The economy shrank 23.9% in the three months ending in June, compared with the previous year, according to official statistics released on Monday.

A private survey released Tuesday showed Chinese manufacturing activity in August expanding at the fastest pace in nearly a decade, with the Caixin/Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index coming in at 53.1 for the month.

Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies is focusing on its budding cloud business, which still has access to U.S. chips despite sanctions against the company, to secure its survival, the Financial Times newspaper reported.

Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.

A lawsuit called the wireless earbuds 'shoddy'

Four of China's five largest state-owned banks said they have increased their provisions against bad debt to brace for future losses due to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.

"We have never shipped so many PCs and it was really driven by the demand we see for people working from home and learning from home," HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores told CNBC.

A second reading of the U.S. economy in the second quarter reflected the biggest quarterly plunge in activity on record, though the plummet wasn't as bad as initially estimated.

Nintendo has looked into including more computing power and 4K graphics in the new Switch model, according to a Bloomberg report.

With two fans designed to make it easier to breathe

Samsung Electronics plans to allow some workers in South Korea to work from home in September under a pilot programme, a company official said on Thursday, as the country battles a resurgence in novel coronavirus cases.

Kioxia Holdings, the world's second-largest maker of flash memory chips, will list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 6 in an initial public offering worth up to $3.6 billion, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.

The United States is considering new restrictions on exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and associated software tools, lasers, sensors, and other technology to prevent them from falling into the hands of U.S. adversaries like China.

China is likely to import at least $300 billion worth of semiconductors for the third year running, an industry association official said, in a sign of continuing reliance on foreign know-how despite efforts to gain local capability.

Global smartphone sales dropped 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to data released Tuesday from Gartner.

The government is funding basic research in AI, too.

The pandemic has spurred consumers to buy a ton more PCs than in the previous quarter.

Chip company Arm Holdings said on Monday it has put the brakes on the proposed transfer of two of its software businesses to its Japan-based parent SoftBank Group.

Industry executives say government seeking to phase out Chinese equipment without formal ban

A group of carmakers and tech firms is urging US regulators to take further action against chipmaker Qualcomm over its sales practices.

Russia is ready to co-operate with China and its Huawei on 5G technology which Moscow is currently trying to develop, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, citing Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays, of up to several months, in getting this year's most crucial back-to-school supplies: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning, an Associated Press investigation has found.

The coronavirus crisis will see the world's biggest firms slash dividend payouts between 17%-23% this year or what could be as much $400 billion, a new report has shown, although sectors such as tech are fighting the trend.

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown into sharp focus the role of government in supporting the economy during periods of crises.

From manufacturing to the service sector, robots are playing a bigger role in China

As the U.S.-China "tech war" widens, investors are betting on China's efforts to replace U.S. technologies with indigenous applications to run networks in the state sector.

Nvidia forecast third-quarter sales above expectations on Wednesday, but results from the data center business of the rising semiconductor industry star disappointed some investors, pressuring shares.

Technology is shaping the future of the automotive industry and it's creating a big opportunity in the semiconductor space, Vincent Roche, chief executive of chipmaker Analog Devices, told CNBC Wednesday.

China said on Tuesday it firmly opposes U.S. suppression of Huawei, after the Trump administration announced it would further tighten restrictions on the company.

A huge expansion for the Google Stadia rival.

The US is placing further restrictions on Huawei Technologies in a bid to limit the company's access to electronic components, preventing the company from buying computer chips made using US technology even if they were not designed specifically for Huawei.

CEO Jensen Huang will kick things off with a keynote.

Canada has released as much information as it legally can about the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, the government's lawyers said on Monday, as she sought more confidential documents relating to her 2018 detention.

Xe LP graphics in Tiger Lake laptops are only the first part of the story.

IBM announced on Monday a new processor chip for data centers that it says will be able to handle three times the workload of its predecessor.

You might not get software updates again.

The world's third-largest economy shrank 7.8% in the second quarter compared with the previous quarter, the country's Cabinet Office said on Monday.

Applied Materials forecast fourth-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates on Thursday as demand rebounds for semiconductor equipment and services from the coronavirus-driven slump, and predicted sustained spending into 2021.

Micron Technology said the outlook for demand is worsening and predicted it's unlikely to meet its revenue forecast for the fiscal first quarter. Shares dropped about 5% on the comments.

Intel on Thursday disclosed a new method for making transistors on semiconductors that its chief architect said could boost the performance Intel's next round of processors by as much as 20%.