Lexar Announces New NM620 M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe SSD

From Lexar Press Release: Lexar is proud to announce the new NM620 M.2 2280 PCle Gen3x4 NVMe SSD. The NM620 is a perfect solution designed for content creators and gamers who want to maximize the speed of their PCs and be able to handle intensive workload.

Enjoy 6x the speed of SATA SSDs with...

ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces ROG Phone 5 Series

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today unveiled the powerful new ROG Phone 5 series and a lineup of accessories, including a gaming headset, at the For Those Who Dare virtual launch event. The event also featured a live all-star showmatch for leading gaming influencers from...

Photoshop now runs natively on Apple’s M1 Macs

From The Verge: Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to make the leap to Apple Silicon, and now the much-anticipated release of Photoshop is here. According to the company, Photoshop for M1 Macs completes most tasks 1.5 times faster than when running on Intel. But the speed improvements extend...

Disney+ Hits a Major Milestone

From PC Mag: Disney+ has surpassed 100 million subscribers, company CEO Bob Chapek announced at Tuesday's virtual shareholder's meeting.

Chapek stepped into the CEO role in late February 2020—just in time for a global pandemic. "None of us could have imagined how profoundly the virus would change...

Apple reportedly cuts iPhone 12 Mini production for early 2021

From CNET: Apple is cutting component orders for the iPhone 12 Mini for the first half of the year, Nikkei reported Wednesday. It may reduce production of the 5G device by more than 70% until the end of June, it noted.

The company has apparently reduced orders for all iPhones in that period by...

Samsung’s new 980 NVMe SSD costs less to make, so it costs less to buy

From The Verge: Samsung has announced its newest SSD, a follow-up to the 970 Evo called the 980. The drive is a NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 drive, and it’s an affordable one, too. It costs up to $129.99 for the 1TB version and as little as $49.99 for the 250GB model.

There’s a reason for the low price — it’s...

SK Hynix Is Mass-Producing 18GB LPDDR5 Memory Modules for Phones

From PC Mag: The latest smartphone models are set to get a major boost, both in terms of the amount of RAM they have available and how fast that memory is, thanks to SK Hynix.

Volume production of the industry's largest capacity LPDDR5 mobile DRAM modules is underway, the South Korean memory...

Report: Apple Event Expected March 23

From PC Mag: The pandemic has meant Apple's new product reveals aren't done in front of a live audience, instead relying on video to show off the latest iDevices. The next one of those, in whatever form it takes, is thought to be happening on March 23.

As 9To5Mac reports, if this Apple event does...

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