Jailed Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung has admitted instigating international sanctions against central and local authorities six years ago, such as urging foreign businesses to avoid investment in mainland China and petitioning an Israeli forensic tech firm to terminate its services for the city’s police force. The High Court heard on Wednesday that…
Apple was spending millions of dollars every year just to fly its people to China. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the company sent hundreds of US engineers there each month to work with the contract manufacturers that built most of its products. FILE PHOTO: View of an Apple logo at an Apple store in Paris, France,…
Apple is facing pressure from the US over its plans to source memory chips from Chinese manufacturers as a global shortage pushes up the component’s price. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the administration does not want Apple to buy memory chips from China and told the iPhone maker to look for alternatives. “The Trump…
Apple is reportedly testing memory chips from China’s CXMT for iPhones and MacBooks as it explores ways to ease AI-driven component shortages. Amid the changing dynamics of the tech industry, Apple has been testing memory chips from China’s CXMT across different product lines, including iPhones and MacBooks, to help mitigate a component shortage fueled by…
This article was first published on July 26, 2016. PLA, police ready as Pokemon Go arrives in city by Zen Soo and Naomi Ng (Additional reporting by Laura He) Pokemon Go, the augmented reality smartphone game that has taken the world by storm, launched in Hong Kong yesterday (July 25, 2016), prompting multiple warnings against…
Quick Read Apple is reportedly targeting Chinese fab CXMT for LPDDR5X memory, threatening Micron’s $12 billion mobile segment despite its 85% gross margins. SanDisk and Western Digital sold off sharply as Apple’s CXMT talks erased the assumption Chinese supply cannot undercut memory pricing floors. Carter Worth flagged four 20% drops in Micron since March and…
Hong Kong boy band Mirror member Stanley Yau Sze-chun recently lost his iPhone in the city and was surprised to discover it had surfaced at a market in neighbouring Shenzhen, sparking heated discussions on the internet. Information technology experts noted that retrieving lost or stolen devices from mainland China can be difficult. The South China…
Apple (AAPL) reported its second quarter earnings on Thursday, topping analysts’ estimates on the top and bottom lines on strong iPhone sales. Apple stock rose roughly 1% on the news. For the quarter, Apple saw earnings per share (EPS) of $2.01 on revenue of $111.2 billion. Analysts were anticipating EPS of $1.96 and revenue of…
John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, takes over as CEO on Sept. 1, ending Tim Cook’s 15-year tenure at the top of the world’s most valuable consumer technology company. Apple’s presence with China is perhaps the defining relationship of the Tim Cook era. Chinese factories, managed by Global 500 companies like Foxconn…
Apple’s new CEO must navigate twin challenges in China — of competing in an increasingly fractured market, while maintaining efforts to reduce reliance on the country as a supplier. Outgoing boss Tim Cook won plaudits from analysts and investors for adroitly managing Apple’s relations with Beijing, even as tensions intensified between the US and China:…