Qualcomm warned last quarter that phone sales would see a double-digit dip in 2022, and here it is again: 18 percent lower revenue from handsets in the quarter that ended December 25th. IDC said it’s the “largest-ever decline in a single quarter” for phones.
Car chips are booming, but these bar graphs are obviously NOT to scale. Full financial results here.
Samsung just showed up Google yet again, promising “four generations of OS upgrades and five years of security updates” for its new Samsung S23 phones on the Galaxy Unpacked 2023 stage. Google’s phones still only give you three years of new features.
A Japanese YouTuber created a custom setup to allow his pet fish to play Pokémon on his Nintendo Switch, but a malfunction led to the fish spending money at the eShop and revealing its owner’s credit card information on live stream.
We are truly beyond parody.
Profits dropped 98 percent — and yet it’s actually a rosy quarter since AMD is weathering reduced PC demand relatively well (client processors admittedly down 51 percent). AMD says the losses are “primarily due to the amortization of intangible assets associated with the Xilinx acquisition.”
Gaming revenue only dropped 7 percent because AMD-powered console sales (PS5, Xbox, Steam Deck) are actually up. It’s largely the same story as last quarter.
