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China's Omnivision also gets permit but smartphone maker's supply woes not over
Nikkei Asian Review
There's much to celebrate about Thursday's GDP report, which showed the US economy grew at a record annualized rate of 33.1% during the third quarter.
CNN
AMD is going up against Nvidia with three new GPUs
The Verge
Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it expects fourth-quarter profit to fall due to weak server chip demand and rising smartphone competition, after posting its best quarterly operating profit in two years in the third quarter.
Reuters
Apple will be using a superpowered version of the A14 chips used inside the iPhone 12, a report claims.
Computerworld
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations, just as the semiconductor designer announced a $35 billion deal to buy chipmaker Xilinx.
Reuters
He made Samsung the giant it is now, but had ethical problems.
engadget
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday the sale of chip designer Arm to Nvidia will drive growth in computing power, in his first public comments since the $40 billion deal was announced in September.
Reuters
Asia Pacific is set to recover from its worst recession in living memory, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says.
BBC News
While California-based Tesla captured popular attention for electric cars, national policy in Beijing encouraged the launch of several rivals in China, the world's largest auto market.
CNBC
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics is expecting strong demand from the car and mobile phone industries to boost sales growth in the fourth quarter as it braces for a loss of revenue from China's Huawei.
Reuters
Tesla just reported third-quarter results including net income (GAAP) of $331 million on revenue of $8.77 billion.
CNBC
Intel's $9 billion sale of its NAND memory chip unit will help the U.S. chip giant focus on its core business in higher-margin processors, Wall Street analysts said on Tuesday, after its deal with South Korea's SK Hynix.
Reuters
China is unlikely to grant its unconditional blessing
Bloomberg
Vietnam's leader has asked Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of South Korea's top conglomerate Samsung Electronics, to make an investment in building a semiconductor plant in the country, according to news reports by Vietnamese media on Wednesday.
The Korea Herald
Texas Instruments reported its first quarterly revenue growth in nearly two years on Tuesday, a rebound the chipmaker credited to people stuck at home splurging on electronic gadgets for remote work and entertainment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reuters
But Qualcomm's new products go on the other side of a 5G connection. Instead of being inside a handset, they go into base stations packed with antennas operated by carriers that smartphones talk to.
CNBC
Bank tellers are out and robotics engineers are in, according to a new report that says the coronavirus recession is accelerating technological changes that could displace 85 million jobs within the next five years.
CNN
State planner admits that some companies have 'blindly entered into projects' involving computer chips, resulting in wasted resources
South China Morning Post
IBM posted a third consecutive quarter of declining revenue.
CNBC
China passed a law restricting exports of controlled items, allowing the government to act against countries that abuse export controls in a way that harm's China's interests, state media said.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics is intensively investing in the expansion of its foundry business in efforts to catch up to Taiwanese semiconductor company TSMC, which continues to dominate the contract-based chip-making business.
The Korea Times
A full wireless charge in under 20 minutes
The Verge
China's economy is picking up as the country continues to dig its way out of the turmoil caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN
LG Chem, the world's top electric vehicle (EV) battery maker, is in talks with a "couple" of automakers to create joint ventures to produce automotive batteries, Chief Executive Officer Hak Cheol Shin told Reuters on Friday.
Reuters
To reach its 2028 goal to build a lunar base and eventually sustain a human presence on the moon, NASA awarded $370 million to over a dozen companies to deploy technology on the lunar surface.
CNN
Commentary: The fast-charging feature that snaps into place opens up the possibility for an array of wild new attachments and could be more useful than 5G in the near term.
CNET
China said on Thursday the United States was abusing the concept of national security to oppress foreign companies, following reports that Washington may blacklist Chinese financial technology firm Ant Group.
Reuters
Nokia has created an automated system that uses a thermal camera and real-time video analytics to determine if a person has COVID-19 symptoms and is wearing a mask, part of efforts to protect employees as they return to work.
Reuters
Apple's decision to remove the charger and headphones from iPhone 12 boxes has generally been well received by environmentalists.
CNBC
Japan's Shin-Etsu Chemical will spend an estimated JPY30 billion (US$285 million) to raise capacity for a crucial semiconductor plant material by 20%, expanding its supply for cutting-edge chip production, Nikkei has learned.
Nikkei Electronics Asia
Walmart said Wednesday that it will have in-store Black Friday sales, but it's breaking them up into three different sales events.
CNBC
Semiconductor equipment maker ASML Holding NV on Wednesday posted a better-than-expected quarterly earnings and forecast a double-digit growth for next year on strong end-demand for electronics devices.
Reuters
For September, China's imports surged 13.2% in U.S. dollar terms, according to official customs data on Tuesday. That was far above the 0.3% predicted by the Reuters' poll.
CNBC
A strong comeback in 2021 is needed to help the global economy heal from the coronavirus pandemic. But the International Monetary Fund is downgrading its forecasts for next year, and warning of a long, slow recovery that will stoke poverty and damage growth.
CNN
Singapore's economy contracted 7.0 per cent year on year in the third quarter, but grew 7.9 per cent on a quarterly, seasonally adjusted basis
South China Morning Post
When Apple unveils its new iPhones, expect it to make a big deal of the fact they're the first in the world to be powered by a new type of chip.
BBC News
Arm on Thursday said it was partnering with Microsoft to create tools that will help software developers transfer data from tiny sensor chips to Microsoft's cloud computing service.
Reuters
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The Verge
Advanced Micro Devices is in advanced discussions to buy Xilinx in a takeover that could be valued at US$30 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg
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