloud providers to seek permission before providing services that use advanced AI chips to Chinese customers — Biden administration proposal, aimed at closing loophole in chip export controls, could escalate tit-for-tat fight with Beijing
U.S. Looks to Restrict China’s Access to Cloud Computing to Protect Advanced Technology
Biden administration proposal, aimed at closing loophole in chip export controls, could escalate tit-for-tat fight with Beijing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-looks-to-restrict-chinas-access-to-cloud-computing-to-protect-advanced-technology-f771613?mod=djemalertNEWS
Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal:
At a Shanghai event, Chinese chipmakers and suppliers were grim but defiant about US plans to widen export controls; YMTC urged suppliers to show “integrity”
China’s Chip Industry Braces for Further Sanctions With Concerns and Defiance
Chairman of memory-chip maker YMTC calls on tool makers to ship parts the company ordered before it was blacklisted
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-chip-industry-grim-but-defiant-as-new-u-s-sanctions-loom-73789348?mod=djemalertNEWS
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Suurvaltojen välillä on käynnissä ”sirujen sota”, sanoo yhdysvaltalaisprofessori – pahimmillaan se uhkaa koko maailmantaloutta
https://yle.fi/a/74-20038432
Maailman kehittyneimmistä siruista 90 prosenttia valmistetaan Taiwanissa. Siis saarella, jota Kiina väittää omakseen ja jota Yhdysvallat lupaa puolustaa. Se on valtava riski, sanoo yhdysvaltalaisprofessori.
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Apple just eclipsed a $3 trillion valuation. Here are 8 things the iPhone maker is now bigger than, including France’s economy and India’s entire stock market
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/apple-bigger-than-france-economy-india-stock-market-3-trillion-2023-7?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=business-sf&fbclid=IwAR0EuLLTPI4tLX_rhvnN44NF2meuGClsRtZhFrqo095IiHPCO1F3pbcp0AQ
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Top tech analyst Dan Ives says the A.I. ‘gold rush’ is just like the dotcom boom but it’s a ‘1995 moment … not 1999’
https://fortune.com/2023/06/12/ai-dot-com-boom-tech-analyst-dan-ives/?fbclid=IwAR0XtXB4XlEtj-qGikvvLZI2vI4vXOI4VmhcelTcX5qpq0IL8_K4TWADw7o
Ever since the release of OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT in November, investors have been enamored with A.I. and its potential to revolutionize the world’s economy. Hopes for a future with increased productivity and lower costs as A.I. tools are rolled out to the masses have helped to lift markets in 2023 despite stubborn inflation, rising interest rates, and consistent recession predictions from economists. After dropping more than 30% in 2022, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has recovered nearly all of its losses, gaining over 28% year to date, and the S&P 500 is now up more than 12%.
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Financial Times:
South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are assessing the fallout from China’s limits on chipmaking chemicals gallium and germanium; Japan imported $203.2M worth in 2022
China’s curb on metal exports reverberates across chip sector
https://www.ft.com/content/2fa865a7-176f-4292-8842-38bb6470d732?list=intlhomepage
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Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 26 in Seoul at 7am ET, where the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, Watch 6, and new tablets are expected — Samsung has announced it’s hosting its next Unpacked on July 26th at 7AM ET — bright and early for the east coast …
Samsung’s next folding phones arrive on July 26th
/ Mark your calendars and plan to bring your own coffee for the livestream.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/5/23784750/samsung-galaxy-unpacked-july-2023-seoul-z-flip-fold-5
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Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
TSMC does not expect China’s gallium and germanium export curbs to have any “impact on TSMC’s production”; a Chinese official said the rules are “just a start”
TSMC foresees no direct impact on production from China’s metal export curbs
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-does-not-expect-direct-production-impact-chinas-metal-export-curbs-2023-07-06/
TAIPEI, July 6 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s TSMC (2330.TW), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said on Thursday it does not expect any direct impact on its production from China’s decision to restrict exports of two metals widely used
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Fairphone and Murena partner to launch the user-repairable, modular Fairphone 4 in the US for $599+, unlocked and running the Google-free /e/ OS, not Android
This environmentally conscious smartphone is finally coming to the US
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/5/23783714/murena-fairphone-4-us-release-date-price-sustainability-repair
/ The Murena Fairphone 4 is available for $599 and runs on a Google-free /e/ operating system instead of the standard Android OS.
