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US wants to block China’s access to equipment for the production of NAND flash memory
The United States is considering limiting the supply of US chip manufacturing equipment to memory chip makers in China, including Yangtze Memory Technologies. This will allow to suspend the development of the semiconductor sector of the second largest economy and protect American companies.
This information was provided immediately by several people familiar with this issue, who said that if tough measures are taken, supplies to factories in China that produce advanced NAND chips for smartphones, laptops and other devices will be prohibited.
Anonymous sources also said that if the Biden administration decides to take this step, it could also hurt South Korean memory chip makers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Samsung has two major factories in China, and SK Hynix is buying Intel’s NAND flash chip business in China.
The move also aims to protect the only U.S. memory chip makers, Western Digital and Micron Technology, which together represent about a quarter of the NAND chip market.
According to export control experts, this will be the first US attack aimed at Chinese production of memory chips without specific military applications.
All sources described the consideration of the issue as being at an early stage of consideration.
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The Nintendo Switch Lite has a cheap competitor. Retroid Pocket 3 Handheld Game Console Launched With 4.7″ Screen, Quad-Core Processor And Android 11
Retroid has unveiled the Pocket 3 handheld game console with a design similar to that of the Nintendo Switch Lite. The novelty is inexpensive ($120 for the version with 2 GB of RAM and $130 for the version with 3 GB of RAM), but the performance is far from impressive.
So, the configuration of the Retroid Pocket 3 includes a screen with a diagonal of 4.7 inches and a resolution of 1334 x 750 pixels (frame rate – standard 60 Hz). The hardware platform is based on the SoC Unisoc Tiger T310 with one Arm Cortex-A75 core at 2.0 GHz and three Arm Cortex-A55 cores at 1.8 GHz. The GPU is PowerVR GE8300.
The console runs Android 11. It is endowed with an HDMI video output (the maximum resolution of the broadcast picture is 720p), a 4000 mAh battery, a standard headphone jack, and a pair of speakers. Sales of new items will start on August 20, while pre-orders are being accepted.
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Today’s launch of Indian satellites ended in failure: the rocket put them into an elliptical orbit instead of a circular one
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said the satellites launched today by the new SSLV-D1 launch vehicle are “no longer usable” and have been placed in an elliptical instead of a circular orbit.
“SSLV-D1 launches satellites into elliptical orbit [с апогеем] 356 km and [перигеем] 76 km instead of a circular orbit of 356 km. Satellites can no longer be used“, – reported in ISRO. “Committee will analyze and make recommendations“, – added in the department, indicating that “ISRO will be back soon with SSLV-D2“.
The carrier rocket was launched from the spaceport on the island of Sriharikota with two satellites – a student satellite and an Earth remote sensing satellite. SSLV-D1 is a new small-sized launch vehicle with a payload capacity of 500 kg designed to launch satellites into low earth orbit (500 km).
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PCs with Intel Arc A380 graphics cards from Acer will arrive in Europe soon, and MSI is preparing a model with a very budget A310
Video card manufacturers are still starting to look at Intel Arc accelerators little by little. MSI recently showed off its version of the A380, and now the PC PRO DP130 12th has appeared on its website, which contains an even more budget card – the A310.
Its specifications are unknown, but the source believes that it has 4 or 6 Xe cores, 4 GB of video memory and a 64-bit bus.
But Acer has already placed ready-made PCs with Intel Arc A380 graphics cards in the database of the French retail chain Boulanger. The novelty contains an Intel Core i5-12400F processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD. The issue price is about 950 euros.
So far, such computers can only be pre-ordered, shipping is expected from October 8th. Thus, we can expect that Intel will soon announce the global launch of sales of its video cards.
Earlier it was reported that Intel graphics cards do not work well with older games. The company is aware of the problem and is addressing it.
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