Google Play Adds Venmo, Opening App Store Payments
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–For a decade, buying apps on Google Play meant paying with a Google account: credit cards, carrier billing, and Google Pay were the options, and developers grumbled about…
SpaceX Retail Investors Turn Sellers After IPO Run
NEW YORK–The first few months of SpaceX’s life as a public company had a familiar shape: individual investors piled into the stock, buying shares of the rocket maker on every…
Sony and TSMC Plan $6.3 Billion Image Sensor Plant in Japan
TOKYO–Kumamoto prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu, has become the most crowded patch of semiconductor real estate in Japan. TSMC’s first Japanese fab opened there, its second is under…
TSMC Posts Record July Revenue on AI Orders
TAIPEI–The monthly revenue report from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has become a ritual for the global chip industry, a monthly check on whether the artificial-intelligence boom is still feeding through…
Intel’s $15 Billion Offering Bets on AI Boom
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Intel’s stock had a rough stretch in recent years, as the company lost its lead in chip manufacturing and watched its market value shrink. This week, the company…
SK Hynix Dismisses Report of Chongqing Plant Sale
SEOUL–Rumors about the future of SK Hynix’s packaging plant in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing have circulated for weeks inside the memory industry. On Aug. 10, the company responded,…
Samsung’s HBM4 Yield Push Pressures SK Hynix
SEOUL–Inside Samsung Electronics’ memory fabrication plants, the metric engineers watch most closely shifted this summer. The company’s HBM4 production yield, a measure of how many of the advanced memory chips…
X Ends Revenue Sharing, Turns to Original Content Rewards
X announced on August 8 that it is winding down its creator Revenue Sharing program and replacing it with a new plan called Original Content Rewards, saying the old system’s…
Samsung Races to Staff Its Texas Fab
Samsung Electronics is accelerating hiring at its chip factory in Taylor, Texas, as the facility approaches production, according to Korean media reports on August 9. The company is working with…
iPhone 17 Price Rise Expected as Memory Costs Bite
Apple could raise prices on its iPhone 17 lineup as soon as Monday, August 10, according to reports that circulated across tech media over the weekend. The claim originated with…
