Sam Kim / Bloomberg: SEMI: in 2024, South Korea is forecast to increase its spending on advanced chipmaking equipment by 41.5% YoY to $21B, versus China’s 2% YoY increase to $16.6B  —  South Korea is forecast to overtake China in spending on advanced chipmaking equipment next year in a sign of US export controls … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Polygon launches the mainnet beta of its zkEVM layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, just days after rival Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era  —  The release of Polygon’s zkEVM comes just days after competitor Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Milne / Financial Times: Ammo maker Nammo says its growth is limited by a TikTok data center using all the spare electricity, as energy demand across industries grows in the Nordics  —  Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Jack Ma has returned to China after over a year; sources: since late 2022, China Premier Li Qiang had urged Ma to return to allay private sector fears  —  Alibaba (9988.HK) founder Jack Ma has returned to China, ending a stay overseas of more than a year that industry viewed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Larry DiTore / The Block: Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company held ~$4.14B worth of BTC on March 23  —  – MicroStrategy now has a little more than $4 billion worth of bitcoin in its corporate coffers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications for sites added to the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, and more  —  Apple today released iOS 16.4, the fourth major update to the iOS 16 operating system that initially came out last September. iOS 16.4 comes … Lees verder op Tech Meme