Next year the desktop market will almost stop falling

Not the easiest year for the computer market is coming to an end, so DigiTimes Research experts have shared their forecasts for next year and summed up the current one.
The latest one for the desktop market, according to the authors of the study, was not as bad as the one for laptops.
The supply of mobile PCs fell by 20%, and desktop PCs fell by only 11%.
Next year, the decline in the desktop market will be limited to 2.1%.Image source: AppleAccording to the source, during the three quarters of this year, the corporate sector supported the demand for desktop systems, and only in the fourth quarter should the volume of their shipments consistently fall by 11.7%.
Most manufacturers have accumulated impressive inventories in their warehouses, so they are in no hurry to deliver new products to customers.For all of 2022, DigiTimes Research predicts that 86.4 million desktops will be delivered globally in finished form.
That's 10.9 percent less than the results for 2019, which is taken as a base for comparison because of the lack of a pandemic factor.
Next year, no more than 84.6 million desktops will be delivered to the market, a decline of 2.1% from this year.In the first quarter of the outgoing year, 21 million desktops were delivered, in the second quarter shipments peaked at 24.3 million units, but in the third has already dropped to 22 million.They are expected to fall to 19.2 million units in the fourth quarter.
Almost 13% of the segment is comprised of all-in-one, one-piece computers.
By the end of the year 11.06 million units should be delivered.
The peak of popularity of such PCs reached in 2021, when 14.32 million units were sold.
For this reason this year the number of monoblocks shipped on the market will decrease by 22%.The largest contract manufacturer of monoblocks previously was Quanta Computer, which serves the interests of Apple, but at the end of the year it dropped to the third place.
Compal and its main client Lenovo is on the second place, and the first this year will go to HP Inc.
Wistron, which produces monoblocks for Dell, will be in fourth place.
The three Taiwanese contract manufacturers together control 72% of the market.
Next year, shipments of desktop monoblocks could grow by several percent, according to DigiTimes Research analysts.
In their view, a return to growth in demand for Apple iMacs should contribute to this.

Apple helped China's YMTC solve problems in flash memory production

Chinese company YMTC (Yangtze Memory Technology Co.) is one of the most competitive Chinese electronics manufacturers.
And in this it has been helped by a somewhat unexpected ally - Apple.
The U.S.
giant has helped the Chinese company to hire Western specialists, who have provided her reduced scrap rate and increased productivity, reports the New York Times citing its own sources.Image source: ymtc.comProduced YMTC 3D NAND memory chips have a unique architecture Xtacking - it involves making a memory chip from two crystals, which are stacked one on top of the other.
The memory module itself is formed on one, and the other is used for peripheral logic.
With through silicon connections (TSV), the 3D NAND chip offers the best of both worlds at once: a dense memory array and a fast interface.
That is, the chips come out with high density and high speed.YMTC's competitors produce memory arrays and logic on the same chip, making it difficult to increase interface speed, and consumer SSDs can't unlock the full potential of PCIe 5.0 x4.
On the other hand, the technology proposed by YMTC is significantly more complex than the solutions used by Kioxia and Western Digital, Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron.
The Chinese company could not reach a high enough level of quality products (there were a lot of defects), and was stalling with the expansion of production.
It is reported that Apple has helped YMTC with hiring specialists to fix the problems.Apple uses 3D NAND memory in the vast majority of its products - this means that it benefits from the diversification of supply so that manufacturers offer it more favorable prices.
However, with the sanctions imposed by Washington on the Chinese semiconductor industry, Apple has abandoned its intention to use YMTC products even for devices to be sold in China.
Due to the sanctions, the leading manufacturers of silicon wafers have now also stopped cooperating with the company.

