Huawei’s 5G chip breakthrough needs a reality check (www.technologyreview.com)
from fastandcurious@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 2023 12:24
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 20 Nov 2023 12:25 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:


This is going to be a BIG week for US-China relations: On Wednesday, Xi Jinping will sit down with Joe Biden in San Francisco and talk about military issues, trade, and more.

A harmonious era in US-China relations ended; we’ve seen a trade war, a pandemic, an ongoing technology rivalry, an off-course spy balloon, and too many other tumultuous developments to list here.

In August—at the same time US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was visiting China—Huawei suddenly, without any public announcement, shocked the world when it started selling a new flagship phone, the Mate 60 Pro.

At the end of the day, for any chance of regaining its dominant position in the smartphone market, Huawei needs to compete with Qualcomm and Samsung to reliably make better and cheaper chips, and that’s very difficult to pull off.

This year, many Chinese smartphone users found themselves pestered by a new form of advertising: whenever they shook their phone, intentionally or not, the e-commerce app would automatically open.

It turns out this is the latest marketing trick that exploits the gyroscope function in modern-day phones, which detects movement to calculate steps or find directions.


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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 2023 12:35 collapse

Actual TLDR since the bot missed the point; they’re having trouble producing the 5g chips in significant volumes.