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Chinese chipmaker SMIC announced today in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that, after several days of inquiries and discussions with suppliers, it is aware that the United States has required some of its suppliers to obtain licenses before supplying to it, and is currently assessing the impact of this requirement.

Last week, Honor partnered with China's online-service super-app Meituan to launch a "shared laptop" service during this year's National Day, and now their joint shared tablet is here as well.

Huawei is attracting a lot of attention as one of the few Chinese companies with a significant presence in the chip space, and the China Industrial Securities computer team took a comprehensive look at Huawei's chip footprint earlier this year.

After announcing the suspension of shipments to Huawei and cutting capital spending, Micron recently warned of weakening demand from some corporate customers and predicted a possible oversupply in key markets in 2021.

OPPO and Tsinghua University recently announced the establishment of a joint research center for future terminal technology, where the two parties will collaborate on research in human-computer interaction technology, cognitive computing, computer vision, and computational camera science.

Xiaomi Group Founder, Chairman and CEO Lei Jun recently said that Xiaomi has a very big responsibility to provide a boost in the wave of Chinese companies adopting local components.

GitHub announced on September 29 that it has added support for multiple languages, including Simplified Chinese, to its GitHub Mobile app.

Despite the challenges, Huawei HiSilicon recently announced that it is continuing to recruit for the 2021 PhD graduates.

At the 2020 Alibaba Global Investor Conference, Alibaba Group Chief Financial Officer Wu Wei revealed for the first time that in recent years, Alibaba has been investing more than 100 billion yuan a year in technology and research and development.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma ceased to be a director of Alibaba Group with immediate effect, in accordance with a series of succession arrangements made two years ago, according to an announcement of Alibaba's annual general meeting on September 30.