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Google's third quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations.
Business Insider
Nokia announced a new cost-cutting program on Thursday, targeting annual cost savings of 700 million euros by the end of 2020.
CNBC
The iPhone XR might have been dubbed the best value iPhone in years, but shoppers weren't giving it the usual show of love.
CNET
Researchers say they have developed tiny readers that can detect information in light spirals
The Guardian
Like foldable smartphones, Samsung is collaborating with display makers to develop laptops with foldable displays that will not just simply fold in and out but create new value and user experience, amid the changing market trends for laptops.
Digital Trends
Italian investigation found software updates 'significantly reduced performance', hastening new purchases
The Guardian
Intel is denying a new report that claims the chipmaker is abandoning its 10 nanometer manufacturing process following years of delays.
PC Magazine
Shares in AMS fell as much as 31.5 percent Tuesday, the steepest intraday decline since January 11, 2008.
Bloomberg
Apple is beginning to talk with programmers about what it's willing to pay to carry shows and movies, sources told The Information. As expected, original Apple shows should be free, but people will be able to pay for subscriptions to third-party networks. Content should vary from country to country, reflecting the complicated licensing landscape - HBO for example licenses it shows to services like Sky in the U.K.
Apple Insider
Nvidia, one of the world's best known manufacturers of computer graphics cards, released its autonomous driving safety report on Tuesday. The Santa Clara-based company, which for several years has been engaged in a high-stakes venture to build the "brains" that power self-driving cars for major automakers like Volvo, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler, is only the fifth company to delivery its voluntary safety report to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The Verge
The process of AMD ramping up its EPYC efforts involves a lot of ??irst-step' vendor interaction. Having been a very minor player for so long, all the big guns are taking it slowly with AMD's newest hardware in verifying whether it is suitable for their workloads and customers. The next company to tick that box is Oracle, who is announcing today that they will be putting bare metal EPYC instances available in its cloud offering.
Anandtech
Samsung and Qualcomm work to deliver industry leading 5G NR small cell infrastructure (Oct 24, 2018)
Qualcomm has announced with Samsung Electronics that they are working together to develop 5G small cells - opening the door for massive 5G network speed, capacity, coverage and ultra-low latency.
Company release
Super Micro Computer says it will review its hardware for any proof of malicious chips as alleged in a recent media report.
CNBC
Philips Lighting is seeing double-digit growth in India, which is among the top five markets in the world for the global company, and poised to rise to the third rank, Eric Rondolat, its global CEO said.
The Economic Times
Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, has announced he is leaving Facebook. Iribe is leaving Facebook following some internal shake-ups in the company's virtual reality arm last week that saw the cancellation of the company's next generation "Rift 2" PC-powered virtual reality headset.
TechCrunch
Nidec Corp, a Japanese supplier to Apple, and Germany's Schaeffler AG are among bidders competing for Taiwanese components maker Precision Motion Industries Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg
Apple late Monday sold out of launch day iPhone XR supply in the US and beyond, with orders placed through the company's online storefront now showing estimated delivery dates pushed out to November.
Apple Insider
A look at three separate case studies
The Verge
The company has previously targeted 2019 to release a folding device.
engadget
It's the latest and strongest of denials from Apple in response to the October story in Bloomberg Businessweek.
CNBC
Samsung Electronics has announced its acquisition of Zhilabs, known for its AI-based network and service analytics, to further enhance its 5G capabilities. The acquisition lays the foundation for Samsung to foster its 5G offerings of automation and network analytics to finely tune the customer experiences in the 5G era.
Company release
Semiconductors are key components for the IoT, connecting the real with the digital world now evolving to cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) functionality.
Company release
Huawei will begin manufacturing mobile phones in India from next year as the US$150 billion Chinese giant plans to open 1,000 company-branded stores across the country.
Times of India
Huawei sued CNEX last year for the same reason
engadget
Taiwanese PC giants, such as Acer, Asustek Computer, Compal Electronics and Quanta Computer might expect setbacks in production due to the CPU shortage.
Forbes
Mobile telecom equipment maker Ericsson has reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter sales figures, boosted primarily by high activity levels in North America. In posting its third consecutive quarter of progress toward reaching its 2020 financial targets, the company saw its net sales jump by 9% year-on-year and 8% since the last quarter.
CNBC
Amid struggles to deliver its 10nm technology, the technology and manufacturing group will be split into three parts.
ZDNet
The Mate 20 series is powered by the Kirin 980 SoC manufactured with the advanced 7nm process incorporating the Cortex-A76-based CPU and Mali-G76 GPU.
Company release
Apple will recruit TSMC to manufacture chips for its upcoming Apple Car starting in 2023 to 2025, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, who now works for TF International Securities.
Mac Rumors
Murata Manufacturing expects shortages of tiny ceramic components to last for another two years, its CEO said, in what could be a bottleneck in the advancement of the global automotive market.
Reuters
Arm is introducing something called the Arm Neoverse, a cloud-to-edge infrastructure to support a world with a trillion intelligent devices.
Venturebeat
Semiconductor industry bellwether ASML Holding NV's better-than-expected third quarter results and bullish outlook gave sector stocks a boost on Wednesday after fears of slackening demand had dragged them down in recent months.
Reuters
"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.
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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.
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