Industry analysts are optimistic that Chinese chip makers will develop their own advanced semiconductors despite Washington’s attempts to cut the country off from accessing or manufacturing the technology. Daniel Newman, CEO and principal analyst at research firm Futurum Group said, “I don’t underestimate China’s ability and resolve to build next-generation technologies and to also utilize some…
The UK recently announced up to £1 billion ($1.24 billion) of support for its semiconductor industry to give a push to its domestic chip-making abilities and prevent further disruptions to supply chain systems after the call for help from leaders at some of the country’s leading companies. The investment will be a part of a…
Britain’s top competition regulator moved to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard. The measure marks a significant blow for the US tech company, as it seeks to convince authorities that it will benefit competition. Microsoft said it will appeal the decision. Shares of Activision Blizzard declined more than 8% in early US trading. The…
Twitter has announced a new feature that allows its Blue subscribers to tweet up to 10,000 characters messages that will also give them the option of bold and italic formatting. The recent features allow longer content than the short snippets of text for which Twitter is known for years. Twitter earlier had a limit of…
