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Oz PC Market Soars By 11.8% During Pandemic

April Glover March 22, 2021 No Comments

Australia’s personal computer market skyrocketed by 11.8 per cent to a total of 4.87 million units during 2020’s COVID-19 lockdown. According to data by the IDC Quarterly Personal Computing Decides…

Notebook Demand Plummets, Shipments Fall By 8%

April Glover March 17, 2021 No Comments

Notebook demand is sinking after a stellar run of pandemic-driven sales, industry sources claim. According to Digitimes, one of the top-three notebook brands has reportedly asked its suppliers to tentatively…

New LG Notebook Gram Pricing & Availability

April Glover March 12, 2021 No Comments

LG has launched its 2021 line-up of Gram laptops in Australia, with the ultra-light notebooks releasing in three sizes – 14, 16 and 17-inch models. The premium notebooks are the…

Insta360 GO 2, the Thumb-Sized Action Camera

Rose Daisley March 11, 2021 No Comments

In its next iteration of 2019’s GO action camera, Insta360 has released the GO 2. The oval-shaped device has kept its dinky size, measuring a teensy 5.3 x 2.4 x…

Notebook Sales Start To Tank

April Glover February 24, 2021 No Comments

The top five notebook brands saw a combined 10 per cent decline of global shipments in January. Low seasonable sales and component shortages drove the lower monthly sale figure, with…

Kioxia, Western Digital Boost 3D Flash Memory Performance

Computer Daily News February 23, 2021 No Comments

TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO: Kioxia, formerly Toshiba Memory, and data storage giant Western Digital have jointly announced their Gen6, 162-layer 3D flash memory technology. The Gen6 flash memory features advanced architecture beyond…

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…

Google Rolls Out Chromebook Update Highlighting CES Releases

Jake Nelson January 27, 2021 No Comments

With new Chromebooks announced at CES 2021, Google has updated Chrome OS with improvements billed as making the netbooks “as seamless as possible”, including faster sign-ins and personalised lock screens.…