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Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has set up a new artificial intelligence company in California's Silicon Valley to improve its AI-based industrial internet capabilities.
Nikkei Asian Review
Intel will not be supplying Apple with radio chips in a future iPhone release, a report claims, with the chip producer said to have stopped development of parts that would have enabled 5G cellular communications on an upcoming version of Apple's smartphone.
Apple Insider
Samsung Electronics is expected to post its smallest profit growth in more than a year in the second quarter, as lackluster sales of its premium Galaxy smartphones overshadow its highly profitable chip business.
Reuters
After months of threats and skirmishes, the trade war between the United States and China is about to get serious.
CNNMoney
UMC is turning out to be the perfect patsy in China's ongoing campaign to stick it to the US over technology, intellectual property and trade.
Wall Street Journal
V2X communication is still in its early stages, but Hyundai is determined to ensure that it won't be left playing catch-up in the future.
CNET
At the end of last November, Google announced that Diane Bryant, who at the time was on a leave of absence from her position as the head of Intel's data center group, would become Google Cloud's new COO. This was a major coup for Google, but it wasn't meant to last. After only seven months on the job, Bryant has left Google Cloud.
TechCrunch
The US has said it will allow the Chinese tech giant ZTE to temporarily re-start some business activities as it considers lifting a seven-year ban imposed on the firm earlier this year.
BBC News
One case involved a Taiwanese unit of Idaho-based Micron Technology. On a spring day in 2016, a 41-year-old engineer for the unit opened his company laptop and, according to Taiwanese prosecutors, tapped into Google search: "clear computer use records."
Wall Street Journal
Chinese e-commerce giants such as JD and Alibaba are currently trialing blockchain to perfect their huge supply chains. The AI blockchain combo also has a bright future in market analysis and forecasting.
Seeking Alpha
Nvidia launched its current generation of GeForce gaming GPUs more than two years ago, and we might just see the next generation, rumored to be named the GeForce GTX 11 Series, in August. While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the next GeForce GPUs would be "a long time from now recently, all signs now point toward next month for the launch of the GeForce GTX 1180.
The Verge
If you're looking for a new super-compact Next Unit of Computing (NUC) from Intel, the company is gearing up to launch five new "Bean Canyon" models with eighth-generation processors. Dates and prices are unknown for now, but they will be more "mainstream" than the skull-bearing "Hades Canyon" NUC released at the beginning of the year.
Digital Trends
The US government moved on Monday to block China Mobile from offering services to the US telecommunications market, recommending its application be rejected because the government-owned firm posed national security risks.
Reuters (via CNBC)
Tesla's news isn't all positive now that it has met its Model 3 production milestone. The company has confirmed to Bloomberg that senior engineering VP Doug Field has left the company. It's not clear why Field left or who his replacement will be.
engadget
Chinese retailer and cloud infrastructure provider Alibaba is the latest company to think up its own design for processors that can run artificial intelligence software. It joins a crowded roster of companies already working on similar custom designs, including Alphabet, Facebook and Apple.
CNBC
Apple will soon land a second supplier for the organic light-emitting diode screens used in high-end iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter, a key step in the US company's push to reduce iPhone costs and its dependence on Samsung Electronics.
Bloomberg
Apple may choose to use modems manufactured by MediaTek instead of modems from Intel in future iPhones, according to an investor's note from Northland analyst Gus Richard that was shared by Bloomberg.
Mac Rumors
Google devices and apps have experienced serious outages that lasted for more than 12 hours and affected millions of users. The issue affected Google Home and Google Home Mini - speakers that respond to voice commands - as well as Chromecast - a device that plugs into a television and allows people to watch video content.
The Guardian
President Donald Trump is coming to Wisconsin to officiate at Thursday's ceremonial groundbreaking for the massive Foxconn Technology Group project in Racine County - and to put his personal stamp on his vision of an American manufacturing revival.
Journal Sentinel
ON Semiconductor plans to invest $51 million to support expansion of the Luzerne County facility. The ON Semiconductor Mountain Top location specializes in the manufacturing of semiconductor discrete devices used in power management applications across a wide variety of industries including automotive, industrial, communication and computing.
Company release
WinFuture says it has obtained details surrounding SDM1000 (possibly Snapdragon 1000), a previously hinted-at CPU that would be designed from the start for PCs. It would have a relatively huge design compared to most ARM designs (20mm x 15mm) and would consume a laptop-like 12W of power across the entire system-on-a-chip. I
engadget
A federal jury in Texas ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $400 million to a South Korean university for infringing one of fundamental patents related to double gate FinFET transistors. The same jury found that Globalfoundries and Qualcomm had infringed the same patent, but the two companies were not ordered to pay damages.
Anandtech
Samsung reportedly sniffed around AMD and Nvidia as potential GPU suppliers, but nothing came of it. Now it may follow in the footsteps of Apple and have design the second major component of a chipset in-house.
Gsmarena
Intel could avoid the most severe effects of a new list of Chinese tariffs proposed by US President Donald Trump by shifting its production among its facilities, analysts said Monday.
Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology have all confirmed that Chinese government officials visited their offices, without providing details of the probe. Chinese regulators haven't disclosed precisely what they are looking for or what evidence they have uncovered.
Bloomberg
Qualcomm has denied rumors that the company is considering exiting the data center processor business.
ZDNet
Broadcom said it had laid off about 1,100 employees across its businesses to cut costs after its merger with Brocade
Reuters
The ruling clears an antitrust roadblock caused by trade tensions between the US and Beijing
South China Morning Post
"China's government has been trying to break the country's addiction to ever-rising debt."
New York Times
"Toshiba unveiled a higher-than-expected $6.3 billion stock buyback..."
Reuters
The Q Fund will seek to work exclusively with startups developing software and services that tackle AI's biggest challenges.
Intel has started production of modem chips that will go into Apple's upcoming iPhones later this year, while the US semiconductor company continues to eye markets beyond personal computers and pledges to take the lead in fifth generation, or 5G, wireless communication after 2019.
Nikkei Asian Review
In a move that comes across as a strengthening of domestic surveillance policies, China will require all new vehicles to have vehicle-identity RFID chips starting next year.
CNET
Intel wants to compete with AMD's Radeon and Nvidia's GeForce products
PC World
"We are not looking at strategic options. We are not selling. We are still focused on it."
Reuters
"Thermoelectric semiconductors can reduce the noise of refrigerators and water purifiers, and help shrink the size of the home appliances by up to 40 percent."
Yonhap News
Telecommunications equipment maker ZTE fell around 40% early in Hong Kong Wednesday trading hours after its shares resumed trade there and in Shenzhen. ZTE said it will pay a US$1 billion lump sum payment to the US government as part of a settlement agreement, as well as an additional US$400 million in escrow.
CNBC
The German designer and maker of semiconductors used in cars, industry and IoT applications said it expects growth of at least 10% next year, followed by 9% growth in the following years. It previously targeted 8% growth.
The Financial Times
Samsung has asked a court to either dismiss the judgment in its phone patent fight with Apple or retry the case in which the damages were decided. In a 34-page post-trial motion filed with the US District Court in San Jose, California, Samsung says the jury's US$539 million verdict is "excessive" and not supported by the evidence.
CNET
The Republican-led Senate is working to reverse President Donald Trump's decision to allow Chinese telecom giant ZTE to buy component parts from the US.
AP (via The Seattle Times)
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