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U.S. retail sales increased less than expected in October and could slow further, restrained by spiraling new COVID-19 infections and declining household income as millions of unemployed Americans lose government financial support.
Reuters
Nation's leadership pours money into grooming semiconductor talent and building new facilities, citing need for self-sufficiency
Wall Street Journal
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors on Tuesday said it had entered a strategic relationship with Amazon.com's cloud computing unit to help cars communicate with data centers.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics is pouring US$116 billion into its next-generation chip business that includes fabricating silicon for external clients, betting it can finally close the gap on industry leader TSMC as soon as two years from now.
Bloomberg
The latest version of Nvidia's flagship A100 server GPU packs twice as much high-speed memory as its predecessor.
The Street
Ford Motor has reversed course and is now considering making its own battery cells as sales volumes of electric vehicles rise around the world, the automaker's top executive said on Friday.
Reuters
Qualcomm on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.
Reuters
For the past two months inventor Yezin Al-Qaysi has been riding the Toronto subway in Canada wearing a huge black "mad helmet".
BBC News
China's bureau for regulating monopolies, the State Administration for Market Regulation or SAMR, released draft rules that define for the first time what constitutes anti-competitive behavior.
CNBC
Amazon on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia.
Reuters
The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled an executive order prohibiting U.S. investments in Chinese firms that Washington says are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, ramping up pressure on Beijing after the U.S. election.
Reuters
"We're recovering, but to a different economy," Powell said during a virtual panel discussion at the European Central Bank's Forum on Central Banking.
CNN
Bringing a new range of hardware to market is not an easy task, even for Intel.
Anandtech
U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in October, the lowest reading in five months, suggesting that a price spike over the summer is beginning to fade as coronavirus cases spread.
AP
China's draft anti-monopoly rules will likely hit the country's major internet companies, which were already fighting off rivals that were taking away chunks of their market share, Morgan Stanley said in a report.
CNBC
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) is facing some delays in getting U.S.-made equipment, parts and materials, the Global Times newspaper reported on Thursday, after Washington imposed export restrictions against the firm.
Reuters
Singapore on Thursday announced a new work visa for foreign executives of technology firms, a sector the low-tax global business hub hopes will power future economic growth.
Reuters
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna noted in a letter to President-elect Joe Biden that 70% of the tech talent in the U.S. works for the private sector, and the government needs to secure strategic access to that brain power.
CNBC
Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba plunged 8.86% by Wednesday afternoon in Asia, while Tencent dropped 5.38%. Smartphone maker Xiaomi also declined 5.73% and Meituan fell 7.47%. JD.com also saw its stock plummet 8.11%.
CNBC
Chip maker Nvidia on Monday announced that Hyundai Motor Group will use the NVIDIA DRIVE in-vehicle information and entertainment system for all its Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis models from 2022.
Reuters
We've never seen an Arm chip do what Apple is about to try on Macs
The Verge
It's been a long time since General Motors has been a hot stock for investors. Electric vehicles could turn it into one.
CNN
The vaccine is more than 90% effective, and will not be widely available until next year, but stocks surged on the view that earnings for a broad group of companies will be revised higher.
CNBC
The Chinese semiconductor industry will maintain 'sound and continuous' growth and achieve partial self-reliance over time, according to KPMG
South China Morning Post
Shares in Japan hit a near 30-year high on Monday, the first day of trading following news that Joe Biden had won the US presidential election. The Nikkei 225 closed up 2.1% at a level not seen since 1991.
BBC News
Qualcomm reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
CNBC
As the country awaits the outcome of the US presidential election, Corporate America is watching closely, especially Silicon Valley.
CNN
The laptops will be first and the desktops are coming later, report claims.
Ars Technica
SK Hynix, the world's No.2 memory chip maker, said it expected inventory build-up by Huawei's competitors in China to boost mobile demand in the current quarter, but its mainstay server demand would remain week.
Reuters
China's Lenovo Group, the world's biggest PC maker, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday and said it is continuing to benefit from "new normal" remote working after COVID-19.
Reuters
Rising tensions between the former chief executive of Arm China, Allen Wu -- who controls a 17% stake in the company -- and the board of directors have spiraled out of control, putting the deal in doubt.
The Motley Fool
Samsung Electronics' System LSI Business Division is planning to supply its smartphone application processor (AP) Exynos to Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo in 2021.
BusinessKorea
Desktop Macs with Apple Silicon will come at a later date.
engadget
Quantum computers are not yet creating business value, but CIOs should nonetheless lose no time in getting involved.
ZDNet
A group of business leaders and public policy experts is launching a new body to grapple with thorny questions surrounding the future of transportation including self-driving and electric vehicles.
Reuters
Yes, it's building up hype for an Exynos.
engadget
It wouldn't help the company's phone business, however.
engadget
On Saturday, the China's official manufacturing PMI fell slightly to 51.4 in October from 51.5 in September, but continued to show strong activity
South China Morning Post
China needs to step up the recycling and repurposing of batteries for electric vehicles in order to ease supply strains and curb pollution and carbon emissions, environmental group Greenpeace said on Friday.
Reuters
Panasonic said on Thursday it is working to develop a new battery cell for Tesla Inc based on the U.S. electric vehicle maker's new cell format, as the Japanese company moves forward its decade-old partnership with Tesla.
Reuters
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