Tech Industry
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China's seventh supercomputer center passes acceptance with 100 Pflops of peak computing power
On October 31, China's National Supercomputing Center in Zhengzhou successfully passed the inspection and acceptance by experts organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
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DRAM prices plummeted 9% in October due to Huawei's supply cut-offs
In October, DRAM and NAND prices suffered a collective plunge. Analysts believe that this is due to the US sanctions against Huawei, which exacerbated the decline in prices in the memory chip market.
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Huawei said to have invested $20 billion in chip sector
A Huawei executive mentioned having invested $20 billion in chips and related areas, Aicaijing.com quoted a partner who visited Huawei recently as saying.
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Half of all phones applying for regulatory approval in China are 5G phones
The number of handsets that applied for network access in China in the third quarter of 2020 was 141, of which 77 were 5G handsets, accounting for 54.61 percent, according to a report released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a government think tank, on October 30.
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Xiaomi is the only vendor to post smartphone shipments growth in China in Q3
China's smartphone market continued to contract in the third quarter of this year, with shipments down 14 percent year-on-year, market research firm Counterpoint said in a report on October 29.
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Baidu Maps supports BeiDou high-precision positioning system on China Mobile's 5G network
China Mobile recently unveiled the world's largest "5G + BeiDou high-precision positioning" system at the 5G Autopilot Summit, which will provide sub-meter, centimeter, and millimeter high-precision positioning services in real time through 5G networks.
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US allows vendors to sell chips to Huawei's non-5G businesses, FT says
The US is allowing a growing number of companies to sell chips to Huawei's non-5G business, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
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Samsung's smartphone market share in India overtakes Xiaomi to regain top spot
Samsung Electronics' share of India's smartphone market reached 24 percent in the third quarter, ahead of Xiaomi's 23 percent, winning the first place again after two years, according to data released Thursday by market research firm Counterpoint Research.
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VIA sells technologies including x86 to Shanghai Zhaoxin for $257 million
VIA Technologies announced on October 26 that it is selling certain intellectual property rights (excluding patent rights) related to chip products to Shanghai Zhaoxin, in which it holds an indirect 14.75% stake, in a transaction valued at $139 million.
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China's National Supercomputer Center in Shenzhen plans to boost computing power by at least 1,000 times in 2 years
The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen says it plans to boost its computing power by at least 1,000 times by 2022, supporting basic science research, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, according to Chinanews.com.
