hardware

Microsoft reportedly gives secret Xbox Game Pass discounts to churned subscribers to reel them back in — targeted offers slash up to 30% off the regular price

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Dynamic win-back discounts are perhaps the oldest trick in the book, but they remain widely used because of their effectiveness in re-engaging customers who have stopped buying a product or, in Microsoft’s case, canceled…

Thailand asks data center operators to suspend 49 buildouts until legal framework is complete — new legislation is supposed to create ‘airtight’ requirements fo

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Government heads requested that agencies compile information about current and future data centers during this week, in a bid to create unified legislation. The country currently has few laws specific to data centers, le…

Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can’t break America’s monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chip

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Pacific Quartz has supplied Lam Research and Tokyo Electron with ultra-high-purity quartz consumables, such as LPCVD diffusion tubes, wafer boats, quartz ingots, quartz plates, and high-purity quartz tubes, since 2019–20…

NEC has quietly quit quantum computing hardware development, report claims — company says it will continue to evaluate practical applications and industrializat

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The demise of NEC’s semiconductor business was not sudden. NEC dismantled its semiconductor business in stages over roughly a decade. NEC effectively gave up doing DRAM alone in 1999, when it spun off its DRAM operations…

NEC has quietly quit quantum computing hardware development, report claims — company says it will continue to evaluate practical applications and industrializat

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The demise of NEC’s semiconductor business was not sudden. NEC dismantled its semiconductor business in stages over roughly a decade. NEC effectively gave up doing DRAM alone in 1999, when it spun off its DRAM operations…