Ibm
- 美國電腦業公司萬國商業機器（IBM），於1995年在北京設立中國研究院，成為IBM全球12個研究實驗室之一，至今逾25年，近日該研究室被傳已關閉；IBM其後回應指，這是為了調整在中國的研發布局，更好地適應全球混合雲（Hybrid cloud）和AI業務發展。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20210127/00178_022.html- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20150920/00202_005.html 外媒報道，剛以6,000萬美元投資香港無人機製造商Yuneec的英特爾，加大對中國初創科技公司的投資力度。英特爾透露，已在中國投資8家公司，總價6,700萬美元（逾5.2億港元）。
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/tech/2016-07/27/content_26235669.htm Intel Corp's upgraded chip factory in Dalian, Liaoning province, will help it better tap into China'sgrowing demand for memory chips, but the United States giant needs to be wary of risingcompetition from local rivals, as the country speeds up efforts to reduce its reliance on foreigntechnology, experts said. The Dalian plant, in which Intel said it would invest $5.5 billion, has been converted to produceadvanced memory chips such as 3D NAND chips, which can store data without using power andbe widely used in smartphones and tablets.
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-intel-mobileye-idUSKBN16K0ZP Intel Corpagreed to buy Israeli autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye for $15.3 billion on Monday in a deal that could thrust the U.S. chipmaker into direct competition with rivals Nvidia Corpand Qualcomm Inc to develop driverless systems for global automakers.
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally.[4] Its headquarters are in Dallas, Texas, United States. TI is one of the top ten semiconductor companies worldwide, based on sales volume.[5] Texas Instruments's focus is on developing analog chips and embedded processors, which accounts for more than 80% of their revenue.[6] TI also produces TI digital light processing (DLP) technology and education technology[6] products including calculators, microcontrollers and multi-core processors. To date, TI has more than 43,000 patents worldwide. Texas Instruments emerged in 1951 after a reorganization of Geophysical Service Incorporated, a company founded in 1930 that manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry, as well as defense electronics.[8] TI produced the world's first commercial silicon transistor in 1954[9], and designed and manufactured the first transistor radio in 1954. Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at TI's Central Research Labs. TI also invented the hand-held calculatorin 1967, and introduced the first single-chip microcontroller (MCU) in 1970, which combined all the elements of computing onto one piece of silicon.In 1987, TI invented the digital light processing device (also known as the DLP chip), which serves as the foundation for the company's award-winning DLP technology and DLP Cinema.[10] In 1990, TI came out with the popular TI-81 calculator which made them a leader in the graphing calculator industry. In 1997, its defense business was sold to Raytheon, which allowed TI to strengthen its focus on digital solutions.[11] After the acquisition of National Semiconductor in 2011, the company had a combined portfolio of nearly 45,000 analog products and customer design tools,[12] making it the world's largest maker of analog technology components.
- hk
ICT
- hp
- cisco
- oracle
- adobe
- Amadeus http://www.amadeus.com/web/amadeus/en_HK-HK/Amadeus-Home/1259082525015-Page-- AMAD_HomePpal, solutions for travel industry
- Emerson http://www.emerson.com/en-US/Pages/Default.aspx
- Agilysys http://www.agilysys.com, property management systems for hotels
- Farsite Forecast (http://www.farsiteforecast.com/), analysed Oscar 2014 big data
- Predictwise (www.predictwise.com), analysed Oscar 2013 big data, presidential election
- datasift http://datasift.com/, data science
- IDG group
- www.comscore.com
- Seapoint www.seapointcorp.com
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/tech/2016-07/27/content_26235669.htm Intel Corp's upgraded chip factory in Dalian, Liaoning province, will help it better tap into China'sgrowing demand for memory chips, but the United States giant needs to be wary of risingcompetition from local rivals, as the country speeds up efforts to reduce its reliance on foreigntechnology, experts said. The Dalian plant, in which Intel said it would invest $5.5 billion, has been converted to produceadvanced memory chips such as 3D NAND chips, which can store data without using power andbe widely used in smartphones and tablets.
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-intel-mobileye-idUSKBN16K0ZP Intel Corpagreed to buy Israeli autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye for $15.3 billion on Monday in a deal that could thrust the U.S. chipmaker into direct competition with rivals Nvidia Corpand Qualcomm Inc to develop driverless systems for global automakers.
