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The company has mentioned that date to prospective hires for an in-house 5G modem team, says a report.
CNET
President Donald Trump urged the Fed on Tuesday to match China's central bank by cutting rates. "It would be game over, we win!" Trump tweeted.
CNN
Nvidia looks set to respond to AMD's upcoming Navi generation of graphics cards with some tweaks to its existing GPU lineup.
Digital Trends
Scientific breakthrough leads to record low costs for essential battery ingredient
South China Morning Post
"It could cost Cisco a lot of money."
BBC News
Seemingly overnight, Intel's Clear Linux became a distribution with an eye toward not just Cloud environments, machine learning applications, data science and power users, but the broader desktop user as well.
Forbes
Struggling Japanese engineering firm Toshiba on Monday reported improved full-year net profit thanks to the sale of its chip business, but said operating profit was sharply down.
Japan Today
Microsoft has taken another step toward creating a secure identification platform that will allow users to own their personal data and keep it from the prying eyes of marketers and others.
Computerworld
Hands-on with Lenovo's PC prototype with folding screen
The Verge
An entire class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips allows attackers to steal data directly from the processor, according to new reports from a group of cybersecurity researchers from around the world.
Gizmodo
Toshiba still faces a tough operating environment. The system chip business remains in the red amid China's economic slowdown, and the company has decided to cut about 350 jobs from that segment via an early retirement program.
Nikkei Asian Review
The co-chief executives of China's largest chipmaker are fighting over whether to build a profitable business or focus on leading-edge technology, highlighting the problems plaguing the government's push to build an indigenous semiconductor manufacturing sector.
U.S. stock indexes fall about 2% as the trade war between the world's two largest economies escalates.
CNBC
The iPhone 11 is so close.
CNET
Dr. Venkata Renduchintala outlined how the chip giant plans to becomes nimbler and less 'monolithic' following years of manufacturing stumbles.
The Street
The European Commission's plan for a wifi-based standard for cars endorsed by Volkswagen faces a two-month delay as EU countries wait for legal advice on the proposal.
Reuters
Foxconn is poised to nominate chip unit boss Liu Young to succeed Terry Gou as chairman in a surprise choice by the iPhone assembler, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Reuters
A South Korean court said on Saturday it had approved warrants to arrest two senior officials at Samsung Electronics in relation to an alleged accounting fraud at the tech giant's biopharma affiliate.
Reuters
Qualcomm's CEO received $3.5 million in Qualcomm shares for settling a bitter legal battle with Apple.
CNBC
Kudlow said that "both sides will suffer on this," but argued that China will suffer significant GDP losses as export markets are hit. The blow to U.S. GDP, on the other hand, won't be substantial since the economy is "in terrific shape," he said.
CNBC
Subsidiaries of Xperi Corp, a company that licenses intellectual property, have filed suit against Nvidia in the U.S. District Court of Delaware for patent infringement.
Tom's Hardware Guide
US tariffs on China jump as deadline passes, China immediately says it will retaliate (May 10, 2019)
The Trump administration is hiking duties on $200 billion worth of Chinese products to 25% from 10%.
CNBC
Qualcomm today announced that it has partnered with Google to create a reference design and development kit for building Assistant-enabled Bluetooth headphones.
TechCrunch
Trump added that the United States "won't back down until China stops cheating our workers and stealing our jobs."
CNBC
Intel shares declined 2.5 percent on Wednesday after executives forecast modest profit growth over the next three years, signaling it is likely to lag big rivals as the once-dominant chipmaker catches up in technology.
Reuters
But don't expect a foldable Pixel any time soon
The Verge
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it cannot confirm the shipping date for its foldable device Galaxy Fold yet
Reuters
Apple's CEO tells CNBC that his company has been rapidly, yet quietly, making acquisitions.
CNET
Recap of all the big announcements.
BGR
The Internet of Things processor is optimised for data communications shorter than 100 metres, Samsung said.
ZDNet
German chipmaker Infineon said on Tuesday that a slump in demand had led to an inventory pile-up that would only plateau this summer, keeping pressure on profit margins.
Reuters
Marvell is purchasing Aquantia for $13.25 per share in cash.
The Street
As part of the injunction, the court ordered Xtal not to conduct development activities on its software products that ASML says contain the Dutch company's intellectual property.
Reuters
South Korea aims to rise to an unrivaled position in both memory and non-memory semiconductor industry by 2030, President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday as he visited a Samsung facility, unveiling a set of policy measures worth over KRW1 trillion (US$860 million) to support industry players.
The Korea Herald
Donald Trump has said he will raise tariffs on US$200 billion of Chinese goods, because talks on a US-China trade deal are moving "too slowly."
BBC News
Microsoft released the tools ahead of its software developer conference next week in Seattle.
Reuters
South Korea's semiconductor export volume dropped 12 percent from the previous quarter in the first three months of this year on sluggish global demand, central bank data showed Wednesday.
Yonhap News
U.S. chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue and profit.
Reuters
Cisco Systems said on Monday it is rolling out hardware for the next generation of Wi-Fi standards.
Reuters
The percentage of Apple's total sales coming from iPhone was down this past quarter.
CNBC
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