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.

Huawei has revealed its first smartphone to feature a foldable screen, less than a week after its rival Samsung did the same. The Mate X has been priced to start at EUR2,299.

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.

It's no secret that Microsoft is working on a dual-screen Windows 10 device.

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

Lenovo posted better-than-expected quarterly results and shrugged off the impact of a bruising Sino-U.S. trade war, sending its shares soaring 11 percent to three-year highs.

The Chinese company's newest phone is generally great, but you'll pay for what you get.

With US entry on hold amid trade friction, company spends big on smart appliances

Russia's parliament has voted to ban soldiers from using smartphones while on duty, after their social media use raised issues of national security.

A spokesperson for Germany's interior ministry told CNBC on Tuesday that the nation was not planning to shut any firm out of its 5G network.

The one thing that seems clear is that there will probably be a PS5 by the end of next year.

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.

The orbiting station will harvest power directly from the sun.

While much attention was paid last week to SIA's release of final semiconductor sales in 2018 ($468.8 billion) and the percent growth over the previous year (13.7%), there was one equally impressive number that flew under the radar a bit: 1.004 trillion. That is the number of semiconductors that were sold in 2018, marking the first time ever that over a trillion semiconductors were sold in a year.

Smartphone shipments in the China market were down 9.7% YoY to approximately 103 million units in the fourth quarter of 2018.

The founder of Huawei has said there is "no way the US can crush" the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.

Intel has acquired Ineda Systems, a graphics company based out of Hyderabad, India for an undisclosed all-cash sum.

New Zealand will independently assess the risk of using China's Huawei Technologies in 5G networks.

A group of scientists has called for a ban on the development of weapons controlled by artificial intelligence (AI).

It's one of a family of foldable devices in development with the Chinese company, best known for budget televisions.

The U.S. government and Facebook are negotiating a settlement over the company's privacy lapses.

Tech giant seeks to exploit Apple woes to drive hardware expansion

Cisco reported better-than-expected results on Wednesday, lifting the stock 3 percent.

"Our first quarter revenue guidance reflects the inventory correction currently underway in the smartphone market," said Steve Kelley, Amkor's president and CEO.

Chinese drone company DJI will roll out a new system to protect airports from drones this month.

Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten has picked Nokia Oyj as a key partner for its new mobile network in Japan.

China's overall trade surplus of $39.16 billion in January also beat expectations.

Ericsson and Intel have announced another collaboration, this time for a software and hardware management platform for 5G, NFV, and distributed cloud.

Google has hired more than a dozen microchip engineers in Bengaluru, India

Amazon is getting into home networking.

Microsoft recently filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its development and proposed usage of touch-sensitive smart fabric technology.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order asking federal government agencies to dedicate more resources and investment into research, promotion and training on artificial intelligence, known as AI.

Intel is prepared to spend up to $8 billion on a manufacturing facility proposed for its base in Co Kildare, planning documents show.

Apple has moved its modem chip engineering effort into its in-house hardware technology group from its supply chain unit, two people familiar with the move told Reuters, a sign the tech company is looking to develop a key component of its iPhones after years of buying it from outside suppliers.

Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics will cut almost 1,000 workers from its payrolls at the end of June, Nikkei has learned, as part of a pivot abroad to compensate for a shrinking domestic market.

Sprint has called for an end to AT&T's 5G E advertising campaign, arguing in a lawsuit that it is false and misleading, and causing irreparable damage to its own 5G network investment.

Qualcomm has published its fiscal 1Q19 results, reporting stronger than expected earnings that were driven partly by better cost management and a new interim licensing agreement with Huawei.