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Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has launched the company's first retail store in India in the financial capital Mumbai.
BBC News
Apple's regular series of record-setting Mac sales sprees seems to be taking a raincheck. As economic malaise ate a huge chunk of PC sales in the first quarter of 2023, the Mac maker was the worst affected of all, according to preliminary results from IDC.
Computerworld
Chinese technology giant Alibaba has announced plans to roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-style product called Tongyi Qianwen.
BBC News
Intel's bold plan to enter the custom chipmaking industry is aimed at countering the dominance of TSMC and boosting supply of leading-edge manufacturing. Instead, the move will likely split the market in three, leaving the US giant stuck in the middle.
Bloomberg
Some of the biggest names in tech are calling for artificial intelligence labs to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing "profound risks to society and humanity."
CNN
Terry Gou, founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, is seeking the presidential nomination for Taiwan's main opposition party for a second time.
BBC News
Samsung Electronics' first-quarter profit is expected to plunge 92% to the lowest for any quarter in 14 years, as a chip glut worsens and buyers like data centres and computer makers slow purchases amid a global economic slowdown.
Reuters
AT&T and Nvidia have announced a collaboration in which AT&T will continue to transform its operations and enhance sustainability by using Nvidia-powered AI for processing data, optimizing service-fleet routing and building digital avatars for employee support and training.
Company release
While 5G is still in the early stages of deployment in many markets, and most commercially available networks are non-standalone, the industry is already experimenting with the possibilities of next-generation 6G cellular networks - and the IoT will be incremental to realizing those innovations.
EE Times
Beijing announced a cybersecurity review of Micron Technology, a top-tier U.S. chip maker, on Friday. The measure, which many industry analysts had expected, is China's most significant stroke of retaliation against Washington over its campaign to sever China's access to high-end chips.
New York Times
In tribute to his visionary mind and work, we are reviving below an interview he gave EE Times after receiving the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award for his lifetime achievement at a ceremony in San Francisco on March 9, 2005. Moore sat down with EE Times editors to discuss the industry's past, present and future.
EE Times
Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Tuesday said it released open source ChatGPT-like models for the research and business community to use for free in an effort to foster more collaboration.
Reuters
SK Hynix has divided its procurement team for the first time, a move meant to strengthen the purchasing of components and equipment used in the back end of chip production.
Thelec
News broke yesterday of Oppo and OnePlus' potential exit from important European markets. While OPPO maintained that its business in the UK and Europe remains "normal," OnePlus' statement outright rejected any plans to exit the regions. Now, a third statement from the Oppo press team in Europe brings more doubts than clarifications on what's really happening behind the scenes.
Andorid Authority
Jack Ma might be one of Beijing's best chances at repairing its reputation with the private sector in China and beyond. But the billionaire has been circumspect about invitations from authorities.
Bloomberg
Huawei has reportedly completed work on electronic design automation (EDA) tools for laying out and making chips down to 14nm process nodes.
The Register
"American companies don't have a good track record with data privacy," Chew reminded the committee while repeatedly telling Congress members that the questions that they had about TikTok reflected industry-wide problems that go well beyond one app.
Ars Technica
BYD has reduced shifts at two auto assembly plants in China, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in a sign of how weaker demand in the world's largest auto market is affecting its best-selling electric vehicle brand. BYD, which outsells Tesla in China, asked some of the workers at its Xian plant, its biggest manufacturing hub, to work only four days a week in a factory running two eight-hour shifts per day, according to three people and an internal memo sent earlier this month and reviewed by Reuters.
Reuters
Nvidia has modified its flagship product into a version that is legal to export to China.
Reuters
Huawei Technologies has replaced more than 13,000 parts in its products that were hit by US trade sanctions, the Chinese tech giant's founder said, according to a speech transcript posted on Friday by a Chinese university.
Reuters
Baidu Inc. surged more than 14% Friday after brokerages including Citigroup tested the company's just-unveiled ChatGPT-like service and granted it their preliminary approval.
Bloomberg
Chinese tech companies have joined the global rush to develop rival software, with Alibaba and JD.com announcing similar projects. But Baidu's Ernie Bot, unveiled at a press event in Beijing on Thursday, fell short of expectations, with the company's co-founder and chief executive, Robin Li, showing only a prerecorded demonstration of the software's capabilities, rather than a live interaction.
