Tag: chip technology
Tough Times ahead for Apple
These are troubled times for Silicon Valley tech giant, Apple. Hard on the heels of the US Justice Department suing Apple for monopolizing the smartphone market comes news of a major security flaw in Apple M-series chips (M1, M2, and M3). The US Justice Department appears determined to call time on Apple’s long-standing domination of the smartphone market. It holds that “Apple’s broad-based, exclusionary conduct” makes it harder for Americans to switch smartphones. Apple also stands accused of undermining innovation for apps, products, and services, and imposing extraordinary costs on developers, businesses, as well as on consumers.
Chip war with China heats up
As the Biden administration prepares to impose further limits on China’s access to leading-edge chip technology, news has broken over the weekend that Chinese hackers have been siphoning off some of Europe’s ground-breaking chip technology for years. The infamous Chinese hacker group Chimera, had access to the network of Dutch semiconductor giant NXP, for over two years, from late 2017 to the beginning of 2020. The hackers, believed to be backed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are understood to have consistently stolen intellectual property, including, crucially, the company’s cutting-edge chip designs. According to sources close to the situation, the full extent of the threat has still to be disclosed.