Foxconn builds $1.5bn plant in India 
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Apple's iPhone supply chain shifts further from China to Chennai

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is moving more of its iPhone supply chain into India, with its long-time partner Foxconn dropping $1.5 billion on a new display module plant near Chennai. 

Nvidia boss says US chip ban is shooting itself in the foot
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Export controls are fuelling China’s AI boom

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has laid into the US government’s AI chip export bans, branding them “a failure” that’s doing the opposite of what Washington claims it wants.

Job’s Mob’s AI ambitions strangled by China deal backlash
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Beijing data woes and Alibaba tie-up give Washington conniptions

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might want to shove Apple Intelligence into every iPhone it sells, but doing that in China could turn into a diplomatic landmine.

Apple prepares to gouge iPhone buyers
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 13 May 2025 10:41

Apple prepares to gouge iPhone buyers


Cook does not want to blame tariffs

The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple is plotting price hikes for its autumn iPhone 17 lineup while pretending tariffs have nothing to do with it.

SAP surrenders to US and drops diversity programmes
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Vows to keep women out of top management 

The German maker of expensive management software, which no one really knows what it does, SAP, has axed its 40 per cent female workforce quota, according to a leaked internal memo.

US trade ban slaps $1.5bn hole in AMD’s results
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Su says AI demand remains strong despite MI308 blockade

AMD warned that new US export rules will cost it $1.5 billion in lost sales this year, mainly due to a ban on shipping its MI308 chips to China.

Lasercom tipped to replace jammed, hacked satellite links
Published in Network


Russia, China ramping up dirty space tricks 

A 316-page report from the Secure World Foundation paints a grim picture of the growing space arms race, with Russia and China doubling down on satellite jamming, spoofing, and cyber-attacks, especially in active war zones.

AI chip clampdown throttling Nvidia’s global sales
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US diffusion rules target even friendly nations

New US export rules are about to hammer Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chip business far beyond China.

Samsung spooked by US tariff threats
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 30 April 2025 09:23

Samsung spooked by US tariff threats


Sales hit in mobiles, AI  and memory chips

Samsung Electronics reckons looming US tariffs could sink demand for its smartphones and memory chips, with the South Korean giant sounding the alarm during its latest earnings call.

Nvidia rushes B300 AI chip production forward
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New GPU plugs gaps left by banned H20 chips

Nvidia is pushing production of its new B300 AI chip forward to May, using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s latest 5nm (N4P) process and CoWoS-L advanced packaging technology.