The first day of sales of the budget smartphone Realme C55 in India ended very successfully: the company sold 100,000 devices in just 5 hours. And this is not the only record on the account of C55: 66 thousand pre-orders were collected for it, which is the best result for Realme C phones in India.

Realme C55’s success is easily explained by the combination of its features and price. For $130, the smartphone offers a 6.72-inch FHD+ 90Hz IPS screen, 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, a 64MP camera, a 5,000mAh battery with support for 33W charging. , side fingerprint scanner. The hardware platform of the device is based on MediaTek Helio G88 SoC, Android 13 with Realme UI 4.0 interface was used as the OS.

The data of the largest German retailer suggests that motherboards from well-known manufacturers have risen in price significantly in the past few years. This applies to both Intel CPU and AMD CPU models. But in fairness, it should be noted that motherboards based on AMD chipsets added a little less.

The average cost of a motherboard for Intel processors in November 2020 was 140.78 euros, the average price of such a motherboard now, as of March 2023, is already 197 euros. Growth – by 40%. In November 2020, the average cost of a motherboard for AMD processors was 120.5 euros, now it is 163 euros. Growth – by 35% with a little.

It is difficult to explain such an increase by inflation and the laws of the market alone. Most likely, the rise in price is due to the transition to DDR5 and the introduction of support for the PCIe 5 bus.

Crypto exchange Binance has been hiding ties to China for several years, which contradicts management’s claims of leaving the country after the cryptocurrency crisis in 2017, according to the Financial Times.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and other top executives allegedly instructed employees on multiple occasions to hide the exchange’s presence in China. The latter included running an office until at least the end of 2019 and using a local bank to pay salaries.

“We no longer publish office addresses… people in China can directly say that we are not there,” the newspaper quoted Zhao as saying in a November 2017 work chat.

At the end of 2019, employees discussed a media report about Binance’s plans to establish a headquarters in Beijing.

“Reminder: We publicly have offices in Malta, Singapore and Uganda. Please do not confirm any other jurisdictions, including China,” said one of the posts.

From a work email, it appears that the company instructed newcomers on how to properly use a VPN to hide their location.

On Monday, Binance was sued by US regulators for allegedly serving US customers illegally. The U.S. Commodity Futures Commission also alleges that Binance “deliberately” did not disclose the location of its offices and that claims that the headquarters is located where Zhao is located reflect a “deliberate attempt to avoid regulation.”