Tropic, which helps enterprises buy and manage software as well as to identify cost savings on purchases, raises a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
Tropic, which helps enterprises buy and manage software as well as to identify cost savings on purchases, raises a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners  —  Global spend on enterprise software was expected to reach $599 billion by the end of 2021, and new forecasts say it is now projected …

Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the company's strategy after its failed Arm bid, Omniverse's progress, and its bet on self-driving cars (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the company's strategy after its failed Arm bid, Omniverse's progress, and its bet on self-driving cars  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang didn't get to fulfill his dream of acquiring Arm for $80 billion.  Regulators held the deal up and Huang called off the deal after “giving it our best shot.”

Global DRAM memory market, prices down in Q4: Report

Global dynamic random access memory (DRAM) shipments dropped nearly 6 per cent in the fourth quarter from three months earlier, a report showed on Friday, amid sluggish demand from manufacturers that had hoarded up the key consumer electronics component over continued chip shortages. https://ift.tt/ckmYBq8

Estimated Mac lineup for 2022: M1 Pro and M2 Mac mini, M2 13" MacBook Pro, 24" iMac, and MacBook Air, an iMac Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max, and a new Mac Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Estimated Mac lineup for 2022: M1 Pro and M2 Mac mini, M2 13" MacBook Pro, 24" iMac, and MacBook Air, an iMac Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max, and a new Mac Pro  —  As Apple gears up for its first product launch event of the year, the spotlight turns to its 2022 Mac plans.

Spotify's acquisitions of Podsights and Chartable prepare it to compete better with YouTube, offering programmatic ads and robust analytics to creators (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify's acquisitions of Podsights and Chartable prepare it to compete better with YouTube, offering programmatic ads and robust analytics to creators  —  Why the company went on a shopping spree  —  This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge's preeminent audio industry newsletter.

HR experts, industry execs, and government officials in Taiwan say the current shortage of chip talent on the island is the most serious they have ever seen (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
HR experts, industry execs, and government officials in Taiwan say the current shortage of chip talent on the island is the most serious they have ever seen  —  Semiconductor giants hike salaries to lure island's dwindling number of graduates  —  TAIPEI/HSINCHU, Taiwan …