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Sony has denied a recent Bloomberg report that said the company has cut its expectations for PlayStation 5 production by 4 million units and now expects to manufacture about 11 million units by the end of March.
The Verge
SMIC has asked for approval from the United States to continue supplying Huawei, state media outlet Beijing News reported on Tuesday, citing the company.
Reuters
Apple on Tuesday ended its long-time card partnership with Barclays, a move designed to focus attention on its own Apple Card product-financing plans, Bloomberg News reported, citing a memo sent to employees.
Reuters
The World Trade Organization has ruled that tariffs the US imposed on Chinese goods in 2018, triggering a trade war, were "inconsistent" with international trade rules.
BBC News
South Korean tech firm LG has unveiled a smartphone with a larger screen which swivels out to reveal a second, smaller one underneath.
BBC News
5G versions of the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4A are on the way
The Verge
Sony is reportedly having trouble with its custom SoC design.
ZDNet
South Korean chip exports to China are feared to take a hit from U.S. sanctions on Chinese telecom giant Huawei due to their heavy dependence on the neighboring country, sources said Tuesday.
Yonhap News
Chinese internet companies do not rely on international suppliers for parts and technology for their products unlike telecom firm, said Elinor Leung, China internet analyst at brokerage firm CLSA.
CNBC
Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm is set to catapult it into the fray of geopolitical tensions between Beijing and Washington, analysts and lawyers say.
Reuters
New Snapdragon XR2 processor pushes nearly 50% more pixels than the original Quest.
Ars Technica
Two years ago, Microsoft sank a data centre off the coast of Orkney in a wild experiment.
BBC News
China has been trying to ramp up its domestic semiconductor industry as the U.S. increases the pressure on the country's technology giants.
CNBC
An 8-core 11th-gen Tiger Lake could give Intel the one feature it needs to beat Ryzen 4000.
PC World
Samsung shares could rally over 40% in the next year, according to one analyst who sees TV and smartphone sales rebounding sharply in the near-term and a boost in the chip division.
CNBC
Exclusive: Canada looks set for a fight over C$1 billion compensation for Huawei gear (Sep 13, 2020)
Canada is signaling it might not compensate major telecommunications providers if the federal government bans equipment made by China's Huawei from 5G networks, setting up a potential fight over a bill that could hit C$1 billion ($758 million).
Reuters
In the battle for tech supremacy between the US and China, America has "dropped the ball" in funding for basic research, according to former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.
BBC News
When the South Korea government unveiled an expanded semiconductor material testing facility last month, the centrepiece was a towering white machine given by Samsung Electronics at a fraction of its market price.
Reuters
Samsung still has more new hardware on the way
The Verge
TikTok and Oracle will become business partners in the United States - a deal meant to satisfy the Trump administration's national security concerns, according to a person familiar with the matter.
CNN
'If This and These Then That and That or whatever'
The Verge
Amazon recently hired Peter Marquez as its first-ever head of space policy at Amazon Web Services.
CNBC
Oracle signaled a recovery in client spending as remote work spurred demand for cloud services as well as traditional licensing business, helping it beat
Reuters
Huawei is a major buyer of OLED panels for Samsung Display.
ZDNet
The dual-screen phone costs a lofty $1,399.
Ars Technica
Huawei launched the second version of its HarmonyOS operating system on Thursday.
CNBC
October 8th for CPUs and October 28th for GPUs
The Verge
China has taken aim at the US saying its tech firms are victims of "naked bullying".
BBC News
Tesla shed about $80 billion of its market value on Tuesday, an amount that overshadows the combined value of General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co, after its surprise exclusion from the S&P 500 index.
Reuters
It could cost under $600 and bridge the gap between Surface Go and Surface Pro.
engadget
Apple has announced that it will hold an event next week, where many expect it could reveal the design of the latest iPhone or other new products.
CNN
Shares in SoftBank retreated again on Tuesday, bringing losses in Japan to 7.7% over two days following reports that the conglomerate had been making huge and risky bets on tech stocks.
CNN
China is launching an initiative to set global standards on data security, countering U.S. efforts to persuade countries to ringfence their networks from Chinese technology, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Reuters
Moto G9 Plus appears on on a European retailer's website
The Verge
China's dollar-denominated exports rose 9.5% for the month of August while imports fell 2.1% in the same period, data from the country's General Administration of Customs showed on Monday.
CNBC
Business investment stalls amid heightened uncertainty
Nikkei Asian Review
South Korean electronics veteran Samsung scored a big win this week when American telecom Verizon Communications selected the company as a provider of 5G wireless networking equipment.
The Motley Fool
Shares in Chinese chipmaker SMIC plummeted nearly 23% in Hong Kong on Monday on fears that it could become the latest casualty of the US-China tech war.
CNN
Italy's competition authority announced Monday it's looking into cloud storage services run by Apple, Dropbox and Google after hearing several complaints about allegedly unfair commercial practices.
CNBC
SoftBank was the buyer of billions of dollars in technology company options in the past month, according to the Financial Times.
CNBC
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