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The Chinese currency - the yuan - is flirting with the 7 mark against the US dollar, a level it hasn't seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. The movements in the yuan are closely monitored, not least because the currency is a flashpoint in the US and China's trade war.
BBC News
Israeli chip manufacturer TowerJazz on Monday reported lower quarterly net profit and forecast fourth quarter revenue below expectations, citing overall market weakness.
Reuters
No rolling shutter and a wide dynamic range.
Coming soon to China: A factory where robots will build robots.
CNN
US official fears supply chain attack on US military systems.
ZDNet
More than 70 percent of U.S. firms operating in southern China are considering delaying further investment there and moving some or all of their manufacturing to other countries as the trade war bites into profits.
Reuters
The companies will accelerate the adoption of EUV lithography for high-volume production, including the current latest available equipment for EUV (0.33 Numerical Aperture, NA). Moreover, they will explore the potential of the next-generation high-NA EUV lithography to enable printing of even smaller nanoscale devices advancing semiconductor scaling towards the post 3nm logic node.
Company release
General Motors says it will ask the federal government for one national gas mileage standard, including a requirement that a percentage of auto companies' sales be zero-emissions vehicles.
Concord Monitor
Baillie Gifford & Co, one of the top shareholders of Tesla Inc, has said it would be willing to inject more cash into the electric carmaker, the Times reported on Monday.
Reuters
The acquisition is by far IBM's largest deal ever, and the third-biggest in the history of U.S. tech.
CNBC
On Friday, Qualcomm said in a federal court hearing that Apple owes the chipmaker US$7 billion in unpaid patent royalty payments, according to a Reuters report. This allegation is just the latest in a string of accusations since this epic legal battle between the two companies started almost 2 years ago.
Forbes
Partnership comes on the heels of Samsung-NEC tie-up
Nikkei Asian Review
An increase of 37.5% R&D expense on a year-on-year basis.
Company release
Intel said its making progress on improving 10nm yields and reiterated its pledge to have 10nm chips shipping by the 2019 holiday season.
EE Times
China's foreign ministry has some suggestions for the Trump administration if it is worried about foreign eavesdropping on the U.S. president's iPhones: use a Huawei handset instead.
Reuters
The UK's data watchdog has levied the maximum possible fine against Facebook for its failure to protect user's personal information in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Verge
Wingtech will indirectly own 75.86 percent of Nexperia as a result of the deals.
Reuters
The White House has ordered a National Spectrum Strategy and task force to lead the way for 5G.
CNET
Pichai said 48 employees have been terminated for sexual misconduct over the last two years.
CNBC
Google's third quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations.
Business Insider
Nokia announced a new cost-cutting program on Thursday, targeting annual cost savings of 700 million euros by the end of 2020.
CNBC
The iPhone XR might have been dubbed the best value iPhone in years, but shoppers weren't giving it the usual show of love.
CNET
Researchers say they have developed tiny readers that can detect information in light spirals
The Guardian
Like foldable smartphones, Samsung is collaborating with display makers to develop laptops with foldable displays that will not just simply fold in and out but create new value and user experience, amid the changing market trends for laptops.
Digital Trends
Italian investigation found software updates 'significantly reduced performance', hastening new purchases
The Guardian
Intel is denying a new report that claims the chipmaker is abandoning its 10 nanometer manufacturing process following years of delays.
PC Magazine
Shares in AMS fell as much as 31.5 percent Tuesday, the steepest intraday decline since January 11, 2008.
Bloomberg
Apple is beginning to talk with programmers about what it's willing to pay to carry shows and movies, sources told The Information. As expected, original Apple shows should be free, but people will be able to pay for subscriptions to third-party networks. Content should vary from country to country, reflecting the complicated licensing landscape - HBO for example licenses it shows to services like Sky in the U.K.
Apple Insider
Nvidia, one of the world's best known manufacturers of computer graphics cards, released its autonomous driving safety report on Tuesday. The Santa Clara-based company, which for several years has been engaged in a high-stakes venture to build the "brains" that power self-driving cars for major automakers like Volvo, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler, is only the fifth company to delivery its voluntary safety report to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The Verge
The process of AMD ramping up its EPYC efforts involves a lot of ??irst-step' vendor interaction. Having been a very minor player for so long, all the big guns are taking it slowly with AMD's newest hardware in verifying whether it is suitable for their workloads and customers. The next company to tick that box is Oracle, who is announcing today that they will be putting bare metal EPYC instances available in its cloud offering.
Anandtech
Samsung and Qualcomm work to deliver industry leading 5G NR small cell infrastructure (Oct 24, 2018)
Qualcomm has announced with Samsung Electronics that they are working together to develop 5G small cells - opening the door for massive 5G network speed, capacity, coverage and ultra-low latency.
Company release
Super Micro Computer says it will review its hardware for any proof of malicious chips as alleged in a recent media report.
CNBC
Philips Lighting is seeing double-digit growth in India, which is among the top five markets in the world for the global company, and poised to rise to the third rank, Eric Rondolat, its global CEO said.
The Economic Times
Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, has announced he is leaving Facebook. Iribe is leaving Facebook following some internal shake-ups in the company's virtual reality arm last week that saw the cancellation of the company's next generation "Rift 2" PC-powered virtual reality headset.
TechCrunch
Nidec Corp, a Japanese supplier to Apple, and Germany's Schaeffler AG are among bidders competing for Taiwanese components maker Precision Motion Industries Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg
Apple late Monday sold out of launch day iPhone XR supply in the US and beyond, with orders placed through the company's online storefront now showing estimated delivery dates pushed out to November.
Apple Insider
A look at three separate case studies
The Verge
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