Coronavirus Impact: Global Semiconductor Revenue will Witness Steep Decline in 2020 The new coronavirus pandemic will hit the semiconductor supply and demand, leading to a decline of 0.9 per cent in worldwide semiconductor revenue this year, a Gartner report said on Thursday. This is sharply down from the earlier forecast of 12.5 per cent growth for the year. Overall, 2020 global semiconductor revenue has been reduced from the previous quarter’s forecast by $55 billion, to $415....

Disney+ Hotstar Confirmed to Have Around 8 Million Subscribers Disney+ Hotstarmade its debutin India earlier last week and today, it hasrevealedthat the revamped streaming service already has ‘around 8 million’ subscribers. This figure is only a small chunk of the bigger pie though. Disney+ has amassed a total of over 50 million paying subscribers globally – that too in about five months. Disney+ shared its updated subscribers count via an official blog post....

Galaxy A51 5G and Galaxy A71 5G with Exynos 980, Quad-Cameras Goes Official In line with recent rumors, Samsung has today taken the wraps off two new mid-range phones – the Galaxy A51 5G and Galaxy A71 5G. And as you can probably tell, the key highlight oftoday’s announcementwill have to be 5G support at affordable prices. Both the Galaxy A51 5G and A71 5G feature the company’s own 5G-integrated chipset, multi-camera setups, and fast charging support....

GISAT-1 Launch Postponed Again, This Time Due to Coronavirus Lockdown The launch of GISAT-1 earth observation satellite has been pushed back for the second time in just over a month. According to the PTI, the launch has now been put off indefinitely because of the coronavirus lockdown.“We cannot launch GISAT-1 due to lockdown. An exercise like launching a satellite requires nearly 1,000 people to do deal with its various aspects”, said a source quoted by the news agency....

Google May Use Custom Exynos Chipsets for Pixel Phones From an online petition urging Samsung tostop selling Exynos flagshipsto noperformance difference claims, Samsung’s Exynos chipsets are doing the rounds on the internet over the past few weeks. A new report fromSammobileciting a Korean forum finally brings some positive news about Exynos chipsets. According to the report,Google is working on a custom Exynos chipset that could be launched this year. The chipset will be manufactured on Samsung’s 5nm LPE process....

Google Stadia Gets a Free Tier Along with a Two-Month Pro Trial The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced almost every one of us indoors. Well, Google wants us to continue staying indoors, so it hastoday madeits cloud gaming platform – Google Stadia accessible to everyone for free. It had beenrumoredto be coming for the past couple of months and now that it’s finally here, you can play a bunch of amazing games from right inside your PC browser....

Internet Speed Drops in India Amidst Coronavirus Lockdown Although several streaming platforms haverestricted HD playbackto reduce the network load as a lot of people are staying indoors to reduce the spread of coronavirus, the latest numbers from Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index shows the average download speeds for fixed broadband and mobile connections have dropped in India. According to Ookla, the averagedownload speed for fixed broadband dropped from 39.65 Mbps in February to 35....