Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled its first mixed reality headset VisionPro at the WWDC 2023 keynote on June 5, attracting attention and cheering from Apple fans worldwide. There are some interesting facts behind this year s WWDC which may have escaped the most discerning eyes, especially the marvels to be performed with new features enabled by the chips used in the gadgets.
After months of negotiations, Taiwan and the U.S. signed the first agreement under the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade on June 1 in Washington D.C. It outlines practices and procedures aimed at streamlining and strengthening trade relations. Both sides of negotiators deserve a round of accolades, but the fact that it does not cover tariff reductions or exemptions still puts many stakeholders down.
ChatGPT has swept across the world with roaring momentum, accumulating a million users in just five days. For comparison, Facebook and Netflix took 10 months and 41 months respectively to reach their first million users. Compared to predecessor platforms like IG, Facebook, Spotify, and Airbnb, ChatGPT s growth speed was staggering.
News about significant improvements in yields and capacity on Samsung s 4nm process and the subsequent win in getting orders from AMD and Google raised some eyebrows among its competitors. How did Samsung make such a huge leap in such a short time? One cannot rule out the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) may be the answer.
Chinese smartphone maker Oppo disbanded its chip design house Zeku in May, stimulating commentary on Zeku being the latest victim of the US-China chip war among the media in China. However, blaming geopolitical pressure for Zeku s failure does not help stakeholders to prevent the same mistake from recurring. Zeku s CEO Liu Jun and Oppo founder Duan Yongping made it clear: with sales far lower than expected, the investment needed for self-designed chips went through of the roof and it became prohibitively difficult to sustain the operation, thus.