Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, spinning disk hard drive per-gigabyte prices have largely remained static, at $0.05/GB for SAS and $0.035/GB for SATA drives. Those…
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Although Samsung Foundry was the first contract fab to formally start mass production of chips on a 3 nm-class process, so far, the company’s latest process has largely been relegated to producing tiny cryptocurrency mining chips. But it looks like things will start picking up for Samsung’s foundry business soon, as this week it was…
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Nvidia’s RTX 4090 quickly became the source of controversy not long after its launch thanks to instances of melting cables – a problem that you might think is well in the past, but it turns out that isn’t the case.In what will doubtless be a concern for anyone with an RTX 4090 bought in the…
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We’re seeing some pretty crazy specs for the OnePlus Open, at least regarding new leaks. We learned earlier this week that OnePlus plans to reveal its first foldable smartphone on October 19. The leaks come from a trio of tricksters who revealed more about the upcoming smartphone (via 9to5Google). Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign…
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AMD has revealed a roadmap for its notebook APUs, which contains some potentially very impressive chips for the best thin-and-light laptops.The roadmap includes details about the upcoming ‘Strix Point’ processors, which will supersede the existing ‘Phoenix’ APUs that are currently available under the Ryzen 7040 name. AMD confirmed that there will actually be two different…
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Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle Applications product development, spoke to Computer Weekly at Oracle Cloud World 2023 in Las Vegas about what he sees as an inflection point among the firm’s customers – a tipping point from project-based to business-driven conversations with the supplier. He also spoke about how generative AI is a big…
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DDR4 (and DDR5) RAM for your PC could soon be getting pricier, according to a new forecast, and somewhat sooner than was anticipated.If you’ve been following RAM pricing – and we’ll excuse you, if you haven’t (just this once) – then you’ll have seen that throughout the course of this year, DDR4 system memory pricing…
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Speaking to partners last week as part of their annual Open Innovation Platform forum in Europe, a big portion of TSMC’s roadshow was dedicated to the next generation of the company’s foundry technology. TSMC’s 2 nm-class N2, N2P, and N2X process technologies are set to introduce multiple innovations, including nanosheet gate-all-around (GAA) transistors, backside power delivery, and super-high-performance…
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A couple of Nvidia graphics cards have reportedly been affected by a flaw in their cooling systems – but these seem to be very rare occurrences.The issue is with the vapor chamber, as flagged up by a Quasarzone forum member, which has an apparent problem with oxidization of the heatsink and holes appearing in the vapor chamber.The…
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