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Chinese Commerce Ministry weighs export controls on Nokia and Ericsson China-made products
Wall Street Journal
IBM's adjusted earnings fell 31% and beat analysts' expectations.
CNBC
Tae-moon Roh, in a blog post ahead of Unpacked, says the company will introduce new "power devices," including ones for the ears and the wrist.
CNET
The British government has asked Japan to help build its 5G wireless networks without Huawei, the Nikkei said on Sunday, a further step in a global technology and security war between the United States and China.
Reuters
CEO of major Asian bank says 'a big, big challenge' is looming for the global economy (Jul 19, 2020)
Banks could experience "far more damage" to their balance sheets when stimulus measures that are keeping many businesses afloat are rolled back, said Piyush Gupta, group CEO of Singaporean lender DBS.
CNBC
Corning and EnerSys have announced a strategic collaboration to speed 5G deployment by simplifying the delivery of fiber and electrical power to small-cell wireless sites.
Company release
Companies that relocated operations from mainland China to avoid tariffs have seen the purpose of that move 'totally defeated'
South China Morning Post
SMIC, China's biggest chipmaker, saw its shares surge 245% at the open on its first day of trade in Shanghai.
CNBC
The biggest US banks are setting aside billions of dollars to deal with toxic loans as support from the government falls off in the months ahead, a sign that some of the worst economic damage from the pandemic is still to come.
CNN
China will take necessary measures in response to Britain's "discriminatory" ban on Huawei, which has severely damaged China's investment confidence in the country, China's Commerce Ministry said on Thursday.
Reuters
Tiger Lake chips are coming
The Verge
China reported that the country's economy grew by 3.2% in the second quarter of the year, compared to a year ago.
CNBC
Calling the announcement "an historic day" and the transition "a game changer," CEO Tim Cook touted the move to ARM as "time for a huge leap forward for the Mac."
Computerworld
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) is preparing a $6.55 billion stock offering, as Beijing moves to shore up its semiconductor capabilities amid heightened tensions with the US.
Wall Street Journal
The UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.
BBC News
AMD fires another salvo at Intel with the Ryzen Threadripper PRO, a chip designed for workstations that were previously powered by Intel Xeon silicon.
ZDNet
China's imports in June rose for the first time since the coronavirus crisis paralysed the economy, as government stimulus stoked demand for commodities, while exports, fuelled by medical goods, also rose in a sign the recovery is gaining traction.
Reuters
A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the biotechnology company Moderna in partnership with the National Institutes of Health has been found to induce immune responses in all of the volunteers who received it in a Phase 1 study.
CNN
China's largest state-backed semiconductor fund plans to reduce its holdings in two listed technology companies, a decision that comes following a torrid bull run in China's stock market.
Reuters
The cash will be doled out over the next five-to-seven years.
engadget
Singapore's economy slipped into recession in the second quarter, contracting by a record 41.2% from the previous three months and is facing its biggest slump ever this year as coronavirus lockdown steps hammer the trade-reliant city-state.
Reuters
SoftBank has hired Goldman Sachs to advise it on a potential IPO or sale of chip designer Arm Holdings.
CNBC
Semiconductor maker Analog Devices said on Monday it would buy rival Maxim Integrated Products for about $21 billion in the largest U.S. deal this year, aimed at boosting its market share in automotive and 5G chipmaking.
Reuters
China is building tens of thousands of 5G base stations every week. Whether it wins technological dominance or not, domestic supply chains may be revived and allow the country to maintain and advance - its position as the factory floor of the world
Yahoo!News
Qualcomm has become the newest high-profile backer of four-year-old Reliance Jio Platforms, which has raised more than $15.7 billion in the past 12 weeks from as many investors.
Yahoo!News
Companies around the world will take on as much as $1 trillion of new debt in 2020, as they try to shore up their finances against the coronavirus, a new study of 900 top firms has estimated.
Reuters
The Trump administration plans to finalize regulations this week that will bar the U.S. government from buying goods or services from any company that uses products from five Chinese companies including Huawei, Hikvision and Dahua, a U.S. official said.
Reuters
Nvidia has overtaken Intel for the first time as the most valuable U.S. chipmaker.
Reuters
Today, Intel announced Thunderbolt 4, it's newest connectivity standard. You might recall that the company is actually letting go of Thunderbolt 3, with its 40Gbps speeds being offered up to USB 4.0.
Neowin.net
Qualcomm's flagship SoC gets a midcycle upgrade with the latest Wi-Fi standard.
Ars Technica
The Fenix 6S gets an extra day and a half of life with the built-in solar panel.
engadget
Ericsson is not sourcing products from Panda Electronics Group, one of the companies named by the United States as potentially controlled by the Chinese military, the Swedish telecom gear maker said on Tuesday.
Reuters
Europe's second top court on Wednesday cut Infineon Technologies' cartel fine by 7% to 76.87 million euros ($86.7 million), saying that the German chipmaker had fewer anti-competitive contacts with other cartel members than EU antitrust regulators had said.
Reuters
Arm, the world's leading supplier of CPU and GPU designs, just announced that it plans to transfer the IoT Services Group (ISG), which includes the IoT Platform and Treasure Data teams, to its parent company SoftBank.
Forbes
Nvidia's new A100 flagship GPU is powering a new family of Google cloud computing instances -- including one that provides access to 16 GPUs.
The Street
AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies said it will raise 2.58 billion yuan ($367.76 million) in its Shanghai initial public offering after pricing the listing at 64.39 yuan a share.
Reuters
Researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) have unveiled the discovery of a new material, called amorphous boron nitride (a-BN), in collaboration with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and the University of Cambridge. Published in the journal Nature, the study has the potential to accelerate the advent of the next generation of semiconductors.
Company release
The U.K. government is drawing up plans to strip Huawei gear from Britain's 5G networks by the end of the year, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph newspapers reported.
CNBC
Huang waits by a workbench for the welder to pass the next metal tray. There's only a handful of staff in the factory. Half the building is in darkness.
BBC News
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) will raise 46.29 billion yuan ($6.55 billion) in a Shanghai share sale, more than double its initial target, pricing its offering following a surge in its Hong Kong-listed stock.
Reuters
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