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Governments Pour Billions Into Building Chip Arsenals

Computer Daily News March 29, 2021 No Comments

Governments around the world are subsidising the construction of semiconductor factories, as chip shortages jam auto production and the electronics industry. The global dependence on Taiwan and China for vital…

Texas Storm Hits Infineon

Computer Daily News March 23, 2021 No Comments

German chipmaker Infineon is expecting a quarterly hit to revenue in the high double-digit million-euro range, due to a production outage at its plant in Texas, caused by last month’s…

Demand Squeezes Industry As Chip Drought Wears On

Jake Nelson February 22, 2021 No Comments

As chip shortages continue to plague the consumer electronics industry, Nvidia is taking action to curb rampant buying-up of its graphics cards. Fuelled by factors including COVID-19 and the US-China…

Foxconn Expects Limited Impact From Chip Shortage

Computer Daily News February 22, 2021 No Comments

TAIPEI: The chairman of Taiwanese technology conglomerate Foxconn says he expects clients will face only “limited impact” from a chip shortage that has rattled the global automotive and semiconductor industries.…

Chip Sales Rise Due To Pandemic-Fuelled Rush

Computer Daily News February 2, 2021 No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO: Global semiconductor sales rose 6.5 percent overall in 2020 due to a recovery during the last three months of the year. Pandemic stay-home orders rolled out around the…

Compal Denies It Has Been Targeted By Ransomware

Computer Daily News November 11, 2020 No Comments

TAIPEI: The world’s second largest laptop manufacturer, Taiwanese electronics company Compal, has denied reports that it has been hit by a ransomware attack. Compal factories build laptops for Apple, Acer,…

Intel Data Centres Blamed for Weak Results

Computer Daily News October 27, 2020 No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO: Intel’s revenue declined around four percent year-on-year, according to the chipmaker’s Q3 results. Its datacentre group came up with $5.91 billion in revenue, down seven percent. Intel said…

MSI Subsidiary Caught Flogging NVIDIA 3080 GPUs At Huge Markup

Jake Nelson October 8, 2020 No Comments

MSI has been forced to rap its own subsidiary over the knuckles after Starlit Partner was caught selling MSI-branded RTX 3080 GPUs for around double NVIDIA’s suggested price. Users spotted…

New RAM Can Transmit Nine FHD Movies Per Second

Jake Nelson October 8, 2020 No Comments

Computers are set to be even faster with the launch of the world’s first DDR5 RAM, which runs at almost double the speed of the current DDR4 standard. Made by…

NVIDIA Delays RTX 3070 As Shortage Expected To Extend Into 2021

Jake Nelson October 6, 2020 No Comments

Frustrated NVIDIA customers looking to buy the popular new RTX 30 series graphics cards will likely have to wait longer, with shortages expect to last into next year and the…