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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.…

CES 2021: Notebook Highlights For Business, Gamers, And Home Users

Jake Nelson January 19, 2021 No Comments

CES 2021 saw the unveiling of a broad range of notebooks for business, consumers, and gamers – here is our wrap-up of a few of the highlights. Acer showed off…

CES 2021: Western Digital Expands Consumer SSDs To 4TB

Jake Nelson January 12, 2021 No Comments

Western Digital has increased storage capacities across its consumer portable SSD range, with SanDisk, WD, and WD_BLACK branded SSDs now available in 4TB models. The SanDisk Extreme and SanDisk Extreme…

Microsoft To Have Another Crack At Getting Google Android Apps To Run On Windows 10

David Richards November 30, 2020 No Comments

Microsoft who one day is cuddling up to Samsung and the next Apple is now having another crack at trying to lure Android OS users to Windows 10. This is…

REVIEW: MSI’s Dragonshield Is A Space Age Gaming Machine, Inside And Out

Jake Nelson November 24, 2020 No Comments

MSI is known as a leader in gaming laptops, and with good reason. The Taiwanese manufacturer has just done something brand new: partnered with a Hollywood artist for a special…