
Huawei and Xiaomi expect smartphone growth next year
While Apple sees sales slump
Huawei and Xiaomi have estimated their smartphone shipments for 2019 to surge over 20 percent compared to this year.

Foxconn denies peace in our time with Qualcomm
No surrender
The lead attorney for the group of Apple device assemblers seeking at least $9 billion in damages from Qualcomm said on Sunday the contract manufacturers are not in settlement talks with the mobile chip supplier and are “gearing up and heading toward the trial” in April.

Facebook abandons its secretive research lab
Building 8 closed and its work is distributed
Facebook has disbanded its secretive research lab, where the company developed new hardware like its Portal speakers and researched moonshot projects like brain computer interfaces.

Honor View 20 will pack flagship Kirin 980 SoC
In addition to the 48MP rear camera
According to details that have been spotted online, it appears that the upcoming Honor View 20 could pack Huawei's flagship Kirin 980 SoC, in addition to the rear 48-megapixel camera and the corner hole in-screen selfie camera.

MediaTek formally launches Helio P90 system-on-chip
Full of AI processing goodness
MediaTek has launched the Helio P90 system-on-chip (SoC) featuring APU 2.0, a new-generation architecture for AI processing boost and performance of 1,127GMACs (2.25TOPs).