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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered certain US telecommunications companies to remove Huawei equipment from their network.
BBC News
The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) on Wednesday delayed a decision in a trade secrets case involving South Korean battery makers LG Chem and SK Innovation to Feb. 10.
Reuters
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics said the U.S.-China trade war and a near-embargo on Huawei, one of its biggest clients, would slow growth and affect profitability even if demand rebounds after a COVID-afflicted year.
Reuters
European start-ups are on track to raise a record $41 billion in 2020, according to venture capital firm Atomico's State of European Tech report.
CNBC
A shortage of certain auto chips may start to have a big impact on car production at some Chinese companies in the first quarter next year, a senior industry executive said on Tuesday, which may cast a shadow over the global auto sector's recovery.
Reuters
Apple has moved its self-driving car unit under the leadership of top artificial intelligence executive John Giannandrea, who will oversee the company's continued work on an autonomous system that could eventually be used in its own car.
Bloomberg
Figures show foreign investment in the Star Market has surged this year, despite concerns about sometimes heavy-handed regulation by Chinese authorities.
CNBC
LG Electronics said on Monday it had reorganised its mobile phone division to increase outsourcing of its low to mid-end smartphones, which analysts said represented an attempt to cut costs and compete with Chinese rivals.
Reuters
A shortage of chips used in auto manufacturing could disrupt automotive production in China well into next year, industry officials said Friday, with chip companies saying they are raising prices and expanding their production in response.
Reuters
A new half-sized Mac Pro is planned for launch by 2022
The Verge
A job description on Intel's website gives us a rare glimpse at Intel's outsourcing plans. It's no secret that Intel will outsource more production to TSMC in the future, but so far, the company has been pretty vague about the details.
Tom's Hardware Guide
The Trump administration on Thursday added China's top chipmaker, SMIC, and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, drawing condemnation from Beijing as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.
Reuters
Exclusive: License to bypass ban brightens outlook for delayed IPO
Nikkei Asian Review
Simon Segars, the chief executive of Arm, said he expects regulators to "take a good look" at the company's deal with U.S. chipmaker Nvidia.
CNBC
The Snapdragon 888 will be in devices from LG, Motorola, OnePlus, Oppo and others, starting in the first quarter of 2021.
CNET
Intel's Habana Labs business said on Wednesday it would take time to gain market share from Nvidia in cloud and data centre computing but its deal this week with Amazon Web Services (AWS) was a solid first step.
Reuters
South Korea's LG Chem plans to more than double production capacity of battery cells it makes in China for Tesla electric vehicles (EV) next year, sources said, to keep up with its U.S. client's growth in the biggest car market.
Reuters
A first look at the chipset that will power 2021's best Android phones
The Verge
The company is currently constructing a new campus.
CNBC
German microchip maker Infineon Technologies will spend $27 million over the next three years to make Singapore its first global hub to see artificial intelligence (AI) embedded in every job function.
The Straits Times
The U.K. said in July that carriers would have to stop buying Huawei 5G equipment by year-end and strip out its kit from their infrastructure by 2027.
CNBC
The Trump administration is poised to add China's top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to US investors and escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Reuters
The US fight with China may change where your devices come from.
engadget
China has accused India of discriminatory practices that violate World Trade Organization rules after the latter banned more Chinese mobile apps.
CNBC
Chinese handset rivals of Huawei Technologies including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are making aggressive moves to seize market share from their giant rival, after stepped-up U.S. sanctions hobbled Huawei's supply chains, industry insiders say.
Yahoo! Asia News
U.S. business activity expanded at the fastest rate in more than five years in November led by the quickest pickup in manufacturing since September 2014, a survey showed on Monday in an indication the economy keeps making progress at clambering out of the COVID-19 recession even as infections surge.
Reuters
It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept - first developed by the Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in the 1920s - was mainly an inspiration for writers.
LiveScience
Singapore's economy contracted by 5.8% in the third quarter compared to a year ago - coming in better than initial estimates, the country's Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Monday.
CNBC
The Shenzhen-based company filed 8,607 wireless patents in the January to October period
South China Morning Post
The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon are nearly identical to Intel-powered Macs.
engadget
China is cashing in on fears that the West's faltering economic recovery will keep interest rates near record lows for a long time.
CNN
The NUC M15 is a premium productivity laptop meant to compete with the XPS and Spectre computers of the world
The Verge
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies is relatively well insulated from geopolitical tensions between the United States and China thanks to its focus on power-management chips, CEO Reinhard Ploss said on Wednesday.
Reuters
Google and AMD will be among the first clients for TSMC's new SoIC chips, which use a new 3D technology to stack and link different types of chips in one package. The new chip packaging approach is meant to make the chipset smaller but more powerful and energy efficient.
Nikkei Electronics Asia
SoftBank doubled its internal target for selling down assets this year in preparation for a potential "worst case scenario" in the next two to three months as coronavirus cases spike, CEO Masayoshi Son said.
CNBC
Tsinghua Unigroup, a major government-backed player in China's technology race, has defaulted on a 1.3-billion-yuan ($197.96 million) bond, three sources said, as several high-profile delinquencies by state firms rattled the country's bond market.
Reuters
City officials in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday unanimously voted to authorize a development agreement with chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co that would provide $205 million in city funds for infrastructure such as roads and water improvements for a planned $12 billion semiconductor factory in the city.
Reuters
Apple said it was protecting degrading batteries
The Verge
Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm will all support Microsoft Pluton
The Verge
The region is grappling with a second wave of infections and a subsequent new round of lockdowns and social restrictions.
CNBC
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