China’s top flash memory chip maker sees no easy way to replace US chip-making gear, underscoring how a further crackdown on the supply of American technology will devastate the local semiconductor industry.
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The next-generation Xbox game console finally has a price and release date: The Series X will be out on 10 November worldwide for $499.99 – it will cost R11 999 in South Africa – Microsoft said on Wednesday.
SMIC tumbled the most in seven weeks following a report that the Trump administration was considering adding the chip maker to a blacklist amid an escalating crackdown on Chinese tech companies.
Qualcomm is ramping up its effort to put 5G mobile phones within reach of billions of people and backing new connected laptops aimed at the growing number of people working at home.
China is planning a sweeping set of new government policies to develop its domestic semiconductor industry, conferring the same kind of priority on the effort it accorded to building its atomic capability.
Apple has asked suppliers to build at least 75 million 5G iPhones for later this year, roughly in line with last year’s launch, in a sign that demand for the company’s most important product is holding up.
Samsung Electronics’ latest foldable smartphone is also its largest, offering users a tablet-size screen 12% bigger than its first Galaxy Fold. But be prepared to pay big money to own one.
The usual agenda of trumpeting China’s chip innovation at a major industry confab was coloured by fears the industry might be next to suffer trade sanctions from the Trump administration.
LG Electronics has unveiled a new face mask that includes built-in fans and filters to create what the company is calling a “wearable air purifier”.
For at least two years, I’ve been calling out Xiaomi for pretending be an Internet player when it really just makes smartphones. It took a global pandemic for the Chinese company to finally realise its vision, sort of.