Qualcomm: smartphone sales will fall more than 10% this year, and Apple will not give up its modems in 2023

In the third quarter Qualcomm managed to increase revenues by 22% to $11.39 billion, but not the most optimistic forecast for the smartphone market caused the company's stock price to decline by 7.56% after the close of trading.
According to this provider of mobile processors, at the end of the current calendar year, the smartphone market will shrink not by 5-6%, but by 10-12%.
Since the beginning of this quarter, the company will also stop hiring new staff.Image source: Qualcomm TechnologiesIn the current quarter, as stated by representatives of Qualcomm, the company's revenue will be in the range of $9.2 to $10 billion, which is a couple of billion dollars below the most modest expectations of analysts.
Apparently, this also contributed to Qualcomm's share price decline after the release of financial statistics.
The company's representatives also noted that a sharp decline in demand and an improvement in the supply of components led to an increase in product inventories.
Qualcomm will have to spend the accumulated surplus products in the warehouses for about a couple more quarters.
The company has been running QCT, which supplies chips for smartphones and other devices that transmit data over wireless channels, and has generated $9.9 billion in revenue last quarter, up 28 percent from the same period last year.
Smartphone chip shipments brought Qualcomm $6.57 billion in revenue last quarter, increasing revenue by 40% over the same quarter last year.
The automotive business grew 58% to $427 million, while the Internet of Things added 24%, giving Qualcomm a core revenue of $1.92 billion.
Finally, radio frequency components dropped 20% to $992 million.Technology licensing and patents brought Qualcomm $1.44 billion last quarter, up 8% from a year earlier, but this revenue line still fell short of analysts' expectations.
The head of the company, Cristiano Amon, acknowledged that Qualcomm cannot stay away from the negative impact of macroeconomic conditions on the entire semiconductor industry.
Operating costs are expected to be reduced not only by suspending the expansion of the staff from October this year, but also by other measures.
Regarding the relationship with customers, it was said that the license agreement with Samsung Electronics has been extended until 2030, and in the next quarter the Korean giant will increase the share of Qualcomm chips in its mobile devices.
Almost all of the iPhones next year will use Qualcomm modems, though the company previously expressed fears that it will not get more than 20% of Apple's orders because it has time to introduce modem solutions of its own design.
In a couple of years, in the opinion of Qualcomm's management, Apple will still be able to almost completely abandon the components of the first brand.
According to the forecasts of Bloomberg, the first smartphones Apple with modem components of its own design will not appear until 2024.

Apple Mac Pro will get M2 processor version with 48 processing cores and 152 graphics cores

In a traditional news digest, Bloomberg product specialist journalist Mark Gurman shared his views on the company's range of new products, which will be equipped with different versions of M2 processor.
Mac Pro workstations, in his opinion, will get M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme processors that will combine 24 to 48 processing cores and 76 to 152 graphics cores.Image source: ArleThe author believes that processors for the Apple Mac Pro will provide support for up to 256 GB of memory and will be two or four times more productive than the M2 Max.
In fact, according to the source, Apple is already testing one of the Mac Pro configurations with the new processor.
It offers 24 processing cores (16 performance and 8 economy), 76 graphics cores and 192 GB of memory.
The prototype runs macOS Ventura 13.3.
It should be recalled that the Ventura 13.0 version is due to debut this week.MacBook Pro notebooks with 14-inch and 16-inch displays, respectively, will feature the M2 Pro and M2 Max processors.
The latter will feature 8 performance processing cores and 4 economy cores, as well as 38 graphics cores.
Provision is made for the availability of 64 GB of memory.
Similar characteristics will be available in versions of notebooks with both sizes of diagonal display.Mac mini, according to the source, will also be updated, it will get the M2 processor in the configuration already known from the MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, offering 8 processing cores and 10 graphics.
The company is also testing a version of the Mac mini with the M2 Pro processor, which will offer increased cores.The new generation Mac Pro, based on the M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme processors, won't go on sale until 2023, according to Mark Gurman, but the updated MacBook Pro and Mac mini could debut either in November, January, or next spring.
At least, that was the announcement frequency for previous generations of Apple products.

