Category: Comments on recent events

After spending 19 months in prison, the grandson of Samsung Electronics founder Lee Jae-yong was released from prison under an amnesty in 2021, but his criminal prosecution did not end…

After a ban on the import of iPhone 16 to Indonesia due to Apple’s activities not meeting localization requirements in the local market, the company proposed investing $100 million in…

Google appears to be freezing its market presence in the tablet category again, exiting the segment for the second time in five years. While Google’s Pixel Tablet 2 isn’t even…

Image source: Copilot 01.ai’s achievement is especially noteworthy given the limited access Chinese companies have to Nvidia’s advanced GPUs. Founder and CEO Kai-Fu Lee points out that despite Chinese companies…

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has reached a preliminary agreement with the Samsung Electronics National Union (NSEU) for a 5.1% wage increase. Over the next seven days, union members…

Current and former TSMC employees, including its chief recruiting officer, have sued the company, accusing it of discrimination in hiring practices. The world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, according to the…

AMD yesterday laid off about 1,000 of its employees worldwide, or about 4% of its total workforce. The laid-off workers and their acquaintances reported this on anonymous forums, after which…

US President-elect Donald Trump has named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE), which aims to cut excess government spending and regulation and…

Technologies developed for use in space and on other planets may well find application on Earth. The startup General Galactic, which originally planned to offer SpaceX reactors for use on…

As Reuters notes, the recent victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election had one of the most “long-lasting” impacts on the cryptocurrency market. Market participants expect that regulatory…