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Chipmaker Texas Instruments said on Tuesday a slowdown in demand for microchips that started late last year may last a few more quarters. The warning from the company, often seen as a bellwether for a semiconductor industry, dragged its shares 3% lower to US$113.88.
Reuters
Tesla unveiled a new microchip that Musk said was being included in every new Tesla produced today. He called "the best chip in the world... objectively."
The Verge
South Korea's SK Hynix is looking at buying part of logic chip maker MagnaChip Semiconductor.
Reuters
It will be interesting to see whether Samsung Electronics will be able to win back Apple's orders and expand its foundry and non-memory businesses by strengthening its competitive edge in packaging.
ETNews.com
The U.S. should abandon its efforts to reform China's economy and insist instead on a rapid rebalancing of bilateral trade accounts.
CNBC
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has pledged to nurture its chemicals unit SK Innovation as "one of the world's major energy companies"
The Korea Times
A joint venture between Qualcomm and the government of a rural Chinese province to make server chips will wind down by the end of April, according to 10 employees at the venture.
The Information
Telecomm giant received funding from China's military, The Times reports.
CNET
Texas Instruments plans to produce its more cost-effective 300 millimeter wafers at the facility.
Dallasnews.com
"India holds an important place as a market and also in terms of the talent pool. We have around 650 people for R&D in India and we look to grow it further"
gadgets
A joint venture between U.S. smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm and China's Guizhou province will shut down by the end of the month.
Reuters
ASML denied on Wednesday any involvement by its top client Samsung Electronics in an intellectual property theft case between the Dutch chip equipment maker and a competitor.
Reuters
"There is too much domestic competition and Amazon lacks the kind of brand awareness that Tmall or JD.com have"
CNN
The UBS estimate suggests that Apple paid a high price to end the litigation.
CNBC
SK hynix announced Thursday it had completed the expansion of a current DRAM production line in Wuxi, China.
The Korea Herald
Also: be careful with that screen cover
The Verge
Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday settled an acrimonious two-year legal dispute. Shortly afterward, Intel Corp said it will exit the smartphone modem chip business.
Reuters
Intel Corporation today announced the acquisition of Omnitek, a leading provider of optimized video and vision FPGA IP solutions.
Company release
This is likely why Apple and Qualcomm settled
The Verge
As part of the settlement, Apple will make a payment to Qualcomm for an undisclosed amount.
The Verge
The console will have an SSD and a graphics card that supports ray-tracing.
engadget
The chairman of Foxconn said on Monday he plans to step down in the coming months to pave the way for younger talent to move up the company's ranks.
Reuters
According to the ministry, the state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency will help local fabless and foundry firms find potential clients through their offices around the globe.
Yonhap News
The new CPUs would cost roughly half of Xeon Platinum
The Tech Spot
The bank expects iPhone sales to decline 12.4% in 2019 after dropping 3.2% in 2018.
CNBC
"The suggestion that we were somehow victim of a national conspiracy is wrong. The facts of the matter are that we were robbed by a handful of our own employees based in Silicon Valley, who had broken the law to enrich themselves. All of this occurred several years ago. We found this out by ourselves and immediately sought legal action in public court in 2016. This was reported on in several publications after our victory in November 2018," said ASML president and CEO Peter Wennink.
Company release
China's chip equipment makers are seeing an uptick in domestic demand thanks to the trade war, giving them an opportunity to finally gain ground on global rivals like Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron.
Nikkei Asian Review
Due to appear in May, the 3D XPoint and storage combo is aimed at the thin laptop market.
ZDNet
Forty-four companies are now in the program, Apple said on Thursday, including Foxconn and TSMC.
Reuters
Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin - so we went looking for them
The Verge
For the past few months, all signs have pointed to Google creating a 10-inch Assistant smart display as the next step up from the Google Home Hub.
9to5Google
The China semiconductor industry had sales of $97.3 billion last year, says China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Electronics Weekly
At Google Cloud Next 2019 in San Francisco today, Google announced Cloud Run, the newest member of its serverless compute stack, in beta.
Venturebeat
The global economy is at what the International Monetary Fund's chief economist calls a "delicate moment".
BBC News
Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled a new chip for speeding up artificial intelligence work.
Reuters
An earlier report suggested Google was shifting away from new hardware
The Verge
The probe will look into the Microsoft products and services used by the institutions and whether the contractual agreements between them and the U.S. software company are GDPR-compliant.
Reuters
China's state planner wants to eliminate bitcoin mining in the country, according to a draft list of industrial activities the agency is seeking to stop in a sign of growing government pressure on the cryptocurrency sector.
Reuters
The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI.
The Verge
New AMD Ryzen PRO and AMD Athlon PRO powered commercial notebooks.
Company release
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