Intel commits $20B to build at least two semiconductor fabrication plants on a 1,000-acre site by 2025, employing at least 3,000 people in New Albany, Ohio
and US manufacturing New York Times : Biden Looks to Intel's U.S. Investment to Buoy His China Agenda Alana Semuels / TIME : Exclusive: Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the C...
Nvidia extends its crypto mining limits to newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards, which will be labeled “Lite Hash Rate”
here's how Sam Grant / Coin Journal : Nvidia Stripping Crypto Mining Capacity from its RTX Cards Katharine Castle / Rock, Paper, Shotgun : The rest of Nvidia's RTX 30 GPUs are getting an anti-cryptomi...
Intel to invest $3.5B to upgrade its chipmaking plant in New Mexico, resulting in 700 new jobs over three years, as part of CEO Pat Gelsinger's turnaround plan
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Interview with Qualcomm's incoming CEO Cristiano Amon on the global chip shortage, why it won't build its own fabs, and opposition to the Nvidia-Arm deal
Cristiano Amon, incoming CEO of chipmaker Qualcomm, warns in an interview with CNET that the shortage may not end until late 2021.
Canalys: 31.9M smartphones shipped in the US in Q2, down 5% YoY; Apple shipped 15M iPhones in the US, up 10% YoY, and Samsung shipped 7.4M units, down 1% YoY
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Ookla: T-Mobile's 5G coverage extends to 5,013 US cities, compared to AT&T's 237 and Verizon's 39; Verizon's 5G had the highest speed score of 870.5
By a Wide Margin T-Mobile : Independent Report Finds T‑Mobile Has Nearly 20x More 5G Cities Than Verizon and AT&T Combined Corinne Reichert / CNET : T-Mobile has thousands more 5G cities than Verizon ...
Samsung says it shipped 6.7M+ Galaxy 5G phones globally in 2019, accounting for 53.9% of the 5G phone market; Samsung had only sold 2M 5G devices as of Sept.
for now Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Samsung Shipped Over 6.7 Million 5G Phones in 2019 Carl Weinschenk / Telecompetitor : Samsung Says it Shipped 6.7M 5G Phones in 2019, a 54% Market Share Napier Lop...
Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments
and it will be available on all devices Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Google falls to third place in worldwide smart speaker market DED / Roughly Drafted : HomePod Pro: Apple takes the high end in home a...
How widespread wireless internet access is changing Africa, where 300M people are expected to connect to the internet for the first time by 2025
Daniel Van Boom / CNET : Tweets: @reillystyley and @dvanboom Tweets: Claire Reilly / @reillystyley : This is a cracking read. As countries like Australia and the US jostle over the “race” to 5G, 300 ...
Amazon says its Fire TV products have “well over” 30M active users, up from 25M in October and surpassing Roku's 27M+ announced earlier this week
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