Bloomberg: Japan earmarks up to ~$5.4B in additional aid for chipmaker Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips in 2027, a highly ambitious target — Japan is preparing as much as ¥802.5 billion ($5.4 billion) in additional aid for chip startup Rapidus Corp. … Lees verder op Tech Meme
CNBC: After Trump signed an EO to end the government’s DEI programs, tech firms like Google are rebranding DEI efforts, using terms like “learning” or “hiring” — After Google scrapped its diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring aspirations in February … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: Sources: Foxconn plans to assemble 25M to 30M iPhones in India in 2025, up from ~12M in 2024, and is conducting production trials at its new Bengaluru plant — Foxconn has also been conducting limited trials at its Bengaluru campus in the last three-four months, signalling swift progress … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk’s SpaceX over efforts to expand satellite cellphone services — The iPhone maker and SpaceX are competing in the race to eliminate cellphone dead spots, a rift that is set to intensify — Apple is clashing with Elon Musk in its push … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Counterpoint Research: Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025 — – 2024 saw the global foldable market growing at a comparatively flat annual rate of 2.9%. — Samsung and OPPO’s unusually weak Q4 negatively impacted broader market dynamics. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bethan Staton / Financial Times: Many LinkedIn users put part-time job-level effort to maintain their pages; LinkedIn: 85% of FTSE 100 CEOs have a presence on the platform, up from 12% in 2023 — More users are chasing high follower counts as the professional network expands its reach — Soon after lawyer Paul Verrico posted … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ernie Smith / Tedium: Apple’s current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups — Whether it was trying to or not, Apple exposed a huge flaw with its pitch to professional video editors with a new Severance promotional video. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump — Vitalik Buterin was long viewed as the wunderkind of the cryptocurrency world. — The gawky, playful founder of Ethereum … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces it is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental to all Gemini users, after initially launching it for Gemini Advanced subscribers on March 25 — In a rather unexpected move, Google announced Saturday that it is rolling out the latest 2.5 Pro (experimental) model to all (free) Gemini app users. Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: A look at the RainbowEx crypto Ponzi scheme, which ensnared 16,000 people in San Pedro, Argentina; different versions of the scam have emerged around the world — In San Pedro, Argentina, 16,000 people, a fifth of the population, signed up for a cryptocurrency exchange where everyone won. Lees verder op Tech Meme