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The global semiconductor market in 2020 grew by 7.3%
Gartner analysts have summed up the preliminary results of 2020 in the global semiconductor market. According to them, the specified market, which contracted by 12% in 2019, returned to growth in 2020. The growth was 7.3%. In monetary terms, the market reached $ 449.8 billion.
Fears that a pandemic would have a devastating impact on semiconductor manufacturing and sales at the start of the year have been exaggerated. More precisely, the effect manifested itself in different ways in different segments. For example, automotive and industrial electronics were hit by a pandemic, while segments related to distance learning and work, on the contrary, received an impetus for development.
The experts named Intel as the market leader, which in a year was able to increase sales by 3.7% and occupy 15.6% of the market. Samsung is in second place. The South Korean manufacturer was able to increase sales by 7.7% over the year. Its share at the end of the year is 12.5%. The third place belongs to another South Korean company – SK Hynix. It increased sales even more – by 13.3%, and its share is 5.6%. Micron Technology ranks fourth with 4.9%. In 2019, all of these companies were ranked in the same places. Broadcom, which finished the top five in 2019, is now sixth. Qualcomm moved up to fifth place from sixth, with 4.0% of the market at the end of 2020.

Components
Nvidia, when will the budget GeForce RTX 40s appear for the desktop segment? Photos of junior GPUs AD107/AD106 for mobile RTX 4050/4060/4070 hit the Network

Photos of Nvidia GPUs of the Ada Lovelace generation, designed for low-cost video cards, have leaked to the Web.
In the picture you can see the AD107 and AD106 GPUs. So far, there are no processor data carriers in the desktop segment, but they have already been announced in the mobile segment: these are the RTX 4050/4060 and RTX 4070.
The new GPUs are very compact. The smaller one has an area of about 150-160 mm2, and the larger one has an area of 180-190 mm2. In comparison, the AD104, which the desktop RTX 4070 Ti is based on and the mobile RTX 4090 is supposed to be based on, measures almost 300mm2.
The AD107 has 3072 CUDA cores while the AD106 offers 4608 CUDA cores. In both cases, video cards will have a 128-bit memory bus.
Laptops based on graphics cards with these GPUs should hit the market soon.
News
Apple’s sales of almost everything and almost everywhere have fallen. Last quarter showed the biggest drop in six years

Apple has reported for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2023, which ended on December 31, 2022.
And it is immediately worth noting that the revenue for the quarter amounted to 96.39 billion dollars, which is 5% less than a year earlier. And this is Apple’s first year-on-year drop in quarterly revenue since 2019 and the biggest drop since 2016.
Operating income fell from $41.5 billion to $36 billion, while net income was $30 billion from $34.6 billion a year earlier. That is, these figures also fell, and more than 5%.
Regionally speaking, Apple’s sales have fallen in all major markets. As for products, almost all areas showed a decline, except for services and tablets.
iPhone sales fell from $71.6 billion to $65.8 billion, Mac sales fell from $10.9 billion to $7.7 billion, and wearable and home electronics sales dropped from $14.7 billion to $13.5 billion. But the tablets showed growth, and impressive: from 7.2 to 9.4 billion dollars. Services brought to the company 20.8 billion dollars against 19.5 billion the previous year.
The Apple CEO said that three factors influenced the results of the quarter: a strong dollar, problems with manufacturing in China and the macroeconomic environment in general.
Electric Cars
Mazda is preparing another flagship seven-seater crossover. Mazda CX-80 will receive an in-line 6-cylinder engine

Mazda just a few days ago declassified the CX-90 crossover – and now the web has already appeared details about the next flagship model, the CX-80.
If the CX-90 is the flagship, how can the CX-80 be the flagship? It’s simple: the CX-90 is a model for the US market, but the CX-80 will be the top model in Japan and Europe. He, as the name implies, will replace the CX-8. The CX-80 will be 4950mm long and the new model will be 25mm longer, 45mm wider and 10mm taller than the CX-8. Inside there will be three rows of seats.
The base for the CX-80 will be a 2.5-liter gasoline four-cylinder engine. There will also be a 3.3L inline-six diesel engine, a “mild” diesel hybrid and a plug-in hybrid powertrain borrowed from the CX-4.
The premiere of the Mazda CX-80 is expected this fall.
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