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Tablet and Chromebooks have 'moved past peak demand', claimes IDC

IDC figures show Chromebook shipments fell more than 60 per cent in Q4 as vendors prioritised Windows machines due to their higher price tags alongside component shortages

07 February 2022 • 2 min read

Tablet and Chromebooks have 'moved past peak demand', claimes IDC

Global tablet shipments reached 46 million units during the fourth quarter of 2021, posting a decline for the second time since the pandemic began in 2020. Shipments dropped 11.9 per cent year ...

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SoftBank in advanced talks to buy British AI chip designer Graphcore: report

Once seen as a viable competitor to Nvidia, Graphcore’s business suffered in 2022 from deteriorating macroeconomic conditions that slowed down sales of systems outfitted with its IPUs, and now it’s reportedly in talks to sell itself to Japanese investment giant SoftBank.

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IBM confirms $6.4bn HashiCorp purchase by year's end

‘HashiCorp has a proven track record of enabling clients to manage the complexity of today’s infrastructure and application sprawl,’ says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna

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