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Chip manufacturing crisis will cast its shadow till 2022

As supply-chain shortages continue to extend into 2022 due to COVID-19, chip manufacturing giants are exhibiting what the future could hold, and it won’t include the same price list pre-pandemic. While the ongoing chip shortage managed to reconcile its situation, the same cannot be expressed about its pricing list. The state of the semiconductor industry […]

Smartphones’ 10.2% sale increase despite chip shortage

The smartphone industry will experience one of its best years in equipment manufacturing, despite the current global health crisis and semiconductor shortage, Gartner and IDC revealed in a new research. According to technology research firm Gartner, global smartphone production and sales reached a whopping 328.8 million in the second quarter (Q2) of the current year, […]

3D printing's new challenge: Solving the US housing shortage

A new generation of startups wants to disrupt the way houses are built by automating production with industrial 3D printers. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, uses machines to deposit thin layers of plastic, metal, concrete and other materials atop one another, eventually producing three-dimensional objects from the bottom up. In recent years, 3D […]

Huawei founder says US woes not hardest crisis

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer SHENZHEN, China (AP) — For decades, Huawei’s founder stayed out of sight as it grew to become the biggest maker of network gear for phone carriers and passed Apple as the No. 2 smartphone brand. Now, Ren Zhengfei is shedding that anonymity as China’s first global tech brand mobilizes […]

Tesla Exceeds Wall Street Expectations in Q4 Deliveries

Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc revealed on Sunday its quarterly deliveries, marking a new reported record, exceeding Wall Street expectations as the globe battles through a semiconductor crisis. For Tesla, this signaled a six consecutive quarter following its report highlighting its high record deliveries. The electric vehicles (EV) company supplied in its fourth-quarter 308,600 cars, surpassing […]

Apple warns of slow supply demand chain

As the chip shortage crisis takes a new universal form, and while the world recovers from a crippling pandemic, Big Tech giant Apple seems to be suffering from collateral damage affecting its supply and demand chain for its iPhone 13 lineup. As reported by Bloomberg, the news hub revealed that the iOS developer asked component manufacturers to […]

Elon Musk’s Future Vision: You Cook, a Computer Does the Dishes

Last week, Elon Musk disagreed with Rishi Sunak about the future. “We’ll soon be in an age of abundance,” he told the Prime Minister. His metaphor about cooking and washing dishes was a quite sublime way of assuring the world the rise of AI in the workplace would not mean the death of creativity and […]

Cloud Computing: There’s No IoT Without Me

The Internet of Things (IoT) is everywhere, from microchipped pets and cattle to continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices. But these, at times, lifesaving innovations were only possible with the ever-exciting cloud computing technology. Cloud computing has now become the basis of providing shared computing resources, such as applications, computing, storage, networking, development, and more, through […]