Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen promised on Thursday to help the island’s key semiconductor industry overcome difficulties and consolidate its leading position, offering support to a sector increasingly caught up in China-U.S. trade tensions.

Companies such as the world’s biggest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, are major suppliers to the likes of Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc, as well as Chinese firms like Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.

In July, TSMC said it had stopped taking new orders from Huawei in May and did not plan to ship wafers after Sept. 15, responding to U.S. curbs on supplying the Chinese company, which the Trump administration views as a security threat.

China, for its part, is trying to nurture tech champions of its own, such as SMIC, its biggest chipmaker, and wean itself off reliance on U.S. suppliers.

Taiwan’s chipmakers were a crucial part of the global supply chain, Tsaid told a meeting of semiconductor company representatives in Taipei, including TSMC Chairman Mark Liu.

“We attach great importance to this strategic industry, and will actively assist the industry in solving problems, to continue to consolidate the advantages of Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, and to accelerate transformation and development,” the presidential office cited Tsai as saying.

Turning Taiwan into an advanced semiconductor processing centre is a key government effort, she added.

“The focus of future development includes localisation of material supplies, technology autonomy, localisation of foreign equipment manufacturing, and localisation of advanced assembly equipment.”

The policies will be adopted one by one, to ensure “more abundant technical energy” for the industry and a complete industrial supply chain to enhance its key global role, she added.

Tsai hoped the joint efforts of the government and the private sector would boost the competitiveness of the industry in Taiwan, so that it can be a global bellwether.

On Wednesday, TSMC’s Liu said the deleveraging of China-U.S. supply chains and protectionism on both sides of the Pacific would only drive up costs and limit the flow of ideas.

source: Reuters

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Reno is the most renouned series from Oppo and now Oppo is back again with Reno 3 series. Oppo during an even in China launched the Oppo Reno3 and Oppo Reno 3 Pro.

Starting with the Oppo Reno 3 Pro features first, the device features a 6.5-inch OLED FHD+ screen with a 90Hz refresh rate with a tiny punch-hole cutout for a 32MP camera, a brand-new Snapdragon 765G processor, and a 4,025mAh battery with 30W VOOC 4.0 charging.

On the camera side, Reno3 Pro comes with a quad rear camera setup featuing a 48MP primary camera (IMX586 with OIS), 8MP ultra-wide snapper, 13MP telephoto camera, and 2MP monochrome sensor. The phone is capable of 5x “hybrid optical” zoom.

Other features of the phone includes dual mode 5G (NSA/SA), an in-display fingerprint sensor, Color OS 7 based on Android 10, NFC, and Bluetooth 5.1.

Coming to the small brother, the Oppo Reno 3 features, the device features a MediaTek Dimensity 1000L chipset instead of Snapdragon processor. Other than that specs are preety much the same. The Reno 3 featues a 4,025mAh battery with 30W charging, NFC, and a 6.4-inch FHD+ OLED screen with in-display fingerprint sensor. The phone also offers a quad rear camera setup (64MP primary, 8MP ultra-wide, monochrome sensor, depth lens and a 32MP selfie camera housed in a waterdrop notch.

Talking about the pricing of the phone, Oppo Reno 3 is priced at 3,999 yuan (NRS. 65,000) for the 8GB/128GB and 4,499 yuan (NRS. 73,200) for 12GB/256GB variant.

Whereas Oppo Reno 3  is priced at 3,399 yuan (NRS. 55,300) for the 8GB/128GB variant, and 3,699 yuan (NRS. 60,200) for the 12GB/128GB option.

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Huawei Telecommunications, the electronics giant, has partnered up with telecom operators from China, to brings the newer and faster bandwidth, 5G network, to Mount Everest.

The installation of equipment required to enable 5G services on the world's tallest mountain has been completed at two Everest camps. China Mobile said that the pending work of setting up 5G base stations at the forward camp at an altitude of 6,500 metres will be completed by April 25. The base station at forward camp will offer 5G coverage to the summit of Mount Everest.

To get 5G to reach such heights, China Mobile sent 150 workers for construction and maintenance purposes. 8-tonnes of network construction and life support equipment was carried to the mountain. The equipment used to deploy 5G was made by Huawei. 25 kilometres of optical fibre cable also had to be laid for the project.

According to Global Times, a newspaper the 5G base stations on the Everest provide download speeds of 1Gbps.

“In addition to China Mobile, China Telecom has announced that it built 5G base stations at the Qomolangma base camp, at an altitude of 5,145.3 meters on April 13. The tested upload and download speeds were 700Mbps (megabits per second) and 223Mbps, respectively. China Unicom has also announced in recent days that it has built two 5G base stations on Mount Qomolangma,” Global Times reported. Qomolangma is the Tibetian name of Everest.

With the deployment of 5G at the 8,848 metres tall mountain, mountaineers are expected to be able to communicate better, thus making their expedition safer. It could also prove to be helpful for rescue workers and researchers.

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China has launched an initiative to address global data security issues, a countermove to the U.S. “clean network” program that is aimed at discouraging other countries from using Chinese technology.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the initiative in Beijing on Tuesday at a seminar on global digital governance.

He said mounting risks for cybersecurity threaten national security, public interests and personal rights.

The move comes amid a deterioration in U.S.-China relations encompassing trade tensions and competition in telecommunications and artificial intelligence technologies, with the U.S. accusing Chinese technology companies of threatening American national security.

“Bent on unilateral acts, a certain country keeps making groundless accusations against others in the name of ‘clean’ networks and used security as a pretext to prey on enterprises of other countries who have a competitive edge,” Wang said, according to a transcript of his speech released by the ministry. “Such blatant acts of bullying must be opposed and rejected.”

Wang said that it was important to develop international rules on data security that will “reflect the will and respect the interests of all countries through broad-based participation.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month unveiled the “Clean Network” program, saying it is aimed at protecting citizens’ privacy and sensitive information from “malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party.”

More than 30 countries and territories such as Australia and Britain are participating in that initiative, which seeks to exclude Chinese telecommunications companies like Huawei and ZTE, as well as apps, cloud service providers and undersea cables from their internet networks.

The U.S. has expressed concerns over national security threats from services provided by Chinese technology companies like Huawei, Bytedance and Tencent.

Washington has dissuaded some U.S. allies from using Huawei’s technology in 5G networks, saying data potentially could be accessed by the Chinese government. Huawei vehemently denies that.

Washington also has imposed sanctions that restrict Huawei from procuring chips containing American technology. Recently, the U.S. also said it will ban Chinese company Bytedance’s popular TikTok video app in the country unless it finds an American buyer. It similarly labeled Tencent’s popular messaging app WeChat a national security threat.

The Chinese initiative opposes impairing critical infrastructure and theft of important data. It also opposes abusing technology to “conduct mass surveillance against other states,” the transcript said.

Companies should not “install backdoors in their products and services” to illegally obtain user data, should respect the sovereignty, jurisdiction, and governance of data in other states,” it says.

“The Chinese government has acted in strict compliance with data security principles. We have not and will not ask Chinese companies to transfer data overseas to the government in breach of other countries’ laws,” said Wang.

“Politicization of security issues, double standards and slandering others violate the basic norms governing international relations, and seriously disrupts and hampers global digital cooperation and development,” he said.

Source: AP

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