To this day, more than 10 years after its original release, there’s something deeply appealing about the Palm Pixi. #webOS

By 2030 every car will have about $600 worth of chips, almost double the $312 in 2013.

Source (PDF): Deloitte

Chip shortages are beginning to hit the automotive sector from Toyota and Honda to Ford & Fiat Chrysler. Today’s cars use between 40 to 150 chips for various systems ranging from sensors to entertainment and navigation. Production is not expected to recover until Q2 2021.

So back in 2001 Google was buying print ads in tech publications to promote Google Ads:

“Register your own name as a keyword and we’ll give you a month’s worth of free ads tied to it.”

Think they’d still honor that? 😄

I’ve rarely come across a graph that so eloquently captures the essence of an era:

In 2020 the Semiconductor market cap surpassed Energy.