Apple will change the charging connector to USB Type-C already in the next-generation iPhone

It is highly probable that the next-generation iPhone will receive a USB Type-C port for charging.
The reason for that will be the law passed in the EU prescribing to equip smartphones, tablets and other electronics sold in the EU exclusively with USB Type-C ports.
Given the size of the market in the region, Apple will have to make concessions and abandon the proprietary Lightning.Image source: Solen Feyissa/unsplash.comThe law was approved by the European Parliament on Tuesday and mandates the transition to unified charging by the end of 2024.According to Ben Wood, senior analyst at CCS Insight, Apple will have to \"inevitably\" capitulate and move to USB Type-C in the iPhone 15.
The expert predicts that since the interface change has already taken place in the case of the MacBook and iPad Pro, the transition process has actually already begun.
Since the iPhone 14 did not bring significant changes in terms of design, more significant updates are likely to follow in the iPhone 15 - this will be the best time to implement the new port.Back in May, Bloomberg reported on the tests of the iPhone with USB Type-C, but sources warned that the novelties will not appear before 2023.
The IDC believes that if Apple switched to USB Type-C for Europe in 2023, the U.S.
tech giant will switch to a new type of charging and the iPhone in other regions - unless the company decides that too much money is made on proprietary chargers and accessories to simply give them up.
Nevertheless, experts believe that Apple is actually already preparing for the transition in the next two years.The European law was developed about 10 years.
European lawmakers argue that the use of different standards for charging contributes to the growth of waste, and the innovations will allow customers not to buy a new charger with each new smartphone.According to Wood, it is a \"victory for common sense\".
While Apple fans have a huge number of devices that charge from the Lightning connector, given the ubiquity of USB Type-C, Apple's use of this standard makes a lot of sense.

Apple's intention to use Chinese YMTC flash memory has angered American authorities

Back in late March Bloomberg reported that Apple is considering the use of Chinese YMTC solid-state memory in its mobile devices, and with the release of the new generation smartphones this topic has found a second life in an unexpected context.
According to the U.S.
parliamentarians, in case of implementation of such cooperation Apple could face sanctions from the U.S.
authorities.Image source: AppleThe two U.S.
senators from the Republican Party, Marco Rubio and Michael McCaul, who oversee the issues related to intelligence and international relations in the U.S.
Parliament, according to the Financial Times, criticized the likely decision of Apple to use 14 memory chips of Chinese YMTC brand in the manufacture of the iPhone.
If such steps are taken by the manufacturer, Marco Rubio promised to subject Apple to inspections unprecedented by the standards of the U.S.
federal government.
In his opinion, they can not allow the presence of products controlled by the PRC authorities in millions of devices used by the Americans in national telecommunications networks.Apple responded to such requests only by denying the fact of using YMTC memory in any products, but acknowledged that it had tried to explore the possibility of its use in the assembly of individual iPhone models, designed for implementation in the domestic market of China.
Outside of the country such devices should not appear in any case.
In addition, all data stored in the memory of Apple mobile devices are fully protected by encryption.In April this year it became known that the U.S.
authorities became interested in YMTC in the context of the supply of its memory chips to the sanctioned Huawei Technologies.
According to the senators, the inevitable exchange of experience between Apple and YMTC in the case of cooperation will allow the latter to strengthen China's position in the technological sphere.
In July this year, U.S.
parliamentarians have already proposed an initiative to add YMTC to the \"black list\" of Chinese companies with which it is forbidden for all manufacturers that use technology of American origin.
The U.S.
authorities are concerned about the alleged active subsidization of YMTC by the Chinese authorities, which as a result allows the company to sell the memory at a price below cost and violate the rules of fair competition in the global market.
YMTC company is a leader in solid-state memory manufacturing in China not only in volume of products, but also in technological area.
At least, it has recently mastered the production of 192-layer 3D NAND chips, albeit so far in the status of engineering samples, but on a global scale, this allows us to talk about the approach of this Chinese manufacturer, founded in 2016, to the industry leaders in the level of technical competence.

The next MacBook Pro will get new M2 chips made with the old 5nm processor

Although the predictions of famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo are not always accurate, his opinion is listened to.
Ming-Chi Kuo says the MacBook Pro will use Apple's M2 processors but will be built with a 5nm processor, though previous rumors suggested a 3nm chip.Image source: AppleThe new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are expected to ship in Q4 2022.
At the same time, according to TSMC's plan, 3nm chips for Apple \"will not start generating revenue\" until Q1 2023.
It turns out that the processors for the MacBook Pro will use the same process technology as the chips of the current generation, that is 5 nm.Image source: Min-Chi KuoAccording to the dynamics of previous releases, the rumors may well be true.
Especially since Kuo already has some credibility in the industry.
Earlier, the analyst made a prediction that the Apple iPhone 14 will rise in price relative to the smartphones of the previous series by an average of 15%.

