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Samsung predicts its profits rose nearly 26% last quarter. That suggests demand for many of its products has kept up during the coronavirus pandemic even as it faces tough competition in the smartphone market.
CNN
The shares of Alibaba and Tencent fell after a Wall Street Journal report said the Trump administration could be about to add the Chinese tech giants to a U.S. blacklist.
CNBC
South Korea's Hyundai Motor said on Friday it was in early, unspecified talks with Apple after a local broadcaster said the pair were discussing an electric car and b
Reuters
Only if you buy the 43-inch model, though.
engadget
Artificial market segmentation may have suppressed demand for ECC in desktops.
Ars Technica
The system could be used to provide access to ATMs, smart locks and more.
engadget
Neo QLED promises better contrast and far less blooming
The Verge
Sony has announced that it's going to start selling a series of modular displays that can be used to create digital movie sets.
The Verge
The U.K.'s competition watchdog has announced that it plans to investigate Nvidia's proposed acquisition of British chip designer Arm.
CNBC
Verizon will kick off the show with a keynote on 5G. And while not officially part of CES, Samsung will cap things off by introducing its 5G-enabled Galaxy S21 line.
CNET
Slowly but surely, AMD has been closing the desktop CPU market share gap on Intel for years.
ZDNet
Tencent along with a number of investors including CITIC, CICC Capital and Primavera invested 1.8 billion yuan ($278.5 million) in Shanghai-headquartered Enflame Technology.
CNBC
Huawei this year will likely see slower 5G business and push further into software, while hoping its smartphones get a reprieve from U.S. sanctions which last year struck the chip-reliant heart of its group, analysts said.
Reuters
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf is retiring this year, the company just announced.
CNBC
Alibaba founder Jack Ma is lying low, but not missing, CNBC's David Faber reported Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
CNBC
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group's Alipay, the White House said, escalating tensions with Beijing before President-elect Joe Biden takes office this month.
Reuters
New patent reveals AMD FPGA plans
Techradar
Firms accelerate their decline by selling and sharing key technology with the PRC
Forbes
It also launched 55- and 65-inch collaboration monitors with 20-point multi-touch.
engadget
A new version of Google's smaller smart display may be on the way
The Verge
Applied Materials has raised its offer for KKR & Co.-owned Kokusai Electric by 59%, citing higher valuations in a growing industry. It also extended the closing deadline by almost three months.
Bloomberg
The chipset's headline feature is its X51 5G and LTE modem.
engadget
A notable milestone but not a huge change
The Verge
Activity in China's factory sector rose in December as the world's second-largest economy sustained its recovery to pre-pandemic levels, a business survey showed on Monday, however, increasing cost pressures slowed the pace of expansion.
CNBC
Byton, Foxconn and Nanjing Development Zone signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement on Monday to jointly produce Byton's M-Byte SUV by the first quarter of 2022.
CNBC
The New York Stock Exchange said it no longer plans to delist three Chinese telecommunications giants: China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom.
CNBC
You can switch between a flat screen and a curved screen at the press of a button.
engadget
Microsoft is 'working as hard as we can' to increase Xbox Series X/S stock
Tech Radar
Ring in 2021 with Samsung's latest smartphones
The Verge
Speculation has swirled around Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's whereabouts after reports surfaced that the high-profile businessman has not made a public appearance in more than two months.
Yahoo! Finance
China's three biggest telcos saw their shares drop as much as 5% in Hong Kong on Monday, the first trading session since the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it would delist the firms under a plan China branded "political" and of "limited" impact.
Reuters
Chinese electric car start-ups Nio, Li Auto and Xpeng each announced in the last few days that vehicle deliveries surged last year.
CNBC
The European Union has signed a declaration that focuses on ensuring that the EU will create a 2nm node and a custom processor.
WCCF Tech
South Korea's exports climbed at the fastest pace in more than two years in December, buoyed by a pickup in global demand as vaccines raised hopes for a recovery.
Bloomberg
Some see the move as a vengeful communist party lashing out at the company's outspoken founder Jack Ma. But analysts note that reforming the financial sector is a long-standing policy goal, and other companies could also end up in the crosshairs of regulators.
BBC News
Q3 2020 was the second-strongest quarter for venture capital investments to U.S. companies ever, according to CB Insights.
CNBC
South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday requested a nine-year prison term for Samsung's de facto chief, Lee Jae-yong, during his bribery retrial, where Lee apologized and vowed not to be implicated in similar allegations in an apparent plea for leniency.
AP
With HBM memory onboard, CPUs start to look like GPUs
Tom's Hardware Guide
The approach of cutting off China's technology companies could continue under a Biden presidency, said Adam Segal, director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
CNBC
Indonesia and a unit of South Korean firm LG Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a $9.8 billion electric vehicle (EV) battery investment deal, the head of Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board said on Wednesday.
Reuters
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