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally.[4] Its headquarters are in Dallas, Texas, United States. TI is one of the top ten semiconductor companies worldwide, based on sales volume.[5] Texas Instruments's focus is on developing analog chips and embedded processors, which accounts for more than 80% of their revenue.[6] TI also produces TI digital light processing (DLP) technology and education technology[6] products including calculators, microcontrollers and multi-core processors. To date, TI has more than 43,000 patents worldwide. Texas Instruments emerged in 1951 after a reorganization of Geophysical Service Incorporated, a company founded in 1930 that manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry, as well as defense electronics.[8] TI produced the world's first commercial silicon transistor in 1954[9], and designed and manufactured the first transistor radio in 1954. Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at TI's Central Research Labs. TI also invented the hand-held calculatorin 1967, and introduced the first single-chip microcontroller (MCU) in 1970, which combined all the elements of computing onto one piece of silicon.In 1987, TI invented the digital light processing device (also known as the DLP chip), which serves as the foundation for the company's award-winning DLP technology and DLP Cinema.[10] In 1990, TI came out with the popular TI-81 calculator which made them a leader in the graphing calculator industry. In 1997, its defense business was sold to Raytheon, which allowed TI to strengthen its focus on digital solutions.[11] After the acquisition of National Semiconductor in 2011, the company had a combined portfolio of nearly 45,000 analog products and customer design tools,[12] making it the world's largest maker of analog technology components.
- hk
- authorised distributor
- goldwise development ltd www.goldwise-hk.com
Nvidia Corporation台灣與香港官方中文名為輝達，中國大陸翻譯成英偉達is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California.[2] It designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Its primary GPU product line, labeled "GeForce", is in direct competition with Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) "Radeon" products. Nvidia expanded its presence in the gaming industry with its handheld Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and Shield Android TV. Since 2014,[citation needed] Nvidia has diversified its business focusing on four markets: gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and auto. Nvidia is also now focused on artificial intelligence.In addition to GPU manufacturing, Nvidia provides parallel processing capabilities to researchers and scientists that allow them to efficiently run high-performance applications. They are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world.[4][5] More recently, it has moved into the mobile computing market, where it produces Tegra mobile processors for smartphones and tablets as well as vehicle navigation and entertainment systems.[6][7][8] In addition to AMD, its competitors include Intel, Qualcomm, and Arm (e.g., because of Denver, while Nvidia also licenses Arm's designs).Nvidia was founded on April 5, 1993[9][10][11] by Jensen Huang (CEO as of 2020), a Taiwanese American, previously director of CoreWare at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Chris Malachowsky, an electrical engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and Curtis Priem, previously a senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer at Sun Microsystems.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufactured its own processors, the company later outsourced its manufacturing, a practice known as going fabless, after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. AMD's main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations, personal computers and embedded system applications.Advanced Micro Devices was formally incorporated by Jerry Sanders, along with seven of his colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor, on May 1, 1969.[2][3] Sanders, an electrical engineer who was the director of marketing at Fairchild, had, like many Fairchild executives, grown frustrated with the increasing lack of support, opportunity, and flexibility within the company, and decided to leave to start his own semiconductor company.[4] Robert Noyce, who had developed the first silicon integrated circuit at Fairchild in 1959,[5] had left Fairchild together with Gordon Moore and founded the semiconductor company Intel in July 1968.
- Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy Xilinx in a $35 billion all-stock deal that will intensify its battle with Intel in the data center chip market. AMD shares were down more than 3% Tuesday morning. Xilinx shares were up nearly 10%.The deal, which AMD expects to close at the end of 2021, would create a combined firm with 13,000 engineers and a completely outsourced manufacturing strategy that relies heavily on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. The two U.S. firms have benefited from a more nimble approach to grab market share from Intel, which has struggled with internal manufacturing.https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/27/amd-to-buy-chip-peer-xilinx-for-35-billion-in-data-center-push.htmlXilinx, Inc. (/ˈzaɪlɪŋks/ ZY-links) is an American technology company that develops highly flexible and adaptive processing platforms. The company invented the field-programmable gate array (FPGA), programmable system-on-chips (SoCs), and the adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP). It is the semiconductor company that created the first fabless manufacturing model.[4][5] Xilinx’s products are used across many industries and technologies, including the data center, wired & wireless communications, AI/ML, automotive, industrial, consumer, aerospace and defense and Broadcast & Pro-AV.Co-founded by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V Barnett II in 1984, the company went public on the NASDAQ in 1989.
