Hon Hai (aka Foxconn Technology) sees Q1 2013 sales drop by -19% Y-o-Y to $29.96 billion Reuters reports, as declining iPhone sales hurt the Taiwanese device manufacturer even after 2012 was a record year for the company.
Around 60-70% of Hon Hai revenues come from iPhone and iPad manufacture-- and if Apple sales are down, the device manufacturer depending on it follows suit.
"A quarterly decline was expected, but not a yearly decline," KGI Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo says. "This shows that Hon Hai's revenue depends too much on Apple, and iPhone orders corrected more than expected."
The analyst forecasts flat Q2 203 sales for Hon Hai before the company meets further profit pressures during H2 2013.
A switch to AMD (specifically an SoC combining a "Jaguar" CPU with a GPU) instead of the IBM Power PC technology means the new console will be incompatible with 360 game titles. It would also seal AMD's leadership of the console segment-- the Playstation 4 also makes use of x86-based AMD hardware, part of a Sony bid to make the console more attractive to developers. 
Seen in prototype form, Thunderbolt 2.0 (codenamed "Falcon Ridge") allows simultaneous 4K file transfer and display, and improves speeds via implementation of PCIe 3.0 technology outside the PC. 
Next year comes the end of the longest-lived Microsoft OS yet, Windows XP-- Microsoft will only support Windows XP users until 8 April 2014. 
Based on the Marvell 88SS9187 controller and custom Micron firmware, the M500 should deliver up to 80000 IOPS with 500MB/s sequential read and 400MB/s write speeds. 
