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E-commerce giant Amazon announced that Amazon Sidewalk, a network claiming to connect billions of devices, is now open for developer testing.

Chip shortages may force Apple to cut its production target for the iPhone 13, the news agency Bloomberg reports, citing "people with knowledge of the matter".

There have been many discussions centred around the possibility that China may try to retake Taiwan and speculation as to the likely American reaction, but hardly any consideration has been given to the fact that even a failed bid by Beijing would have a massive effect on the American reliance on Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturers.

The USB Promoter Group has announced the pending release of the specifications for USB4, the next generation of the Universal Serial Bus. The spec is expected to be released in the middle of 2019.

Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corporation, banned from buying components from American firms for seven years, is trying to convince US authorities that it failed to meet the terms of a settlement over breaking export sanctions due to problems within its own processes, and not due to a plan to deceive.

Texas electrical engineering operator Power Quality Engineering has exposed electrical infrastructure data compiled by its engineers on such companies as Dell, the City of Austin, SBC, Freescale, Oracle and Texas Instruments to public view on the Internet.

Software-defined WAN provider Silver Peak has appointed 30-year industry veteran Doug Farndale as vice president Asia Pacific to drive the company’s business across the region.

Connected vehicle specialist Cohda Wireless has appointed Bernd Luebben as its vice president of business development.

The worldwide semiconductor industry weathered economic uncertainties and natural disasters last year to post revenues of $301 billion, with Intel continuing its market leadership with revenues of $51.8 billion.

The worldwide semiconductor industry weathered economic uncertainties and natural disasters last year to post revenues of $301 billion, with Intel continuing its market leadership with revenues of $51.8 billion.

Microsoft's newly unveiled Windows 8 demo has showcased the company's ability to, after a bazillion previous tablet attempts, finally come up with an OS and UI that looks like it might finally marry the tablet and desktop PC worlds into one harmonious union - despite some Apple-like behaviour.

Ubiquisys - a developer of femtocells and small cellular base stations - has teamed up with Intel to develop small LTE base stations that will incorporate Intel chips to provide processing power for user applications and services.

ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have formed a non-profit company, Linaro, to promote Linux-based distributions such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS in a wide range of devices from cellphones to automotive and enterprise systems.

Canadian company, WiLAN, has launched litigation over alleged infringements of its Bluetooth patents against a who's who of leading chipmaker and IT equipment vendors.

The Qi wireless charging standard has arrived in Australia in the form of chargers for the iPhone and Nintendo DS Lite.