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company is one of the largest aerospace, intelligence services providers[3], and defense manufacturers in the world by revenue and market capitalization. It researches, develops, and manufactures advanced technology products in the aerospace and defense industry, including aircraft engines, avionics, aerostructures, cybersecurity, missiles, air defense systems, and drones. The company is also a large military contractor, getting a significant portion of its revenue from the U.S. government.The company is the result of the merger of equals between the aerospace subsidiaries of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) and the Raytheon Company, which was completed on April 3, 2020. Before the merger, UTC spun-off its non-aerospace subsidiaries Otis Elevator Company and Carrier Corporation. UTC is the nominal survivor of the merger but it changed its name to Raytheon Technologies and relocated its headquarters to Waltham.[2][6] Former UTC CEO and chairman Gregory J. Hayes is the CEO of the combined company,[7] and former Raytheon CEO and chairman Thomas A. Kennedy is the Executive Chairman.The company has four subsidiaries: Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense.
- The Raytheon Company was founded in 1922 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Laurence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush, and Charles G. Smith as the American Appliance Company.[10] Its focus, which was originally on new refrigeration technology, soon shifted to electronics. The company's first product was a gaseous (helium) rectifier that was based on Charles Smith's earlier astronomical research of the star Zeta Puppis.[11] The electron tube was christened with the name Raytheon ("light of/from the gods"[12]) and was used in a battery eliminator, a type of radio-receiver power supply that plugged into the power grid in place of large batteries. This made it possible to convert household alternating current to direct current for radios and thus eliminate the need for expensive, short-lived batteries.In 1925, the company changed its name to Raytheon Manufacturing Company and began marketing its rectifier, under the Raytheon brand name, with commercial success.
- pratt & whitney
- In April 1925, Frederick Rentschler, an Ohio native and former executive at Wright Aeronautical, was determined to start an aviation-related business of his own.[4] His social network included Edward Deeds, another prominent Ohioan of the early aviation industry, and Frederick's brother Gordon Rentschler, both of whom were on the board of Niles Bement Pond, then one of the largest machine tool corporations in the world. Frederick Rentschler approached these men as he sought capital and assets for his new venture. Deeds and G. Rentschler persuaded the board of Niles Bement Pond that their Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool (P&WMT) subsidiary of Hartford, Connecticut, should provide the funding and location to build a new aircraft engine being developed by Rentschler, George J. Mead, and colleagues, all formerly of Wright Aeronautical.[4] Conceived and designed by Mead,[4] the new engine would be a large, air-cooled, radial design. Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool was going through a period of self-revision at the time to prepare itself for the post-Great War era, discontinuing old product lines and incubating new ones.[4] The Great War had been profitable to P&WMT, but the peace brought a predictable glut to the machine tool market, as contracts with governments were canceled and the market in used, recently built tools competed against new ones. P&WMT's future growth would depend on innovation. Having idle factory space and capital available at this historical moment, to be invested wherever good return seemed available,[4] P&WMT saw the postwar aviation industry, both military and civil (commercial, private), as one with some of the greatest growth and development potential available anywhere for the next few decades. It lent Rentschler $250,000, the use of the Pratt & Whitney name, and space in their building. This was the beginning of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company.[4] Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's first engine, the 425 horsepower (317 kW) R-1340 Wasp, was completed on Christmas Eve 1925.
