The region is grappling with a second wave of infections and a subsequent new round of lockdowns and social restrictions.

U.S. retail sales increased less than expected in October and could slow further, restrained by spiraling new COVID-19 infections and declining household income as millions of unemployed Americans lose government financial support.

Nation's leadership pours money into grooming semiconductor talent and building new facilities, citing need for self-sufficiency

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors on Tuesday said it had entered a strategic relationship with Amazon.com's cloud computing unit to help cars communicate with data centers.

Samsung Electronics is pouring US$116 billion into its next-generation chip business that includes fabricating silicon for external clients, betting it can finally close the gap on industry leader TSMC as soon as two years from now.

The latest version of Nvidia's flagship A100 server GPU packs twice as much high-speed memory as its predecessor.

Ford Motor has reversed course and is now considering making its own battery cells as sales volumes of electric vehicles rise around the world, the automaker's top executive said on Friday.

Qualcomm on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.

For the past two months inventor Yezin Al-Qaysi has been riding the Toronto subway in Canada wearing a huge black "mad helmet".

China's bureau for regulating monopolies, the State Administration for Market Regulation or SAMR, released draft rules that define for the first time what constitutes anti-competitive behavior.

Amazon on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia.

The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled an executive order prohibiting U.S. investments in Chinese firms that Washington says are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, ramping up pressure on Beijing after the U.S. election.

"We're recovering, but to a different economy," Powell said during a virtual panel discussion at the European Central Bank's Forum on Central Banking.

Bringing a new range of hardware to market is not an easy task, even for Intel.

U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in October, the lowest reading in five months, suggesting that a price spike over the summer is beginning to fade as coronavirus cases spread.

China's draft anti-monopoly rules will likely hit the country's major internet companies, which were already fighting off rivals that were taking away chunks of their market share, Morgan Stanley said in a report.

China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) is facing some delays in getting U.S.-made equipment, parts and materials, the Global Times newspaper reported on Thursday, after Washington imposed export restrictions against the firm.

Singapore on Thursday announced a new work visa for foreign executives of technology firms, a sector the low-tax global business hub hopes will power future economic growth.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna noted in a letter to President-elect Joe Biden that 70% of the tech talent in the U.S. works for the private sector, and the government needs to secure strategic access to that brain power.

Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba plunged 8.86% by Wednesday afternoon in Asia, while Tencent dropped 5.38%. Smartphone maker Xiaomi also declined 5.73% and Meituan fell 7.47%. JD.com also saw its stock plummet 8.11%.

Chip maker Nvidia on Monday announced that Hyundai Motor Group will use the NVIDIA DRIVE in-vehicle information and entertainment system for all its Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis models from 2022.

We've never seen an Arm chip do what Apple is about to try on Macs

It's been a long time since General Motors has been a hot stock for investors. Electric vehicles could turn it into one.

The vaccine is more than 90% effective, and will not be widely available until next year, but stocks surged on the view that earnings for a broad group of companies will be revised higher.

The Chinese semiconductor industry will maintain 'sound and continuous' growth and achieve partial self-reliance over time, according to KPMG

Shares in Japan hit a near 30-year high on Monday, the first day of trading following news that Joe Biden had won the US presidential election. The Nikkei 225 closed up 2.1% at a level not seen since 1991.

Qualcomm reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

As the country awaits the outcome of the US presidential election, Corporate America is watching closely, especially Silicon Valley.

The laptops will be first and the desktops are coming later, report claims.

SK Hynix, the world's No.2 memory chip maker, said it expected inventory build-up by Huawei's competitors in China to boost mobile demand in the current quarter, but its mainstay server demand would remain week.

China's Lenovo Group, the world's biggest PC maker, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday and said it is continuing to benefit from "new normal" remote working after COVID-19.

Rising tensions between the former chief executive of Arm China, Allen Wu -- who controls a 17% stake in the company -- and the board of directors have spiraled out of control, putting the deal in doubt.

Samsung Electronics' System LSI Business Division is planning to supply its smartphone application processor (AP) Exynos to Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo in 2021.

Desktop Macs with Apple Silicon will come at a later date.

Quantum computers are not yet creating business value, but CIOs should nonetheless lose no time in getting involved.

A group of business leaders and public policy experts is launching a new body to grapple with thorny questions surrounding the future of transportation including self-driving and electric vehicles.

Yes, it's building up hype for an Exynos.

It wouldn't help the company's phone business, however.

On Saturday, the China's official manufacturing PMI fell slightly to 51.4 in October from 51.5 in September, but continued to show strong activity

China needs to step up the recycling and repurposing of batteries for electric vehicles in order to ease supply strains and curb pollution and carbon emissions, environmental group Greenpeace said on Friday.