Month: April 2020

NVIDIA launches RTX SUPER graphics for high-end gaming and studio laptops

NVIDIA is refreshing its laptop graphics lineup with new solutions that the company says will bring better performance, improved efficiency, and a few new features to gaming laptops and “RTX Studio” laptops designed for content creation. Th…

NVIDIA is refreshing its laptop graphics lineup with new solutions that the company says will bring better performance, improved efficiency, and a few new features to gaming laptops and “RTX Studio” laptops designed for content creation. The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and RTX 2080 SUPER GPUs will most likely be paired with Intel’s […]

CPU-Fertigung: Intel hat ein Netburst-Déjà-vu

Über Jahre hinweg Takt und Kerne ans Limit treiben – das wurde Intel einst schon beim Pentium 4 zum Verhängnis. Eine Analyse von Marc Sauter (Intel, Prozessor)

Über Jahre hinweg Takt und Kerne ans Limit treiben - das wurde Intel einst schon beim Pentium 4 zum Verhängnis. Eine Analyse von Marc Sauter (Intel, Prozessor)

Now you can pre-order a PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch for $150

The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run open source operating systems such as postmarketOS, KDE Plasma Mobile, or Ubuntu Touch. But the first units to ship earlier this year didn’t have an operating system installed — it …

The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run open source operating systems such as postmarketOS, KDE Plasma Mobile, or Ubuntu Touch. But the first units to ship earlier this year didn’t have an operating system installed — it was up to users to load their own. Now the Pine64 team and the developers of […]

The auto industry reports Q1 sales, and they’re really, really bad

Q1 2020 was already looking tough for automakers without the pandemic’s help.

Now might be a great time to buy a car, if you need one and still have a job.

Enlarge / Now might be a great time to buy a car, if you need one and still have a job. (credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

On Wednesday, the auto industry started reporting its sales results for the first quarter of 2020. The industry's prospects weren't looking amazing even before the worst disease pandemic in more than a century, and 2019 saw new car and truck sales fall by 1.3 percent in the US. But those results look positively rosy compared to Q1 2020.

General Motors reports that for the first three months of the year, its sales were down by about 7 percent compared to the same period a year earlier. At Fiat Chrysler, the drop was 10 percent. Toyota's sales fell 9 percent. Subaru posted a 17-percent decrease over the quarter. Volkswagen sales fell by 13 percent, with a 14-percent drop at Audi and a 20-percent decline at Porsche. BMW sold 15-percent fewer cars in Q1 2020 than Q1 2019, with an even bigger 35-percent decrease at Mini. Nissan had a similarly dismal quarter, declining 30 percent, year on year.

Not everyone did quite so horribly. Mazda sales dropped by just 4.5 percent for the first three months of the year, and Kia actually managed to increase sales by about a percent, although Korean stablemate Hyundai posted an 11-percent drop in Q1 2020.

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