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Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices is the first woman ever to top The Associated Press' annual survey of CEO compensation: Her 2019 pay package was valued at $58.5 million following a strong performance for the company's stock during her five years as CEO.
AP
Huawei Technologies has stockpiled up to two years' worth of crucial American chips to shield its operations from Washington's crackdowns, sources told the Nikkei Asian Review.
Nikkei Asian Review
President Trump has taken the extraordinary step of threatening to close down social media platforms.
BBC News
Micron Technology raised its revenue forecast for the third quarter on Wednesday to a range of US$5.2 billion to US$5.4 billion from US$4.6 billion to US$5.2 billion, sending its shares about 3% higher.
Reuters (via Yahoo! Finance)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he certified to Congress Wednesday that Hong Kong no longer enjoys a high degree of autonomy from China -- a decision that could result in the loss of Hong Kong's special trading status with the US and threaten its standing as an international financial hub.
CNN
Millionaire investors are betting that stocks will take at least a year to regain their previous highs, according to the CNBC Millionaire Survey.
CNBC
They're called the Yoga Duet 7i and IdeaPad Duet 3i
The Verge
The US crackdown on China's Huawei is spurring its biggest domestic rival to build up its own chipmaking capabilities, including by snapping up top engineering talent from its own suppliers.
Nikkei Asian Review
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies raised about 1.06 billion euros ($1.16 billion) by issuing new shares to partially finance its $10 billion acquisition of U.S.-based Cypress Semiconductor, it said on Tuesday.
Reuters
The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to 86.6 this month from 85.7 in April.
CNBC
As part of its annual IP mobile platform announcement, Arm introduced a new initiative called Cortex-X Custom (CXC) program and the first product from the program, the Cortex-X1 CPU cores.
Forbes
It's already powering Vivo's latest smartphone.
engadget
More than just a phone maker now
The Verge
South Korea's chipmakers are again on edge over the second round of technology war between the United States and China involving semiconductors, according to industry sources Monday.
The Korea Herald
Countries where coronavirus infections are declining could still face an "immediate second peak" if they let up too soon on measures to halt the outbreak, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
CNBC
Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee on Tuesday was summoned and questioned by prosecutors over a controversial 2015 merger of two of the group's affiliates, Yonhap News Agency said.
Reuters
Huawei's future in the UK is in doubt - again.
BBC News
Honor has been aggressively pushing an image of an independent company but, looking inside its phones, no one will be able to miss Huawei's DNA in almost every aspect.
SlashGear
It might also have a bigger battery
The Verge
Lockdown has removed the luxury of choice for many of us. If you want to see your relatives, it has to be on screen.
BBC News
IBM is cutting an unspecified number of jobs
CNBC
China's securities watchdog on Sunday condemned a U.S. law that could block Chinese firms from U.S. securities exchanges, saying it politicised regulation and would damage both countries.
Yahoo! Finance
The Prime Minister has instructed officials to draw up plans that would see China's involvement in the UK's 5G network reduced to zero
The Telegraph
The latest U.S. government action against China's Huawei takes direct aim at the company's HiSilicon chip division - a business that in a few short years has become central to China's ambitions in semiconductor technology but will now lose access to tools that are central to its success.
Reuters
Last year, GDP expanded by 6.1%, just making the official target range of 6% to 6.5%.
CNBC
Data from numerous sources collated by CNBC painted a positive picture for Apple since February, at the height of the coronavirus outbreak in China.
CNBC
U.S. regulators are open to making changes to close what some see as a loophole in a new rule aimed at curbing global chip sales to blacklisted Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics has begun work on a sixth domestic contract chip production line, the company said on Thursday, to make logic chips for mobile phones and computers as it looks to cut reliance on the volatile memory chip sector.
Reuters
Huawei has been pushing its own operating system HarmonyOS since last year, when it was cut off from Google's Android due to being put on a U.S. blacklist.
CNBC
Rivet Networks now belongs to Intel for an undisclosed amount
The Verge
The i9-10900K's numbers are better than Intel's lackluster PR led us to expect.
Ars Technica
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to answer "serious questions" about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd's plans to build a U.S.-based $12 billion plant, flagging national security concerns and potentially undisclosed subsidies.
Reuters
The autonomous car industry will have to consolidate because it is too difficult for separate companies to cooperate in developing self-driving vehicles, the head of Intel's autonomous car unit said on Tuesday.
Reuters
Japan's Sharp, an Apple Inc supplier, reported a 37% decline in annual operating profit and refrained from releasing an earnings outlook for the current year because of uncertainty over the novel coronavirus impact.
Reuters
It's got large pixels for better low-light capability, too.
engadget
Sony's image sensor will have Microsoft Azure artificial intelligence capabilities.
ZDNet
Japan's economy has entered recession, and the coronavirus pandemic will likely make things even worse.
CNN
Japan's SoftBank Group reported a stunning $18 billion loss at its giant Vision Fund, pushing Masayoshi Son's conglomerate to a record loss and highlighting the deepening crisis at its portfolio companies from the global downturn.
Reuters
Huawei Technologies in its first official response to the Trump administration's move to curb its access to global chip supplies called it "arbitrary" and said its business would be impacted.
Reuters
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