Microsoft reveals new Surface Dock
Nothing proprietary in sight
Microsoft has just officially unveiled the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock which will dump the proprietary Surface Connect port and connect over USB-C.
M2 series of SoCs frozen
No one wants Macbooks
Fruity cargo cult Apple has been forced to suspend the production of its super-hyped M2 systems on a chip because no one wants to buy the Macbook for which it was designed.
Low profits for South Korean chip manufacturing firms
Sluggish global chip demand
Beancounters at Yonhap Infomax have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and decided that major South Korean chip manufacturing firms won’t be earning much in the first quarter 2023.
PINE64 updates Star64 single-board computer
Gets a quad-core RISC-V processor
PINE64 has an update about their Star64 single-board computer with a quad-core RISC-V processor: it will be available on April 4th in two configurations: 4GB and 8GB LPDDR4 memory for $69.99 and $89.99.
ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI show their motherboards
AMD has officially announced its new A620 chipset, giving an entry-level motherboard option for its Ryzen 7000 series CPUs. ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI have already announced their own motherboards, and AMD says these should start at $85.