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Apple may only be planning to add 5G to 2020 iPhones, but even then the company might have a hard time acquiring needed modems, according to analysts.
Apple Insider
Cape Town and Johannesburg data centers are now live
Tech Radar
Automotive chipmaker Renesas Electronics plans to halt production at six plants in Japan for up to two months this year as it braces for a further slowdown in Chinese demand, the company said on Thursday.
Reuters
Responding to Korea's PumaX financial news service, Samsung said it has "officially denied that it has reviewed the acquisition of NXP," further noting that earlier reports that it is considering an NXP acquisition "are not true."
The Street
Whether it's named or used anonymously, Corning's Gorilla Glass has been a key ingredient in smartphones since the first iPhone - except for folding phones, where the screens are covered in flexible plastic.
Venturebeat
The worldwide market for wearable devices grew 31.4% during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), reaching a new high of 59.3 million units according to data from the International Data Corporation
IDC
Mate X-style foldable and vertical clamshell said to be in the works
The Verge
The Facebook founder says he believes a privacy-focused communications platform will become even more important than today's open platforms.
The Guardian
Huawei has filed a lawsuit against the US government over a ban that restricts government agencies from using its products. It said the US failed to provide evidence to support the ban.
BBC News
Technology allows vehicle to be unlocked, started, and driven without a physical key
Company release
Microsoft is making a Chrome OS-like version of Windows
The Verge
Intel has confirmed that it recently ended its deal with Chinese smartphone chipmaker Unisoc, citing a need to "make sure we can scale 5G as quickly as possible."
ZDNet
Workers at Foxconn's Yukang dormitory compound in Zhengzhou queue up to resign from their jobs which attract a basic salary of CNY2,100 (US$314) per month.
South China Morning Post
"While March mix is still bad, the tone in the supply chain is starting to improve and price reductions in China may be starting to clear channel inventory," UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri wrote.
Business Insider
As it prepares to go public, Lyft reveals booming revenue, monster losses and a big bet on the future of transportation.
Economist
The Model Y is about 10% larger than the Model 3.
USA Today
The crypto bust has left AMD and Nvidia with an excess amount of GPUs, and the Jon Peddie Research says this will continue on for almost half a year.
Tom's Hardware Guide
The chief financial officer of China's tech giant Huawei is suing Canada over her arrest at the request of the US.
BBC News
The telecoms industry is acutely aware of the need to ensure that ever-more complex mobile networks are safe.
Reuters
Researchers at CEA-Leti and Stanford University have demonstrated a chip that integrates multiple-bit non-volatile memory (NVM) resistive RAM (ReRAM) with silicon computing units and new memory resiliency features that provide 2.3x the capacity of existing ReRAM.
EE Times
By 2025, 15% of the global mobile industry will run on fifth generation (5G) technology, finds The Mobile Economy 2019 report.
Forbes
The secure wallet is now compatible with the Opera browser, too.
engadget
Available in May.
The Verge
The new solutions advance existing 4G wireless technologies and will usher in 5G wireless and precise positioning technologies as well.
Forbes
Intel on Monday announced new chips and partnerships that it hopes will persuade its investors that the billions of dollars in research and development that it has poured into 5G networking technology will pay off.
Reuters
A new Nokia smartphone fuses together shots taken simultaneously by five rear cameras to offer owners what it says is "the richest image capture possible".
BBC News
From smart speakers and smart TVs to conferencing systems and smart home appliances: electronic devices can be operated much more easily and intuitively with speech recognition. Consequently, demand for voice user interfaces (VUI) in electronic devices is increasing dramatically. Market researchers expect that the smart speaker market alone will grow 20% per year on average.
Company release
Huawei has revealed its first smartphone to feature a foldable screen, less than a week after its rival Samsung did the same. The Mate X has been priced to start at EUR2,299.
BBC News
By providing IP that is designed for high temperature operation on 22FDX, Synopsys enables designers to reduce their design effort and accelerate AEC-Q100 qualification of system-on-chips (SoCs) for automotive applications such as eMobility, 5G connectivity, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and infotainment.
Company release
Mobile phone group Vodafone has conducted a successful trial connecting next-generation 5G smartphones to its network.
Reuters
It's no secret that Microsoft is working on a dual-screen Windows 10 device.
Digital Trends
Lenovo posted better-than-expected quarterly results and shrugged off the impact of a bruising Sino-U.S. trade war, sending its shares soaring 11 percent to three-year highs.
Reuters
The one thing that seems clear is that there will probably be a PS5 by the end of next year.
The Verge
Honda Motor said it plans to close its factory in the UK in the biggest blow yet to the British auto industry already buckling under thousands of job cuts and the loss of key models in the run-up to Brexit.
Bloomberg
Qualcomm continues to actively develop 5G solutions and today announced its latest modem and antenna module as it builds a robust commercial 5G platform. 5G is coming and support for it is much greater than the disparate 4G rollout.
ZDNet
The orbiting station will harvest power directly from the sun.
engadget
While much attention was paid last week to SIA's release of final semiconductor sales in 2018 ($468.8 billion) and the percent growth over the previous year (13.7%), there was one equally impressive number that flew under the radar a bit: 1.004 trillion. That is the number of semiconductors that were sold in 2018, marking the first time ever that over a trillion semiconductors were sold in a year.
SIA
Smartphone shipments in the China market were down 9.7% YoY to approximately 103 million units in the fourth quarter of 2018.
IDC
The founder of Huawei has said there is "no way the US can crush" the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
BBC News
Intel has acquired Ineda Systems, a graphics company based out of Hyderabad, India for an undisclosed all-cash sum.
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