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Alibaba Group and Chinese state-backed firms are weighing bids for a stake in Unisplendour, a cloud computing infrastructure firm, that could fetch as much as $7.7 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
Reuters
Strains in the semiconductor supply chain have worsened in some areas as trends such as remote working combine with an industrial recovery from last year's pandemic slump to drive chip demand, the head of Germany's Infineon said.
Reuters
Intel has said investment in its planned new European $20bn semiconductor factory could be spread across several EU member states, as it lobbies to win the bloc's financial and political support for the project.
The Financial Times
Taiwan's Foxconn and TSMC said on Monday they had reached deals to buy 10 million doses of Germany's BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, putting the total cost of the highly politicised deal at around $350 million.
Reuters
The UK's largest chip maker based in Newport has been bought by Nexperia, which is wholly-owned by Chinese tech firm Wingtech for 瞿65m.
BusinessLive
NXP Semiconductors has announced a major industry milestone for 5G energy efficiency with the integration of gallium nitride (GaN) technology to its multi-chip module platform. The new 5G multi-chip modules will sample in the third quarter, with production starting later this year.
Company release
The Pentagon is scrapping a multibillion dollar cloud computing contract, which sparked a row between Microsoft and Amazon.
BBC News
Twitter no longer enjoys the liability protection against user-generated content in India, the government has indicated in a court filing, as tension escalates between the two over the South Asian nation's new IT rules.
TechCrunch
Washington's moves showed that "the US is pressuring Taiwan and TSMC to support its supply chain" over China, said Paul Triolo, an analyst at consultancy Eurasia Group. They also challenge TSMC's historic position of neutrality and the company's strategy of "being everyone's foundry."
The Financial Times
Tata Motors is steering its underlying business toward sustainability, promising to bring 10 battery-powered vehicles to the Indian market by 2025 after having set the same deadline globally for a fumes-free Jaguar range.
The Economic Times
Qualcomm's new CEO, Cristiano Amon, says the company will have no problem producing laptop chips to compete directly with Apple's M1 - mainly because Qualcomm now employs some of the key minds behind Apple's highly publicized breakthrough.
Ars Technica
China's Internet regulator has ordered app stores to stop offering ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing's app.
BBC News
For automotive customers, chip production will start in September - three months earlier than planned.
Company release
Japan's Kioxia Holdings, the world's second largest maker of flash memory chips and formerly known as Toshiba Memory, plans an initial public offering as early as September, weekly financial magazine Diamond reported on Thursday.
ETTelecom
Broadcom has come out in support of Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm after other firms raised concerns about the deal.
CNBC
Bitmain, China's biggest maker of cryptocurrency mining machines, said it had suspended sales of its products in the spot market to help ease selling pressure following Beijing's ban on bitcoin mining.
Reuters
China has expanded its clampdown on cryptocurrencies, telling banks and payments platforms to stop supporting digital currency transactions.
BBC News
Taiwan will allow Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Taiwan's Foxconn, and TSMC to negotiate on the government's behalf for COVID-19 vaccines, a spokesman said on Friday, but warned he couldn't guarantee success.
Reuters
SiFive, a startup that designs semiconductors, has received takeover interest from investor Intel, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg
Hyundai Motor Group is in talks with South Korean chip companies to help it reduce reliance on foreign supplies amid a global shortage that has halted assembly lines at automakers around the world, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Reuters
Magnachip Semiconductor said on Friday that it has received a takeover bid from Cornucopia Investment Partners, topping a rival offer, which values the South Korea-based display and power chip maker at $1.66 billion.
Reuters
South Korean chip maker SK Hynix has admitted some of its DRAM components included defects, though it says accounts of the issue are overblown.
The Register
Tokyo and Taipei would be smart to work more closely on technology development.
Bloomberg
Apple is in early-stage talks with China's CATL and BYD about the supply of batteries for its planned electric vehicle, four people with knowledge of the matter said.
Reuters
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he is still confident regulators will green-light its $40 billion acquisition of SoftBank Group's Arm, despite growing skepticism about the deal's prospects.
Bloomberg
US President Joe Biden has issued a new executive order that is set to hit 59 firms including communications giant Huawei.
BBC News
Thailand-based Flash Group, which provides e-commerce logistics services, including delivery service Flash Express, has become the first Thai unicorn startup after recently raising US$150 million in Series D+ and E funding.
Bangkok Post
Stocks in Malaysia fell Monday trade as the government announced a nationwide "total lockdown" to curb the rapidly rising daily Covid-19 infections in the country.
CNBC
Intel CEO said on Monday it could take several years for a global shortage of semiconductors to be resolved, a problem that has shuttered some auto production lines and is also being felt in other areas, including consumer electronics.
Reuters
Taiwanese Apple suppliers have been working to turn India into an alternative production base to China.
Nikkei Electronics Asia
Apple is readying a revamp of its entry-level AirPods for this year and a second generation of the AirPods Pro for next year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Bloomberg
China's Huawei Technologies said it will launch its new Harmony operating system for smartphones on June 2, its biggest move yet aimed at recovering from the damage done by US sanctions to its mobile phone business.
Reuters
Jack Ma is reportedly stepping down as the president of an elite business school he founded, suggesting a further retreat from public life by China's most prominent entrepreneur in the face of government pressure on the tech industry.
CNN
Intel and SK Hynix have moved closer to completing their memory and storage business transaction after securing EU approval.
NASDAQ.com
Two other prominent Chinese tech billionaires have made similar moves: Colin Zheng Huang, the founder and former CEO of online discounter Pinduoduo, and Alibaba's Jack Ma.
Forbes
The European Union's plan to become a powerhouse in producing next-generation semiconductors will do little to help the region's vital industries today, one of its biggest homegrown chipmakers said Thursday.
Bloomberg
TSMC is weighing plans to pump tens of billions of dollars more into cutting-edge chip factories in the US state of Arizona than it had previously disclosed, but is cool on prospects for an advanced European plant, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Reuters
AMD said late Thursday it plans to buy about $1.6 billion in silicon wafers from Globalfoundries over the next few years.
MarketWatch
Some of the world's biggest chip buyers, including Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google, are joining top chip-makers such as Intel to create a new lobbying group to press for government chip manufacturing subsidies.
Reuters
Xiaomi and the US government have reached an agreement to set aside a Trump administration blacklisting that could have restricted American investment in the Chinese smartphone maker.
Bloomberg
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