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Forty-four companies are now in the program, Apple said on Thursday, including Foxconn and TSMC.
Reuters
Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin - so we went looking for them
The Verge
For the past few months, all signs have pointed to Google creating a 10-inch Assistant smart display as the next step up from the Google Home Hub.
9to5Google
The China semiconductor industry had sales of $97.3 billion last year, says China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Electronics Weekly
Samsung Display has begun mass production of the foldable OLED panels that will go into the Galaxy Fold smartphone.
ZDNet
At Google Cloud Next 2019 in San Francisco today, Google announced Cloud Run, the newest member of its serverless compute stack, in beta.
Venturebeat
The global economy is at what the International Monetary Fund's chief economist calls a "delicate moment".
BBC News
Shipments of mobile phones to China fell 6 percent in March compared with the same year-earlier month, official figures showed on Wednesday, as slowing economic growth took a toll on the sector.
Reuters
Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled a new chip for speeding up artificial intelligence work.
Reuters
An earlier report suggested Google was shifting away from new hardware
The Verge
Samsung might shake things up in a big way this year with the release of the Galaxy Note 10.
Mashable
Cheap Sonos speakers, or expensive IKEA accessories?
engadget
The Nighthawk AX4 is also the first Intel-based WiFi 6 router.
engadget
The probe will look into the Microsoft products and services used by the institutions and whether the contractual agreements between them and the U.S. software company are GDPR-compliant.
Reuters
China's state planner wants to eliminate bitcoin mining in the country, according to a draft list of industrial activities the agency is seeking to stop in a sign of growing government pressure on the cryptocurrency sector.
Reuters
The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI.
The Verge
New AMD Ryzen PRO and AMD Athlon PRO powered commercial notebooks.
Company release
Explosive growth in data traffic in 5G era raises demand for chipsets such as radio frequency transceivers, power amplifiers, low-power supply modulators.
The Korea Herald
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is hitting pause on its relationships with Chinese tech firms Huawei and ZTE.
CNN
Intel says that it's still planning to supply its XMM 8160 5G modem for 2020 devices.
Venturebeat
Samsung Electronics said Friday its operating earnings likely plunged in the first quarter from a year earlier amid falling memory chip prices and weak demand for display panels.
Yonhap News
The companies claim that the combination expands memory footprints at a higher memory-per-core ratio, in a scalable and cost-effective way.
Electronics Weekly
Reports suggest Jacobs has ditched his plans in favor of wireless tech pursuits.
ZDNet
The companies hail from China, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Venturebeat
Microsoft and BMW on Tuesday launched an initiative to create an Open Manufacturing Platform that seeks to stimulate innovation and accelerate the development of 'smart' factories.
Reuters
"We're extremely proud to team up with Microsoft to bring you this exclusive collaboration."
Venturebeat
10 VPN service providers have been ordered to link their servers in Russia to the state censorship agency by April 26.
Network World
"Siemens will play a key role in ensuring that machinery and equipment of different manufacturers at the 122 Volkswagen plants are networked efficiently in the cloud."
Reuters
The two companies added 739 billion won to the 723 billion won of the finishing work contract initially signed in September.
Reuters
Sales of the new phone are expected to commence on April 5 in South Korea.
Venturebeat
One of Apple's key semiconductor engineers has left the company, even as the iPhone giant tries to take more control over what goes inside its devices.
CNET
Intel is handing out pink slips.
Tom's Hardware Guide
"We've concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards."
engadget
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has reported revenues topped US$100 billion in 2018 despite a US-led campaign against the business on fears it poses a security threat. The firm said net profit jumped 25% to CNY59.3 billion.
BBC News
At this point, it's pretty much a question of who's not lining up to experiment with a foldable model.
BGR
SK hynix on Thursday unveiled a 1.2 trillion-won (US$1.05 billion) support plan for subcontracting firms and their R&D projects.
Yonhap News
Acquisition creates platform for addressing connectivity applications for Industrial and Automotive markets
Benzinga
German chipmaker Infineon cut its 2019 revenue forecast on Wednesday for the second time in as many months, pointing to a weakening Chinese car market, the world's largest, which it supplies.
Reuters
ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications company whose brush with death last year thrust it to the center of the trade war between the US and China, posted a net loss of more than $1 billion in 2018.
Wall Street Journal
Sony is closing its Beijing smartphone plant, a spokesman said on Thursday, as the Japanese electronics giant cuts costs in an attempt to make the money-losing handset business profitable from next year.
Reuters
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