ICT
- hp
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160721/00178_016.html
由中美合資的中國惠普有限公司（下稱惠普中國）捲入周永康家族貪腐案，日前宣判的周永康長子周濱「白手套」米曉東等七人案，判決書顯示惠普中國的客戶經理為與IBM公司爭奪中石油項目，曾兩次向周濱的「合夥人」求助，事成後給予周濱好處費一百一十六萬多元（人民幣‧下同）
- cisco
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/09/25/a05-0925.pdf 中國領先的雲計算、大數據領導 廠商浪潮 24 日表示，當地時間 9 月 23 日，在中國國家主席習近平訪美期間， 浪潮與思科（Cisco）在第八屆中美互聯 網論壇上簽署戰略合作框架協議。 首期投資 1億美元 根據協議，雙方將共同首期投資 1億 美元在中國成立合資公司，浪潮佔股 51%、思科佔股 49%，共同研發網絡技 術與產品，打造世界一流的信息技術和 方案，為信息基礎設施、雲中心、智慧 城市及大數據等領域提供先進的技術、 產品、方案和服務。 當天，中美雙方互聯網科技公司還簽署 了多個合作協議。包括中國電子科技集團 公司、百度公司、紫光股份有限公司、北 京世紀互聯寬帶數據中心有限公司等科技 企業與微軟簽署合作協議。
- oracle
- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-30/oracle-seeks-partners-in-china-to-expand-cloud-service.html
- ft 13may19 "oracle lays off 900 staff from its china team"
- adobe
- adobe cuts r&d facility in china http://www.chinadailyasia.com/business/2014-09/25/content_15170563.html, hkej 25sep a12
- Amadeus http://www.amadeus.com/web/amadeus/en_HK-HK/Amadeus-Home/1259082525015-Page-- AMAD_HomePpal, solutions for travel industry
- Emerson http://www.emerson.com/en-US/Pages/Default.aspx
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-12/02/content_27546073.htmEmerson, a global technology and engineering company based in St. Louis, Missouri of the United States, sees good opportunities in China's industrial automation and energy efficiency sectors, according to its top executive.
- Agilysys http://www.agilysys.com, property management systems for hotels
- Farsite Forecast (http://www.farsiteforecast.com/), analysed Oscar 2014 big data
- Predictwise (www.predictwise.com), analysed Oscar 2013 big data, presidential election
- datasift http://datasift.com/, data science
- IDG group
- Oceanwide (Beijing-based conglomerate founded by billionaire Lu Zhiqiang) will now become the controlling shareholder in IDG's operating businesses with Shong's IDG Capital taking a minority stake. IDG Capital will take the majority stake in the IDG venture businesses. IDG's venture arm has invested in some of China's biggest Internet companies such as Baidu (BIDU.O), Tencent (0700.HK) and Ctrip.com International (CTRP.O).Shong, a close associate of late IDG founder Pat McGovern, formed one of China's first venture capital firms in 1993, initially with IDG's backing. The companies said the deal had been cleared by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment and would close in the first quarter.http://www.reuters.com/article/us-idg-m-a-oceanwide-idUSKBN1531VP
- www.comscore.com
- Seapoint www.seapointcorp.com
- soluations for POS, digital signage..., exhibited at restaurant expo 2014
- FICO
- gogo
- eDataSource is the leading provider for competitive and inbox deliverability intelligence. Over 25M emails tracked daily for over 90000 distinct brands.
- utimaco
electronics
- Avnet, Inc. is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and embedded solutions and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Although the corporation's products have been an important part of computer networking, the corporate name is neither an acronym nor a coined word, and dates from nearly a century ago, when it was founded by Charles Avnet in 1921.In 1921, Charles Avnet, a 33-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant, began buying surplus radio parts and selling them to the public on the Radio Rows of United States port cities. As radio manufacturing grew, parts distribution took off. In the mid-1920s, when factory-made radios began to replace radio parts, he adjusted his distribution pipeline and began selling parts to manufacturers and dealers. In the mid-1920s, Avnet diversified by branching out into car radio kits and automobile assembly kits. During the Great Depression, he shifted the focus from retailing to wholesaling.
Social media
- facebook
big data
Cable
- Comcast
- space x
- Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a company, based in McLean, Virginia, United States which operates the Iridium satellite constellation, a system of 66 active satellites used for worldwide voice and data communication from hand-held satellite phones and other transceiver units. The Iridium network is unique in that it covers the whole Earth, including poles, oceans and airways, with 95 satellites launched so far. The company derives its name from the chemical element iridium. The satellites are frequently visible in the night sky as satellite flares, a phenomenon typically observed as short-lived bright flashes of light.
