The modern smart phone era, as kicked off by the launch of the first iPhone 10 years ago, is now mature. At the launch of Google's Pixel 2 phone in San Francisco, CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged smartphone features were "levelling off" and said it was hard to develop exciting new products based on hardware alone.

Intel has announced that the company's former CEO Paul Otellini passed away in his sleep Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, at the age of 66.

Tesla has released its quarterly vehicle production numbers for the third quarter of 2017, which it says was its "all-time best quarter for Model S and Model X deliveries" - but it was not a great quarter for production of the Model 3, of which only 260 were made.

Apple may be looking to reduce its reliance on chipmakers Intel and Qualcomm, reportedly working on its own semiconductors for its MacBooks and iPhones.

Foxconn plans to make approximately US$1.4 billion in supply purchases in Wisconsin annually once its LCD panel campus is fully operational, a figure more than three times the combined in-state supply purchases made by Marinette Marine Corp., Quad/Graphics Inc. and Oshkosh Corp.

In India, a country that is emerging as a mobile manufacturing hub, Asahi Glass is looking to tap growing demand for advanced glass products to be used in smartphones and other electronic devices, according to company officials.

IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions like the mainframe and the floppy disk. Its offices and factories, stretching from upstate New York to Silicon Valley, were hubs of American innovation long before Microsoft or Google came along. But over the last decade, IBM has shifted its center of gravity halfway around the world to India, making it a high-tech example of the globalization trends that the Trump administration has railed against.

Google has unveiled measures to help publishers sell more digital subscriptions after concluding that advertising is not enough to sustain large news operations.

In a recent blog post, Microsoft set out to explain why Edge is so lacking in extensions compared to Google Chrome.

Samsung's Montreal office will tackle self-driving cars and image recognition.

How did stateless cryptocurrencies get so big in China, a country where the national currency - along with so much else - remains tightly controlled by the government?

Although Toshiba has finally reached a crucial deal to sell its prized memory chip business, the troubled Japanese conglomerate has a long way to go to emerge from its crisis. Two years have passed since a damaging accounting scandal surfaced at the famed manufacturer that once played a leading role in Japan's infrastructure development and home appliance industry. How did things come to this point?

Apple is investigating after two iPhone 8 Plus owners shared pictures of the device burst open due to possible battery failure.

The iPhone X is facing production delays due to problems in manufacturing the 3D sensors used for facial recognition, reports say.

South Korea's SK Hynix said on Wednesday its board had approved its participation in a Bain Capital-led consortium that plans to purchase Toshiba's memory chip unit for JPY2 trillion (US$17.7 billion).

Idemitsu Kosan and Toray Industries will together develop technologies to improve the efficiency and durability of OLED panels, the pair said Tuesday.

Apple told CNBC it will be releasing a fix for a disruptive sound in the earpieces of some iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus smartphones during phone calls, an issue reported by The Verge.

Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are coming very soon. They are 2017's last major smartphone releases and the two models are likely to meet very different reactions due to controversial design differences. And now we know a lot more...

The giant information and entertainment screens in Tesla Inc.'s cars will be powered by new components from Intel after the automaker replaced chip supplier Nvidia for that function, according to people familiar with its plans.

The tender offer is now scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on October 20, 2017.

Imagination made a name for itself as the designer of the graphics accelerators in Apple's smartphones and tablets. Now it's designed a new range of processing cores that chip makers can use to accelerate artificial intelligence algorithms in their own hardware.

Toshiba told its main banks on Monday it has not signed the $18 billion sale of its semiconductor business because Apple, a member of the buyer group, has not agreed on key terms, two people involved in the deal said.

Globalfoundries is now delivering in volume its 14nm High Performance (HP) technology that will enable IBM's next-generation of processors for server systems.

Imagination Technologies, the Hertfordshire-based maker of mobile graphics processors, agreed a sale to Canyon Bridge, which is backed by state-owned Chinese fund Yitai Capital, in a deal valuing the British chipmaker at about GBP550 million (US$744 million).

Globalfoundries has asked European antitrust regulators to investigate market leader TSMC, accusing the Taiwan-based firm of unfair competition, an industry source said on Monday.

Tesla is getting closer to having its own chip for handling autonomous driving tasks in its cars.

HTC, like Nokia and BlackBerry before it, has become the latest one-time star of the mobile phone world that will now shuffle off the global stage.

LG Display and Huawei are expected to sign an agreement for the long-term and stable supply of small- and medium-size OLED panels at the top management meeting in Korea on Oct. 3.

Japan's Toshiba has selected a group led by US private equity firm Bain Capital to buy its prized memory chip unit, three people with knowledge of the talks said on Wednesday, the latest dramatic twist to a highly contentious auction.

Earlier this year, Elan Microelectronics partnered with smart card integrator Jinco Universal and KSID to develop smart cards with an embedded fingerprint sensor.

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf expects auto to be a big area of innovation over the next decade.

Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi will launch their flagship smartphone models featuring LG Display's OLED panels in 2018.

Apple is in talks to provide about US$3 billion in capital for Bain Capital's bid for Toshiba's memory-chip unit, adding to financial support from Dell, Seagate Technology and SK Hynix, according to people familiar with the matter.

Dimon called the new digital currency a 'fraud' and that it wasn't 'a real thing'.

President Trump on Wednesday blocked a China-backed investor from buying an American semiconductor maker over national security concerns, a rare move that could signal more aggressive scrutiny of China's deal-making ambitions.

The yen may advance to 100 against the dollar by the year end as investors conclude that Japan is still failing to sustain inflation gains five years after Abenomics was introduced, according to HSBC Holdings.