The discovery of 7nm, 5G-enabled chips in Huawei’s latest phone has sparked an investigation by the US Commerce Department into how the country was able to acquire the technology.
Semiconductor Industry Association has alleged that Huawei is attempting to circumvent US export restrictions by building a secret network of chip-making facilities.
Revenue for the global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) has blown past US$100 billion for the first time, reaching US$120.3 billion in 2022.
The US and the EU have put heavy diplomatic pressure on the government of Malaysia, urging it to bar Chinese networking equipment vendor Huawei from its state-owned 5G network.
In the world of intelligence, Huawei is an espionage threat not because of what it has done but because of what it can do.
The decline of Huawei shipments and LG’s planned exit from the smartphone market is paving the way for other vendors to swoop in and bolster up their ranking in the global market share leaderboards.
Amazon has led the charge once again in both the local and global infrastructure-as-a-service public cloud services markets for 2020, but Microsoft is hot on the tech giant’s heels in Australia.
IT infrastructure has reached a tipping point, with spending on cloud expected to account for a greater share of spending than non-cloud environments.
Apple has grown its share of the Australian smartphone market amid an overall year-on-year decline of 15.4 per cent in the third calendar quarter of 2020.
Huawei has built up stakes in Chinese semiconductor companies and other tech businesses as it works to bolster its supply chain.
Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies has said its supply chain is under attack from the United States and called on Washington to reconsider its trade restrictions.
Intel has received licences from US authorities to continue supplying certain products to Huawei Technologies.
Huawei Technologies plans to introduce its Harmony operating system, seen as the company's best bet to replace Google's Android mobile operating system, on smartphones next year.
Australian smartphone sales dropped only slightly in the first half of 2020 despite the economic impact of COVID-19.
Chipmaker Qualcomm is lobbying the US government to revoke restrictions on sale of components to Huawei Technologies.
