Japanese chipmaking equipment maker Kokusai Electric plans to raise ~$750M in an IPO on October 25 in Tokyo at a ~$2.95B valuation, pricing shares at ~$12.78 — Chipmaking equipment maker Kokusai Electric said on Thursday it plans to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 25 …
Korean game publisher Krafton says Dead Space developer Striking Distance's CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new game flopped — Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
The Biden administration awards $238M via the Defense Department to set up eight chip research hubs, one of the earliest releases of the nearly $53B CHIPS Act — The $238 million in grants will set up eight research hubs, as a small slice of the federal money that will go to chip companies and research facilities in the coming months.
Amazon's Eero announces the Eero Max 7, its first router to support Wi-Fi 7, offering 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz and “up to 4.3 Gbps” wireless throughput, for $600+ — Eero has announced a powerful new top-of-the-line router called the Eero Max 7. It's Eero's first router to support …
Sources and analysis: four of the eight CPUs in the Kirin 9000S SoC use Arm designs and four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon made the GPU, and more — Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro
Copenhagen-based Corti, which offers an AI chatbot for hospitals, raised $60M co-led by Atomico and Prosus, sources say at a $260M valuation — Investors value company behind AI co-pilot for medical professionals at $260 million. — Corti ApS, a medical software startup …
LimeWire, the infamous piracy site that pivoted to content creation, acquires AI image tool BlueWillow, which has a 2.5M-strong Discord and created 500M+ images — In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town. LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy …
After Meta criticizes potential UK encryption rules, the UK says Meta “failed to provide assurances” over keeping its platforms “safe from sickening abusers” — Facebook's owner Meta has hit back at a new government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.
In a WeChat post, China's Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009 — Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying — China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009.
A look at Panos Panay's impact on Microsoft and Surface, paving the way for OEMs to focus on quality 2-in-1s, and the executives taking over parts of his role — Panos Panay has always been the force behind Microsoft's Surface line. He helped bring Surface to life as a secret project more than 10 years ago.
FTC v. Microsoft: docs show Microsoft's gaming plans for 2028, aiming for “full convergence” of its cloud platform and hardware to deliver “cloud hybrid games” — The documents may also reveal Microsoft's far future plans for 2028 — by which the company believed it could achieve …
Abner Li / 9to5Google : YouTube launches a Premium paywall for song lyrics on YouTube Music, after testing it in recent months; users get...
