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Friday 3 January 2025
China's AI firms gain ground with open-source strategy
The development of AI models in China has progressed at an impressive pace, with a proactive embrace of open-source strategies in recent years. These efforts have not only garnered...
Friday 3 January 2025
Honor preps for IPO with corporate restructuring and rebranding
Honor, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, announced on its official website that it has transitioned into a joint-stock company as of December 28, 2024, with its official name now...
Friday 3 January 2025
China accelerates LLM development as ByteDance's AI spending rivals BAT combined
DeepSeek, an emerging AI company, has launched DeepSeek-V3, the first version of its new open-source model series. According to official data, this model outperforms other leading...
Friday 3 January 2025
China and US policies drive panel production growth in 1Q25
As the new year unfolds, the global economy and trade dynamics remain highly complex and unpredictable. Among these developments, significant policy changes in both China and the...
Friday 3 January 2025
GiantPlus holds advantages in industrial control market amid continuous closures of panel factories
The global panel industry faces persistent overcapacity, triggering an ongoing wave of plant closures and sales. Taiwan-based mid-sized panel manufacturer GiantPlus noted that, in...
Friday 3 January 2025
Taiwan expands control list on core tech exports to China
Taiwan has implemented comprehensive regulations to prevent the transfer of sensitive technologies, including advanced chips, to mainland China, reinforcing national security and...
Friday 3 January 2025
China's Big Fund Phase 3: key semiconductor investments mark 14th Five-Year Plan finale
The third phase of China's National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund) has launched with a substantial CNY160 billion (US$21.9 billion) investment, aligning with...
Friday 3 January 2025
US government seeks public opinion to ban Chinese-made drones, targeting DJI
The US government is seeking public input on proposed rules to secure the ICTS supply chain for drones, potentially limiting Chinese drones, which dominate US markets.
Friday 3 January 2025
Low consumer demand pulling memory prices down across the board
Memory prices are declining across all segments and are expected to continue their downward trajectory in the first quarter of 2025, according to industry sources.
Friday 3 January 2025
China's Horizon Robotics targets 10 million automotive chips in 2025
Horizon Robotics, a Chinese manufacturer of intelligent driving chips, has announced its goal of shipping over 10 million chips in 2025, positioning itself to become the first Chinese...
Friday 3 January 2025
China's LLM market reached a boiling point, Alibaba cuts prices again to capture market share
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding, has recently slashed prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL by more than 80%, as price wars continue to rage...
Friday 3 January 2025
China's automotive IC self-sufficiency bid faces high barrier from European IDMs
Chinese chip vendors' efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in automotive ICs have shown progress, but their advancement is hindered by a high barrier formed by European IDMs, according...
Friday 3 January 2025
India's machine tool demand surges, Japanese firms seek growth as Chinese competition intensifies
India's growing economy and the make-in-India initiative have spurred significant demand for machine tools in electronics, automotive, and semiconductors, prompting Japanese manufacturers...
Friday 3 January 2025
China to tighten the screw over battery and mineral tech exports
According to Bloomberg, Beijing is set to impose new restrictions on exports of technologies related to battery component production and the processing of key metals, as...
Friday 3 January 2025
China adds 28 US firms to entity list
China has added 28 US entities, including Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, to its export control list, banning dual-use item exports amid the upcoming Trump 2.0 administration...
Wednesday 23 December 2015
Samsung PRO Plus 128GB microSD cards
Samsung Electronics has unveiled its PRO Plus 128GB microSD card series, which is built with company's MLC NAND flash solution. With the introduction of its new 128GB microSD card, Samsung provides consumers with a memory card solution for capturing heavy-loaded, high-resolution video, photography and multimedia contents for use in today's mobile devices. The PRO Plus 128GB microSD is the newest addition to Samsung's PRO Plus lineup, which was first introduced in 32GB and 64GB versions in May 2015. The 128GB microSD features the highest-quality MLC NAND flash memory and UHS-I Speed Class 3 (U3) and Speed Class 10 support, offering the industry's fastest speeds of up to 95MB/s and 90MB/s for read and write respectively, Samsung said. The new PRO Plus 128GB microSD is meant for use in high-end smartphones and tablets, as well as fulfilling the security, capacity, performance and environment requirements inherent in newly emerging audio and video consumer electronics, specifically action cameras and drones. The new memory card is equipped to handle storing and transferring professional-grade photos and 4K UHD video recording and playback. It can record up to three hours and 50 minutes of 4K UHD video or 16 hours and 20 minutes of Full HD video in action cameras without the need to change or replace the memory card. In addition, the PRO Plus 128GB microSD can store a maximum of 10,940 photos or 30,670 MP3 songs based on Samsung's estimated user settings and configurations. Samsung will now offer the new PRO Plus 128GB microSD memory card in more than 50 countries including China, Europe, Korea, the US and other regions.