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China Stockpiles Chips, Chip-Making Machines to Resist U.S. Bloomberg 2/3/2021 (Bloomberg) -- China is taking decisive steps to protect itself from a widening U.S. technology ban, with imports of computer chips and the machines that make them surging last year. Chinese businesses bought almost $32 billion of equipment used to produce computer chips from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere, a 20% jump from 2019, a Bloomberg analysis of official trade data shows. And with companies like H...

[SHANGHAI] A unit of GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. defaulted on a US$500 million bond after ending an exchange offer with existing bondholders. Read more at The Business Times.

Antitrust lawsuits and maintaining growth are among the challenges, while electric vehicles and government help for U.S. chip makers are seen as bright spots. .After a year of startling growth, the tech industry faces a more vexing 2021.

Jan. 6 ‘ought to shape the future of tech’: How the Capitol siege could lead to Big Tech reform MarketWatch 1/9/2021 © AFP via Getty Images Big Tech is bracing for a regulatory reckoning following the siege of the Capitol on the same day Democrats won control of the Senate. The riotous actions of a pro-Trump mob amid a shift in legislative power sharpened the focus on the outsize roles Facebook Inc. Twitter Inc. and other tech companies play in the country’s social fabric and ec...

Read later Audio version Summary: Can we truly unshackle ourselves from the past to envision a bright, new future? I think its eminently doable. (via Gapingvoid) In this story, Im going to talk about opportunity cost, the need to set aside magical, incremental thinking and learning because for me, these represent the three pillars upon which we will emerge from the current pandemic crisis not only fitter and healthier but wiser for generations to come.  Towards the end of last year I became ...

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd this year will likely see slower 5G business and push further into software, while hoping its smartphones get a reprieve from U.S. sanctions which last year struck the chip-reliant heart of its group, analysts said.

[SHENZHEN] Huawei Technologies Co this year will likely see slower 5G business and push further into software, while hoping its smartphones get a reprieve from US sanctions which last year struck the chip-reliant heart of its group, analysts said. Read more at The Business Times.

Huawei to pack less of a punch in the new year after bruising 2020: Analysts Huawei Technologies Co Ltd this year will likely see slower 5G business and push further into software, while hoping its smartphones get a reprieve from U.S. sanctions which last year struck the chip-reliant heart of its group, analysts said.Reuters | Jan 6, 2021, 04:18PM IST Huawei Technologies Co Ltd this year will likely see slower 5G business and push further into software, while hoping its smartphones get a reprie...

Synopsis Limited access to high-end semiconductors means rationing during Chinas network upgrade, they said, while the dissection of its mobile arm will send Huawei tumbling down rankings while it continues to develop a proprietary operating system. Reuters SHENZHEN: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd this year will likely see slower 5G business and push further into software, while hoping its smartphones get a reprieve from U.S. sanctions which last year struck the chip-reliant heart of its group, ana...

Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Dan Wang lives in Beijing. Hes an analyst at Gavekal Research, where he analyses Chinese technological trends and the economy. We featured a chat with Dan on The Indicator back in March, when Beijing, which had been hit with covid earlier in the year, was already coming out a tough lockdown. We had called Dan to see what things might be like. Dan had offered some parting words of optimism for the rest of the world, based on his exp...