Heavy equipment/machinery
- Cummins Inc. is an American Fortune 500corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products. Cummins also services engines and related equipment, including fuel systems,controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems. Headquartered in Columbus,Indiana, United States, Cummins sells in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 600 company-owned and independent distributors and approximately 6,000 dealers. Cummins reported net income of $1.65 billion on sales of $19.2 billion in 2014.
Automation
- Fanuc
Semiconductor
- Qualcomm
- gogo
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-08/17/content_26503250.htm Gogo Inc, a Nasdaq-listed broadband connectivity solutions and wirelessentertainment provider to the aviation industry, said on Monday that it had receivedregulatory approval to offer in-flight connectivity services in China starting inOctober. Chicago-based Gogo said it had received approval from various Chinese regulatorybodies through its local partner China Telecom Satellite Communications Co Ltd,and will work with China Telecom Satellite to offer in-flight Wi-Fi on internationalflights.
- FactSet Research Systems Inc., trading as FactSet, is a multinational financial data and software company headquartered in Norwalk, CT, United States. The company provides financial information and analytic software for investment professionals.
- eDataSource is the leading provider for competitive and inbox deliverability intelligence. Over 25M emails tracked daily for over 90000 distinct brands.
- utimaco
- people
- david cheng senior system engineer david.cheng@utimaco.com
electronics
- Avnet, Inc. is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and embedded solutions and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Although the corporation's products have been an important part of computer networking, the corporate name is neither an acronym nor a coined word, and dates from nearly a century ago, when it was founded by Charles Avnet in 1921.In 1921, Charles Avnet, a 33-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant, began buying surplus radio parts and selling them to the public on the Radio Rows of United States port cities. As radio manufacturing grew, parts distribution took off. In the mid-1920s, when factory-made radios began to replace radio parts, he adjusted his distribution pipeline and began selling parts to manufacturers and dealers. In the mid-1920s, Avnet diversified by branching out into car radio kits and automobile assembly kits. During the Great Depression, he shifted the focus from retailing to wholesaling.
- china daily 16mar18
Social media
- Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg plays the long game in India http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1a6cc092-4faf-11e4-a0a4-00144feab7de.html
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1628557/internet-watchdog-chief-remains-ambiguous-over-facebooks-friend-request The head of the country's internet watchdog yesterday rejected claims that he ever said Facebook could not enter the mainland - while at the same not confirming whether it could.But Lu Wei, the director of the Cyberspace Administration - formerly the State Internet Information Office - did confirm reports that guidelines for smartphone applications would be introduced soon because some apps "were not in the interests of some users".
- http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1712293/facebook-provided-life-after-death
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151007/00180_039.html 社交網站facebook行政總裁朱克伯格致力推動全民上網的夢想，他宣布將與一間法國衞星製造公司合作，於二○一六年發射衞星上太空，把網絡伸延到非洲大部分偏遠地區。今次發射衞星是來自facebook一個名為Internet.org的計劃，希望於全球建立網絡。facebook現時已與法國大型衞星製造公司Eutelsat合作，研發新衞星AMOS-6，計劃明年將網絡覆蓋至非洲東、南、西大部分區域，包括十四個國家。聯合國數據指，現時全球仍有逾半人未能經常上網。朱克伯格於facebook表示，過往傳統的連繫模式令大家難以接觸到居住在偏遠地區人士，因此他們決定研發新技術，利用衞星將網絡由太空中發射到社區。他又指，期望可將網絡覆蓋到全球，包括一些網絡尚未發達的地方。
- http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/20/banking-via-twitter-indian-bank-tweet-to-pay India’s ICICI Bank has launched a new service called “icicibankpay” that allows customers to transfer money using Twitter. Customers simply need to follow the bank’s Twitter account to register their mobile phone with the bank and then send @icicibank a direct message with the recipient’s user name and the amount to be transferred. The recipient does not need to be an ICICI Bank customer. ICICI Bank, one of India’s big four banks and the second largest in terms of assets, is the second bank to add pay-by-tweet facilities. France’s second-largest bank Groupe BPCE introduced a similar service last year.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160707/00178_020.html美國社交網站twitter首次披露中國用戶數目。據twitter官方數據統計，該社交網站在中國有三千五百五十萬名註冊用戶，估計其中約一千萬名為活躍用戶。由於中方仍未正式開放予twitter進入當地市場，中國用戶需翻牆才可使用，有指twitter亦難以確切統計中國用戶數量。
- china
- 繼中國駐斯里蘭卡大使館的Twitter帳號於周一一度遭停用，中國駐塞浦路斯大使黃星原的個人Twitter帳號亦於同日被凍結。黃星原前日接受中國官媒採訪，指出已經向Twitter發聲明，要求對方作出合法合理解釋，並保留採取進一步行動的權利。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200416/00180_020.html
- 美國社交網巨擘Twitter前日宣布，已邀請史丹福大學著名華裔人工智能（AI）專家李飛飛（Fei-Fei Li）成為新獨立董事，即日生效。報道指，李飛飛或負責以AI監管疫情的假新聞。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200514/00180_004.html
big data
- http://www.infousa.com/
- http://www.catalistgroup.com/
- http://www.datatrustsolutions.com/
- http://www.growhack.com/
- http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-05/16/content_25291443.htm Six years on, chief of Teradata's China unit reviews the company's show as well as his own performance. Asked about his work over the past six years, Aaron Hsin, president of Teradata Greater China Area, thought for a moment. And then some. It appeared he had much to say about his work and his employer.
