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Next-generation 5G networks can be 100 times faster than 4G, making communication between devices and servers much faster.
CNN
The chips could lead to more powerful laptops for games and creators.
engadget
Here's why that matters: Samsung wants to prepare for "an accelerated global IT transition to next-generation DRAM interfaces, such as DDR5, LPDDR5 and GDDR6."
Tom's Hardware Guide
Blockchain would enable Facebook users to make PayPal-like purchases of advertised products and authenticate people posting on the site, effectively creating an audit trail and confirming they're not bots.
Computerworld
South Korea's antitrust regulator has lowered a decade-old penalty imposed on U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm by 18 percent to $200 million.
Reuters
U.S. buyout firm Bain Capital is likely to push back the IPO of Toshiba Memory by around two months.
Reuters
Millimeter wave technology will require a whole new approach to ensuring reliability.
Semiconductor Engineering
Stadia, Google's big push into video games, could change everything about how we play (Mar 19, 2019)
Google has officially announced a major new effort in the video game world - and it might just change the future of the roughly $135 billion industry.
Time
Pure Storage is expanding its AIRI lineup of systems for artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads.
ZDNet
US semiconductor companies want no part of any trade deal that calls for stepped-up purchases from China, worried that would give Beijing more control over their industry.
Wall Street Journal
Apple, in a surprise move on Monday, launched a new 10.5-inch iPad Air and updated its iPad Mini ahead of a March 25.
Reuters
Apple today confirmed that WWDC 2019 will kick off on Monday, June 3 and will run through Friday, June 7
BGR
Broadcom benefited from strong results in its networking business in Q1, despite an anticipated sharp decline in wireless.
ZDNet
A U.S. federal judge has issued a preliminary ruling that Qualcomm owes Apple nearly $1 billion in patent royalty rebate payments, though the decision is unlikely to result in Qualcomm writing a check to Apple because of other developments in the dispute.
Reuters
The UCLA Anderson Forecast is one of the most-watched outlooks since the forecasting group was credited with being ahead of others in declaring the 2001 recession.
CNBC
After two decades in development, chipmakers are making a costly bet on a technology that will cram even more transistors onto silicon.
The Japan Times
78,500 laptop batteries are to be recalled after eight new reports of battery packs overheating, melting, or charring.
ZDNet
Samsung has selected Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 instead of its Exynos 9820 as the AP in the Galaxy Fold. The Snapdragon 855 is produced by TSMC in Taiwan at a 7 nm process, while the Exynos 9820 is produced at Samsung foundry's 8nm process.
BusinessKorea
Researchers at Boston University have engineered an acoustic metamaterial that's designed to silence annoying sounds at their source, without blocking the movement of air.
Gizmodo
Indeed, defect detection is challenging.
Semiconductor Engineering
Apple could also use the event to introduce a new low-cost iPad and a new version of AirPods.
CNBC
The US has told Germany it would curb intelligence sharing with Berlin if it allows Huawei to participate in its 5G mobile network.
BBC News
With 83% of Samsung's semiconductor sales being memory devices last year, the memory market downturn is expected to drag the company's total semiconductor sales down by 20% this year. Although Intel's semiconductor sales are forecast to be relatively flat in 2019, the company is poised to regain the number 1 semiconductor supplier ranking this year, a position it held from 1993 through 2016.
IC Insights
The acquisition will unite two of the world's leading companies in high performance computing (HPC).
Company release
Anil Nanduri says it's cheaper to put cars in the air than under cities in tunnels.
CNET
Apple may only be planning to add 5G to 2020 iPhones, but even then the company might have a hard time acquiring needed modems, according to analysts.
Apple Insider
Cape Town and Johannesburg data centers are now live
Tech Radar
Automotive chipmaker Renesas Electronics plans to halt production at six plants in Japan for up to two months this year as it braces for a further slowdown in Chinese demand, the company said on Thursday.
Reuters
Responding to Korea's PumaX financial news service, Samsung said it has "officially denied that it has reviewed the acquisition of NXP," further noting that earlier reports that it is considering an NXP acquisition "are not true."
The Street
The worldwide market for wearable devices grew 31.4% during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), reaching a new high of 59.3 million units according to data from the International Data Corporation
IDC
Mate X-style foldable and vertical clamshell said to be in the works
The Verge
Huawei has filed a lawsuit against the US government over a ban that restricts government agencies from using its products. It said the US failed to provide evidence to support the ban.
BBC News
Microsoft is making a Chrome OS-like version of Windows
The Verge
Intel has confirmed that it recently ended its deal with Chinese smartphone chipmaker Unisoc, citing a need to "make sure we can scale 5G as quickly as possible."
ZDNet
Workers at Foxconn's Yukang dormitory compound in Zhengzhou queue up to resign from their jobs which attract a basic salary of CNY2,100 (US$314) per month.
South China Morning Post
"While March mix is still bad, the tone in the supply chain is starting to improve and price reductions in China may be starting to clear channel inventory," UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri wrote.
Business Insider
As it prepares to go public, Lyft reveals booming revenue, monster losses and a big bet on the future of transportation.
Economist
The crypto bust has left AMD and Nvidia with an excess amount of GPUs, and the Jon Peddie Research says this will continue on for almost half a year.
Tom's Hardware Guide
The chief financial officer of China's tech giant Huawei is suing Canada over her arrest at the request of the US.
BBC News
Researchers at CEA-Leti and Stanford University have demonstrated a chip that integrates multiple-bit non-volatile memory (NVM) resistive RAM (ReRAM) with silicon computing units and new memory resiliency features that provide 2.3x the capacity of existing ReRAM.
EE Times
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