The petition demands that Samsung stop using Exynos processors, which it labels as "inferior", in its flagship smartphones. Put simple, the petition claims that, "Phones with Exynos SoC chips [sic] are shown to perform slower, have less battery life, use inferior camera sensors and processing, overheat and throttle faster, amongst other issues."

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HP calls it a 'no-compromise VR headset'

The governor of the Japanese capital warned on Monday that a lockdown of the city was possible if it saw an explosive rise in coronavirus cases, and called on event organizers and residents to exercise restraint to avoid such a drastic step.

Last year, Apple said the tariffs would hurt its competitiveness.

India's cabinet has approved a 480 billion rupees ($6.37 billion) plan to boost electronics manufacturing and woo large investment to a country which, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make-in-India drive, has become the world's second-biggest mobile phone manufacturer.

With more employees working from home to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, demand is surging for laptops and network peripherals as well as components along the supply chain such as chips, as companies rush to build virtual offices.

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Both countries' Olympic committees also are calling for the Games to be postponed until 2021.

The US Food and Drug Administration announced it has authorized the use of the first rapid diagnostic test that could detect the novel coronavirus in approximately 45 minutes.

The cancellation is in line with "shelter in place" policies over the coronavirus.

IBM on Sunday announced an initiative to increase access to high performance computing for groups researching and fighting the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.

Apple is limiting customer purchases of iPhones over its online stores in many countries including the United States and China to a maximum of two handsets per person, checks on its website on Friday revealed.

Some app developers say Alphabet's Google is increasingly pressing them to embed code in their own products that will deepen Google's access to data on consumers, giving the company a leg up on rivals.

Microsoft Teams now has 44 million daily active users

SK hynix will work on reducing semiconductor production costs to respond to growing market uncertainties sparked by the coronavirus outbreak, its CEO Lee Seok-hee said Friday.

Winbond self-developed LPDDR4/4x DRAM series from density 1Gb to 8Gb with 25nm technology node and speed up to 4266Mbps, meeting customers' strict requirements of management of automotive memories, and providing longevity services.

The company held a ceremony at its Xian complex on March 10 to mark a product shipment following the completion of the first phase of investment. The new line will roll out 5th-generation V-NAND flashes of a 3D vertical structure with 90 or more layers.

California has issued a "stay at home" order to residents as it tries to stem the march of the coronavirus across the most populous US state. Governor Gavin Newsom earlier estimated more than half of the 40 million people in his state would contract Covid-19 in just the next two months.

Described as the "first global 5G phone" Nokia's new 8.3 flagship focuses on connectivity.

Summit, IBM's supercomputer equipped with the "brain of AI," ran thousands of simulations to analyze which drug compounds might effectively stop the virus from infecting host cells.

It's one case in a New York delivery station, but the potential of a ripple effect is real.

Spark Microsystems revamps an older technology called ultra wideband -- UWB -- for faster short-range wireless networks.

Netflix will reduce streaming quality in Europe for at least the next month to prevent the internet collapsing under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sony's new console can output 10.28 teraflops.

Amazon is temporarily refusing to stock certain items in its warehouses, to cope with overwhelming demand for household essentials due to the coronavirus pandemic. It means third-party sellers of non-essential items could find it difficult to ship orders to customers.

SoftBank is looking for a way to back out of a $3 billion tender offer it planned to make for WeWork shares in October, sources say.

Several American industries that have been decimated by the coronavirus outbreak are asking for federal bailouts. The price tag reaches into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

The coronavirus is forcing big changes to the way Facebook operates and stretching the company to its limits, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The addition of trackpad support to iPadOS is designed to make selection of text and controls easy. The trackpad also supports three-finger gestures.

Machine learning tools have always been the ideal content moderators for Facebook, Google and Twitter - but COVID-19 is forcing their use before they're ready

Apple will release iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 on March 24, for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users.

Materialise, a Belgium-based pioneer in 3D printing, has designed a 3D printed door opener that makes it possible to open and close doors with your arm, removing the need for direct contact with door handles.

Taiwan will ban entry for many foreigners as part of coronavirus prevention measures, excluding resident permit holders, diplomats and migrant workers, the government said on Wednesday, as it battles a rise in imported cases.

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it expected higher demand and limited supply for computer chips even though the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S.-China trade war were damaging major markets in Europe and the United States.

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The chips are "neuromorphic," and mimic the components of brain cells.

LG has also priced and dated the rest of its 4K and 8K OLED sets for 2020.

AMD takes on Intel's Core i9-9980H processor for high-end laptop power in thin designs.