Samsung Electronics is set to post its first drop in quarterly operating profit in two years as slowing economic growth in China.

Taiwan has arrested a group of engineers from the local subsidiary of the German company BASF for allegedly stealing and transferring the company's technology to a Chinese rival.

Producing vehicles in China would reduce costs from tariffs and ocean transport for Tesla, as it faces rising competition from local electric automakers.

Acclaimed industry insider Steve Hemmerstoffer, aka @onleaks, has revealed Apple's biggest change coming to the 2019 iPhone. And, given his exceptional track record, we can expect the back of new iPhones to look very different indeed.

Taiwan's United Microelectronics will move nearly half of its DRAM team to new positions within the company in what sources say is the first step toward terminating its memory chip development business.

The government has cancelled the letter of intent granted to a consortium led by HSMC Technologies India to set up the country's first electronic chip manufacturing plant, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.

The Vuzix Blade pair of AR glasses are available directly from Vuzix for US$999.99. This is a mighty steep price for AR glasses with Amazon Alexa inside.

Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk reiterated that Singapore has been "unwelcome" to the company, doubling down on his previous assertions that the government is not supportive of electric vehicles.

USB-C cables could soon come with built-in security thanks to the newly-launched USB Type-C Authentication Program. This will offer protection against malicious devices.

The company made the announcement via an image on its official website, confirming that more would be disclosed at a January 10 press conference.

Production is set to ramp up in late summer 2019, just in time for a deluge of new Android and Apple devices

Google unit won approval from U.S. regulators to deploy a radar-based motion sensing device known as Project Soli.

Japan's NEC said on Thursday it will spend around 136 billion yen ($1.23 billion) to purchase KMD, which is Denmark's largest IT company.

Electronics maker Sharp has said it will spin off its semiconductor business, possibly in April 2019.

Apple will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product in the country, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The UK says China is behind hackers targeting commercial secrets. Huawei denies any link to the Chinese state.

The executive order would direct the Commerce Department to block U.S. companies from buying equipment from foreign telecommunications makers that pose significant national security risks.

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Samsung Electronics reportedly is readying to move part of its TV production out of China amid deteriorating sales conditions and rising labor cost.

Samsung Electronics is considering slowing the pace of expanding its production facilities next year amid negative forecasts about growth of the global semiconductor market, according to the industry on Tuesday.

It would 'encourage' foreign companies to hand things over, though.

Huawei has had a tough year on a number of fronts, with the U.S and other countries leading efforts to ban its networking equipment on cybersecurity grounds.

Top iPhone assembler Foxconn Technology is preparing to launch a $9 billion chip-making project in China as tensions intensify between Washington and Beijing over China's tech ambitions.

Qualcomm won a second court skirmish in its worldwide patent battle with Apple on Thursday, with the iPhone maker saying it would pull some older models from its German stores.

IBM announced today that its latest Power processors will be manufactured on Samsung's 7nm fabs.

Facebook on Wednesday evening published a blog post explaining why it allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete private user messages, as was reported by the New York Times on Tuesday.

The TVs will be on display at CES 2019.

China probably has become the world's biggest economy and will reap the benefits that once flowed to the U.S.

LG has been teasing its flexible OLED technology for 10 years.

Twenty-nine companies and research bodies will take part in the project, among them Robert Bosch, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Osram, Carl Zeiss, GlobalFoundries and Murata.

The next generation of automotive processor has finally arrived, says Arm.

The M16 production line, located in Icheon, 80 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will be built on a 53,000-square meter lot.

The mobile phone unit of Japanese tech giant Softbank has had a disappointing debut on the Tokyo stock market, with shares falling 14.5%. The firm raised as much as JPY2.6 trillion by selling shares at JPY1,500 each in one of the world's largest ever stock offerings.

This sounds like good news for shareholders.

Apple said it would update the software of iPhones in China to try to resolve a legal dispute that threatens to stop the company from selling older iPhones in the country.

The lead attorney for the group of Apple device assemblers seeking at least $9 billion in damages from Qualcomm

A woman from California is suing Apple because she claims it wasn't clear the iPhone XS had a screen notch when she bought it.