The rollout of 5G telecom networks helped semiconductor equipment maker ASML (ASML.AS) beat second-quarter forecasts on Wednesday despite weak demand in the memory chip market.

Russia is offering to supply etching gas to South Korea, in a move that could help Seoul get around Japanese restrictions on exports to its neighbor of the key element for semiconductor production.

While spot markets make up a small percentage of the memory chip market, Ike Cho, a Bernstein analyst, said the South Korean groups are pushing up prices as they negotiate contracts for the third quarter with their customers.

Commercial devices based on Snapdragon 855 Plus are expected to be commercial 2H 2019.

Cybersecurity company Symantec has walked away from negotiations to sell itself to chipmaker Broadcom over price disagreements, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

China's Xiaomi has taken a stake of roughly 6% in compatriot chip designer VeriSilicon Holdings, as the smartphone maker revamps its years-long pursuit of success in semiconductors which it sees as central to driving innovation.

China is expected to report on Monday that economic growth slowed to its weakest pace in at least 27 years in the second quarter, reinforcing the case for more stimulus as a bruising trade war with the United States drags on.

Qualcomm is reportedly developing a new smartwatch SoC that'll either be called the "Snapdragon Wear 429" or "Snapdragon Wear 2700."

"Integration is the future," said Bill Bottoms, a veteran engineering educator and entrepreneur overseeing work on a new roadmap for chip stacks. Estimated costs to design a traditional 5nm chip could soar as high as $600 million, and "this can't continue," he said.

The US may approve licenses for companies to re-start new sales to Huawei in as little as two weeks, according to a senior US official, in a sign President Donald Trump's recent effort to ease restrictions on the Chinese company could move forward quickly.

The Qualcomm 215 mobile chip designed for entry-level smartphones features a 64-bit CPU and dual-ISPs, and will power commercial devices slated for launch in the second half of 2019.

The trio of techniques aim to give Intel's processors an edge at a time when advances in conventional silicon scaling are slowing and getting more expensive. They arrive as rival TSMC expands its portfolio of chip stacks, and two consortia hope to set standards in the area.

Cisco aims to increase both its revenues and profit margins in an optical networking market shifting to components with its $2.6 billion bid for Acacia Communications. The deal would put the Ethernet giant in the long-distance market for the first time and help it retain business from web giants who are increasingly buying optical modules directly from component makers.

Intel Corporation today announced the appointment of Claire Dixon as corporate vice president and chief communications officer (CCO), effective July 1. Dixon will oversee Intel's global communications organization, including corporate communications and events, product public relations, employee communications and analyst relations.

South Korean president Moon Jae-in urged Japan to withdraw new restrictions on exports in his first public remarks on a dispute that erupted last week and has intensified animosity between the two countries.

Nvidia executive vice president of operations Debora Shoquist said in a statement that "recent reports are incorrect - Nvidia's next-generation GPU will continue to be produced at TSMC. Nvidia already uses both TSMC and Samsung for manufacturing, and we plan to use both foundries for our next-generation GPU products."

By designing its own baseband chips, Apple could protect its margins and be less dependent on vendors such as Qualcomm.

Japan's tightening of controls on the export of semiconductor materials to South Korea could hit Samsung's production hard.

China continues to stress that the US must remove all the tariffs placed on Chinese goods as a condition for reaching a trade deal.

The US government said on Wednesday it was reviewing license requests from US companies seeking to export products to China's Huawei Technologies "under the highest national security scrutiny" since the company is still blacklisted.

Microchip already has development centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad and currently has 1,800 employees in India.

The Chinese telecoms group is determined to accelerate efforts to become self-reliant.

Samsung Electronics is likely to say second-quarter profit more than halved when it reports preliminary earnings on Friday, data showed, as a drop in memory chip shipments to China's embattled Huawei exacerbated a price-squeezing supply glut.

Japan tightened controls on exports to South Korea in an unexpected blow to the global technology supply chain that also marks a new low point in relations between the two US allies.

The latest data on semiconductor sales is pointing to stabilization in the industry, suggesting that months of weakness and tepid demand could be nearing an end, analysts said on Monday.

Intel, in collaboration with 10 industry leaders in automotive and autonomous driving technology, has published "Safety First for Automated Driving," a framework for the design, development, verification and validation of safe automated passenger vehicles (AVs). The paper builds on Intel's model for safer AV decision-making known as Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS).

Nvidia Korea chief Yoo Eung-joon said that its production of advanced GPUs will be conducted by Samsung Electronics with its 7-nanometer extreme ultraviolet process.

Broadcom is in advanced talks to buy cybersecurity firm Symantec, according to people familiar with the matter, seeking a further expansion into the more profitable software business.

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son says he wants to re-list ARM Holdings Plc within five years, re-introducing stock markets to the British chipmaker his company bought for $32 billion in 2016.

For the global semiconductor industry, the just-revealed truce in the "trade war" between US President Donald Trump and China's president Xi Jinping is welcome news but hardly the end of a poorly scripted economic melodrama that continues to pose dire consequences for the American semiconductor market.

Intel is getting rather concerned at AMD's Zen 2 advancements and an internal memo that just leaked out to public venues indicates that AMD is starting to give Chipzilla a good kicking in its reptilian diodes.

President Donald Trump's decision to allow US companies to continue selling to Huawei followed an extensive lobbying campaign by the US semiconductor industry that argued the ban could hurt America's economic and national security.

The US company aims to purchase all of the former Hitachi group member from American private equity group KKR by the end of the year, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.

Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of Huawei Technologies whose daughter's arrest in Vancouver triggered a diplomatic crisis between China and Canada, said the company still wants to make the country its "global center for theoretical research."

Trump said Saturday that "US companies can sell their equipment to Huawei," as long as the transactions won't present a "great, national emergency problem."

The Wall Street Journal has reported that AMD's 2016 joint venture known as Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment, or THATIC, allowed a company with ties to the Chinese military to obtain chip technology that could boost China's supercomputer efforts.

One of Huawei's biggest rivals - Nokia - has said the UK should be wary of using the Chinese firm's equipment. The Finnish company said Huawei's telecoms kit had vulnerabilities that meant it posed a risk to 5G networks.

Israeli startup NeuroBlade said on Wednesday it has completed a $23 million early funding round, led by Marius Nacht, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies, with the participation of new investor Intel Capital.

Jony Ive, a close creative collaborator with Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs whose iPhone and other designs fueled Apple's rise to become a $1 trillion company, will leave later this year to form an independent design company.