Chinese President Xi Jinping said he's open to approving a renewed deal for Qualcomm to buy chip rival NXP in trade talks with President Donald Trump, according to the White House.

The US and China have agreed to suspend plans to impose new tariffs on January 1.

Huawei has warned that American ambitions to lead the world in the next generation of mobile Internet may not be realized if Washington continues to block the company from participating in the US market.

The prosecutors did not reveal the names of the recipients of the OLED trade secrets, but an industry source identified one of the companies as BOE Technology Group, which supplies smartphone screens for key Samsung rival Huawei Technologies.

The fund, Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund, has already made its first investment via a Series A funding round of AnyVision, a face, body, and object recognition startup, the company said without disclosing the amount.

New Zealand government's move to prevent Huawei supplying a local mobile network with 5G equipment has raised questions about why the UK appears less concerned about use of the Chinese company's technology.

Apple continued its downward slide Tuesday after US President Donald Trump suggested that 10 percent tariffs could be placed on mobile phones, like the iPhone, and laptops made in China.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8150 and MediaTek's Helio P80 are the top two chipsets in an AI benchmark.

Cadence Design Systems has announced the tapeout of a complete GDDR6 memory IP solution on Samsung's 7LPP process. GDDR6 memory is targeted at very high-bandwidth applications including machine learning, AI, cryptocurrency mining, graphics, automated driving, ADAS and high-performance computing (HPC).

Infineon Technologies is strengthening its long-term partnership with Denso to bolster its automotive business. Underpinning this collaboration, the Japan-based company has bought an equity stake in Infineon in the range of a mid-double-digit million Euro amount.

For a sense of the damage Donald Trump can inflict on China with export controls, take a trip to the city of Jinjiang on the country's southeastern coast. That's where Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. built a $6 billion plant to produce semiconductors as part of China's goal of making the country a self-sufficient technology powerhouse.

LG Electronics vice chairman and CEO Jo Seong-jin said the company will promote automation of suppliers' manufacturing units as part of efforts to strengthen business partnership.

The CSIRO investment will include the development of advanced imaging of Earth from satellites, in addition to cutting-edge data science to support the growth of AI technology.

IBM Thailand hopes to make the Southeast Asian country a sales hub for the Indochina subregion and leverage AI and blockchain to help local businesses digitally transform.

Apple's share price has tumbled more than 20% since October, hurting other stocks and infecting the wider market.

Bulk CMOS, FD-SOI and finFETs all on tap as big players vie for differentiation. But where will chipmakers go after 28nm?

ITRI received three 2018 R&D 100 Awards on November 16 in Orlando, Florida. ITRI's technologies were selected as winners for innovation in the Software/Services, IT/Electrical, and Mechanical Devices/Materials categories.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is poised to secure a crucial order from IBM for premium server chips, validating the company as a serious challenger to global chipmaker Intel in the high-value data center market.

Dialog Semiconductor said on Wednesday it was not seeing a hit to demand from its main customer, Apple, after some suppliers issued profit warnings due to weakness in iPhone sales.

Larry Kudlow confirms that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has restarted trade talks with his Chinese counterpart

The U.S. decision to cut off a Chinese state-backed chipmaker from U.S. suppliers amid allegations the firm stole intellectual property breaks World Trade Organization rules and aims to protect a U.S. monopoly, China told a WTO meeting on Tuesday.

"It is alarming to uncover that producers are labelling black powders as graphene and selling them for top dollar, while in reality, they contain mostly cheap graphite"

Blockchains can be used to create "smart contracts" to guarantee other agreements between two parties.

An earlier 5G-only modem, the XMM 8060, "is becoming a development platform" rather than a commercial product, said an Intel spokeswoman. Thus Intel "will miss the 2019 5G launches, but it is targeting large-scale rollouts from customers such as Apple and [partner] Spreadtrum," said Malik Saadi, vice president of strategic technologies for market watcher ABI Research.

Arm will ease up its investment in research and development after two years of rapid growth even as it pushes to meet ambitious targets of doubling its UK headcount by 2021.

German chipmaker Infineon Technologies took a further multi-million euro provision to cover a legal dispute, overshadowing strong quarterly results and an upbeat outlook to send its shares sharply lower on Monday.

Shares in iPhone parts supplier Lumentum plunged after the maker of optical devices on Monday cut its fiscal second-quarter revenue guidance by roughly 17% and its profit outlook by 25%. The slashed guidance sent down shares in presumed customer Apple.

Infineon Technologies has acquired Siltectra, a start-up based in Dresden. A purchase price of EUR124 million was agreed on with the venture capital investor MIG Fonds, the main shareholder.

Xilinx has hired Barclays to advise on a bid to acquire Mellanox after approaching the chipmaker with an offer, according to people familiar with the matter, continuing a trend of consolidation in the semiconductor industry.

Amazon Web Services will begin using AMD's processors

A report from Fast Company says that Apple will go ahead with using Intel modems for the first 5G iPhone, set to launch in 2020.

U.S. semiconductor supplier Broadcom has made a patent claim for more than $1 billion against Volkswagen.

China has promised to further cut import tariffs and open its economy as it tries to address criticisms that its trade practices are "unfair".

The mediation committee for the dispute between Samsung Electronics and its former employees suffering from work-related illnesses announced the finalized settlement for the two parties, with the plan including compensation of up to 150 million won (US$132,000) per illness.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday unveiled an indictment against two companies based in China and Taiwan and three individuals.

Intel's exclusive deal to provide modem chips for new iPhones has strained its ability to supply such longtime personal computer partners as Taiwan's Acer and Asustek Computer, which face shortages of a key component heading into the year-end shopping season, industry sources said.

The company posted KRW 65.46 trillion in consolidated quarterly revenue, up 5.5 percent from a year earlier, and KRW 17.57 trillion in quarterly operating profit, up 20.9 percent.

Samsung Electronics slashed 2018 capex by more than a quarter on Wednesday and warned of lower profit until early next year, calling an end to a two-year boom in memory chips that fueled record third-quarter profit.

The Chinese currency - the yuan - is flirting with the 7 mark against the US dollar, a level it hasn't seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. The movements in the yuan are closely monitored, not least because the currency is a flashpoint in the US and China's trade war.