Vulnerability found in Apple M1 processors that cannot be closed by software

Scientists at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reported the creation of a PACMAN cyberattack technique based on a hardware vulnerability in Apple M1 processors.
The authors of the study specified that their solution could also be relevant for other chips on the Arm-architecture, but it has not yet been confirmed in practice.Image source: apple.comAttack is performed using a combination of hardware and software and can be performed remotely, without physical access to the victim's computer.
In theory, PACMAN gives the attacker access to the OS kernel, which essentially means full control over the machine.
The most annoying thing is that this hardware vulnerability cannot be fixed by any software, which means that it can remain relevant not only for existing, but also for future products.
Theoretically, Arm-chips from other manufacturers, including Qualcomm and Samsung, could also be vulnerable if they use pointer authentication.
The attack is based on the Pointer Authentication security feature, which is used to verify executable software via cryptographic signatures or Pointer Authentication Codes (PACs).
This helps protect the system from attacks involving pointer spoofing of memory addresses, which are controlled by PAC values.
The PACMAN technique allows PAC values to be \"tampered with,\" working in a similar way to the Spectre and Meltdown exploits.
Researchers emphasize that PACMAN works at various privilege levels all the way up to gaining access to the OS kernel.The researchers reported their discovery to Apple months ago.
The vulnerability has not yet been registered in the public CVE database, but the authors of the project promised to do so in the near future.
Scientists will provide all the details in their report at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2022), which will open on June 18 in New York.

Bloomberg: Apple will introduce a 15-inch MacBook Air and a new 12-inch MacBook next year

Apple may expand its laptop range next year with models with new processors of its own design.
According to Bloomberg, citing its own industry sources, the company is working on MacBook Air with a 15-inch display, the model will be introduced next spring.MacBook Air with Apple M2 // Image source: AppleThis will be the first model with a display of this size in the 14-year history of the series.
In addition, according to the same sources, the company is also developing a 12-inch compact laptop.
The new products will be part of Apple's strategy to use its own processors to gain market share, which is dominated by Lenovo and HP.
Apple ended its partnership with longtime partner Intel in 2020, followed by the Apple M1 processor series, and earlier this week introduced the latest M2 processor.The new 15-inch MacBook Air will actually be a larger version of the 13.6-inch MacBook Air announced by Apple this week.
The variant is thinner than earlier models, uses the M2 chipset and gets rid of the previous bezel design.
This is expected to be the biggest redesign of the MacBook Air concept since the series premiered in 2008.
That said, for now, sales delays due to supply chain disruptions have been seen even with the 13.6-inch variants.
They won't retail until July at the earliest.Additionally, we know that Apple has started developing a 12-inch laptop and is considering a release in late 2023 or early 2024.
It will be the smallest model since Apple discontinued the 12-inch MacBook in 2019.With the last 12-inch variant, Apple debuted in 2015, but the device was often criticized by users and experts for keyboard problems and poor performance.
It's unclear what class of performance the new version will belong to.
It is possible that it will join the MacBook Pro series.
Apple's new Mac processors are based on the same architecture as the chipsets for the iPhone and iPad and provide high performance while taking up little space.It is reported that Apple is also planning to release new MacBook Pro with powerful M2 Pro and M2 Max processors as early as the end of 2022 or early 2023.
These 14- and 16-inch laptops, codenamed J414 and J416, aside from faster processors, will differ little from the current models in the series.
Next month Apple will start selling the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the same M2 chipset as the MacBook Air.The M2 Max platform for the next-generation MacBook Pro will offer 12 processor cores and up to 38 GPU cores, the current models use variants with 10 and 32 cores respectively.
It is known that in the bowels of Apple are also testing new versions of the Mac mini and Mac Pro.
In addition, work on the M3 chipset for iMac and other products is already underway.Mac sales skyrocket with the introduction of their own chipsets // Image source: BloombergThe rejection of Intel solutions has brought Apple success - income from the sale of Mac versions has increased significantly.
During the fiscal second quarter, revenue from the respective segment totaled $10.4 billion, nearly double what it was in the second quarter of 2020, before Apple and Intel ended their partnership.Next year, a larger version of the iPad Pro is also planned for release.
The new model will take full advantage of the multitasking capabilities of iPadOS 16.
Later this year, the company intends to introduce new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

