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TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: Reports continue to roll in, signaling that 2022 was a historically rough year for hardware sales across the tech industry. Throughout the year, PC processor sales saw not one but two record-breaking quarterly slumps. And yet, AMD

In brief: High inflation and a foreboding economic forecast for 2023 had consumers shifting spending away from luxury items such as high-end smartphones to more necessary purchases like gas and food in 2022. While giants like Apple and Samsung picked up a few points in market share, the overall industry saw declines in the fourth

Why it matters: A recent report from Trendfocus shows SSD sales continue to rise dramatically, while HDD manufacturers are noticing record-breaking declines in overall shipments. Analysts estimate that shipments declined by more than 40 percent compared to 2021. For decades, HDDs were consumers' go-to choice for PC storage. Hard disk drives offered an excellent balance

In a nutshell: The pandemic boom for the PC market has come to an end as evident by the latest market report from International Data Corporation. Global shipments of traditional PCs slid to 67.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022. That's down 28.1 percent versus the same period in 2021 and is comparable