Hardware

• [New] Spending on AI software and hardware will reach $138 billion in 2021, and grow at a rate of 23% in the next three years. / Business Insider
• [New] Microsoft is developing dedicated streaming hardware that people will be able to hook up to their TVs to use its Netflix - like cloud gaming service. / CNBC
• [New] With macOS Monterey, which will soon run on Mac computers and laptops, a new feature called Universal Control lets users wirelessly sync up their Macs and iPads and use a keyboard or mouse across both pieces of hardware. / Wired
• [New] The NIO ET7 is scheduled to go on sale in the first quarter of 2022, when it will still be the most advanced model in the global automotive market in terms of smart hardware configuration. / CnEVPost
• [New] With worldwide revenues for the AI market including software, hardware and services, forecast by IDC market researchers to grow 16.4% in 2021 to $327.5 billion, reliance on AI technology is increasing. / AI Trends
• [New] The sheer power of quantum computing will be capable of tearing through many of the existing public key encryption algorithms, like RSA or Diffie-Hellman, that underpin most computer hardware and software today. / SC Media
• [New] The U.S. proposal on the first pillar could make significant changes to effective tax rates, particularly for manufacturers of technology hardware and pharmaceutical companies. / Accounting Today
• [New] From 2020 to 2025, the annual growth rate of the market size of AR software & content and AR hardware is expected to be 68.7% and 67.9%, respectively. / GlobeNewswire News Room
• [New] Now researchers from US banking giant Goldman Sachs and quantum computing company QC Ware have designed new quantum algorithms that they say could significantly boost the efficiency of some critical financial operations - on hardware that might be available in only five years' time. / ZDNet
• [New] Demand for software goods and services, a focus for American entrepreneurs, is high and will likely increase as 5G networks create new possibilities. / CSIS
• [New] Customers will benefit as Vodafone and other telecommunications companies mix and match hardware and software from a choice of suppliers to more easily extend 5G networks in specific geographical areas where they are most needed. / Electronics Weekly
• The market for AI software, hardware, and services is expected to break the $500 billion mark by 2024, with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 17.5% and total revenues reaching an impressive $554.3 billion. / EE Times Asia
• As more and more robots are fulfilling important roles in the world around us, finding effective and affordable combinations of hardware and software will be essential for commercially viable deployments. / The Robot Report
• New vulnerabilities can be discovered, e.g., in global supply chains for hardware and software, and exploited. / Atlantic Council
• Worldwide revenues for AI, including software, hardware, and services, are forecasted to grow 16.4% year over year in 2021 to $327.5 billion. / Design Thinking
• Goldman Sachs and QC Ware team are claiming that they have actually reached a major step that might see the simulations performed on near-term quantum hardware. / TechHQ
• Alibaba Cloud and Tencent are both investing in Arm-based hardware for their cloud services as well, while Marvell will use the Neoverse V2 architecture for its OCTEON networking solutions. / TechCrunch
• There is no doubt that in the past two years, Apple has shifted to a cloud service business model as it expects revenues from its hardware to decline due to overall smartphone and tablet maturity and extended device replacement cycle, especially after consumers upgrade to 5G devices. / ABI Research
• Trusted hardware and operating system: There would be more hardware and software combinations to build more secure IoT systems by 2023. / AIMultiple
• Luminar Technologies, Inc. has been making a lot of progress that it believes will help cement its status as one of the leading players in the autonomous vehicle technology space with its automotive lidar hardware and software technology. / Futurride.com
• Any changes the EU eventually extracts from Apple could be huge because its app store is the core driver for Apple's growing push to sell services instead of just hardware. / Vox
• Huawei will continue to build a full-scene experience and improve its hardware and software service capabilities, with 100 million devices expected to have HarmonyOS installed in 2021. / CnTechPost

Last updated: 15 June 2021