Neowin News Feed for: Shortages

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says semiconductor shortages could drag on for another two years

Paul Hill — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:42:01 +0000

Intel's CEO has said that the semiconductor shortage could run on into 2024 because there's also a shortage in manufacturing tools. He previously expected the shortage to end in 2023. Read more...

Samsung to invest over $151 billion in its semiconductor businesses by 2030

Subir Kathuria — Thu, 13 May 2021 20:42:01 +0000

Samsung had announced in 2019 that it would invest more than $115 billion by 2030 into its logic chip businesses. Now the tech giant says it is increasing it to an eye-watering $151 billion. Read more...

Report: PC hard drive prices might go down next month

John Callaham — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:33:30 +0000

A new report claims that the rise in PC hard drive prices due to flooding in Thailand might actually go down in December as hard drive shortages don't appear to be as bad as first thought. Read more...

Intel: No chipset shortages with better capacity allocation

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:41:51 +0000

Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president of Intel, admitted that terminating the supply of entry-level chipsets led to Intel missing profit and market share goals. With capacity support from ATI Technologies, Chandrasekher said that the shortage... Read more...

Microsoft suffers losses as Xbox shortages continue

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:44:58 +0000

Microsoft has posted its revenue results for its second quarter ended 31stDecember, revealing a loss of USD 293 million from the division whichmanages its next-generation Xbox 360 console. Overall revenue for the quarter was posted... Read more...

WoW subscribers top 1.5 million as stock shortages continue

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:05:07 +0000

More than 1.5 million subscribers have signed up for MMORPG World of Warcraft, according to developer Blizzard Entertainment, but stock shortages of the game continue to afflict UK retailers. The game was released in North... Read more...

Apple Faces Spotty Shortages of Popular iPods

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:21:30 +0000

Spotty shortages abound for Apple Computer Inc.'s wildly popular iPod digital music players amid Wall Street expectations for a doubling in sales of the devices in the holiday quarter, analysts said on Wednesday. "I was... Read more...

Xmas Shortages for New PS2 Confirmed

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:28:20 +0000

Just imagine for a moment that it's Christmas morning and parents across the country are having to explain to the fruit of their over-active loins that because Mr Play and Mr Amazon's virtual shelves were... Read more...

Component shortages threaten PC, electronics growth

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:15:35 +0000

SHORTAGES OF VITAL COMPONENTS for DVD players are threatening an expected surge in sales of PCs, a Japanese newspaper claims today. This morning's Nihon Keizai Shimbun claims that optical pickups for DVD players are in... Read more...

DAoC Shortages

Mon, 08 Oct 2001 02:36:13 +0000

Uh oh! "From the day we began work on DAoC we have had a few rock solid principles. First among those was that our game's capacity was geared to handle 100K subscribers during... Read more...