World Region – Asia

US President Donald Trump’s visit to China has produced a significant benefit for the tech industry. Soon after Trump’s departure, China Vice Premier Wang Yang, who ranks No.4 in the Communist Party, published an article under his own by-line in the Peoples’ Daily newspaper, saying thst foreign companies would no longer be forced to turn over technology to China in ...

Although the China smartphone market declined in Q3 the market share of the top 5 producers increased, reports IDC. The top 5 saw their share increase from 65.2% in Q3 2016 to 76% in Q3 2017. No.1 was Huawei with 22.3 million units for  a 19.4% share. No.2.was OPPO with 21.6 millions units for an 18.8% share. No.3 was Vivo ...

With President Trump denying China access to Lattice’s technology, the nascent China FPGA industry is looking to develop home-grown programmable logic. Digitimes reports that Shanghai Anlogic Information Technology vp Chen Li-guang says that China will have to develop the technology by themselves while concentrating on expanding their market share by focussing on entry-level products. Chen reckons that international FPGA vendors ...

Samsung makes a ‘significant' investment in DeePhi Tech, an AI IC specialist founded by graduates from Tsinghua University and Stanford

Qualcomm is to get together with China's AI unicorn SenseTime to develop AI for mobile.

Bosch says the 48V battery is designed to offer a comparatively inexpensive way of cutting fuel consumption in hybrid vehicles.

FTDI Chip is taking further steps to gain greater traction in the Far East.

Boosting spending on semiconductor fab equipment to more than $12 billion annually by 2018., says SEMI,