Despite shortages, manufacturers advance their plans

Chipmakers can’t keep up. TSMC, the Taiwanese semiconductor giant, predicts the shortage will last beyond 2021 and a few tough years ahead. To alleviate this situation, the company has announced a plan of 30,000 million dollars to expand its production capacity and maintain its production plans.

This week, during its annual meeting for investors, TSMC has confirmed that the 3 nanometer chips will arrive in 2022. Along with this promise, from Anandtech they report that TSMC has already started the development of its first 2 nanometer chips, which will presumably be produced on a large scale in 2023.

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Spain approves extending the mandatory guarantee of products from 2 to 3 years

Spain increases the guarantee of the products. Of the current two mandatory years it will go to a legal guarantee of three years. This was approved today by the Council of Ministers, which has also agreed to increase the minimum time that manufacturers must provide at the repair level. Instead of the current five years, companies must have spare parts for at least 10 years of products that are no longer sold, which will facilitate their repair despite the fact that the product is old.

The new measure is contained in a Royal Decree-Law omnibus, which will also include new rights and guarantees for users in the face of the boom in online commerce, in line with what is proposed by the European Union, which at the end of November approved the so-called ‘right to repair ‘.

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Bizum reduces the number of operations that we can do per month from 150 to 60

Bizum is going to reduce the number of transfers that each individual user can make at the end of the month, as Euribor and Invertia have advanced and we have been able to confirm from Xataka. Currently, that limit is at 150 monthly operations, but as of June 15 the figure will be reduced to 60 monthly operations. That, in a nutshell, means that we will go from having an average of five daily transfers to just two.

From Bizum they have confirmed to Engadget that “as of June 15, only the case of payments between people, the number of bizums that a user can receive per month is reduced to 60 in order to continue to guarantee your safetyThey also ensure that “the sending capacity is not diminished in any case.” In other words, we can continue making as many shipments as we want, but we can only receive 60 money shipments.

Bizum can also be used to pay for your purchases online and even in some physical stores: this is how it works

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New Xiaomi Redmi K40 Game Enhanced Edition, features, price, technical sheet

The fashion of mobile phones designed preferably to play reaches the Xiaomi Redmi: the brand, specialized in the economic mid-range, takes this formula to a high-performance phone, the Xiaomi Redmi K40 Game Enhanced Edition. Large number of surnames to shape the latest beast of the Chinese brand.

The Redmi K40 family grows in China with a new phone, the first of the brand designed expressly for those who leave fingerprints while giving games. With a more radical design, and with great power as a flag, the new Xiaomi Redmi K40 Game Enhanced Edition is on its way to becoming the Redmi gaming benchmark.

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characteristics, price and technical data sheet.

Brands are nourishing their catalogs for the mid-range with 5G well and there are more and more options, sometimes not very different so that the user can decide on a minimum of details. It is the case of the new OPPO A95 5G, another option from this manufacturer within the more standard mid-range.

The new A95 5G drinks a lot from the OPPO A93 5G that we saw last January. In fact, it is very similar both inside and out, but in this case the processor is slightly higher and the screen is AMOLED.

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