…Beyond that accounting wrinkle, shipments were squeezed by a more cautious carrier upgrade market, higher memory and storage costs and delayed device launches. Omdia senior analyst Eric Chen said: “The US smartphone…
News PC Hardware Jun 16, 2026 by Nick Farrell AMD memory security vanishes AMD appears to have yanked a memory encryption protection from consumer Ryzen chips, leaving users to play firmware detective…
…reckon global PC shipments will fall more than 10 per cent in 2026, while smartphones will drop about eight per cent. The culprit is the AI-driven memory shortage, which has turned…
…It is joined by SPIL, PTI, Unimicron, AIC, Nan Ya PCB and Kinsus, which will build and ship the Helios AI racks. This is AMD’s bid to lay the tracks for…
…The harder bit is getting cheap laptops to ship with decent displays, chassis, keyboards and the other bits buyers actually touch and Project Firefly is Chipzilla’s attempt to pull those parts…
…The company has shipped one million XRING 01 units, which is tiny compared with the volumes of Qualcomm and MediaTek. For the past five years, Xiaomi has invested 105.5bn yuan, about…
…China has tightened export rules on tungsten, and shipments of high-purity tungsten powder to Japan have reportedly fallen to zero this year. Japanese firms kept production running for about five months…
…For those with long memories, AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series arrived in 2024, promising strong efficiency and decent IPC gains. Months later, the launch looks messier. Sales were soft, prices fell quickly…
…Powering the device is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset paired with up to 16GB LPDDR5X memory and up to 512GB of UFS 4.1 storage. The star of the…
…The chip gets 128GB of LPDDR5x 8000MT/s memory feeding 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units. AMD says that provides up to 256GB/s of bandwidth…