Sunday, May 2, 2021

SEC filing: Rockley Photonics, developer of sensors that can be used for blood pressure and glucose monitoring, says Apple is currently its biggest customer (David Phelan/Forbes)

David Phelan / Forbes:
SEC filing: Rockley Photonics, developer of sensors that can be used for blood pressure and glucose monitoring, says Apple is currently its biggest customer  —  A new report says that a future Apple Watch could have a new raft of health sensors, including blood pressure and …



Intel says it will invest $400M in Mobileye R&D campus, $200M into new R&D center in Haifa, and confirms the start of construction of a $10B chip fab in Israel (Reuters)

Reuters:
Intel says it will invest $400M in Mobileye R&D campus, $200M into new R&D center in Haifa, and confirms the start of construction of a $10B chip fab in Israel  —  Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Sunday it will invest another $600 million in Israel to expand its research and development …



Microsoft planned to reduce its cut from 30% to 12% for Xbox games too, a document filed as part of Epic vs Apple lawsuit in January shows (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft planned to reduce its cut from 30% to 12% for Xbox games too, a document filed as part of Epic vs Apple lawsuit in January shows  —  Confidential Microsoft documents reveal some big plans  —  Microsoft has been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent …



Neuralink's President and co-founder Max Hodak tweets that he has left the brain-computer interface startup (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Neuralink's President and co-founder Max Hodak tweets that he has left the brain-computer interface startup  —  - Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak announced Saturday that he is no longer working with the brain tech company he started with Elon Musk.  — Musk - who is also the CEO of auto …



Critics say the EU should focus on producing older generations of chips instead of making big plans to invest billions of euros into cutting-edge chip-making (Laurens Cerulus/Politico)

Laurens Cerulus / Politico:
Critics say the EU should focus on producing older generations of chips instead of making big plans to invest billions of euros into cutting-edge chip-making  —  Critics say Commissioner Thierry Breton risks wasting public money with grand plan to reshore manufacturing.



Cloudflare, which was sued by "patent troll" Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks' patents (Doug Kramer/The Cloudflare Blog)

Doug Kramer / The Cloudflare Blog:
Cloudflare, which was sued by “patent troll” Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks' patents  —  Here we go again.  —  On March 15, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks …



Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)

Rina Chandran / Rest of World : Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a “frugal AI” app...