Apple announced the M2 computer processor with more powerful integrated graphics

Apple at the WWDC 2022 developers conference introduced a new computer processor - M2, which is a further development of the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips.Apple M2, like its predecessors, is built on Arm architecture, but now manufactured using a second generation 5 nm processor.
The chip contains 20 billion transistors, 20 percent more than the original M1.
The new processor's core formula remains unchanged: like the M1, it has four efficient (Firestorm) and four energy efficient (Icestorm) cores.
The integrated GPU in the M2 now has ten cores instead of eight, which, together with other improvements, increases GPU performance by 35 percent to 3.6 Tflops.
When it comes to computing performance, Apple promises an 18 percent improvement over the original M1 thanks to both improvements in the microarchitecture and an increase in memory bandwidth.
It has reached 100GB/s in the M2, which is 50 percent more than what was achieved in the M1.
Also, performance cores got 16-Mbyte L2 cache (instead of 12-Mbyte), while power efficient cores continue to use 4-Mbyte L2 cache.
The maximum capacity of LPDDR5 memory supported by the M2 has reached 24GB, and includes an enhanced security block, a new neural co-processor with up to 40% more performance, and improved hardware video encoding and decoding with support for 8K H.264 and HEVC video.
As indicated at the presentation, the M2 is capable of decoding multiple 8K streams simultaneously and also has facilities for hardware ProRes processing.The first Mac with the M2 chip will be the new 13.6-inch MacBook Air with a thinner profile, MagSafe charging and battery life up to 18 hours.
The new chip will also be available in the redesigned MacBook Pro 13\".

Apple will have to equip iPhones with 5nm processors for the third year in a row

Renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said on Twitter that Apple's A16 single-chip platform for the upcoming iPhone 14 will be manufactured using the 5nm processor, just like its predecessor and its predecessor.
This conclusion is based on the roadmap of contract semiconductor manufacturer TSMC - the 3nm and 4nm processors will not be available for mass production until 2023.
This will have a direct impact on the plans of the company's customers.Image source: apple.comHere we should remember another prediction of Mr.
Kuo, who said in March that the processor A16 will only get the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, while the iPhone 14 and 14 Max will retain last year's Apple A15 Bionic and will be limited to an increase in RAM from 4 to 6 GB.Keeping the same processor usually means that the chip developer will only to a limited extent increase performance and reduce energy consumption.
For example, the same Apple A15 Bionic was 10% more advanced in both parameters than its 5nm A14 Bionic predecessor.The bad news from the analyst is not limited to this: according to his information, the expected fall MacBook Air next generation will again run on the processor M1, as the current model, and a faster and more advanced M2 will also appear only next year.
Apple, of course, can make small changes to the current generation chip and call it M2 purely for marketing purposes.
But more likely the new MacBook Air will simply get a more powerful version of the M1 Pro.Processors for the iPhone have never until now been produced using the same processor three years in a row - Apple has done everything to keep its development at the forefront, thanks to which it has remained ahead of the competition.
Nevertheless, this year could be an unpleasant exception, because this time TSMC, as Apple's main contractor, hasn't found ways to push the technical boundaries.
And the likelihood that any other company will be able to offer production below 5nm technology this year is negligible.

