The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that global semiconductor product sales in 2021 were $555.9 billion. This is the highest annual figure in the history of the industry. It is up 26.2% from the figure recorded in 2020, when sales reached $440.4 billion. In quantitative terms, the industry shipped 1.15...
Porsche has bought Fazua, an electric bike company. Fazua has developed the Fazua Drive System, which combines an electric drive and a pedal drive, which is used by many other manufacturers. An interesting feature of this in-carriage system is the ability to remove the battery and electric motor from the...
According to the latest forecast from analyst firm Canalys, shipments of foldable smartphones between 2021 and 2024 will grow by 53% per year and will exceed 30 million units in 2024. It is predicted that in the year from 2019, when the first foldable devices were released, to 2024, this...
The source said that Venus Optics is going to introduce several new lenses soon. The announcement will take place on the eve of the exhibition of photographic equipment CP+. As it became known a week ago, CP+ this year will be held only online. The show was previously scheduled to...
The Radeon RX 6500 XT is AMD’s most affordable 3D card and the only one on the market with the lowest markup: according to the latest report, it is only 17% more expensive than the official recommended price in Europe, while the rest of the models in the lineup are...
Last week, Honor’s promising flagship Magic 4 appeared in the Geekbench test, where it confidently outperformed the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra in terms of performance. And now it’s time to reveal the characteristics of all three models of the line: Magic 4, Magic 4 Pro and Magic 4 Pro+. The...
Ford Motor Company said today that some of its assembly plants will continue to be idle this week due to a global shortage of semiconductor products. The American automaker will suspend production at its Ohio assembly plant as well as the production line at its Kansas City assembly plant where...
After studying the situation in the global electric vehicle market, experts from the analytical company Canalys concluded that 6.5 million electric vehicles were sold worldwide in 2021, which is 109% more than in 2020. Analysts took into account fully battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles. It is noteworthy that...
Tamron has published a report for the 2021 fiscal year. The document contains certain information about the plans of a well-known manufacturer of interchangeable lenses. The report’s authors note that the markets for interchangeable-lens cameras and interchangeable lenses grew last year. Interestingly, this is primarily due to an increase in...
Akasa has introduced new versions of its classic processor cooling systems. The update includes support for 12th Gen (Alder Lake) Intel Core LGA 1700 processors. AK-CC6606BP01 is for unlocked desktop processors, AK-CC6603EP01 is for F-series processors, AK-CC6601EP01 is for T-series processors. The coolers comply with the TDP values set by...
Redmi has already published many official images of the Redmi K50 Gaming smartphone, and now the first official video has appeared on the Web. Interestingly, the smartphone itself is not in the video frames. But a lot of the best Formula 1 car of 2021 is the Mercedes-AMG F1 W12...
Last year was a record year for the Indian true wireless headset (TWS) market, with 20.3 million units shipped in total, up 74.7% from 2020, according to an IDC report. Pandemic-driven use cases continued to shape demand for smart audio devices, with shipments tripling year-on-year in the first half of...
As expected, AMD today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Xilinx in a full equity deal. In a press release published by AMD, the acquisition, originally announced on October 27, 2020, “creates an industry leader in high-performance and adaptive computing with greatly expanded scale and the strongest portfolio...
There are many stories about how the Apple Watch saves lives. But usually these are either situations with falls, or situations when the clock detects some kind of deviation in the work of the heart, and literally within a day the person ends up in the hospital, where he is...
The situation with the frame rate of screens in the new flagship smartphones Samsung continues to be unclear. Recall that initially for the Galaxy S22 and S22 +, the Korean giant announced support for the range of 10-120 Hz, and for the S22 Ultra, the range was 1-120 Hz. However,...
The use of virtual reality helmets can lead to injury. There are a huge number of videos on the Web with how people fall or break something while in virtual reality, but as it turned out, this aspect has a very specific assessment. According to the source, the British insurance...