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Michael Shirer / IDC:
Global public cloud services revenue hit $545.8B in 2022, up 22.9% YoY; SaaS-Applications led with 45%+ of the revenue, then IaaS with 21.2%, and PaaS with 17%
Worldwide Public Cloud Services Revenues Surpass $500 Billion in 2022, Growing 22.9% Year Over Year, According to IDC Tracker
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS51009523
NEEDHAM, Mass., July 6, 2023 – Worldwide revenue for the public cloud services market totaled $545.8 billion in 2022, an increase of 22.9% over 2021. Software as a Service – Applications (SaaS – Applications) continued to be the largest source of public cloud services revenue, accounting for more than 45% of the total in 2022. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) was the second largest revenue category with 21.2% of the total while Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service – System Infrastructure Software (SaaS – SIS) delivered 17.0% and 16.7% of overall revenue respectively. This is according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker.
“Given the economic challenges of the past year, it’s easy to conclude that we are in a period where a focus on constraining new expenditures and optimizing the use of existing cloud assets will dominate CIOs’ priorities and shape the fortunes of IT providers for the next several years. It’s also a very wrong conclusion. The assessment and use of AI, triggered by generative AI, is starting to dominate the planning and long term investment agendas of businesses and cloud providers will play a significant role in the evaluation and adoption of AI enablement services,” said Rick Villars, group vice president, Worldwide Research at IDC.
Spending with the leading providers of public cloud services further consolidated in 2022 with the combined revenue of the top 5 public cloud service providers – Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce Inc., Google, and Oracle – capturing more than 41% of the worldwide total and growing 27.3% year over year. With offerings in all four deployment categories, Microsoft remained in the top position in the overall public cloud services market with 16.8% share in 2022, followed by Amazon Web Services with 13.5% share.
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Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Google delays releasing its first fully custom Pixel chip by at least a year; instead of codename Redondo’s 2024 debut, codename Laguna is set for 2025
Inside Google’s Efforts to Develop Custom Chip for Pixel
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-googles-efforts-to-develop-custom-chip-for-pixel
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Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Atsuyoshi Koike, the CEO of chip startup Rapidus, which plans to invest ~$35B by 2027 to build 2nm chips in Japan and help the US to counter China
Japan’s Plan to Become a Chipmaking Champ Hinges on This Football-Loving Engineer
Startup Rapidus looks to invest $35 billion, work with U.S. to counter China’s tech ambitions
https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-plan-to-become-a-chipmaking-champ-hinges-on-this-football-loving-engineer-1b1911ab?mod=djemalertNEWS
In his rare off-hours, Atsuyoshi Koike, a 71-year-old Japanese engineer, likes to put on pads and play tailback in weekend football games.
Koike is carrying the ball for Japan in a different contest, this one with tens of billions of investment dollars and global economic security at stake. After slipping near the bottom of the semiconductor-manufacturing league, Tokyo once again wants to field a championship contender.
Koike heads a startup called Rapidus that plans to invest some $35 billion by 2027 building a factory in northern Japan to manufacture 2-nanometer chips, the current state-of-the-art design.
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MARK ZUCKERBERG’S TWITTER KILLER IS ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING APPS EVER
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mark-zuckerbergs-twitter-killer-is-one-of-the-fastest-growing-apps-ever?fbclid=IwAR2aPH7DJFnQr_SCTaiL1QaAuHHy4T2fCUOq9_XVoAArD1LvPe2qjH8OzXA
Instagram’s freshly-minted Twitter rival Threads is officially the most rapidly downloaded app in history.
As The New York Times reported on Thursday, the “Twitter killer” had been downloaded over 30 million times by that morning — just a day after it was made available to the public on Wednesday. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which previously held the record for the fastest-growing app ever, was downloaded a comparatively measly one million times in its first five days on the market.
