Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, plans to establish semiconductor-related operations in Zhuhai under a pact it signed on Thursday with the southern Chinese coastal city's government.

ARM's now-public roadmap represents its first processors that are designed for the PC space. ARM claims its chips will equal and potentially even surpass Intel's in single-threaded performance.

The computer processing giant has acquired Vertex.AI, a startup that had a mission of making it possible to develop "deep learning for every platform," building a deep learning engine called PlaidML to do this.

Applied Materials shares fell 3.7% in the extended session Thursday after the company beat on the top and bottom line but issued weaker-than-expected guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter.

Hundreds of Google employees, upset at the company's decision to secretly build a censored version of its search engine for China, have signed a letter demanding more transparency to understand the ethical consequences of their work.

Sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum dried up faster than expected, Nvidia has said. For a second quarter in a row, investors ignored Nvidia's growth in its main markets and ditched the stock, which fell about 5% in extended trading.

More than 30 years after it served as the setting for the birth of the semiconductor foundry industry with the founding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in 1987, Taiwan shows no sign of relinquishing its stranglehold on the US$62 billion global business.

Panasonic Corporation of North America, Colorado Department of Transportation, Ford Motor Company and Qualcomm Technologies have unveiled the first real-world application of C-V2X technology connecting the vehicle, the roadways and a regional traffic management center in Denver, demonstrating a new level of data-driven situational awareness that will achieve a dramatic improvement of safety on the road.

Intel's newly-minted graphics group has set up a new twitter account (Intel Graphics), and in a bit of marketing glory, the first tweet features a video revealing a shadowy new discrete GPU that should arrive in 2020.

Cabot Microelectronics has agreed to buy KMG Chemicals for US$1.2 billion in cash and stock, making its largest acquisition ever in an effort to strengthen its position as a supplier to the semiconductor industry.

Intel on Tuesday disclosed three more possible flaws in some of its microprocessors that can be exploited to gain access to certain data from computer memory.

Apple has a team exploring a custom processor that can make better sense of health information coming off sensors from deep inside its devices, job listings show.

Infineon Technologies and JD group have signed a strategic partnership agreement aimed at creating a smart IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem.

Chinese researchers are claiming an organic solar cell record - 17.3% efficiency under standard sunlight conditions from a solution-processes structure - as opposed to more-complex vacuum processing.

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Skyworks Solutions has agreed to purchase Avnera, a developer of analog SoCs.

Covestro is pushing ahead with developing and marketing its continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTP) by introducing Maezio as brand name. These materials are set to tap into the growing demand worldwide for strong and light materials that contribute to resource conservation and energy efficiency.

Japan's economy grew more than expected in the second quarter, helped by strong household and business spending and recovering from an earlier contraction, but global trade tensions loom as major risks to the export and investment outlook.

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As PC sales have stagnated, Intel has increasingly been depending on its sales to data centers.

The semiconductor cycle is showing signs of overheating,

Japan's Toshiba reported a record quarterly net profit on Wednesday, thanks to the $18 billion sale of its flash memory chip business.

The compute accelerator is optimized for graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference.

US President Donald Trump has issued a strong warning to anyone trading with Iran, following his re-imposition of sanctions on the country.

Musk said de-listing from the stock exchange meant Tesla would no longer be pressured into making short-term decisions to appease investors.

AMD formally announced four new 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadrippers (also called Threadripper 2) Monday morning, at prices aimed to kill Intel. The 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has 32 cores, 64 threads, and a list price of US$1,799.

Samsung has entered mass production of the first 4TB QLC SATA SSDs for the consumer market. The news comes on the cusp of this week's Flash Memory Summit, an annual storage conference where all of the newest flash and memory tech is normally announced. Samsung is usually a premier conference sponsor and dominates the show floor, but the company is curiously absent this year.

"Sources said the world's largest maker of semiconductors and smartphones is relocating its Washington, D.C. office right next to Capitol Hill"

Infineon Technologies held early-stage talks about buying STMicroelectronics last year, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would have created a European semiconductor powerhouse.

Oversupply and seasonal weakness combine for a potential big drop in SSD prices.

Wave Computing has set its sights on becoming the first AI startup to develop and deploy a 7-nm AI processor in its AI systems.

Apple has become the world's first public company to be worth US$1 trillion. The iPhone maker's market value reached the figure in New York on Thursday and its shares closed at a new record high of US$207.39.

The stock fell more than 13% to US$43.30 following a one-line statement Tuesday by Dialog that didn't explain why it dropped the pursuit of the US company.

The US is considering 25% tariffs on US$200 billion of Chinese goods, much higher than the 10% it previously indicated it might impose, reports say.

Dialog Semiconductor said on Tuesday it has ended discussions with Synaptics about a potential acquisition of the US touch-pad technology company, without citing a reason.

The South Korean government will invest 1.5 trillion won ($1.34 billion) in developing new technologies and creating a manufacturing hub for next-generation chips.

Arm Holdings, the British computer-chip designer owned by SoftBank Group, reportedly has agreed to buy US-based data analytics firm Treasure Data.

After 21 months of trying, Qualcomm walked away from the NXP acquisition as Chinese regulators balked at approving the deal amid raising trade tensions with the US.

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said his company will terminate its acquisition of NXP by the end of the day and plans to buy back up to US$30 billion of stock.

Intel will be Apple's exclusive cellular modem supplier for next-generation iPhones, the CFO of Qualcomm indicated on Wednesday.