Apple and Samsung continued to certify equipment in Russia, despite leaving the country

Despite earlier decisions to suspend operations in Russia, Apple and Samsung continued to apply for product certification.
These certificates allow them to sell equipment throughout the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), but experts believe that the manufacturers are interested in resuming deliveries to Russia.Source image: apple.comSamsung stopped supplying products to Russia in early March, but Kommersant managed to find that Samsung Electronics Rus Company LLC (SERK) applied for certification of phones, monitors, TVs and other household appliances, including not yet announced products until May 19 at least.
In May alone, the SSEC registered 12 certificates and 22 declarations with Rosakkreditatsiya.
Among them are smartphones Galaxy A13 5G (announced, but not officially sold in Russia), as well as Galaxy A04 and A13s (not yet officially introduced) - all three models were tested May 16 in the center № 300 Rostest-Moscow.Earlier it was reported that the model Samsung Galaxy A13 5G, together with a number of other devices in the range were on sale in Russia under the parallel export program - imported from Kazakhstan devices were sold in stores DNS, \"Fusion\" and \"M.
Video\" with a significant markup.Not to suspend certification of goods and the company Apple, which also in early March, announced the termination of its work in Russia: from 10 to March 21 the company made requests, among other things for the Mac Studio desktop, monitor Studio Display and upgraded iPhone SE - the latter was tested at the Russian Research Institute of Radio.
China's Huawei did not make any statements about ceasing operations in Russia, but it also reduced the volume of supplies and continued to certify its products, issuing declarations in April and May for the Huawei P50 smartphone and the MateStation monoblock computer.
Despite the fact that permits for all of these devices are valid throughout the EAEU (Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan), one of the experts interviewed by Kommersant believes that it would be easier and cheaper for manufacturers to certify in the countries where they plan to sell.
This could mean that despite the suspension of sales in Russia, companies are doing so with the prospect of resuming operations in the country, as well as \"to support those who will import their products.

Apple may equip a future foldable iPhone or iPad with an E-Ink color display

TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple is exploring the use of color E-Ink electronic paper displays in its future devices.
According to the analyst color e-ink displays are particularly well suited for an additional screen with low power consumption in devices with a foldable form factor.Image source: 9to5mac.comAlthough Apple currently does not have in production foldable tablets or smartphones, there are rumors that the company is considering creating an iPad in the form factor of a book.
Back in February this year, Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young and Bloomberg editor Mark Gurman reported on Apple's work on creating a foldable hybrid iPad and MacBook, equipped with a flexible 20-inch display.Currently, manufacturers of foldable Android devices prefer to use OLED panel for additional screens.
For example, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold is equipped with an additional 6.2-inch AMOLED display, which makes it look like a regular smartphone when folded.
Opening the device, the user gets access to a flexible 7.6-inch main screen.
For such a design E-Ink-display is unlikely to be used.
But the Galaxy Z Flip smartphones in the clamshell format has an additional OLED screen just over an inch in size, and it could well be replaced by E Ink.

Apple is already testing iPhone versions with USB-C port instead of Lightning

The predictions of famous expert Ming-Chi Kuo about Apple's intentions to abandon the use of Lightning port in smartphones in the model year 2023 in order to switch to USB-C found support in the publication Bloomberg, which cites its own sources, reports that prototypes of such iPhones are already being tested.
Source image: AppleIt is believed that the main motive for such a difficult for Apple to migrate interfaces will be the bill drawn up by the authorities in Europe, which would force all sellers in the region of electronic devices to use the connector USB-C for charging batteries.
This will save one charger during the life cycle of several smartphones, less polluting the environment with the waste of the electronics industry.At the same time Apple is aware of the need of the owners of accessories with Lightning connector to connect to the future USB-C port, and therefore is preparing to release the appropriate proprietary adapter.
Recall that from 2007 to 2011 Apple smartphones used the familiar on the iPod branded connector with 30 pins, and only with the release of the iPhone 5 have changed over to the already familiar to everyone Lightning.
Then the proprietary adapter cost $29.This year, according to the source, the new iPhone models will retain the Lightning connector, and 2023 as a change of interface to USB-C is called only as a tentative date.
We should add that the iPad and Mac have already switched to USB-C, so Apple smartphones remain the only stronghold of Lightning among the company's major devices, although quite numerous.
The company tried to create versions of iPhones without any physical ports that would charge wirelessly, but it turned out that the charging speed is reduced, as is the speed of data transfer when syncing the devices.
In a car, this type of connection is also problematic.Last year Apple spoke out against the mandatory transfer of its devices to the use of a single USB-C connector, but creating iPhone versions with different types of charging ports in different regions is even less in the interests of the company and consumers, so if European lawmakers persist, Apple will probably be forced to introduce a corresponding port on all of its next-generation smartphones.

