The Trump administration is poised to add China’s top chip maker, SMIC, to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
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Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has called on employees of its departing Honor subbrand to strive to surpass its parent in a farewell speech as the tech giant sells the budget brand to keep its sanction-hobbled supply chains alive.
Huawei Technologies’ global smartphone market share is expected to fall to just 4% in 2021, a precipitous drop for the company that earlier this year ranked as the world leader in shipments.
Chinese handset rivals of Huawei including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are making aggressive moves to seize market share from their giant rival.
Nikon plans to cut about 2 000 employees, or 10% of its total workforce, due to a slump in its core camera business, Nikkei reported.
Samsung Electronics is pouring $116-billion into its next-generation chip business that includes fabricating silicon for external clients, betting it can finally close the gap on industry leader TSMC.
Huawei Technologies is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers in a bid to keep it alive, the company and the consortium said on Tuesday.
Qualcomm has received a licence from the US government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China’s Huawei, an exemption to US trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.
Apple on Tuesday introduced a MacBook Air notebook and other computers with the first Apple-designed microprocessor, called the M1, a move that will tie its Macs and iPhones closer together technologically.
Huawei plans to sell budget-brand smartphone unit Honor in a $15.2-billion deal to a consortium led by handset distributor Digital China and the government of its home town of Shenzhen, sources said.