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The recent news that Dell is to make 6,650 staff redundant (about 5% of its workforce) led to predictable blame being heaped on that old political football, the IBM-compatible Personal Computer. The notion perpetuated implicitly in media coverage was that PC sales are falling ergo Dell is falling: a
"We're trying to build a set of relationships in business that outlast all of us"
Micron is cutting spending on memory chip fabrication by 50% in 2023 and slashing 10% of its workforce, or some 5,000 jobs, with the semiconductor firm’s CEO Sanjay Mehrotra warning the memory market is facing “the most severe imbalance between supply and demand in both DRAM and NAND
Rising energy costs will sting Microsoft for $800 million this financial year according to the firm, as it saw slightly slower growth of its Azure cloud business in its Q1 results. In its earnings call CFO Amy Hood noted Microsoft's energy costs will escalate throughout the year, saying