Apple has ceded first place in the world by market capitalization for the first time since 2020

The Apple Corporation has ceded first place in the world by market capitalization - it was overtaken for the first time since 2020, and Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco did it.
On May 11, shares of \"Apple\" fell by 5%, stopping at about $ 146.5, while Saudi Aramco shares declined much more modestly - only 0.98%, as a result the capitalization of 2.42 trillion dollars was enough to overtake the company from Cupertino.Traders and financial analysts attribute the change in the world leader in market capitalization to rising oil and oil products prices, as well as the pressure on technology corporations by the U.S.
Federal Reserve raising rates.
In such circumstances, many conservative stockbrokers prefer to invest in securities of more stable companies, such as those related to the food industry.However, most analysts have no doubts that Apple will eventually be able to regain its lost throne.
\"Even if the EU approves an oil embargo on Russia, the price of oil will rise again and Saudi Aramco shares will follow it, it will be a temporary phenomenon, while high-tech gadgets have firmly entered the life of modern man,\" writes one trader.
Given that the role of oil as an energy resource and raw material for fuel production in the world will gradually diminish, and it will be used more for the chemical industry, and not in such huge quantities, it is difficult to disagree with him.
Besides, right now there is only one company in the top 5 by market capitalization that does not belong to the high-tech and Internet sector, and that is Saudi Aramco.The post is rewardedThis material was written by a website visitor, and it is rewarded.

Apple may abandon the Lightning port for the iPhone in favor of USB Type-C next year

As analyst Ming-Chi Kuo told Twitter, Apple intends to abandon the proprietary Lightning port in its iPhone smartphones next year and switch to the USB Type-C connector that has become common among Android smartphones.
Source image: tomekwalecki / pixabay.comMr.
Kuo has justified his considerations with the research he conducted - presumably this is a survey of Apple suppliers, from whom he often gets useful information about the company's plans.
According to the analyst, the introduction of USB Type-C \"may increase the speed of [data] transfer and charging on the iPhone at the hardware level, but the final specification will still depend on the support on iOS.\" The information that Apple may equip the iPhone with USB Type-C connector instead of its own Lightning, has been circulating for several years.
The electronics giant has gradually started to move away from its proprietary port, adding USB Type-C to the latest iPad.
Also USB Type-C ports with Thunderbolt interface have long been used on Mac computers.
Additional pressure on Apple has the European Union, which also has been pushing for the adoption of a single interface for chargers for a number of years.It was suggested that with the iPhone the company will still hold out to the last and rather completely remove the smartphone connectors, providing a fully wireless data transfer and battery charging.
However, in March 2021, according to Mr.
Kuo, Apple was going to keep the Lightning connector on the iPhone \"for the foreseeable future.

Apple has announced the discontinuation of the legendary iPod players

Apple has announced that from now on it will stop the production of all music players under its own brand.advertisementThe company said that sales will continue as long as there is a stock of already released models and that's it.
Wearable music players from Apple were truly epoch-making inventions of their time, now their functionality has been 100% replaced by smartphones, but the \"spirit of the iPod\" is alive, according to Apple.
20 years of production of all models of music players of the \"Apple company\" has sold more than 450 million copies around the world.
Of course, it was clear to everyone that the time of music players is over, sales of such devices are minimal, now it's just a \"redundant\" device for many people, which is necessary to carry with you.
Apple was ready for such developments and, purely for commercial reasons, stopped the issue of the product.
In this case, the employees of Apple, who for a long time were engaged in the direction of music players, continue to argue that this product was one of the main \"bricks\", on which the reputation of Apple brand in the world was built.For the post there is a rewardThis material was written by the site visitor, and for it there is a reward.

