
Qualcomm NXP acquisition to close soon
Wants assurance ZTE Corp ban gets lifted
People close to the matter claim that China warmed up to the NXP Semiconductor acquisition by Qualcomm seeking assurances that the ZTE Corp 7 year ban will get lifted by the USA.

US shut down of ZTE pulls Chinese tiger's tail
Trade war might backfire
The US might have inadvertently sown the seeds of its technological destruction by pulling the tail of the Chinese tiger.

ZTE about to get a reprieve
Washington and China about to throw a lifeline
Washington and Beijing are nearing a deal that would remove an existing US order banning American companies from supplying Chinese firm ZTE .

Chinese demonstrate analogue quantum computing break-though
Uses femtosecond direct writing.
Chinese boffins demonstrated the first two-dimensional quantum walks of single photons in real spatial space. The move may provide a powerful platform to boost analogue quantum computing.

Chinese government approved Microchip's Microsemi buyout
Announced in Chinese media
Microchip has been caught on the hop after the Chinese media announced that its government had approved its $8.35 billion bid to buy Microsemi.

Chinese spooks behind a decade of important hacks
Under the Winnti umbrella, ella, hey
Security experts claim that Chinese spooks were behind almost a decade's worth of network intrusions that use advanced malware to penetrate software and gaming companies in the US, Europe, Russia, and elsewhere,.

China looks to foreign companies to end chip dependence
Speed up development to cut US dependence
It looks like Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump's trade war is going to force the Chinese to speed up its chip development programme to end its dependence on US companies quicker.

Alibaba invests in Chinese chip making
Jumping on the IoT bandwagon
Chinese e-commerce outfit Alibaba has bought a Chinese microchip maker to further its cloud-based “internet of things” (IoT) business and to build a Chinese chip industry.

Chip demand for Chinese handsets picking up
MediaTek laughing
Chip demand from China-based handset companies is picking up and it appears that the likes of MediaTek are going to be laughing all the way to the bank.

China-US trade war threatens entire IT system
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The trade war between the United States of America and China has racked up big time this week but, largely unnoticed, is the effect it will have on the computer industry worldwide.