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A U.S. jury on Wednesday cleared California semiconductor designer CNEX Labs of stealing trade secrets from Chinese electronics giant Huawei Technologies while awarding CNEX no damages on its own trade theft claims.
Reuters
The US and China have tentatively agreed to another truce in their trade war in order to resume talks aimed at resolving the dispute, sources familiar with the situation said.
South China Morning Post
Bitcoin's price has almost quadrupled in the last six months.
Ars Technica
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday the outlook for the U.S. economy has become cloudier since early May, with rising uncertainties over trade and global growth causing the central bank to reassess its next move on interest rates.
AP
Mike Filippo joined Apple last month with the title Architect, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Ars Technica
"She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network in an apparent reference to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager.
Reuters
Tesla is developing the means to manufacture its own battery cells, current and recent employees told CNBC.
CNBC
Researchers find thousands of exploitable vulnerabilities; findings bolster Trump administration's stance
MarketWatch
EU antitrust regulators want U.S. chipmaker Broadcom to scrap its exclusivity clauses with TV and modem makers to avoid irreparable harm to the market while they investigate whether this tactic and others are designed to block rivals.
Reuters
Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics will replace its CEO just three months after reappointing him, reflecting a rift among top management as ambitious purchases weigh on the company's finances.
Nikkei Asian Review
Apple is expected to replace Intel chips that typically power MacBooks with ARM-based creations of its own, and we keep seeing rumors pointing in that direction.
BGR
Apple plans to expand its presence in Seattle by adding 2,000 new jobs in the city over the next five years, double the number it originally planned to hire.
CNN
FedEx says it's not realistic to screen sealed packages for controlled tech.
Ars Technica
Prime Day is back and will last a record 48 hours next month from July 15-16, when Prime members can shop for more than one million deals.
Geek Wire
Qualcomm may have to pay a second big fine to the European Union over antitrust concerns for how it handled sales of 3G chips for mobile hotspot and dongles, just over a year after the chip maker was issued a $1.23 billion financial penalty for illegally shutting out modem rivals from supplying Apple.
Apple Insider
Bill Gates has a resume of career highs, but he calls Microsoft's failure to become Apple's chief iOS rival his "greatest mistake."
CNN
It'll reportedly have a pair of 9-inch screens and come out in early 2020.
CNET
The Trump administration added a quintet of companies to its Entity List last week, including the AMD joint venture Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Company (THATIC).
ZDNet
U.S. President Donald Trump is looking to require next-generation 5G cellular equipment used in the United States to be designed and manufactured outside China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Reuters
We spoke to Vincent Pang, who said 5G's slow rollout, not US politics, is the reason behind the wait
Tech Radar
Chinese tech giant Huawei filed a civil lawsuit against the U.S. on Friday, saying the Commerce Department mishandled equipment from the company it had seized in 2017.
The Hill
Apple may use high-end OLED screens in more of its devices, not necessarily just because it wants to, but also because it may satisfy a penalty it supposedly owes to its OLED supplier, Samsung Display - after reportedly failing to buy enough iPhone screens to make good on its contract.
The Verge
"Consumers are in very good shape to borrow. Corporate debt is high," Moynihan said during an exclusive interview from the sidelines of the Fortune Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, New York. "That's an issue. It's got to be dealt with."
CNN
Global financial institutions, including UBS Securities, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, recently released reports suggesting that SK hynix might end up in the red in the fourth quarter.
The Korea Herald
FOX Business' Connell McShane talks to China Commerce Ministry senior official Wang Hejun about the trade war and the Chinese economy.
Fox Business
Key iPhone assemblers Foxconn, Pegatron Corp, Wistron Corp, major MacBook maker Quanta Computer Inc, iPad maker Compal Electronics Inc, and AirPods makers Inventec Corp, Luxshare-ICT and Goertek have been asked to evaluate options outside of China, Nikkei reported.
Reuters
The Pixel Slate won't get a younger sibling, and Google's future self-made computers will revolve exclusively around the laptop form.
Computerworld
It's like a Surface Go for kids. It's powered by a 1.44 GHz, quad core Intel Atom x5-Z8350 processor, paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage, which is upgradeable through a microSD slot.
engadget
According to one Samsung executive, though, the Galaxy Fold is "ready" now that its issues have been fixed.
9to5Google
Intel, HP, Microsoft and Dell are joining forces to oppose President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese goods, which includes laptop computers and tablets.
Tom's Hardware Guide
Waters' request came hours after Facebook unveiled Libra.
CNBC
Apple has asked its major suppliers to evaluate the cost implications of shifting 15% to 30% of their production capacity from China to Southeast Asia as it prepares for a fundamental restructuring of its supply chain, Nikkei Asian Review has learned.
Nikkei Asian Review
According to SE Daily (via Google Translate), Intel and Samsung are in the final stages of negotiating for additional capacity. Intel is said to have chosen to work with Samsung over TSMC due to concerns about Huawei and AMD's improved competitive performance.
ExtremeTech
Facebook is a key part of the Libra Association, the nonprofit organization behind the Libra cryptocurrency.
CNBC
Hanwha Techwin has decided to gradually reduce SoC system semiconductor's ratio of HiSilicon, which is a subsidiary of Huawei, in its "IP camera" product line, which is called CCTV camera.
Korea IT Times
While already supporting frontrunner service providers through the rollout of commercial 5G using non-standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR), Ericsson has now introduced standalone NR software.
Company release
Purdue and TSMC jointly announced plans to establish a Center for Secured Microelectronics Ecosystem aimed at ensuring a secure supply of semiconductor chips and related tools all the way from the foundry to the packaged system.
Company release
Customers will need to spend time matching Intel's new Cascade Lake processors to applications, and working out how best to deploy Optane DC memory, but there are real performance benefits to be had.
ZDNet
The Indian government did not specify the value of the goods targeted in its statement, but previously told the World Trade Organization that they were worth around $241 million.
CNN
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