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Best Mechanical Keyboards: Holiday 2021

Best Mechanical Keyboards: Holiday 2021

Continuing our run of holiday buyers’ guides, today we’re taking a look at peripherals. Considering that a PC’s peripherals can easily outlive the main system’s components and usually stay the same even after several main system upgrades, they are often not given the attention they deserve. Keyboards are just such a component; it is the […]

Semi CapEx to Hit $152 Billion in 2021 as Market on Track for $2 Trillion by 2035

Semi CapEx to Hit $152 Billion in 2021 as Market on Track for $2 Trillion by 2035

Semiconductor makers have drastically increased their capital expenditures (CapEx) this year in response to unprecedented demand for chips that is going to last for years. Now the CEO of Mubadala, the main stockholder of GlobalFoundries, is expecting sales of semiconductors to grow exponentially, toppling a whopping $2 trillion by mid-2030s.  “It took 50 […]

Startup Showcases 7 bits-per-cell Flash Storage with 10 Year Retention

Startup Showcases 7 bits-per-cell Flash Storage with 10 Year Retention

One of the key drivers to increase capacity in next generation storage has been to increase the number of bits that can be stored per cell. The easy jump of one to two bits-per-cell gives a straight 100% increase, in exchange for more control needed to read/write the bit but also limits the cell endurance. […]