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Improving sound for hardware giants, Sweden’s Dirac finds its niche in China

The rise of U.S.-China tensions has accelerated the bifurcation of global technology, with the two superpowers each working on their own tech systems. While the rift might be discouraging cross-border

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 will land on phones in Q1 2021

As promised, more info following yesterday’s Snapdragon 888 announcement. First off, as expected, the company’s next flagship SoC will arrive in the first quarter of next year. We’re still waiting on

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Qualcomm announces the new Snapdragon 888 chip

Qualcomm kicked off an all-virtual version of its annual summit this morning by announcing the launch of the the Snapdragon 888 platform. The chipmaker is clearly saving some key information for late

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How Huawei's sale of Honor will shake up competition and supply chain

"Be the strongest competitor of Huawei in the world, surpass Huawei, and even use defeating Huawei as your motivation," Huawei Technologies' founder Ren Zhengfei said at a recent farewell party fo

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Gartner: Q3 smartphone sales down 5.7% to 366M, slicing Covid-19 declines in Q1, Q2

We are now into the all-important holiday sales period, and new numbers from Gartner point to some recovery underway for the smartphone market as vendors roll out a raft of new 5G handsets.Q3 smartpho

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China again speaks out over India's pressure on Chinese tech industry

China has, for the second time in just two days, voicedits opposition to India's hit on China's electronic goods and apps."What India did is a serious violation of market principles and WTO rules, an

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Gartner: Q3 smartphone sales down 5.7% to 366M, stemming Covid-19 declines earlier this year

As we head into the all-important holiday sales period, new numbers from Gartner point to some recovery for the smartphone market as vendors roll out a raft of new 5G handsets. Q3 smartphone figures p

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How China’s Realme sold 50 million phones in just over 2 years

Starting a new phone brand in 2018 might seem too late in an already crowded market, but Sky Li was convinced that consumers between 18-25 years old were largely under-served — they needed somet

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China’s smartphone giant Oppo ratchets up AR push

Tech companies around the world are still identifying the “next big thing” enabled by 5G connections. Some, such as Oppo, are betting it will be augmented reality.The Chinese smartphone f

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Huawei to sell $15 billion Honor unit: report

China's telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd plans to sell its budget-brand smartphone unit Honor in a 100-billion-yuan ($15.2 billion) deal to a consortium of tech companies, media reports sa

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Despite global headwinds, Chinese hardware startups remain to take on the world

Bill Zhang lowered himself into lunges on a squishy mat as he explained to me the benefits of the full-body training suit he was wearing. We were in his small, modest office in Xili, a university area

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Indian logistics startup Xpressbees raises $110 million

Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’

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Analysis: China is betting on science and tech like never before

CFP Lenovo buys chips from Intel and assembles Thinkpads. The Chinese government see those laptops as "made in China."Xiaomi buys chips from Qualcomm and assembles Mi smartphones. The Chinese

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Smartphone shipments dip in China for Q3, led by Huawei decline

China was the first major global smartphone markets to rebound from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stringent lockdown measures were able to help the country recover from the virus relatively

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Samsung beats Xiaomi to reclaim No. 1 spot in Indian smartphone market

Xiaomi, which has led the Indian smartphone market for three consecutive years, has ceded ground to its long-rival Samsung in the world’s second largest market, according to a new report.According to

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Smartphone shipments rebound to an all-time high in India

Smartphone shipments reached an all-time high in India in the quarter that ended in September this year as the world’s second largest handset market remained fully open during the period after initial

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Is the new iPhone 12 lineup a good buy?

The iPhone models unveiled will launch at different times. /AP Apple's second products launch in this autumn came as expected on Tuesday with their biggest but not-out-of-expected highlight—5G