Qualcomm cancels the Snapdragon Dev Kit, which was supposed to ship in June, and will offer refunds, as the product failed to meet its “standards of excellence”
refunds customers for mini PC, ends sales and support for the device immediately Bluesky: Scary Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : ouch - but you can already get a laptop with those same specs...
Interviews with 12 TSMC staff detail ongoing culture clashes in Arizona, as well as Japan and Germany; about 50% of the 2,200 Phoenix workers came from Taiwan
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facility in Phoenix.Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times X: @mazmhussain , @whatthebit , @bigmeaninternet , @steveashleyplus , and @scottlincicome . Lin...
Apple resolves an outage impacting some of its online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, that lasted for over an hour on April 3
Apple server faces outage as users get message that platform 'can't connect' Mastodon: Matt Birchler / @matt@isfeeling.social : You know, if you could let users download your app from your own site th...
While critics liken iPhone 13 to an iterative “12S” update, the branding shows Apple has adjusted to the current smartphone market, where big overhauls are rare
Smartphones have been so successful that it's possible … Casey Newton / Platformer : Apple's uncanny iPhone event Sami Fathi / MacRumors : iPhone 13 Still Doesn't Display Battery Percentage in the Sta...
A look at the substrates that connect chips to circuit boards, and how years of underinvestment in substrate manufacturing has worsened the global chip shortage
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @whatthebit , @wsj , and @hassankhan Tweets: Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : so the chip shortage is actually a substrate shortage (?) and it looks like u...
A coalition of health and tech companies, including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, says it is developing a digital COVID-19 vaccination “passport”
this is FT not some social media digital rag. We need digital passports so those who refuse vaccination won't be able to travel anywhere & hurt people. @lay_overs : A digital vaccination passport, to ...
Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: incredibly fast performance with no fan noise, decent gaming performance, and a great keyboard and trackpad
and quad-thread—consumer-available processor on the planet, it certainly isn't missing it by much.” ... and this is the first gen non-pro level hardware.... 😳 Really not making it easy to hold off! ht...
Interview with ex-Uber CTO Thuan Pham, who left last month, on his seven years atop the company, its rapid expansion, future plans, and more
Reflecting on seven years as the top technology executive at Uber Technologies Inc., Thuan Pham divides his time there into three “tours of duty,” as he describes them. Tweets: @whatthebit Tweets: Ste...
Early look at Amazon's Graviton2 Arm chip, expected to be publicly available in a few months, suggests better performance per dollar on EC2 than Intel chips
It's been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called ‘A1’ instances. Tweets: @timbray , @oimaurici...
Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook account for ~18% of the S&P 500 index by market value
Stan Choe / Associated Press : Tweets: @hhorsley , @benbajarin , and @whatthebit Tweets: Hunter Horsley / @hhorsley : The 5 largest companies in the S&P 500 make up 18% of its value. Apple, Amazon, A...