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The company has previously targeted 2019 to release a folding device.
engadget
It's the latest and strongest of denials from Apple in response to the October story in Bloomberg Businessweek.
CNBC
Samsung Electronics has announced its acquisition of Zhilabs, known for its AI-based network and service analytics, to further enhance its 5G capabilities. The acquisition lays the foundation for Samsung to foster its 5G offerings of automation and network analytics to finely tune the customer experiences in the 5G era.
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Semiconductors are key components for the IoT, connecting the real with the digital world now evolving to cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) functionality.
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Huawei will begin manufacturing mobile phones in India from next year as the US$150 billion Chinese giant plans to open 1,000 company-branded stores across the country.
Times of India
Huawei sued CNEX last year for the same reason
engadget
Taiwanese PC giants, such as Acer, Asustek Computer, Compal Electronics and Quanta Computer might expect setbacks in production due to the CPU shortage.
Forbes
Mobile telecom equipment maker Ericsson has reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter sales figures, boosted primarily by high activity levels in North America. In posting its third consecutive quarter of progress toward reaching its 2020 financial targets, the company saw its net sales jump by 9% year-on-year and 8% since the last quarter.
CNBC
Amid struggles to deliver its 10nm technology, the technology and manufacturing group will be split into three parts.
ZDNet
The Mate 20 series is powered by the Kirin 980 SoC manufactured with the advanced 7nm process incorporating the Cortex-A76-based CPU and Mali-G76 GPU.
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Apple will recruit TSMC to manufacture chips for its upcoming Apple Car starting in 2023 to 2025, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, who now works for TF International Securities.
Mac Rumors
Murata Manufacturing expects shortages of tiny ceramic components to last for another two years, its CEO said, in what could be a bottleneck in the advancement of the global automotive market.
Reuters
Arm is introducing something called the Arm Neoverse, a cloud-to-edge infrastructure to support a world with a trillion intelligent devices.
Venturebeat
Semiconductor industry bellwether ASML Holding NV's better-than-expected third quarter results and bullish outlook gave sector stocks a boost on Wednesday after fears of slackening demand had dragged them down in recent months.
Reuters
"This not only reflects the great importance Qualcomm attaches to the Chinese market, but also shows our strong support for China's further opening-up," Meng said.
Xinhuanet
Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe, leading the company to charge a licensing fee for the Play Store and other Google apps for the first time.
The Verge
Xilinx, Huawei and NGCodec have announced the development of China's first cloud-based high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) solution, which is enabled by Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs and NGCodec's H.265 video encoder.
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Tainan is the birthplace of modern Taiwan. It was the capital for most of the island's days under Imperial China. Heritage sites of hundred years are worthy visiting. You can also find European legacies left during the 17th century.
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Supported by the Government of India, IoTShow.in 2019 is an award-winning event that marks the largest gathering of creators, integrators and providers of IoT Solutions - perfect for Taiwanese firms who want to quickly and effectively reach out to the best IoT firms in India.
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Shin-Etsu Chemical will implement about a JPY14 billion (US$124.8 million) facility investment aimed at the expansion of its photomask blanks business.
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Izumo Murata Manufacturing will start constructing a new production building in October 2018 with completion scheduled for November 2019.
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Synopsys has announced a collaboration with TSMC to develop a broad portfolio of DesignWare Interface IP, Logic Libraries and Embedded Memories for the TSMC N7+ FinFET process.
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on Monday afternoon.
CNBC
Preliminary results for the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18) show that shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled nearly 67.4 million units, marking a decline of 0.9% in year-on-year terms, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Unlike 2Q18, which grew, the 3Q18 results nonetheless outperformed the forecast which called for a decline of 3.0% due to several factors.
IDC
The Ascend 910 will be available from the second quarter of 2019 and the 310 is already on shelves.
Reuters
Samsung now expects bit growth of less than 20% for DRAM and a rise of 30% for NAND flash.
Bloomberg
Huawei has kitted out an Audi Q7 with its Mobile Data Center to showcase intelligent self-driving capabilities.
ZDNet
You can also get a snapshot of your day on your phone.
engadget
The federal government will tighten rules on foreign investment in sensitive industries like technology and telecommunications next month.
Reuters
Micron Technology said on Wednesday it planned to invest up to $100 million in startup companies working on artificial intelligence technologies for use in self-driving vehicles, factory automation and other growing fields.
Reuters
Shares in Dialog surged more than 30pc on Thursday morning, as investors welcomed the clarity the deal provides over the company's future.
The Telegraph
The US justice department has announced charges of economic espionage against a suspected Chinese intelligence officer. Officials say the suspect tried to steal trade secrets from US aviation and aerospace companies on behalf of China.
BBC News
Huawei unveils two new artificial intelligence (AI) chips called the Ascend 910 and Ascend 310.
CNBC
Cold-war style offensive by America is an ill-advised miscalculation that will cause pain 'all over the world', warn top executives of Chinese conglomerate.
South China Morning Post
President of Sony Kenichiro Yoshida has confirmed that the next generation of PlayStation consoles is under development.
The Tech Spot
Apple quietly spent approximately $30 million to purchase Spektral, a startup that uses machine learning to eliminate backgrounds from videos in real time on smartphones.
Venturebeat
One of China's biggest smartphone makers has never sold a handset in the country. Yet thousands of miles away, it dominates markets across Africa.
CNN
The International Monetary Fund has warned a trade war between the US and China risks making the world a "poorer and more dangerous place" in its latest assessment of the global economy. The IMF has lowered its forecast for global growth this year and next.
BBC News
Google is about to have its own Cambridge Analytica moment. Details have surfaced that Google knew about a bug within Google+ (Google's attempt at a social network product) which would give nefarious outsiders potential access to private profile data from 2015 to mid-2018. Google chose not to disclose any details because of PR fears.
Forbes
Technology giant Google has announced plans to establish a Google Cloud Platform region in Indonesia next year to strengthen its business and capture a larger customer base.
Jakarta Globe
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