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CES 2014 Toshiba
Electronics
1 min read

Toshiba To Invest $1 Billion To Double Power Chip Production

Toshiba Corp said on Friday it will invest about 125 billion yen ($1.09 billion) to more than double the production of power management semiconductors, aiming to catch up with power chip giants such as Infineon Technologies AG. The Japanese industrial…

Focals smartglasses
Electronics
2 min read

Apple Glasses could also correct your vision, new patent shows

There aren’t many new products to gather the attention and hype that the Apple Glasses AR/VR headset has managed to accumulate in the past few months. Apple’s rumored wearable often occupies headlines and leaks about its features are flying left and right.…

samsung factory
Electronics
1 min read

Samsung has invested nearly $18 bln in Vietnam

Samsung has invested $17.74 billion in Vietnam in the last 24 years, 29 percent of it in the last five. With eight manufacturing and research facilities in the country, the South Korean electronics giant achieved revenues of nearly $60.5 billion in the first…

Qualcomm can beat Apple M1
Electronics
2 min read

Qualcomm’s Apple M1-rivalling silicon arriving in 2023

Qualcomm revealed plans to bring to the market an Apple M1-beating chip by 2023 during its 2021 investor conference. The processor will be based on technology from Nuvia, a chip startup that was founded by ex-Apple engineers who had worked on Apple A and M…

samsung facility
Electronics
1 min read

LG, Samsung are hiring again in Vietnam

Two Korean technology giants are seeking to hire thousands of people in Vietnam, including workers, engineers and IT staff. In September, Samsung announced it is looking to hire 1,000 production staff for its Bac Ninh factory. A month earlier it said it…

Huawei boot
Telecom
3 min read

Huawei’s chairman says that sourcing chips is its biggest problem

Let’s use our imagination a little, shall we? Had the U.S. not placed Huawei on the Entity List for security reasons in 2019 and followed that up exactly a year to the day by changing Export rules banning Huawei from receiving chips from certain foundries…

Xiaomi World Record 4
Electronics
1 min read

Xiaomi rewards its first ever customers with a refund

Back in 2011 Xiaomi launched the Mi 1 in China, and thus entered the increasingly competitive smartphone market, eventually overtaking goliaths such as Apple and Samsung, at least according to some research agencies. The successful Chinese phone maker is…

Qualcomm
Electronics
1 min read

Qualcomm Tops Magna’s Bid With $4.6 Billion Offer For Veoneer

Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc said on Thursday it had offered to buy Swedish auto parts maker Veoneer Inc for $4.6 billion, an 18.4% premium to a bid by Canada’s Magna International Inc that was accepted by Veoneer’s board. U.S.-listed shares of Veoneer rose 21.7%…

xiaomi logo
Electronics
2 min read

Xiaomi patents an all edge curved screen phone

Some trends in the tech world just don’t want to fade away, and one of those is the endless desire to curve screen edges. It all started with the Galaxy Note Edge in 2014, but it wasn’t until the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge that the trend gained popularity. With…

Intel 5G
Electronics
2 min read

Intel CEO says chip shortage will continue throughout this year

As many of you know, we are in the middle of a chip shortage that has been impacting automobile and consumer electronic manufacturers. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees the shortage continuing throughout the remainder of this year, bottoming out during the second…