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On February 15, 2021, nineteen days after announcing its existence, Nothing acquired the trademarks and brand assets of Essential Products. The price was undisclosed.…
On January 27, 2021, Carl Pei announced Nothing with three words, a logo, and zero product details. The tech press covered it with enthusiasm…
Samsung 8nm built Nvidia's RTX 30 Ampere GPUs, a marquee win taken not on the leading edge but on price and capacity while TSMC…
An e-commerce company just switched on a national mobile network, fully virtualized Open RAN on commodity servers, in the middle of a pandemic. The…
SMIC 14nm was China's first homegrown FinFET, architected by Liang Mong Song and built for Huawei, proving SMIC could do leading-edge engineering at last.
Intel 10nm arrived four years late after the 14nm purgatory, and in the delay TSMC passed Intel for good. The node where Intel lost…
Xiaomi went public in Hong Kong last month at roughly half the valuation it was chasing, the stock slid on its first day, and…
Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon XR1, the first dedicated XR chip, and the Oculus Go ships at $199 to start the standalone VR era.
The Xbox One X launched November 7, 2017 as the most powerful console in the world, and proved that raw power without exclusives doesn't…
The Nintendo Switch seamlessly combines handheld and home gaming, addressing the Wii U's failures. Its design focuses on user-friendly portability, highlighted by the engaging…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835, the first 10nm mobile processor, coincides with its 5G modem announcement and partnership with Microsoft for Windows on Snapdragon laptops, signaling…
Xiaomi just put a 6.4-inch phone on stage that is almost entirely screen. The display covers 91.3% of the front, the highest screen-to-body ratio…
A Stanford professor and two tier-one operators just launched a forum to turn the radio access network into open software running on ordinary servers.…
TSMC's 16nm FinFET delivered the first 3D transistor the 20nm shrink withheld, drew level with Intel on structure, and split the Apple A9 with…
Forty-five billion dollars. A five-year-old company that openly sells its phones at close to cost is now the most valuable private startup on the…
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