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.
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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.
Fitbit on Tuesday unveiled a fitness tracker and two smartwatches, including one that purports to help monitor users’ stress levels, as the company’s pending sale to Google remains mired in antitrust reviews.
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron are among companies eyeing new factories in Mexico, people with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the US-China trade war intensifies.
Ramped-up US restrictions on Huawei are likely to cut off the Chinese smartphone maker’s access to even off-the-shelf chips and disrupt the global tech supply chain once again, executives and experts cautioned.
The Trump administration announced on Monday it will further tighten restrictions on Huawei Technologies, aimed at cracking down on its access to commercially available chips.
Intel on Thursday disclosed a new method for making transistors on semiconductors that its chief architect said could boost the performance Intel’s next round of processors by as much as 20%.
Microsoft on Wednesday said the Surface Duo, its dual-screen smartphone powered by Android, will start at a price of $1 399 and arrive in stores from 10 September. It will not be sold in South Africa at launch.
HMD Global, the maker of Nokia-branded smartphones, has secured $230-million of investment from partners including Google and Qualcomm to help accelerate its development of 5G devices.