“Feels like the beginning of something special,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company owns Messenger and WhatsApp in addition to Facebook and Instagram, wrote in a Threads post.
But the success hasn’t stopped there. By Friday morning the app reached over 70 million signups.
We’re sure the success of Meta’s Twitter rival isn’t sitting well with Twitter owner and billionaire Elon Musk, whose company has already threatened to sue Meta for allegedly copying his platform.
That said, Threads’ immediate success seems to hinge on several factors, not the least of them being the fact that Twitter’s infrastructure is actively crumbling as the result of Musk’s many missteps.
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Well-known PC hardware manufacturer, EVGA, seems to be quitting the PC business as reports cite that all employees have resigned.
EVGA Quitting PC Business? Rumors Allege That All Employees Including KINGPIN Have Resigned From Taiwan HQ
https://wccftech.com/evga-quitting-pc-business-all-employees-including-kingpin-have-resigned/
Well-known PC hardware manufacturer, EVGA, seems to be quitting the PC business as reports cite that all employees have resigned.
EVGA Ending PC Business Less Than A Year After Shuttering GPU Divison? Reports Cite KINGPIN & All Remaining Employees Have Resigned
Update #2: EVGA has confirmed that they are still very much in the PC buisness and none of their employees (including KINGPIN) has resigned.
Update #1: EVGA Spain has responded to TechpowerUp and it looks like the company is still active there, stating that “It’s just another day at the office”.
Last year in September, EVGA made a shocker of an announcement when it decided to quit the GPU business. The GPU division was considered to be the legs of the company, offering various options to customers and being one of the top brands within the US. The company also did not offer any new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series cards and while there were prototypes of such cards, the RTX 30 series remained EVGA’s last hurrah!
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EVGA could be forced to exit the PC market following mass resignations at the company’s HQ. Even KINGPIN has reportedly left EVGA.
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/misc_hardware/mass_resignations_-_evga_s_position_in_the_motherboard_market_appears_to_be_in_jeopardy/1?fbclid=IwAR27KbHFPg_3LBKrneyUllcAcCvA2EJOLc30NssQNvdBpjVAixJo-ZWg6rE
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Heavy-Lift Drones Growing in Popularity
June 29, 2023
Draganfly’s CEO discusses how the heavy-lift drone market is expanding for wildfire rescue, survey, inspection, military, and logistics applications.
https://www.mwrf.com/technologies/embedded/systems/video/21268714/electronic-design-heavylift-drones-growing-in-popularity?utm_source=RF+MWRF+Today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230630118&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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Intel kills its NUC line, but the tiny PC will live on
Intel’s belt-tightening continues as it hands off small-form-factor PC development to Lian Li, Cooler Master, and others.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1989175/intel-kills-its-nuc-line-but-the-tiny-pc-will-live-on.html
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Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler tumble as Microsoft expands in cybersecurity
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/palo-alto-networks-and-zscaler-tumble-as-microsoft-expands-in-security.html
KEY POINTS
Microsoft introduced products under the Secure Service Edge umbrella.
Some analysts cautioned that it’s early for the new products. Pricing information isn’t available yet.
Microsoft irtisanoo lisää – potkut 10 000 työntekijälle eivät riittäneet
Joakim Kullas12.7.202312:24|päivitetty12.7.202312:24TYÖELÄMÄDIGITALOUS
Yhtiö ei suostu kertomaan irtisanottavien tarkkaa määrää tai työrooleja.
https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/microsoft-irtisanoo-lisaa-potkut-10-000-tyontekijalle-eivat-riittaneet/0d3f407a-4e3a-4ec8-b1ba-d48176a5eb13
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https://hackaday.com/2023/07/08/the-other-way-to-fight-software-rental/
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https://hackaday.com/2023/07/07/show-em-what-youre-made-of-with-this-repair-logo/
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Europe is more of a fuzzy tech cloud than a functioning ecosystem
But there is hope on the horizon
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/european-startup-ecosystem/
One of the recurring questions is: How do we build a startup ecosystem? That’s an excellent question.
