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Huawei has warned that American ambitions to lead the world in the next generation of mobile Internet may not be realized if Washington continues to block the company from participating in the US market.
CNBC
The prosecutors did not reveal the names of the recipients of the OLED trade secrets, but an industry source identified one of the companies as BOE Technology Group, which supplies smartphone screens for key Samsung rival Huawei Technologies.
Nikkei Asian Review
Another phone manufacturer folds up its hat and throws it into the ring
The Verge
The fund, Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund, has already made its first investment via a Series A funding round of AnyVision, a face, body, and object recognition startup, the company said without disclosing the amount.
Reuters
Oppo has upped its R&D investment across 5G, IoT, and artificial intelligence as it pushes to become the first company to launch a 5G smartphone next year.
ZDNet
The CEO and some employees of a supplier allegedly sold IP to a Chinese company.
engadget
Declining visitor numbers and a growing reduction in exhibitor bookings has led Deutsche Messe to cancel CeBIT 2019 as the once popular trade show is no longer able to attract the up to one million attendees it did at the height of its popularity.
Techradar
The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with whether to allow a 40-year-old legal doctrine to derail a class-action lawsuit arguing that Apple uses its monopoly control over the iPhone app market to overcharge customers for apps.
Ars Technica
Three years after it first launched, Google is making its cell service a little more official today. Project Fi is graduating into something a little more ambitious and getting a new name in the process: Google Fi. But the bigger news is that it's also going to support more phones - a lot of phones - including the iPhone and "the majority of Android devices."
The Verge
Company release
New Zealand government's move to prevent Huawei supplying a local mobile network with 5G equipment has raised questions about why the UK appears less concerned about use of the Chinese company's technology.
BBC News
Huawei has officially released the Mobile Automation Engine (MAE) solution, which accelerates full-scenario autonomous driving in mobile networks.
Company release
Amazon's cloud business is coming out with cheaper computing options, thanks to server chips that use the energy-efficient Arm processing architecture.
CNBC
Vietnam is among a list of countries that Taiwanese tech-company ASUS is considering for the relocation of its Chinese production capacities, due to high tariffs imposed by the US on China-made goods, reported AnandTech website.
Vietnam Net
Apple continued its downward slide Tuesday after US President Donald Trump suggested that 10 percent tariffs could be placed on mobile phones, like the iPhone, and laptops made in China.
Bloomberg
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8150 and MediaTek's Helio P80 are the top two chipsets in an AI benchmark.
Andorid Authority
Under the agreement, Oppo will make payments to Nokia for a multi-year license period.
Company release
Cadence Design Systems has announced the tapeout of a complete GDDR6 memory IP solution on Samsung's 7LPP process. GDDR6 memory is targeted at very high-bandwidth applications including machine learning, AI, cryptocurrency mining, graphics, automated driving, ADAS and high-performance computing (HPC).
Company release
Infineon Technologies is strengthening its long-term partnership with Denso to bolster its automotive business. Underpinning this collaboration, the Japan-based company has bought an equity stake in Infineon in the range of a mid-double-digit million Euro amount.
Company release
Arranged in a 4x4 grid, they'd let capture 3D movies and replace people or objects in a shot.
engadget
For a sense of the damage Donald Trump can inflict on China with export controls, take a trip to the city of Jinjiang on the country's southeastern coast. That's where Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. built a $6 billion plant to produce semiconductors as part of China's goal of making the country a self-sufficient technology powerhouse.
Bloomberg
China is taking its rivalry with the U.S. to the heavens, spending at least $9 billion to build a celestial navigation system and cut its dependence on the American-owned GPS amid heightening tensions between the two countries.
Bloomberg
The announcement came after Reuters reported on the negotiations between Logitech and Plantronics last Friday. The companies confirmed the talks on Sunday, but said they had now been terminated.
Reuters
Apple urges the Supreme Court to throw the case out, arguing that it's not selling anything but only operating a marketplace.
NBC News
Said to be considering subsidies for countries that avoid the hardware
The Verge
Tesla has cut prices in China by as much as a quarter to absorb the impact of the US-China trade war.
The Financial Times
LG Electronics vice chairman and CEO Jo Seong-jin said the company will promote automation of suppliers' manufacturing units as part of efforts to strengthen business partnership.
Korea Herald
The CSIRO investment will include the development of advanced imaging of Earth from satellites, in addition to cutting-edge data science to support the growth of AI technology.
SmartCompany
IBM Thailand hopes to make the Southeast Asian country a sales hub for the Indochina subregion and leverage AI and blockchain to help local businesses digitally transform.
Bangkok Post
Xiaomi is looking to cement its status as India's leading smartphone provider with plans to increase its presence in the country from 500 retail stores to 5,000 by 2020.
CNBC
We didn't see this coming!
Mashable
The head of Nokia's mobile networks arm, its largest business unit, is leaving the Finnish company as part of changes designed to position the company for the 5G telecoms era, Nokia said on Thursday.
Reuters
Microsoft announces it will begin offering the ability to sign in with a security key without using a username or password.
CNET
Apple's share price has tumbled more than 20% since October, hurting other stocks and infecting the wider market.
BBC News
Nissan and Mitsubishi shares have slumped in early Tokyo trade, after the arrest of chairman Carlos Ghosn. He is accused of under-reporting his income by JPY5 billion over five years, prosecutors said. He is also said to have used company assets for personal purposes.
BBC News
Bulk CMOS, FD-SOI and finFETs all on tap as big players vie for differentiation. But where will chipmakers go after 28nm?
Semiconductor Engineering
Apple has cut production orders in recent weeks for all three iPhone models launched in September, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.
Reuters
ITRI received three 2018 R&D 100 Awards on November 16 in Orlando, Florida. ITRI's technologies were selected as winners for innovation in the Software/Services, IT/Electrical, and Mechanical Devices/Materials categories.
Company release
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