Neowin News Feed for: 2023

Report: Hogwarts Legacy was 2023's best-selling US video game in dollar sales

John Callaham — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:10:02 +0000

Warner Bros. Games' Harry Potter-based game Hogwarts Legacy ended up becoming the best-selling US video game in 2023 in terms of dollar sales, according to a new report from Circana. Read more...

Here are the top 10 most viewed stories on Neowin in 2023

Taras Buria — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:00:01 +0000

With 2023 over, it is time to look back at the most popular stories published on Neowin during the year. Edge annoyances, small Windows 11 installs, odd upgrade prompts, deprecated features, and more. Read more...

PC shipments continue to disappoint, but there is hope for 2024

Mehrotra A — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 05:08:02 +0000

IDC has released a report that shows a further decline in PC shipments, which is in line with the expectations at the beginning of the year. However, the company hopes to see an improvement next year. Read more...

IDC expects PC shipments to decline 4.2% year-over-year in 2023

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 22:40:01 +0000

IDC has said that worldwide PC shipments will decline by 4.2% this year. It said shipments in 2022 started off well but deteriorated by the end of the year. It expects a recovery in 2024 and 2025. Read more...

Short-term semiconductor revenue estimates have worsened, says Gartner

Paul Hill — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:48:02 +0000

Gartner has downgraded its semiconductor revenue growth estimate for next year. The analyst has earlier predicted higher growth, but now revenue will fall by 3.6% in the coming year. Read more...

PC and tablet sales expected to decline this year and next

Paul Hill — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 22:47:41 +0000

IDC has forecasted that we'll see PC and tablet sales fall until 2024. In part, this will be due to the economic turbulence. Another factor is that people have bought these items during the pandemic. Read more...

Semiconductor growth to slow to 7% this year as PC sales weaken

Paul Hill — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:06:02 +0000

Gartner has revealed that semiconductor revenues won't be as good in 2022 as anticipated during the last quarter. Early figures for 2023 also reveal the sector will see contraction. Read more...

Nokia base stations to see huge power consumption reduction

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:20:01 +0000

Nokia has announced that it will halve the power usage of its base stations by 2023. It will do this by refining the software to be more efficient and by adopting the latest power-efficient SoCs. Read more...

No Creators Update for some older PCs, but security updates to continue until 2023

Usama Jawad — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:56:01 +0000

Although some older PC utilizing Intel's Clover Trail line of processors won't be receiving the Creators Update, Microsoft has agreed to continue providing security updates until 2023. Read more...