Guardian
On Thursday, Baidu CEO Robin Li gave a one-hour presentation on Ernie that only offered a small glimpse into the chatbot. The jury is still out on what Ernie can do and how it actually works. For now, Ernie is only available for testing through invitation and others need to get on a waitlist. TechCrunch hasn't tried it yet, so it's unfair to draw any conclusions about Ernie's capability.
TechCrunch
Hitachi will provide local governments with a system to quickly dispatch electric vehicles to supply energy to areas in the event power is cut off following a disaster, Nikkei has learned. Auto dealers and transportation companies will need to register the number of cars and their recharging status with Hitachi's system in advance. Following a disaster, the most suitable EVs will be dispatched using information from traffic patterns and dealers near evacuation centers.
Nikkei Asia
Meta, the parent firm of Facebook and Instagram, is working on a standalone, text-based social network app.
BBC News
US regulators said Silicon Valley Bank depositors would be fully repaid as they acted to shore up the banking system after the lender's implosion, unveiling emergency funding measures and closing down a second financial institution.
The Financial Times
Apple is facing an unprecedented wave of executive departures. Also: The company will shake up its sales operations with a focus on India, a yellow iPhone arrives, and Amazon's Ring and Sonos introduce key new products.
Reuters
Suppliers to Dutch chip-making machines giant ASML Holding are considering building plants in Southeast Asia instead of China amid political tensions between Beijing and the West, according to two sources and documents seen by Reuters.
Reuters
Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and other tech firms are scrambling to assess whether they must halt sales to units of China's Inspur Group after its addition to a US export blacklist last week.
Reuters
Chinese artificial intelligence groups are skirting export controls to access high-end US chips through intermediaries, revealing potential loopholes in Washington's blockade of cutting-edge technology to the country.
The Financial Times
Artificial intelligence was supposed to be Google's thing.
Bloomberg
Lin Jun-cheng, a veteran engineer who worked for TSMC for nearly 19 years, has been hired by Samsung as a vice president.
BusinessKorea
Japan's capital will more than double certain subsidies for residential electrical-vehicle chargers next year as part of an effort to increase the number available at apartment buildings 150-fold in less than a decade, albeit from a low base. New apartment towers will also be required to have EV chargers starting in fiscal 2025 -- the first such mandate anywhere in Japan.
Nikkei Asia
Chinese automotive chipmaker SiEngine Technology this week said it completed a 500 million yuan ($72.5 million) Series A+ funding round in the fourth quarter of last year. The round, whose participants included Teda Venture Capital, Haier Capital, SPDB International Holdings, Wuhan S&T Investment Company and Tongxi Capital, will help boost chip output among other uses. Existing shareholders Grandsyn Capital, Yuexiu Fund and Vision Knight Capital also took part in the funding.
Nikkei Asia
A joint venture between the U.S. unit of Spanish engineering group ACS and Philadelphia-based Yates Construction has won a contract to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Kansas as part of a $4 billion investment by Japan's Panasonic group, the companies said on Wednesday.
Reuters
Tesla could begin producing its first cars in Mexico in 2024, with the electric vehicle maker close to receiving its final permits allowing factory construction to begin in Nuevo Leon near the US-Mexico border, the state's governor said on Monday.
Reuters
In late 2020, Alibaba founder Jack Ma also disappeared from public view for three months, after making comments critical of market regulators. Mr Bao's disappearance also comes after a series of cases of high-profile Chinese executives going missing as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.
BBC News
The National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund will commit CNY12.9 billion towards Yangtze Memory Technologies, according to a government website that discloses company registration information. The capital infusion from the Big Fund, as Beijing's signature investment vehicle is commonly known, was slated for completion on Januar 31, according to Tianyancha.
Bloomberg
Rare earth elements are a bone of contention in EV supply chains, as it can be hard to secure supplies of them, and a large majority of worldwide production is either sourced or processed in China.
Electrek
Tesla's leadership said Wednesday at an investor event held at the company's factory near the Texan capital that while silicon carbide transistors are key components, "we've figured out a way to use 75% less without compromising the performance or the efficiency of the car."
MarketWatch
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