The beginnings of an ecosystem are there, but unlike in the U.S., where there are a handful of major hubs attracting the bulk of the talent and investment, in Europe, there is an appetite for experimentation that fails to fully settle into a coherent whole.
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-releases-its-first-open-source-computer-operating-system-2023-07-06/
China has released its first homegrown open-source desktop operating system, named OpenKylin, state media said, as the country steps up efforts to cut reliance on U.S. technology.
Released on Wednesday, and based on the existing open-source Linux operating system, China’s version was built by a community of about 4,000 developers, and is used in its space programme and industries such as finance and energy, they added.
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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/12vhpwr-safety-mechanism-rtx-4090
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AMD Instinct MI250 Sees Boosted AI Performance With PyTorch 2.0 & ROCm 5.4, Closes In On NVIDIA GPUs In LLMs
https://wccftech.com/amd-instinct-mi250-boosted-ai-performance-pytorch-2-0-rocm-5-4-closes-in-on-nvidia-gpus/
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https://www.pcgamer.com/thank-the-gpu-gods-a-new-graphics-card-power-connector-to-replace-the-troublesome-12vhpwr-connector/
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https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-working-on-an-updated-12v-2×6-power-connector-with-improved-safety
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Intel confirms Arrow Lake-S & Lunar Lake CPUs will support instructions for AVX-VNNI, SHA512, SM3, SM4 and LAM
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-arrow-lake-s-lunar-lake-cpus-will-support-instructions-for-avx-vnni-int16-sha512-sm3-sm4-and-lam
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https://www.techspot.com/news/99273-new-12v-specification-could-mean-end-melting-rtx.html
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https://www.techspot.com/news/99271-amd-ai-chips-punch-above-their-weight-mosaicml.html
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This rugged satellite-enabled Android phone looks nearly as sleek as an iPhone
The Cat S75 supports satellite communications and proves that rugged smartphones don’t have to look like tanks
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-rugged-satellite-enabled-android-phone-looks-nearly-as-sleek-as-an-iphone/
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Linux on saavuttanut ensimmäistä kertaa kolmen prosentin markkinaosuuden tietokoneiden käyttöjärjestelmistä.
Analytiikkayhtiön raportti: Linuxilla pyyhkii hyvin, macOS kasvattaa suosiotaan mutta Windowsin käyrä on laskusuunnassa
https://tekniikanmaailma.fi/analytiikkayhtion-raportti-linuxilla-pyyhkii-hyvin-macos-kasvattaa-suosiotaan-mutta-windowsin-kayra-on-laskusuunnassa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1UBRfLCfjVEdvqMbSqtzNMeI5Gu1AHZufQawOv1UMbYGHZci_qnsW66YE#Echobox=1689242241
Linux on saavuttanut ensimmäistä kertaa kolmen prosentin markkinaosuuden tietokoneiden käyttöjärjestelmistä.
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Filmmakers may soon be able to stabilize shaky video, change viewpoints and create freeze-frame, zoom and slow-motion effects – without shooting any new footage – thanks to an algorithm developed by researchers at Cornell University and Google Research.
“While this research is still in its early days, I’m really excited about potential future applications for both personal and professional use,” said Noah Snavely, a research scientist at Google Research and associate professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/07/software-creates-entirely-new-views-existing-video?fbclid=IwAR21nNMamgb33eXpRcedplzeLlTLeaVQ0K4AXi8oyTjkjVMvZKFa0iTAEPE
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Made in China: the new normal?
As European customers have widely grown accustomed to imported electronics and clothes from the region, shopping for cars made in China is much less common for them. But a different tide is underway, as Chinese car brands ramp up their quality, lead in technology while cutting costs. Europe’s electric shock wave is a window of opportunity for those manufacturers.
https://www.qcr.be/en/blog/22?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=quadriga_blogs&utm_term=lal&utm_content=blog_22_china_Facebook_Mobile_Feed&fbclid=IwAR0ni07yS3DpbJmrgwp8wzUy1vM1SeVJmC6XdJT-tNN6ki_Q61_Hd7dy6Eg_aem_AbqJk8l7x5TId4W6ZaQu93dQK-onk0G7_dMJz6uvYyK7y0V2JgoIJJtCA6dyoSDK-bXAOq4dopvJiFKo9cebV_8S
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AMD Says It Won’t Follow Intel’s P-Core & E-Core Hybrid Approach, Talks Zen 5, x86S & More
https://wccftech.com/amd-says-it-wont-follow-intel-p-core-e-core-hybrid-approach-talks-zen-5-x86s-more/
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AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D CPU reportedly feature 16 Zen 4 Cores & 128 MB Cache for enthusiast laptops.
