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ZTE's net profit attributable to common shareholders for fiscal year of 2020 decreased by 15.18% on a year-on-year basis to RMB 4.367 billion ($674 million), ZTE said in an earnings released today.

A total of 14,375 applications for IC layout design were filed in China in 2020, a year-on-year growth of 72.8%, according to data released by the National Intellectual Property Administration on January 22.

Honor has now signed agreements with all of its past vendor partners to resume supply, including AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, MediaTek, said the smartphone marker’s CEO George Zhao.

Honor now has more than 8,000 employees, more than 50 percent of whom are in the research and development department, the company's CEO George Zhao said at the Honor V40 launch event this morning.

Huawei recently released a video in Bilibili demonstrating ray tracing rendering technology and claimed it will open up infinite possibilities for mobile game graphics quality.

The MLU 290 smart chip is Cambricon's first training chip, using TSMC's 7nm process, integrating 46 billion transistors. It supports AI training, inference, or hybrid AI compute acceleration tasks.

The R&D departments of Chinese smartphone makers OnePlus and OPPO have merged, with offers for new employees in R&D positions being made by OPPO rather than OnePlus.

In the first half of 2020, ahead of MediaTek were HiSilicon and Qualcomm, but HiSilicon suffered a setback in shipments because of factors such as US sanctions.

China-made Unity Operating System (UOS) now supports all CPU platforms, and a large number of software adaptations have made its desktop ecosystem capable of replacing Windows 7, according to Union Tech, the developer of the OS.

Luckin Coffee announced on January 18 that it is reopening its retail partner recruitment program with immediate effect, releasing franchise applications.