RBC Adds Seven Bankers in Asia as the Wealth Race Tightens
The memo went out on October 15 from Hong Kong and Singapore, and it named seven people. Daniel Soo, who joined Royal Bank of Canada in 2024 as market head,…
Tesla Will Take a Roadster Deposit Without Promising a Car
The clause is not in the marketing copy. It sits in the reservation terms for the Roadster, where Tesla states that a place in the queue does not guarantee delivery,…
Intel Puts a 2028 Date on a 700-TOPS Chip for Robots
The figure a senior Intel vice president offered on October 17 was more specific than product roadmaps usually get. Razor Lake-AX, he said, will reach customers in 2028 with about…
Waymo Picks Toronto as Its Fourth Market Outside the United States
Waymo announced on October 16 that Canada will be its fourth overseas market, with Toronto as the first city. Within days the company will put manually driven vehicles on Toronto…
Two Workers Die After an Explosion at Intel’s Israeli Chip Plant
The first worker died at the scene. The second died later. A third was in intensive care at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, after an explosion at Intel’s Fab 28…
Apple Puts a $299 Smart Display at the Center of Its Home Push
Apple introduced a suite of home hardware in New York on October 13, led by a seven-inch smart display called HomeView that goes on sale November 13 starting at $299.…
Zoox Offers Free Rides in San Francisco as It Waits for a Permit
This week a rider in San Francisco climbed into a boxy white vehicle with no steering wheel, no pedals and no driver, and crossed the city without touching a thing.…
SK Hynix Pushes Part of Its HBM4 Tooling Order Into Next Year
The packaging and inspection machines that SK Hynix ordered for its newest memory chips were due to arrive in the second half of this year. A portion of those orders…
Qualcomm’s Royalty Fight With Arm Waits on a Delaware Jury
For more than four years Qualcomm has been trying to prove that Arm Holdings, whose designs sit inside nearly every smartphone sold, broke the contracts that bind them. That argument…
Apple Prices Its Smart-Home Hub at $299
Apple introduced a screen for the household on October 13, its first device built to sit on a kitchen counter rather than in a pocket, and priced it at $299…
