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The dual-screen phone costs a lofty $1,399.
Ars Technica
October 8th for CPUs and October 28th for GPUs
The Verge
China has taken aim at the US saying its tech firms are victims of "naked bullying".
BBC News
China's dollar-denominated exports rose 9.5% for the month of August while imports fell 2.1% in the same period, data from the country's General Administration of Customs showed on Monday.
CNBC
Business investment stalls amid heightened uncertainty
Nikkei Asian Review
Shares in Chinese chipmaker SMIC plummeted nearly 23% in Hong Kong on Monday on fears that it could become the latest casualty of the US-China tech war.
CNN
Israeli chip manufacturer Tower Semiconductor said on Sunday some of its systems were hit by a cyber attack and as a result it was putting on hold some servers and manufacturing operations.
Reuters
The Trump administration is considering adding Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) to a trade blacklist, in another sign of heightening US-China technology tensions.
Washington Post
Apple supplier Broadcom said on Thursday that a ramp-up of annual chip shipments would be later this year than most, likely signaling that the next iPhone will arrive after the usual late September launch date.
Reuters
Intel wants people to stop thinking "CPU" and start thinking "experience."
Ars Technica
The tablets have reduced blue light and a dedicated kids mode
The Verge
An iterative update for Qualcomm's main laptop chipset at IFA 2020
The Verge
China is planning a set of new government policies to develop its domestic semiconductor industry and counter restrictions imposed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, Bloomberg News reported.
Reuters
Analysts are bullish on the stock, thanks to new orders for Samsung's chip manufacturing operations or foundry, next-generation smartphone launches and a recovery in memory pricing next year.
CNBC
U.S. manufacturing activity accelerated to a nearly two-year high in August amid a surge in new orders, but employment continued to lag, supporting views that the labor market recovery was losing momentum.
Reuters
Nvidia on Tuesday announced a series of powerful gaming chips it designed using new memory tech from Micron Technology and that it is having manufactured by Samsung Electronics.
Reuters
But will the pictures be any good?
engadget
Apple is planning to launch four new iPhone models with 5G technology in October, according to a Bloomberg report.
CNBC
Group's heir accused of inflating companies' value in bid to smooth succession.
Nikkei Asian Review
U.S. President Donald Trump's restrictions on China's Huawei Technologies have sparked widespread stockpiling of unsold product across the chip industry, and Washington's proposed aid to bolster the sector falls far short of what is needed to fill the gap, an analyst told Reuters.
Reuters
In a world rocked by the coronavirus pandemic and tensions with the U.S., the Chinese government is stepping up focus on the domestic market with the pronouncement of a "dual circulation" policy.
CNBC
Riverlane's 'universal' Deltaflow. OS could establish UK's standing in the technology
Finacial Times
For mid-range gaming smartphones
Tech Radar
The economy shrank 23.9% in the three months ending in June, compared with the previous year, according to official statistics released on Monday.
CNN
Asia Pacific stocks mixed as China's manufacturing activity in August beats forecasts (Aug 31, 2020)
A private survey released Tuesday showed Chinese manufacturing activity in August expanding at the fastest pace in nearly a decade, with the Caixin/Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index coming in at 53.1 for the month.
CNBC
Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies is focusing on its budding cloud business, which still has access to U.S. chips despite sanctions against the company, to secure its survival, the Financial Times newspaper reported.
Reuters
Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.
BBC News
A lawsuit called the wireless earbuds 'shoddy'
The Verge
Four of China's five largest state-owned banks said they have increased their provisions against bad debt to brace for future losses due to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Reuters
"We have never shipped so many PCs and it was really driven by the demand we see for people working from home and learning from home," HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores told CNBC.
CNBC
A second reading of the U.S. economy in the second quarter reflected the biggest quarterly plunge in activity on record, though the plummet wasn't as bad as initially estimated.
CNBC
Nintendo has looked into including more computing power and 4K graphics in the new Switch model, according to a Bloomberg report.
CNBC
With two fans designed to make it easier to breathe
The Verge
Samsung Electronics plans to allow some workers in South Korea to work from home in September under a pilot programme, a company official said on Thursday, as the country battles a resurgence in novel coronavirus cases.
Reuters
Kioxia Holdings, the world's second-largest maker of flash memory chips, will list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 6 in an initial public offering worth up to $3.6 billion, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.
Reuters
The United States is considering new restrictions on exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and associated software tools, lasers, sensors, and other technology to prevent them from falling into the hands of U.S. adversaries like China.
Reuters
China is likely to import at least $300 billion worth of semiconductors for the third year running, an industry association official said, in a sign of continuing reliance on foreign know-how despite efforts to gain local capability.
Reuters
Global smartphone sales dropped 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to data released Tuesday from Gartner.
CNBC
The government is funding basic research in AI, too.
CNET
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