MacBook Pro delayed by two months due to quarantine in China

According to Apple's website, currently ordered 14-inch and 16-inch Macbook Pro models will not start shipping to customers until 7-9 weeks later.
Ongoing quarantines in Chinese cities and component shortages are major contributors to this long wait.
There is also unrest among workers in the factories where these laptops are assembled.
Some of the workers have had to live and sleep in production facilities as part of a \"lockdown\" system.advertisementChina has been hit harder by the latest wave of Covid-19 than ever before.
The country's strict policies and the increased contagiousness of the Omicron variant have caused several Chinese cities to be quarantined, affecting supply chains.Apple is another victim of quarantines and production of MacBook Pro 14 and 16 laptops has not kept up with demand.
Quanta Computer, the sole manufacturer of these laptops, has only been able to utilize up to 5 percent of capacity at its Shanghai plant recently.The situation is improving slightly now.
Quanta Vice Chairman Xi Leung said that at the end of April production capacity was at 30% utilization and that the company is now trying to raise that to 50%.The Apple website offers 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with a delivery time of 7-9 weeks.
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Google began to block the accounts of the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, caught under U.S.sanctions

advertisingThe talks about whether the American corporations Apple and Google will block smartphones and other mobile devices of Russians working on the operating systems Android (Google) and iOS (Apple) have continued for many days.
The fact that they are technically capable of carrying out such a procedure is beyond doubt.
Experts have repeatedly said that no tricks will save smartphones from turning into \"bricks\" and everything depends solely on the will of the American copyright holders.
At the same time, it is pointed out that in such a scenario, the above-mentioned corporations will suffer enormous reputational losses.
Perhaps this is what is holding them back at the moment.
Other countries with strained relations with the U.S., such as China, can urgently begin the procedure of complete rejection of Western software for mobile devices, having developed or brought to the necessary level their own competitive alternatives.
Moreover, the same China already has the necessary developments in the form of Huawei Harmony OS, and therefore such a transition in countries disloyal to the U.S.
could be quite fast.
All this will result in major financial losses for Apple and Google, which will inevitably affect their further development.
At the moment, Apple and Google do not block smartphones of ordinary Russians, but people who have been included in the U.S.
sanctions list are not so lucky.
Several members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, hit by the U.S.
personal sanctions, reported about blocking their Google accounts - says RBC.
CPRF members Mikhail Matveev and Nina Ostanina, as well as United Russia member Maria Butina reported that they were completely banned from accessing their accounts of the \"corporation of good.\" Their YouTube channels were also blocked.
According to Maria Butina, she did not receive any prior notification from Google, and she only received a message about the fact that the blocking had already taken place.On March 24, 328 members of the Russian State Duma, among others, fell under U.S.
sanctions.
The legislative body itself was also under the ban.
Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roskosmos, said that the YouTube channel of the state corporation had removed most of the videos of his participation, as well as records of a visit to the Vostochny cosmodrome and some other videos.MP Matveev noted that such actions of the U.S.
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Apple has suspended the purchase of OLED panels for the iPhone from the Chinese BOE

According to the publication The Elec, Apple has ordered the Chinese company BOE to stop production of OLED panels for smartphones iPhone 13 series.
The most likely reason is called problems in the supply chain, because of which BOE had to look for a replacement for already approved components.Image source: ArrleThe publication reports that the Chinese display manufacturer produces OLED panels for the iPhone 12 and 13, but since February BOE has only produced a small number of panels for the iPhone.
The main reason was a shortage of integrated circuits to control the displays, which had previously been purchased from LX Semicon.
The latter preferred to supply more products to LG Display to the detriment of BOE.
According to some reports, the most likely reason is the large size of the chip, which BOE used as a substitute, which was identified by Apple and recognized as unacceptable.
However, it does not seem that Cupertino intended to completely eliminate the Chinese panel manufacturer from the chain of suppliers.
According to experts, Apple is interested in maintaining cooperation with the Chinese manufacturer to put pressure on Samsung Display and LG Display in determining the price of supplied panels.
Moreover, according to reports, the Chinese company will supply the panel for the iPhone 14.Despite the drop in production volumes, sources report that the factory BOE B11 in Sichuan Province, producing panels for the iPhone, is still in operation.Earlier this year, Samsung Display, which produces OLED-panels for Apple, has announced its intention to use its patents to protect business interests in the OLED-sector.
It is possible that Apple has warned BOE about the impending problem, and now the latter is creating a workaround.
It is known that Samsung Display is the first company to commercialize OLED technology for smartphones.
It owns the most significant patents related to the technology, including the pixel structure itself and other basic solutions.