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-9-7945hx3d-cpu-spotted-zen-4-cores-128-mb-3d-v-cache-enthusiast-laptops/
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Raportti: Älykelloista valtavirtaa ja TikTok on suositumpi kuin paperinen sanomalehti
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/07/25/alykelloista-on-tullut-valtavirtaa-ja-tiktok-on-jo-suositumpi-kuin-paperinen-sanomalehti/
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https://blog.samtec.com/post/why-did-pcie-6-0-adopt-pam4-there-are-many-reasons/
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https://videocardz.com/newz/a-12-core-amd-ryzen-8050-zen5-strix-point-apu-has-been-spotted?fbclid=IwAR2nlcxY-Mf44joQcojEf4jT2j-eZTvPUb5NAL4piUbickiRoLe2vE8PHio
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By Sayan Sen – After recently proposing x86S 64-bit only CPUs, Intel today introduces AVX10 which brings AVX-512 to its E-cores as well. The company is also debuting a new APX ISA that doubles GPRs. #Intel #AVX10 #APX #AMD #Ryzen
https://www.neowin.net/news/amd-to-lose-the-avx-512-upper-hand-thanks-to-intels-new-avx10-new-apx-makes-64-bit-better/?fbclid=IwAR1J9oHvIsbNcV3oyKibS0qmUS6OBF0vTN-z1M8qtjDNOFImuejm169JPjk
Back in June, y-Cruncher developer Alexander Yee criticized Intel’s decision to remove AVX-512 (Advanced Vector Extensions 512) from its 12th Gen (Alder Lake) and newer CPUs, calling it “a huge step back”. Yee found that Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series, which added AVX-512 support after Intel, was now performing up to 31% faster with the latest version of the benchmark. While AMD does not yet support all AVX-512 instructions, it will very likely do so in the future.
It looks like Intel itself was also quite aware of this and today the company debuted a new AVX10 ISA that brings more robust AVX-512 support for the future Intel CPUs. The major highlight of AVX10 is the support for AVX-512 on Efficiency cores (E-cores) as well, which was till now limited to P-cores (Performance cores) only.
Aside from AVX10, Intel has also debuted APX or Advanced Performance Extensions, which essentially doubles the number of general-purpose registers (GPRs) from 16 to 32 (r0 to r31). Intel states that APX code contains 10% fewer loads and 20% fewer stores than Intel64
While we are on the topic of Intel64, the company recently proposed a 64-bit-only x86S architecture and it is currently looking for community feedback.
https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-wants-feeback-for-a-proposed-64-bit-only-cpu-architecture-called-x86s/
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https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/19/how-to-fix-android-chrome-crashing-problem/#amp_tf=L%C3%A4hde%3A%20%251%24s&aoh=16898311627511&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ghacks.net%2F2023%2F07%2F19%2Fhow-to-fix-android-chrome-crashing-problem%2F
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Samsung Completes Initial GDDR7 Development: First Parts to Reach Up to 32Gbps/pin
https://www.anandtech.com/show/18963/samsung-completes-initial-gddr7-development-first-parts-to-reach-up-to-32gbpspin
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Android 4.4 KitKat is truly dead, loses Play Services support
With Play Services gone, it’s only a matter of time before you can’t log in.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/google-drops-play-services-support-for-android-4-4-kitkat-after-10-years/
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Framework Laptop 16
Framework Laptop 16 DIY Edition (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)
https://frame.work/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040
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https://www.eurogamer.net/esrb-proposes-facial-recognition-age-verification-for-parental-consent
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Karttatietoja ilmaiseksi internetiin – nouseeko Googlen ja Applen karttojen rinnalle kilpailija?
