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Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it expects fourth-quarter profit to fall due to weak server chip demand and rising smartphone competition, after posting its best quarterly operating profit in two years in the third quarter.
Reuters
Sony raised its annual profit outlook amid strong demand for gaming and ahead of the launch of its PlayStation 5 console next month.
CNBC
Apple has quietly increased its efforts to develop its own search technology for iPhones as authorities question its relationship with Google.
CNBC
Immersive Home Platform-based nodes could flood your home with gigabit WiFi.
engadget
Apple will be using a superpowered version of the A14 chips used inside the iPhone 12, a report claims.
Computerworld
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations, just as the semiconductor designer announced a $35 billion deal to buy chipmaker Xilinx.
Reuters
The tech could help the company improve its Photos, TV and News apps and more.
engadget
Samsung Electronics' display unit has received licenses from U.S. authorities to continue supplying certain display panel products to Huawei, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
Reuters
Unlike the first Nord, the N10 5G and N100 will eventually release in the US
The Verge
Jack Ma's Ant Group has just pulled off the biggest share sale in history, marking a huge win for the Chinese tech champion and the country's stock market.
CNN
Apple plans to launch two new models of AirPods next year, Bloomberg reported.
CNBC
Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou arrived at a Canada courtroom on Monday for the first of five days of witness testimony, the latest round of hearings as Canada seeks to extradite her to the United States on charges of bank fraud.
Reuters
Battery life is up to five hours with ANC on and up to seven with it off
The Verge
For the first nine months of the year, revenue totaled 671.3 billion yuan ($98.57 billion), up 9.9% from the 610.8 billion yuan reported in the same period last year.
CNBC
Apple supplier Luxshare unnerves Foxconn as U.S.-China feud speeds supply chain shift (Oct 26, 2020)
Apple's top iPhone assembler, Taiwan-based Foxconn, has set up a task force to fend off the growing clout of Chinese electronics manufacturer Luxshare, which it believes poses a serious threat to its dominance, three sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Reuters
You might never see the gps
engadget
In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies.
New York Times
Beijing plans new features and legal change toward launch by 2022 Olympics
Nikkei Asian Review
Basel regulations are not relevant for China's phase of development, says Alibaba founder
Finacial Times
He made Samsung the giant it is now, but had ethical problems.
engadget
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday the sale of chip designer Arm to Nvidia will drive growth in computing power, in his first public comments since the $40 billion deal was announced in September.
Reuters
Along with a pile of other 11th Gen Intel updates
The Verge
Asia Pacific is set to recover from its worst recession in living memory, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says.
BBC News
While California-based Tesla captured popular attention for electric cars, national policy in Beijing encouraged the launch of several rivals in China, the world's largest auto market.
CNBC
South Korea's LG Display on Thursday reported a profit for July-September, ending a six-quarter run of loss, helped by shipments for Apple's new iPhone and stay-at-home trends boosting panel demand for TVs and laptops.
Reuters
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics is expecting strong demand from the car and mobile phone industries to boost sales growth in the fourth quarter as it braces for a loss of revenue from China's Huawei.
Reuters
Former Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive will work with Airbnb on hiring and future products, the company announced on Wednesday.
CNBC
Verizon beat estimates for third-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by strong demand for its phone and internet services.
CNBC
Tesla just reported third-quarter results including net income (GAAP) of $331 million on revenue of $8.77 billion.
CNBC
Intel's $9 billion sale of its NAND memory chip unit will help the U.S. chip giant focus on its core business in higher-margin processors, Wall Street analysts said on Tuesday, after its deal with South Korea's SK Hynix.
Reuters
China is unlikely to grant its unconditional blessing
Bloomberg
Vietnam's leader has asked Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of South Korea's top conglomerate Samsung Electronics, to make an investment in building a semiconductor plant in the country, according to news reports by Vietnamese media on Wednesday.
The Korea Herald
Texas Instruments reported its first quarterly revenue growth in nearly two years on Tuesday, a rebound the chipmaker credited to people stuck at home splurging on electronic gadgets for remote work and entertainment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reuters
But Qualcomm's new products go on the other side of a 5G connection. Instead of being inside a handset, they go into base stations packed with antennas operated by carriers that smartphones talk to.
CNBC
Bank tellers are out and robotics engineers are in, according to a new report that says the coronavirus recession is accelerating technological changes that could displace 85 million jobs within the next five years.
CNN
Move follows security services warning on spying and technology theft by China
Finacial Times
The Trump administration on Tuesday sued Google in what is the largest antitrust case against a tech company in more than two decades.
CNN
The Signature OLED R arrives in South Korean stores
The Verge
The model, M2M-100, is trained on 2,200 language directions and can be more accurate because it doesn't use English as a go-between language in translations.
ZDNet
State planner admits that some companies have 'blindly entered into projects' involving computer chips, resulting in wasted resources
South China Morning Post
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