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"This not only reflects the great importance Qualcomm attaches to the Chinese market, but also shows our strong support for China's further opening-up," Meng said.
Xinhuanet
Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe, leading the company to charge a licensing fee for the Play Store and other Google apps for the first time.
The Verge
Xilinx, Huawei and NGCodec have announced the development of China's first cloud-based high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) solution, which is enabled by Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs and NGCodec's H.265 video encoder.
Company release
Tainan is the birthplace of modern Taiwan. It was the capital for most of the island's days under Imperial China. Heritage sites of hundred years are worthy visiting. You can also find European legacies left during the 17th century.
Company release
Supported by the Government of India, IoTShow.in 2019 is an award-winning event that marks the largest gathering of creators, integrators and providers of IoT Solutions - perfect for Taiwanese firms who want to quickly and effectively reach out to the best IoT firms in India.
Company release
Shin-Etsu Chemical will implement about a JPY14 billion (US$124.8 million) facility investment aimed at the expansion of its photomask blanks business.
Company release
Izumo Murata Manufacturing will start constructing a new production building in October 2018 with completion scheduled for November 2019.
Company release
Synopsys has announced a collaboration with TSMC to develop a broad portfolio of DesignWare Interface IP, Logic Libraries and Embedded Memories for the TSMC N7+ FinFET process.
Company release
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on Monday afternoon.
CNBC
Preliminary results for the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18) show that shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled nearly 67.4 million units, marking a decline of 0.9% in year-on-year terms, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Unlike 2Q18, which grew, the 3Q18 results nonetheless outperformed the forecast which called for a decline of 3.0% due to several factors.
IDC
The Ascend 910 will be available from the second quarter of 2019 and the 310 is already on shelves.
Reuters
Samsung now expects bit growth of less than 20% for DRAM and a rise of 30% for NAND flash.
Bloomberg
Huawei has kitted out an Audi Q7 with its Mobile Data Center to showcase intelligent self-driving capabilities.
ZDNet
You can also get a snapshot of your day on your phone.
engadget
The federal government will tighten rules on foreign investment in sensitive industries like technology and telecommunications next month.
Reuters
Micron Technology said on Wednesday it planned to invest up to $100 million in startup companies working on artificial intelligence technologies for use in self-driving vehicles, factory automation and other growing fields.
Reuters
Shares in Dialog surged more than 30pc on Thursday morning, as investors welcomed the clarity the deal provides over the company's future.
The Telegraph
The US justice department has announced charges of economic espionage against a suspected Chinese intelligence officer. Officials say the suspect tried to steal trade secrets from US aviation and aerospace companies on behalf of China.
BBC News
Huawei unveils two new artificial intelligence (AI) chips called the Ascend 910 and Ascend 310.
CNBC
Cold-war style offensive by America is an ill-advised miscalculation that will cause pain 'all over the world', warn top executives of Chinese conglomerate.
South China Morning Post
President of Sony Kenichiro Yoshida has confirmed that the next generation of PlayStation consoles is under development.
The Tech Spot
Apple quietly spent approximately $30 million to purchase Spektral, a startup that uses machine learning to eliminate backgrounds from videos in real time on smartphones.
Venturebeat
One of China's biggest smartphone makers has never sold a handset in the country. Yet thousands of miles away, it dominates markets across Africa.
CNN
The International Monetary Fund has warned a trade war between the US and China risks making the world a "poorer and more dangerous place" in its latest assessment of the global economy. The IMF has lowered its forecast for global growth this year and next.
BBC News
Google is about to have its own Cambridge Analytica moment. Details have surfaced that Google knew about a bug within Google+ (Google's attempt at a social network product) which would give nefarious outsiders potential access to private profile data from 2015 to mid-2018. Google chose not to disclose any details because of PR fears.
Forbes
Technology giant Google has announced plans to establish a Google Cloud Platform region in Indonesia next year to strengthen its business and capture a larger customer base.
Jakarta Globe
London's High Court on Monday blocked an attempt to bring legal action against Alphabet Inc's Google over claims it had collected sensitive data from more than 4 million iPhone users although it said the company's actions had been "wrongful".
Reuters
Qualcomm will be investing $400 million (Rs 3,000 crore) in setting up its largest campus outside its San Diego headquarters in Hyderabad, IT minister KT Rama Rao's office said on Saturday.
The Times of India
The company has apparently looked at producing a Game Boy-like case that would turn your mobile device into a working version of the classic handheld console, complete with D-pad, buttons, the whole thing.
BGR
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 US companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America's technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.
Bloomberg
SK Hynix said it would invest 20 trillion won ($17.8 billion) in a new memory chip manufacturing plant opening on Thursday in South Korea.
Reuters
WSJ cites "suppliers," admits most hardware specifics have not yet been locked down.
Ars Technica
In his order, US District Judge Ed Kinkeade of Dallas extended until 2022 the term of a monitor he appointed to assess the equipment maker's compliance with US export control laws.
South China Morning Post
Tencent Music Entertainment, which owns China's most popular music apps, has filed for a U.S. IPO seeking funds to develop content and new services, in what is expected to be one of the biggest U.S. listings by a Chinese company this year.
Reuters
Rakuten is highly committed to support the smooth network evolution from 4G to 5G in order to provide new and rich user experiences in Japan.
Company release
Cloud data centers have changed the networking topology and how data moves throughout a large data center, prompting significant changes in the architecture of the chips used to route that data and raising a whole new set of design challenges.
Semiconductor Engineering
Sharp said on Wednesday its first OLED smartphone would go on sale later this year in Japan.
Reuters
WiFi naming is about to get easier to understand.
engadget
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) is in talks to acquire Mumbai-based cable operator Hathway to speed up the commercial roll out of its high-speed home broadband services. RIL aims to connect 50 million homes with its Jio GigaFiber network.
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