After two decades in development, chipmakers are making a costly bet on a technology that will cram even more transistors onto silicon.

78,500 laptop batteries are to be recalled after eight new reports of battery packs overheating, melting, or charring.

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.

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.

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Apple could also use the event to introduce a new low-cost iPad and a new version of AirPods.

The US has told Germany it would curb intelligence sharing with Berlin if it allows Huawei to participate in its 5G mobile network.

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.

The acquisition will unite two of the world's leading companies in high performance computing (HPC).

Anil Nanduri says it's cheaper to put cars in the air than under cities in tunnels.

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.

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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.

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 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

Mate X-style foldable and vertical clamshell said to be in the works

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.

Microsoft is making a Chrome OS-like version of Windows

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."

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.

"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.

As it prepares to go public, Lyft reveals booming revenue, monster losses and a big bet on the future of transportation.

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.

The chief financial officer of China's tech giant Huawei is suing Canada over her arrest at the request of the US.

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.

By 2025, 15% of the global mobile industry will run on fifth generation (5G) technology, finds The Mobile Economy 2019 report.

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Intel has ended a partnership to share its latest 5G modem chips with China's second largest mobile chipmaker amid concerns that the technology transfer could cause problems in Washington, sources have told Nikkei Asian Review.

UTAC Holdings, the Singapore-based chip testing firm backed by TPG, has appointed Citigroup to advise on a planned sale of its business, people with knowledge of the matter said.

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The new solutions advance existing 4G wireless technologies and will usher in 5G wireless and precise positioning technologies as well.

Intel on Monday announced new chips and partnerships that it hopes will persuade its investors that the billions of dollars in research and development that it has poured into 5G networking technology will pay off.

South Korea's LG Electronics unveiled a 5G smartphone on Sunday with a dual screen.

From smart speakers and smart TVs to conferencing systems and smart home appliances: electronic devices can be operated much more easily and intuitively with speech recognition. Consequently, demand for voice user interfaces (VUI) in electronic devices is increasing dramatically. Market researchers expect that the smart speaker market alone will grow 20% per year on average.

By providing IP that is designed for high temperature operation on 22FDX, Synopsys enables designers to reduce their design effort and accelerate AEC-Q100 qualification of system-on-chips (SoCs) for automotive applications such as eMobility, 5G connectivity, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and infotainment.

Mobile phone group Vodafone has conducted a successful trial connecting next-generation 5G smartphones to its network.

South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday said it would spend $107 billion building four factories.

Honda Motor said it plans to close its factory in the UK in the biggest blow yet to the British auto industry already buckling under thousands of job cuts and the loss of key models in the run-up to Brexit.

Qualcomm continues to actively develop 5G solutions and today announced its latest modem and antenna module as it builds a robust commercial 5G platform. 5G is coming and support for it is much greater than the disparate 4G rollout.

SK Hynix has become the 14th company in the world and the first in South Korea to obtain international Zero Waste to Landfill certification.