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The LPDDR5 chips are 30 percent faster and use less power.
engadget
Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier ASM International expects first-quarter revenue to fall from the guidance-beating levels seen in the previous three months, it said on Tuesday.
Reuters
German Facebook users would want the social media platform to pay them about $8 per month for sharing their contact information, while U.S. users would only seek $3.50, according to a study of how people in various countries value their private information.
Reuters
There are at least 70 phones in the works using Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 technology for 5G phones.
CNET
With MWC canceled, the Chinese phone maker is revealing details on Twitter.
CNET
People want to see more regulation as global trust in technology erodes.
CNET
It's what under the hood that counts.
engadget
And there's a new feature called Smart Delivery
The Verge
Intel on Monday launched new microprocessors, including a second generation Xeon processor for data centers and a 10nm chip for wireless 5G base stations.
Reuters
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella touted the new India cloud partnership with Reliance Industries as he shared center-stage with its chairman Mukesh Ambani at an event in India's financial capital on Monday.
Reuters
Though Lenovo is playing coy with the exact specifications, it looks like you'll have the option to buy AMD's latest Ryzen 4000 Mobile across Lenovo's ThinkPad laptop lineup.
PC World
The first Mac chip designed by Apple was previously rumored for 2020.
CNET
The United States Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to Apple in a decade-long legal battle over whether the iPhone maker infringed on another company's patents.
CNN
Huawei has refreshed its MateBook X Pro in snazzy green, made a powerful speaker and a 5G tablet with a stylus. And they'll all be on sale in Europe.
CNET
Google has warned people not to circumvent the ban on Google apps that affects newer Huawei phones.
BBC News
Sony has revealed its latest flagship smartphone and there are plenty of unexpected details, from the name to the audio technology to the inclusion of 5G.
Forbes
Finance chiefs of the world's top 20 economies vowed to monitor the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on global growth and act if needed, as they said loose monetary policy and easing trade tensions would prompt a pick-up in 2020 and 2021.
Reuters
The last time a coronavirus outbreak hit China in 2003, the global economy emerged relatively unscathed. Now, nearly two decades later, the growth-damping effects of a similar pathogen threaten to ripple around a world transformed by China's boom.
Wall Street Journal
Investor Paul Meeks is bracing for a bear market in technology.
CNBC
Nearly half of the planet's 5G smartphones were shipped to China last year, a new report finds.
CNET
It could wipe out resistant bacteria strains.
engadget
Too bad there's only one.
engadget
Apple may be about to give its customers a lot more control over their iPhones and iPads.
CNN
Samsung Electronics said Saturday it has temporarily shut down a smartphone plant in the southeastern city of Gumi, shortly after a plant employee tested positive for the new coronavirus.
The Korea Times
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Whatever high Apple executives were on in January after the company posted record earnings and strong iPhone sales during the holiday quarter has likely faded. The tech giant is having a rough month.
CNN
Commercial banks extended 3.34 trillion yuan (US$477 billion) of credit in January, an all-time high for bank lending in a single month, the People's Bank of China said
South China Morning Post
At the same time pre-orders open for the Galaxy S20 line.
engadget
Flashy phone is making waves online and selling quickly
Bloomberg
Analog Devices forecast second-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates on Wednesday, as the U.S. chipmaker braced for a $70 million hit related to the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
Anglo-German chip designer Dialog Semiconductor is buying California-based Adesto Technologies for $500 million to diversify further away from its reliance Apple, it said on Thursday.
Reuters
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China on U.S. economic growth will be negligible and short-lived, according to economists in a Reuters poll who nonetheless now say risks to their forecasts are skewed more to the downside.
Reuters
The Korean memory maker has shut down some of its facilities and has asked its workers to be quarantined at homes due to an employee making contact with a confirmed novel coronavirus patient.
ZDNet
Though the coronavirus had just taken hold when the Federal Reserve met in January, officials already expressed concern about its potential economic impacts.
CNBC
State-of-the-art microscopy has enabled researchers to study a viral protein that could be used in vaccine development.
CNET
Horse Ridge will allow for more (and more capable) qubits.
engadget
Sound creepy? It may actually make your Face ID-type sensor more secure and accurate. The company behind this expects to see the tech in phones by 2021.
CNET
Samsung Electronics stands to be a major beneficiary of the China production problems announced by rival Apple Inc on Monday, reaping the rewards of a decade-long bet on low-cost smartphone manufacturing in Vietnam.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics's semiconductor manufacturing division has won a contract to make new Qualcomm 5G chips using its most advanced chip-making technology, two sources familiar with the matter said, boosting the Korean firm's efforts to gain market share against rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.
Reuters
Dell said on Tuesday it would sell its cybersecurity unit RSA for $2.08 billion to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and AlpInvest Partners.
Reuters
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