

Components
SSD prices could halve by mid-2023
While memory manufacturers are cutting back on 3D NAND, the glut of memory chips and SSDs is so significant that their prices will continue to fall in the coming months, Trendfocus analysts said. As a result, SSD prices could halve by mid-2023.
A slowdown in demand for PCs from consumers, as well as some businesses, naturally means lower demand for all kinds of computer components, including processors and video cards. But products such as 3D NAND, memory modules and solid state drives are suffering more than other categories from falling demand. The main reasons are that they are relatively easy to manufacture, there are many competitors in the market, and finished products are usually stored in their warehouses before they are purchased by PC manufacturers, component manufacturers or resellers.
In recent weeks, Kioxia has said it will cut 3D NAND wafer production by 40% from October 1, while Micron said it will slow down 232-layer 3D NAND production. This memory is designed for the best SSDs with sequential read/write performance in excess of 10 GB/s. Both companies have a lot of 3D NAND in stock, while SSD manufacturers have a lot of drives in their inventory that they need to sell.
The Crucial P3 500GB M.2-2280 drive is currently available for $44 on Amazon, which is 8.8 cents per gigabyte. There are even cheaper 2.5-inch PNY CS900 500 GB SATA drives that sell for $31, or 6.2 cents per gigabyte. While retail prices for 3D NAND bits are already low, Trendfocus expects flash manufacturers to offer nearly 40-50% price cuts by mid-2023, further driving down the cost of SSDs as well as their retail prices.
It is not known exactly how many SSDs are in stock from dozens of manufacturers, but Trendfocus suggests that it will take at least two quarters for cloud companies and PC makers to master the drives already in production.

Components
World’s first 31″ domed OLED display and 65″ curved 8K monitor unveiled

TCL CSOT announced a number of new displays, including an interesting new domed OLED gaming monitor for PC.
The new gaming monitors were unveiled at DTC 2023 (Global Display Tech-ecosystem Conference 2023), which is taking place in Wuhan, China. The new gaming monitor is equipped with a 31-inch dome-shaped OLED panel with a resolution of 4K and a frequency of 120 Hz, and the dome shape, according to the developers, allows you to give a 3D feeling. There are very few details about the model yet.
Jun Zhao, CEO of TCL CSOT, said: “With significant advances in display technologies including LCD and OLED, we have made remarkable breakthroughs to provide superior user experience. We will continue to provide high-quality products for a variety of scenarios, working closely with our industry partners.”
The company also introduced a 27-inch 8K monitor with eye tracking and 3D support.
The world’s first curved OLED IJP monitor with a 65-inch diagonal, 8K resolution and a frequency of 120 Hz was announced. Its resolution is 7680 x 4320 pixels.
It also unveiled the world’s first 14-inch hybrid laptop with a 2.8K OLED IJP screen that supports an adaptive refresh rate of 30-120Hz.
Components
Small, but remote. Corsair unveils SSD MP600 Micro in M.2 2242 form factor

Most modern solid-state drives have the M.2 2280 form factor, but sometimes you need a much more compact SSD – M.2 2242. Corsair did just that.
In the photo you can see the MP600 Micro model in the specified form factor. The length of such a drive is 42 mm, although there is also an M.2 2230 that is only 30 mm long.
The new product supports PCIe 4.0 and is characterized by data transfer speeds of up to 5100 MB/s for reading and 4300 MB/s for writing. Performance is respectively 600,000 and 890,000 IOPS. These parameters are typical for the 1 TB model, which also has a resource of 600 TBW.
It remains to add that the new product is based on 176-layer Micron 3D TLC NAND memory and is priced at $70.
Components
Huawei defeated American sanctions: the Chinese company now has its own 5-nanometer processor

Five years under strict American sanctions, which cut Huawei off from advanced single-chip systems, have yielded results: the company has its own 5-nanometer processor made in China.
There is an interesting story with this processor. Five days ago, Huawei introduced the Qingyun L540 laptop based on the Kirin 9006C SoC: and at that time, all the characteristics of the device were revealed, but nothing was reported about the central element of the hardware platform. Now Huawei has updated the description on the website, which clearly states that the Kirin 9006C is manufactured using the 5 nm process technology.
The official description says that the single-chip system has eight cores and a maximum frequency of 3.13 GHz. The Gizmochina resource adds: the CPU is made according to a two-cluster design – with four Arm Cortex-A77 cores and four more Arm Cortex-A55 cores.
Let’s remember that earlier Huawei had a 7-nanometer SoC Kirin 9000S, and it is used in the flagships of the Mate 60 line. Kirin 9000S is produced by SMIC, and the same company most likely produces the 5-nanometer Kirin 9006C.
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