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TrendFocus has analyzed the global hard disk drive (HDD) market for the last quarter of 2023 and found that total HDD production increased by 9% (compared to the previous quarter), but shipments decreased by 0.6% to 28.85 million units. In the fourth quarter of 2023, 27.6 to 29.7 million HDDs of all types were sold, which is 3.7% less than in the third quarter of the year. This signals that the hard disk drive market is adapting to the emergence of another player in the market space - a new flash drive technology, NAND.
Broadcom explains that it will no longer offer free solutions and perpetual licenses, such a decision was made for the convenience of corporate customers and to simplify the product portfolio.
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The choice of the hosting provider, location, and a hosting plan can influence the specifics of your online presence. No matter the size of your business or organization, the number of people working with you on the project, or if you work alone - a virtual private server (VPS) can be a solution for you since it provides many benefits at a reasonable price.
A new 4.3 version of the static site generator Astro has been released. New features include the experimental i18n domain configuration, more control over HTML files, and the possibility to use images without a relative link identifier.
Google has removed the function to view cached pages. This function could be used to visualize a cached version of a page, even if the original page is down, is not available in a particular region, or is no longer present. The motivation that was given by Google itself is that the internet has become much more reliable nowadays and the real need for this function is no longer present. In spite of this, the function did have various applications from which many users used to benefit – for figuring out if there were any recent changes on a page or for SEO analytics.
We live in an extremely competitive environment where missing some data means losing your success and influence on the market. Businesses are investing in all the possible tools in order to increase profitability, and at the same time, they are struggling with searching for the needed data. So, data architecture can help businesses reach new opportunities.
Samsung is no longer the biggest semiconductor manufacturer. According to Counterpoint Research, Samsung's revenues sank from $70.2 billion in 2022 to $43.4 billion in 2023. This 38% drop is caused by the general downturn in the chip market as well as Samsung’s inability to engage new customers.
Docker developers have introduced Build Cloud platform, which is designed for building projects. It is stated that with the help of this cloud platform, it is possible to significantly reduce the build time from 15 min to 2 min on average.
Samsung finally announced the features of the SSD 990 EVO, the first SSD with a hybrid PCIe interface. Among other things, it’s the first SSD M.2 supporting x4 PCIe 4.0 or x2 PCIe 5.0 modes. The bandwidths remain the same with 5000/4200 MB per second of sequential read/write speed, and 700K/800K IOPS of random read/write speed.