Acer boss announces 10 per cent price hike due to Trump's tariffs
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By default, from next month

Acer boss Jason Chen says that there will be 10 per cent price increase on laptops made in China due to Donald [they are eating the cats] Trump's tariffs.

Arm launches its own chip
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Meta signs on as an early customer

Arm will unveil its first in-house chip later this year, marking a significant shift in its business model and potentially reshaping the semiconductor industry's competitive landscape.

Seagate launches its new Ultra Compact SSD series
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As portable as it can get

Seagate has unveiled its new Ultra Compact SSD series, a portable thumb-drive-sized SSD that will be available in 1TB and 2TB capacities, as well as offer transfer speeds of up to 1,000MB/s.

Seagate drives masquerading as new linked to old Chinese crypto mines
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Were used to mine Chia

A Heise investigation has uncovered that new Seagate data centre-grade hard drives may be used equipment sourced from Chinese cryptocurrency mining farms that mined Chia several years ago.

Half of AMD’s chip sales are AM4
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New technologies you can’t give it away

Half of AMD's CPU sales are using the old AMD 4 socket with AM5 not having the take up the company expected.