PC Gaming Hardware Sales May Be Poised to Explode
… PC sales in Q2 2020 were only up 2.8 percent over Q2 2019, so this is not a case where a surge in sales last year is a continuation of otherwise excellent growth. …
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Intel Announces Tiger Lake Coming Mid-Year, 10nm Ramp Accelerating
… Companies like Intel, AMD, and Nvidia are some of the few that have seen stronger sales in the wake of the pandemic, thanks to a surge of work-from-home equipment purchases. …
AMD Overtakes Nvidia in Graphics Shipments for First Time in 5 Years
… AMD doesn't break out GPU and CPU sales -- it combines them both into a single category -- but its combined Compute and Graphics revenue reports were lower on a yearly basis as well: During the first half of the year , AMD was thought to be gaining market share at Intel's expense, but these gains w… …
Samsung May Build $10B Foundry in Austin, Texas
… The huge surge in semiconductor sales over the past year ultimately led companies like TSMC to increase capital spending in 2021. …
Playing the sales game: Do game releases actually increase console sales?
… Many early 360 releases were also available on the PS2 and original Xbox, so it seems plausible that exclusive games would make for higher sales, right? Oddly, the 360 didn't see any sales spike during weeks with exclusives releases. …
ARM announces Cortex-A17, the new CPU core that finally replaces Cortex-A9
… Meanwhile, midrange products have a better chance of penetrating emerging markets, where customers are more sensitive to price and mobile sales are expected to surge. …
Samsung will abandon the smartphone market within five years: Analyst
… Saturation-bombing markets with hardware is clearly no longer working and it's time for a new strategy.
Nintendo's Refusal to Allow Saved Game Backups is Driving Switch Hacking
… It's now obvious that the Switch's early surge was no outlier; the console has already moved over 5 million units and has outsold the PS4 and Xbox One in North America four times in the past six months, according to NPD Group. …