Intel said its factories will start making Qualcomm chips as it laid out a road map on Monday to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan’s TSMC and Samsung Electronics by 2025.
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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi overtook Apple in the second quarter to become the world’s second largest smartphone maker, market research firm Canalys said in a report on Thursday.
Apple has asked suppliers to build as many as 90 million next-generation iPhones this year, a sharp increase from its 2020 iPhone shipments, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Mustek have been heavily impacted by the ongoing lawlessness in KwaZulu-Natal, with Samsung’s distribution centre in Cato Ridge attacked by looters.
Samsung Electronics likely saw a 38% surge in profit for the April to June quarter thanks to strong chip prices and demand spurred by a pandemic-led consumer appetite for electronics.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has predicted the shortage of semiconductors that’s hurting industries from automotive to consumer electronics will bottom out in the second half of this year.
Car makers slashed production. PlayStations got harder to find in stores. Broadband providers faced months-long delays for Internet routers. The reason? An abrupt and cascading shortage of semiconductors.
Samsung Electronics has suspended production of one of its midrange phones because of a chip shortage, South Korea’s Electronic Times reported, in the latest sign of global semiconductor supply problems.
Intel’s CEO said on Monday it could take several years for a global shortage of semiconductors to be resolved.
Xiaomi’s quarterly profit beat estimates after the world’s third largest smartphone maker narrowed the gap with market leaders Samsung Electronics and Apple in shipments.