Posted on 06/15/2020 11:15:11 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
According iTWire, two of the world's largest mobile phone vendors, Samsung and Huawei, are discussing a possible agreement in which Samsung will assist Huawei by providing advanced chips required by 5G networks. In return, Samsung will take some of Huawei's global mobile phone market share.
With about 600,000 5G base station contracts, it is evident that Huawei is more focused on its telecommunications equipment business. In contrast, Samsung is dependent on its mobile phone business; the deal, therefore, makes sense and benefits both parties.
The US has announced a new set of restrictions (details of which are to be announced in mid-July) on doing business with Huawei, which aims to dent the firm’s 5G ambitions, as TSMC and Samsung are the only companies advanced enough to produce 7nm chips.
According to an article recently published by the EE Times, ‘Chip Equipment Becomes Trade War's Latest Battlefield,’ Samsung has already established a small production line using only Japanese and European chip manufacturing equipment to produce 7nm chips.
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5G bump for later...….
“USB-C is much superior to the expensibe Apple lightning cable that needs replacement every few months”
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I haven’t found that to be the case...except for some lightning cables bought from Amazon that turned out to be KNOCKOFFS. Amazon 3rd party sellers are well populated with unethical sellers of VERY low quality stuff. Sometimes you simply get what you pay for.
The same thing goes for USB-C cables.
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