Cable
- Comcast
- http://www.economist.com/news/business/21621777-lobbying-over-comcasts-bid-create-cable-tv-behemoth-coming-head-tying-up-cable
- space x
- http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35686713 US rocket company SpaceX had to halt a launch right at the moment of lift-off on Sunday. Its Falcon 9 vehicle had ignited its engines and was all set to push away from the Cape Canaveral pad when onboard computers called the abort. It was the third time in five days that SpaceX had attempted to launch a satellite for Luxembourg-based operator SES. A fourth attempt is possible later this week. But engineers will need time to assess the data to work out why the abort was triggered, and the US Air Force will also require some time to prepare the Florida range.
- 美國太空探索技術公司SpaceX前日進行下一代重型運載火箭「星艦」試飛，雖然成功發射並刷新飛行高度紀錄，不過回程時卻着陸失敗爆炸。SpaceX創辦人馬斯克強調測試已經取得所需數據，形容試飛「成功」。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/12/11/a14-1211.pdf
- 美國太空探索技術公司（SpaceX）在美東時間前日下午12時半，成功在佛羅里達州卡納維拉爾角空軍基地發射獵鷹9號火箭，將一顆無線電衞星送入地球軌道。今次是獵鷹9號火箭第7次往返太空，並成功發射和着陸。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20201215/00180_032.html
- Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC) is a company, based in McLean, Virginia, United States which operates the Iridium satellite constellation, a system of 66 active satellites used for worldwide voice and data communication from hand-held satellite phones and other transceiver units. The Iridium network is unique in that it covers the whole Earth, including poles, oceans and airways, with 95 satellites launched so far. The company derives its name from the chemical element iridium. The satellites are frequently visible in the night sky as satellite flares, a phenomenon typically observed as short-lived bright flashes of light.
Heavy equipment/machinery
- Cummins Inc. is an American Fortune 500corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products. Cummins also services engines and related equipment, including fuel systems,controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems. Headquartered in Columbus,Indiana, United States, Cummins sells in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 600 company-owned and independent distributors and approximately 6,000 dealers. Cummins reported net income of $1.65 billion on sales of $19.2 billion in 2014.
Automation
- Fanuc
- Loeb's Third Point takes aim at Fanuc
Semiconductor
- Qualcomm
- http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1668498/china-pressures-qualcomm-cut-its-patent-fees-amid-anti-monopoly-probe, http://www.chinadailyasia.com/business/2014-12/24/content_15206474.html
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-12/27/content_19180589.htm
China's top antitrust body will form a final ruling on mobile chip maker Qualcomm Incas soon as possible, an official statement said on Friday. Qualcomm was accused of price fixing and abusing its dominance in Chinese market. Probesinto the case started in November 2013 in response to complaints from industry associations. - http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/tech/2015-06/19/content_21047840.htm Qualcomm Inc is setting up a high-end semiconductor research facility with China's top chip makers. This is the United States-based company's biggest move in China after regulators imposed a record $975 million fine on Qualcomm for anti-competitive practices earlier this year. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, one of the largest chip foundries in the country, will be in charge of the daily operations of the new research center, which will be located in Shanghai, multiple sources told China Daily on Thursday. Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Imec, a Belgium-based nano-electronics research center, will also join the collaboration. The agreement will be announced in the coming days during Belgian King Philippe's visit to China.
