Germany has asked Taiwan to persuade Taiwanese manufacturers to help ease a shortage of semiconductor chips in the auto sector which is hampering its fledgling economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Apple is planning to release a new thinner and lighter MacBook Air that will launch in the second half by early next year, according to Bloomberg.

Intel's incoming CEO said on Thursday that the company's troubled 7-nanometer chip manufacturing technique is on track to be used to make chips sold in 2023.

China brought in $163 billion in inflows last year, compared to $134 billion attracted by the U.S., the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development wrote in a report released on Sunday.

In an investment worth over $10 billion

Apple's first VR headset could be a niche device

IBM's revenue fell more than analysts were expecting.

Qualcomm's shipments in China shrank 48.1% year-on-year a report from CINNO said.

New stock of the PlayStation 5 console has led to thousands of gamers waiting in virtual queues online.

Now, thanks to Corellium, it's possible to run Ubuntu - a popular Linux distro - on new Macs with M1 chip.

Apple is joining the automotive party because it has to and if Apple is going to develop an automotive-grade C1 processor, it requires foundry partners with automotive-qualified processes.

India is considering revising its foreign investment rules for e-commerce, three sources and a government spokesman told Reuters, a move that could compel players, including Amazon.com Inc, to restructure their ties with some major sellers.

SK hynix will launch consumer solid state drives here for the first time, the company said Monday, as the remote working trend boosted demand for personal storage devices.

Ready for prime time

Lumentum and Coherent have entered into a definitive agreement under which Lumentum will acquire the laser maker in a cash and stock transaction valued at US$5.7 billion.

It's a good time to crave a gaming handheld

Vietnam on Monday awarded a licence to a unit of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Co Ltd to build a $270 million plant to produce laptops and tablets, the Vietnamese government said.

Also, the charging port might be retired.

The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday said the global lender needed more resources to help heavily indebted countries, citing a highly uncertain global economic outlook and a growing divergence between rich and poor countries.

Samsung vice chairman Lee Jae-yong is going back to prison, casting the future of leadership at the massive tech company in doubt.

Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors that in some cases has been exacerbated by the Trump administration's actions against key Chinese chip factories, industry officials said.

Apple will launch two new MacBook Pro models this year with 14- and 16-inch screens, a new design and the return of MagSafe charging ports, according to TFI' analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel, that it is revoking certain licenses to sell to the Chinese company and intends to reject dozens of other applications to supply the telecommunications firm, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

China's economy grew more than expected last year, even as the rest of the world was upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

The worldwide bottleneck in semiconductors that's disrupting production of automakers from Toyota Motor to Volkswagen is turning into a growth opportunity for Globalfoundries.

ASML CEO Peter Wennink expects further antagonism between the United States and China over semiconductor technology, even as a new administration is set to take over in Washington, he told the Reuters Next conference on Thursday.

Intel focused much of its time at this year's virtual CES on its new desktop and mobile processors, as well as spotlighting the laptops that will feature its new hardware debuting in the next few months.

The UK-based chip designer, which dominates smartphones, now is trying to fix lackluster PC performance.

Digital decoupling between China and the United States could severely impact EU businesses in China and they should "prepare for the worst" and may be forced into a costly separation of their international operations, European business groups said.

Samsung says the fruits of its partnership with AMD should appear next year.

Tech will be used in laptops, phones, cars, and more.

Intel CEO Bob Swan is set to step down effective Feb. 15, the company announced.

The two companies first announced a partnership in 2019.

AMD's focus is about high performance and significant generational improvements

It's not great news

Samsung Electronics is expected to rack up strong earnings in 2021 on the back of the "semiconductor supercycle," according to local analysts Monday.

An early preview at Intel's hybrid Alder Lake chips

Microsoft's new Surface Pro 7+ for Business is not available to consumers, at least for now.

One expert said that the new rules, especially around data, are part of China's broader effort to become a "technological superpower."

Intel said on Monday it would ramp up the production of a new data center chip in the first quarter and that a new generation of chipmaking technology will become a key part of its output this year.