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It will share more details on it sometime in the next three months.
engadget
The tech giant calls off what's usually its biggest event of the year.
CNET
The U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Tuesday in a bid to shield the world's largest economy from the impact of the coronavirus, but the emergency move failed to comfort U.S. financial markets roiled by worries about a deeper, lasting slowdown.
Reuters
Apple has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models, to induce owners to buy replacement phones or batteries.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics has started building a $220 million research and development center in Vietnam, the South Korean tech giant's local unit said on Monday.
Reuters
China's largest tech company taps its HiSilicon division
Bloomberg
The company has said the new virus has affected demand from Chinese customers and production capabilities in the country.
CNET
Organizers hope to host another event in the summer.
engadget
It'd offer a familiar design at a much better price.
engadget
The US Food and Drug Administration has contacted dozens of medical device manufacturers whose facilities in China may be at risk of creating shortages in the supply chain -- and indeed, some facilities have already been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.
CNN
Intel's security plans sound a lot like "we're going to catch up to AMD."
Ars Technica
Microsoft's revenue guidance for the More Personal Computing unit had already been wider than usual to account for impact from the health situation in China, where the coronavirus had first been identified.
CNBC
The problem is the U.S. can't offer an alternative and it doesn't have any coherent policy around 5G.
CNBC
The LPDDR5 chips are 30 percent faster and use less power.
engadget
Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier ASM International expects first-quarter revenue to fall from the guidance-beating levels seen in the previous three months, it said on Tuesday.
Reuters
There are at least 70 phones in the works using Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 technology for 5G phones.
CNET
People want to see more regulation as global trust in technology erodes.
CNET
It's what under the hood that counts.
engadget
And there's a new feature called Smart Delivery
The Verge
Intel on Monday launched new microprocessors, including a second generation Xeon processor for data centers and a 10nm chip for wireless 5G base stations.
Reuters
Though Lenovo is playing coy with the exact specifications, it looks like you'll have the option to buy AMD's latest Ryzen 4000 Mobile across Lenovo's ThinkPad laptop lineup.
PC World
The first Mac chip designed by Apple was previously rumored for 2020.
CNET
The United States Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to Apple in a decade-long legal battle over whether the iPhone maker infringed on another company's patents.
CNN
Finance chiefs of the world's top 20 economies vowed to monitor the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on global growth and act if needed, as they said loose monetary policy and easing trade tensions would prompt a pick-up in 2020 and 2021.
Reuters
The last time a coronavirus outbreak hit China in 2003, the global economy emerged relatively unscathed. Now, nearly two decades later, the growth-damping effects of a similar pathogen threaten to ripple around a world transformed by China's boom.
Wall Street Journal
Investor Paul Meeks is bracing for a bear market in technology.
CNBC
Too bad there's only one.
engadget
Whatever high Apple executives were on in January after the company posted record earnings and strong iPhone sales during the holiday quarter has likely faded. The tech giant is having a rough month.
CNN
Commercial banks extended 3.34 trillion yuan (US$477 billion) of credit in January, an all-time high for bank lending in a single month, the People's Bank of China said
South China Morning Post
Flashy phone is making waves online and selling quickly
Bloomberg
Analog Devices forecast second-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates on Wednesday, as the U.S. chipmaker braced for a $70 million hit related to the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
Anglo-German chip designer Dialog Semiconductor is buying California-based Adesto Technologies for $500 million to diversify further away from its reliance Apple, it said on Thursday.
Reuters
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China on U.S. economic growth will be negligible and short-lived, according to economists in a Reuters poll who nonetheless now say risks to their forecasts are skewed more to the downside.
Reuters
The Korean memory maker has shut down some of its facilities and has asked its workers to be quarantined at homes due to an employee making contact with a confirmed novel coronavirus patient.
ZDNet
Though the coronavirus had just taken hold when the Federal Reserve met in January, officials already expressed concern about its potential economic impacts.
CNBC
State-of-the-art microscopy has enabled researchers to study a viral protein that could be used in vaccine development.
CNET
Horse Ridge will allow for more (and more capable) qubits.
engadget
Sound creepy? It may actually make your Face ID-type sensor more secure and accurate. The company behind this expects to see the tech in phones by 2021.
CNET
Samsung Electronics stands to be a major beneficiary of the China production problems announced by rival Apple Inc on Monday, reaping the rewards of a decade-long bet on low-cost smartphone manufacturing in Vietnam.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics's semiconductor manufacturing division has won a contract to make new Qualcomm 5G chips using its most advanced chip-making technology, two sources familiar with the matter said, boosting the Korean firm's efforts to gain market share against rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.
Reuters
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