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-09/17/content_21899607.htm Qualcomm Inc, the global chip giant, believes that strategic tie-ups with Chinesecompanies, especially in the wireless and semiconductor sectors, will play anintegral role in the United States-based company's long-term growth plans. "We consider China a key player in the global wireless and semiconductorindustries. Though we entered the Chinese market two decades ago, we are happyto have played an important role in the industry's development in China, especiallyin terms of research and development, in licensing of advanced technologies and inproviding the most advanced chipsets for Chinese companies," said SteveMollenkopf, chief executive oficer of Qualcomm. Mollenkopf, who was in Beijing recently for a signing ceremony of a contemplatedinvestment, said that Qualcomm will continue to scale up its investments andinvolvement in China.
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-01/18/content_23124342.htm Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc delivered a boost to the high-tech sector in Guizhou province on Sunday by pledging a major investment. The United States company said it is building a 1.85 billion yuan ($280 million) jointventure in the less-developed southwestern province to produce server chips forthe domestic market. Named the Guizhou Huaxintong Semi-Conductor Technology Co, the joint venturewill be 55 percent owned by the Guizhou provincial government's investment armand 45 percent by a Qualcomm subsidiary. Derek Aberle, president of Qualcomm, said the venture will focus on the design,development and sales of "advanced server chipset technology" in China. The venture will be based at a technology park near Guiyang, the provincial capital. As part of the deal, Qualcomm will also license its proprietary server chiptechnology and provide research and development processes to the venture, Aberlesaid at a news conference in Beijing.
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/tech/2016-03/01/content_23690825.htm Qualcomm Inc on Monday set up a joint venture with a Chinese tech firm to develop technologiesused in drones, virtual reality goggles and other "smart devices" that the US chip giant believeswill be the next big thing after the smartphone boom. The new JV, named Thundercomm, will provide products and technologies for local firms whichare building the next-generation drones, robots, VR devices and wearables, according to astatement from Qualcomm and its Chinese partner Thunder Software Technology Co Ltd, orThundersoft. The registered capital of Thundercomm was 18.74 million yuan ($2.8 million) and the Beijing-based Thundersoft will control nearly 82 percent of the JV, according to a statement fromThundersoft. An investment subsidiary of Qualcomm took the rest of the new company's stake.
The JV will be located at the Fairy Peach Data Valley in Yubei District, southwest China'sChongqing municipality. The inland mega city has become one of the world's largestmanufacturing bases of the smart devices in recent years. - https://www.ft.com/content/3071405e-1e59-11e7-a454-ab04428977f9
US chipmaker Qualcomm has fired back in a bitter legal battle with Apple, accusing the smartphone maker of interfering with royalty payments and hobbling the performance of its modems in the iPhone. - hk
- http://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2115956/digital-domain-qualcomm-partner-virtual-reality-push Digital Domain Holdings, which runs the world’s largest independent visual effects studio, is aiming to ramp up its push into virtual reality through a partnership with mobile chip giant Qualcomm.
- sensetime ltd scmp 16nov17
- https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3015426/women-tech-how-esther-wong-rose-it-support-america-senior-management Wong, 42, serves as managing director and head of strategic investments at SenseTime Group, the world’s most valuable AI start-up and one of Beijing’s hand-picked champions advancing China’s .Since joining SenseTime in April last year, Wong has focused investments on companies within the AI ecosystem and finding long-term strategic partners. She is also a partner in the SenseTime AI Fund, which has about 5 billion yuan (US$724 million) of assets under management.
- fairchild
- National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, United States. The company produced power management integrated circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. National's key markets included wireless handsets, displays and a variety of broad electronics markets, including medical, automotive, industrial and test and measurement applications. On September 23, 2011, the company formally became part of Texas Instruments as the "Silicon Valley" division.
- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-29/fairchild-semiconductor-says-received-revised-unsolicited-offer A group led by China Resources Holding Co. and Hua Capital Management revised some terms of its offer for Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. in an attempt to win backing from the target’s board, according to a person familiar with the matter. Fairchild, which agreed to a merger last month with ON Semiconductor Corp., said it received a revised, unsolicited acquisition offer of $21.70 a share in cash. That would value the company’s equity at $2.46 billion. The amended proposal from a bidder identified as “Party G” is from the same group led by China Resources’ semiconductor arm, the person said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private.
- http://www.reuters.com/article/applied-materials-china-idUSL3N16N07B Applied Materials Inc, the world's largest supplier of equipment used to make semiconductor chips, plans to invest 4 billion yuan ($615 million) to expand in the China market over the next few years, the China Daily quoted company CEO Gary Dickerson as saying.
- National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, United States. The company produced power management integrated circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. National's key markets included wireless handsets, displays and a variety of broad electronics markets, including medical, automotive, industrial and test and measurement applications. On September 23, 2011, the company formally became part of Texas Instruments as the "Silicon Valley" division.
- National Semiconductor was founded in Danbury, Connecticut by Dr. Bernard J. Rothlein on May 27, 1959, when he and seven colleagues, Edward N. Clarke, Joseph J. Gruber, Milton Schneider, Robert L. Hopkins, Robert L. Hoch, Richard R. Rau and Arthur V. Siefert, left their employment at the semiconductor division of Sperry Rand Corporation. The founding of the new company was followed by Sperry Rand filing a lawsuit against National Semiconductor for patent infringement.[3] By 1965, as it was reaching the courts, the preliminaries of the lawsuit had caused the stock value of National to be depressed. The depressed stock values allowed Peter J Sprague[4] to invest heavily in the company with Sprague's family funds. Sprague also relied on further financial backing from a pair of west coast investment firms and a New York underwriter to take control as the Chairman of National Semiconductor. At that time Sprague was 27 years old. Jeffrey S. Young characterised the era as the beginning of venture capitalism. That same year National Semiconductor acquired Molectro. Molectro was founded in 1962, in Santa Clara, California by J. Nall and D. Spittlehouse, who were formerly employed at Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation. The acquisition also brought to National Semiconductor two experts in linear semiconductor technologies, Robert Widlar and Dave Talbert, who were also formerly employed at Fairchild. The acquisition of Molectro provided National with the technology to launch itself in the fabrication and manufacture of monolithic integrated circuits. In 1967, Sprague hired five top executives away from Fairchild, among whom were Charles E. Sporck and Pierre Lamond. At the time of Sporck's hiring, Robert Noyce was de facto head of semiconductor operations at Fairchild and Sporck was his operations manager. Sporck was appointed President and CEO of National. To make the deal better for Sporck's hiring and appointment at half his former salary at Fairchild, Sporck was allotted a substantial share of National's stock. In essence, Sporck took four of his personnel from Fairchild with him as well as three others from TI, Perkin-Elmer and Hewlett Packard to form a new eight man team at National Semiconductor.[5] Incidentally, Sporck had been Widlar's superior at Fairchild before Widlar left Fairchild to join Molectro after a compensation dispute with Sporck. In 1968, National shifted its headquarters from Danbury, Connecticut to Santa Clara, California. However, like many companies, National retained its registration as a Delaware corporation, for legal and financial expediency.
- https://www.quora.com/What-drove-the-Bay-Area-real-estate-prices-to-go-up-so-high I received my first stock option in 1972 from National Semiconductor. I had no idea what it was as I was just 2.5 years out of college and stock options were still novel employee benefits. However, in those days, options were granted to almost every employee in a company. The success stories included the secretary/administrator types given options only to find them worth a million dollars a few years later. And these were the day when a million dollars meant something!
Dupont
- discontinue solar business from HK in 2014 http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1516289/sun-sets-dupont-theres-still-bright-future-hong-kongs-solar
Smartthings http://www.smartthings.com/
OmniVision Technologies Inc (digital imaging chipmaker)
OmniVision Technologies Inc (digital imaging chipmaker)
- received a buyout proposal from a group of Chinese investors, including a State-owned firm.http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-08/16/content_18354618.htm
Alorica Inc. provides customer management solutions. The Company offers call center services such as inbound, outbound customer care and technical support, receivables management and fulfillment, and technology services. Alorica serves customers worldwide. Founded in 2016.
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/21654Z:US
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