A lobby group including Apple Inc and other technology giants operating in India have called out the country’s authorities for misunderstanding how patent fees work, following local officials’ dispute with Xiaomi Corp (小米).
In a letter sent to ministries on Monday, the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) urged the government to intervene and accused the country’s enforcement agencies of a “lack of understanding” of royalty payments in the technology industry.
The Indian agency that combats money laundering is accusing Xiaomi of moving money out of the country by falsely claiming it was for patent fee payments. The agency seized more than
MediaTek Inc (聯發科) yesterday unveiled the world’s first ultra-high-resolution 8K TV system-on-chip made with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電) 7-nanometer technology, as the next-generation TVs are excepted to hit the global market in the second quarter of next year, it said.
The Pentonic 2000 chip offers artificial intelligence engines, motion estimation and motion compensation, versatile video coding and picture-in-picture technologies, the company said in a release.
Compared with TSMC’s 16-nanometer process used to make chips for consumer electronics, the 7-nanometer process provides a 30 percent improvement in speed and 55 percent power reduction, as well as more than three times the
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