From EETimes: Qualcomm paid Apple $1 billion in a three-year deal in 2011 to win its cellular modem business. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf noted the eye-popping figure in testimony late Friday in an antitrust case that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission brought against the company.
The figure was...
From CNET: A Huawei executive lost his job over the weekend after being arrested for allegedly spying on behalf of China.
The Chinese phone maker has dismissed its sales director for public-sector clients in Poland, identified as Wang Weijing, Reuters reported Saturday. Wang was arrested along with...
From ExtremeTech: When AMD announced the 3rd generation of Ryzen products (Matisse) at CES last week, it also showed a bare shot of the actual CPU package. The CPU layout shows that there’s clearly room for another chiplet on-package, just below the I/O die. (AMD has separately hinted that it has...
From The Verge: Apple’s long-delayed AirPower wireless charging mat might finally be in production, if rumors are to believed. Word comes via a tweet from ChargerLAB (via MacRumors), which says that it’s learned from a “credible source” that Apple has begun manufacturing the long-delayed wireless...
From PC Mag: Last week, Intel quietly added a range of new 9th generation Core processors to its line-up, all of which carried an "F" suffix as part of their model name. It turned out the F meant these chips didn't include a working graphics processing unit (GPU) on board, so a graphics card will be...
From TechCrunch: Samsung will launch its new lower-priced Galaxy M series in India before the smartphones roll out globally. Asim Warsi, senior vice president of Samsung India’s smartphone business, told Reuters that three devices will be available through its website and Amazon India at the end of...
From The Verge: In December, Apple said that it would begin selling its HomePod smart speaker in China “early next year.” Today, the company revealed that the device will go on sale in China and in Hong Kong on Friday, January 18th.
The company began selling the HomePod a year ago in the US, and...
"At what speed will a reindeer's antlers generate enough lift for it to take off and fly?" asks a guy who was hosting the trivia section of a Christmas party I attended last month. I was a little confused by this question, even though I have taken exactly zero classes on aerodynamics. Regardless of whether you have a background in aerospace engineering, it is pretty obvious the antlers of a reindeer have no aerodynamic properties that will allow...
I still remember years and years ago when I first got glasses. I do not remember if my eyes slowly got worse and worse, but I do remember suddenly not being able to see what was being written on the board at the front of the classroom. In the front row, I could squint and mostly figure out what was going on. I went to an optometrist and got my first prescription and first set of frames. At the beginning, I only wore my glasses in class. Quickly...
From The Verge: Polish authorities have arrested two individuals and accused them of conducting espionage on behalf of the Chinese government, the Polish TV channel TVP has reported (via BBC). One is a Chinese man who is the head of Huawei’s sales in the country, according to The New York Times...
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