Dealing with Trump’s tariffs: Apple exports 97.6% of iPhones to US from India to preempt higher tariffs on imports from China

Dealing with Trump’s tariffs: Apple exports 97.6% of iPhones to US from India to preempt higher tariffs on imports from China

The three iPhone manufacturers in India are Tata Electronics, Pegatron and Foxconn Hon Hai. (AI image) Apple’s iPhone exports from India to the US constituted 97.6% of total iPhone exports in March 2025, rising from 81.9% in the December-February 2025 period. This shift aimed to avoid increased tariffs on Chinese imports.According to an S&P Global…

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China Is Still Winning the Battle for 5G—and 6G

China Is Still Winning the Battle for 5G—and 6G

When Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei in 1987, the Chinese telecommunications company had a few thousand dollars in the bank and an eye on reverse-engineering advanced foreign technology. By 1994, Huawei was producing switching equipment, the hardware and software that form the basis of modern telecommunications, and Ren was taking a meeting with Chinese Communist Party…

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Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model family helps narrow tech gap between China and US: analysts

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model family helps narrow tech gap between China and US: analysts

Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s cloud computing unit on Tuesday unveiled its much-anticipated Qwen3 family, consisting of eight enhanced models that range from 600 million to 235 billion parameters. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. In machine learning, parameters are the variables present in an AI system during training, which helps establish how data prompts yield the…

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