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For many of us, 2020 was not a walk in the park, from the COVID-19 pandemic raging on to the widespread job loss and rampant unemployment. If you’re among the unlucky who found themselves out of a job during this difficult year, it might be smart to start thinking about a new career path. And if you’re looking for a brand new field to dive into, the world of IT is a promising place to work in 2021. The IT field continues to boom and is filled with many potentially lucrative positions. With increasing need to fill these positions, picking up the necessary skills is a great way to pass the time while staying safer at home in 2021.
Nvidia announced its RTX 3060 during CES last week, but according to one report, the company has actually restarted production of its RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 Super. If true, it would mean Nvidia doesn’t think it can alleviate the graphics card shortage quickly enough if it relies solely on 7nm GPUs. The rumor comes from French site , which claims to gotten confirmation from several brands. Reportedly, Nvidia shipped out a new set of RTX 2060 and 2060 Super GPUs to re-enable the manufacture of these cards. If true, Nvidia could potentially alleviate the GPU shortage by relying on TSMC’s older (and presumably, less-stressed) 12nm product line.
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LG has struggled to remain competitive in the plateauing smartphone industry, and now there’s word the company might be . A memo circulated at LG declares some hard choices are necessary after $4.5 billion in losses over the past five years. The memo lists several possible courses of action, including the end of LG’s mobile business. The memo from LG CEO Kwon Bong-Seok notes that competition in smartphones has increased markedly. It doesn’t cite any specific trends, but the rise of Chinese smartphone makers and the increasing dominance of Samsung have no doubt put LG on the ropes. The memo admits that it’s time for LG to exercise “cold judgment” when it comes to the smartphone business.
Arctic — once known as Arctic Cooling — appears to have a new thermal paste inbound to market. Right now, Arctic sells two types of paste — Arctic MX-2 and Arctic MX-4, with the latter positioned as a more expensive and better-performing product. According to Amazon, there’s a new MX-5 paste on the way, with a claimed lifespan of up to eight years. How is MX-5 over MX-4? No idea, and the Amazon listing doesn’t help a darn bit. The MX-5 claims to be a “carbon-based high performance paste,” which is more or less what MX-4 claims. The lifespan of eight years matches the MX-4 and MX-2.
Qualcomm just unveiled a new high-end 800-series ARM processor, and I know what you’re thinking: Didn’t Qualcomm already announce its 2021 flagship system-on-a-chip (SoC)? It did, but the new Snapdragon 870 will slot in below the flagship Snapdragon 888. The 870 is , but it’ll be cheaper for OEMs to build on compared with the 888. Most of the chip specs are unchanged from the 865. This is still an eight-core ARM chip with four efficient A55 cores, three faster A77 cores, and one A77 core that operates at a higher frequency. This “Prime Core” is the primary difference between the chips.
If you’ve been secretly hoping that the 16:9 display standard would die a terrible death for 15 years or so, we have good news. While it remains the most common aspect ratio by far, there are reasons to think the laptop industry might be willing to consider other ratios going forward. 16:9 never managed to completely take over the market. Microsoft and Apple both offer alternatives to 16:9 — Microsoft has 3:2 with the Surface while Apple uses 16:10 on its MacBook laptops. Even with these exceptions, however, the majority of the market has been 16:9. Several laptops introduced at CES, however, suggest manufacturers are rethinking this paradigm.
TSMC has announced that it will divert significantly more money than expected into its capital budget this year, with most of the investment geared towards boosting advanced processor technology deployment and development. The company expects to spend $25B – $28B, up from $17.2B in 2020. That’s a 1.54x increase if you take $26.5B as a midpoint estimate, and it comes on the heels of the largest demand surge the semiconductor industry has absorbed in decades, if ever. We can’t say for certain that TSMC’s is directly tied to whatever plans Intel is making for its own future, but a huge increase in capital spending is what we’d expect to see if Intel wanted to purchase a significant amount of capacity from TSMC by 2023.