27.7.202318:55
Usean suuryrityksen maailmanlaajuinen rakennuksia ja teitä käsittelevä tietoaineisto on vapaasti käytettävissä.
https://www.mikrobitti.fi/uutiset/karttatietoja-ilmaiseksi-internetiin-nouseeko-googlen-ja-applen-karttojen-rinnalle-kilpailija/25ffd7df-931c-4ece-ba70-83d20afd91f8
Googlen ja Applen karttapalvelut ovat saamassa kilpailijan Overture Maps Foundation -säätiön karttatietojen muodossa. Säätiön perustivat viime vuonna Microsoft, Meta, Amazon ja muun muassa navigaattoreita valmistava TomTom.
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Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report
Company also expects to spend ever more money to support its ongoing AI efforts.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/pc-market-slump-is-hitting-microsoft-twice-once-for-windows-once-for-hardware/
It has been a tough year for PC companies and companies that make PC components. Companies like Intel, AMD, and Nvidia have all reported big drops in revenue from the hardware that they sell to consumers (though the hardware they sell to other businesses is often doing better).
Microsoft contributed another data point to that trend today, with fourth-quarter 2023 financial results that showed modest growth (revenue up 8 percent year over year, from $51.9 billion to $56.2 billion), but no thanks to its consumer software and hardware businesses.
Revenue from the company’s More Personal Computing division, which encompasses Windows licenses, Surface PCs and other accessories, Xbox hardware and software and services, and ad revenue, was down 4 percent year over year. This decrease was driven mostly by a drop in sales of Windows licenses to PC makers (down 12 percent because of “PC market weakness”) and by reduced hardware sales (down 20 percent, though the company didn’t say how much of this drop came from its accessory business and how much came from Surface PCs).
Microsoft is expecting its hardware revenue to look even worse next quarter, warning of a year-over-year drop in the “mid-30s” because of its decision earlier this year to stop making and selling Microsoft-branded accessories. Microsoft is still making more expensive Surface-branded accessories, and the profit margins on those devices are likely higher, but overall sales volume and revenue are apparently taking a big hit. Microsoft also expects Windows sales to PC companies to decline by “low-to-mid teens” next quarter.
Microsoft’s gaming revenue—which combines Xbox hardware sales, game sales, and services like Xbox Live and Xbox Game Pass—was up just 1 percent year over year. That’s because a 5 percent increase in revenue from games and services was offset by a 13 percent drop in revenue from Xbox hardware sales.
On the topic of the aggressive AI push that Microsoft has been focused on throughout 2023, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood says that “growth from AI services will be gradual,” though revenues should increase as paid products like Microsoft 365 Copilot become available to the general public. That service is a $30-per-user-per-month add-on to whatever your company is already paying for Microsoft 365.
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ESRB proposes facial age estimation technology for parental consent
UPDATE: ESRB says no data from software is stored.
https://www.eurogamer.net/esrb-proposes-facial-recognition-age-verification-for-parental-consent
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.neowin.net/news/more-pcie-5-nvme-ssds-thermal-throttling-and-shutting-down-requires-cold-reboot-to-revive/
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Dozens of Companies Adopt TSMC’s 3nm Process Technology
https://www.anandtech.com/show/18986/dozens-of-companies-adopt-tsmcs-3nm-process-technology
Designing chips for modern, leading-edge manufacturing technologies is an expensive endeavor. Still, dozens of companies have already adopted TSMCs N3 and N3E (3 nm-class) fabrication processes, according to disclosures made by TSMC and Synopsys.
“Synopsys IP for TSMC’s 3nm process has been adopted by dozens of leading companies to accelerate their development time, quickly achieve silicon success and speed their time to market,” said John Koeter, senior vice president of marketing and strategy for IP at Synopsys.
TSMC has been producing chips using its latest N3 (aka N3B) fabrication technology (with up to 25 EUV layers and support for EUV double patterning) since late 2022 and intends to start making products on its simplified N3E manufacturing process (with up to 19 EUV layers and without EUV double patterning) in Q4 2023.