PC sales dropped like a rock says Chinese chip maker
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Blames Russia-Ukraine war and COVID response

Top Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. says demand for mobile phones, personal computers and home appliances has dropped "like a rock" and shows no signs of recovering.

Chipmakers talking about price hikes
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Up by 20 per cent


Chipmakers are talking about jacking the price of chips up by more than 20 per cent.

World’s most pointless keyboard gets a refresh
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Quirky key is new April Fool

Stack Overflow has released The Key v2.0, a sequel to the novelty keyboard it released last year.

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 C-series
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All roads lead to Chromebooks

AMD announced the Ryzen 5000 C-series for Chromebooks giving them more x86 CPU cores.

G.Skill goes low-latency with tnew DDR5-5600 CL28 memory kits
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Under the Trident Z5 RGB, Trident Z5, and Ripjaws S5 series

G.Skill has announced its latest extremely low-latency DDR5 memory kit, running at DDR5-5600 CL28.