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Nokia says chip shortage is easing
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 21 July 2022 11:26

Nokia says chip shortage is easing


Good numbers in its operating report too 

Former rubber boot maker Nokia reported on  quarterly operating profit ahead of market expectations, boosted by strong demand for 5G gear, and sees signs of a global chip shortage easing.

Intel CEO expects shortages until 2023
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 22 October 2021 15:06

Intel CEO expects shortages until 2023


Hits Nvidia, Intel, AMD, car manufactures

Back in late 202, Nvidia told us that shortages should be the thing of the past at some point in Q1 2021. In early 2021, Nvidia and its CEO adjusted the statement, telling the world that shortages are expected throughout most of 2021.

Nvidia RTX card shortage expected throughout the year
Published in Graphics


Nvidia's spokesperson just confirmed

Nvidia has addressed a few questions regarding its record Q4/FY2021 financial conference call mentioned in detail here, and gave some updates on the GPU shortage, and mentioned the mining card strategy.

Short supply of Intel chips causes problems in Taiwan
Published in PC Hardware


PC-related IC suppliers expect sales to fall due to Intel blunder

Taiwan-based PC-related IC suppliers are predicting their sales will fall due to a short supply of CPUs from Intel.

Radeon 500 GPU shortage continues
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:21

Radeon 500 GPU shortage continues


Ethereum mining craze is still on

The GPU shortage currently mainly affects the Radeon 500 series and especially the 580 and 570 cards. These are the best for mining Ethereum right now with Geforce GTX 1060 as a good alternative. 

Apple’s new phone threatens to suck up memory chips
Published in News


Unless no one buys it


Global electronics makers are worried that Apple is going to take all the supplies of memory chips for its new iPhone 8.

Xiaomi Mi 6 suffers from shortages
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 12 May 2017 11:43

Xiaomi Mi 6 suffers from shortages


Big demand, ceramic and SoC to blame

Xiaomi's latest flagship, the Mi 6, is already sold-out in all flash and pre-order sales but it appears that it never came in high volume due to ceramic and SoC shortages.

Nintendo has a “surprise” shortage of Switches
Published in Gaming


Well we were not surprised 

We had a theory that Nintendo would manage to stuff up the launch of its Switch console.

Wafer prices to soar next year
Published in News
Friday, 09 December 2016 10:22

Wafer prices to soar next year

It’s the thin edge of the wedge

Prices of 12-inch silicon wafers may rise by as much as 20 percent in 2017.

Lithium battery prices set to rise
Published in News
Wednesday, 28 September 2016 11:32

Lithium battery prices set to rise


Short supply

The prices of Lithium batteries are set to rise because of a production shortage which could result in a general electronics price hike.