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...Traditional mobile networks rely on radio access equipment that tightly bundles proprietary hardware with software provided by the biggest groups while open RAN systems allow networks to use different companies...
...In 2021, then-Volkswagen chief Herbert Diess told the Financial Times that the Chinese group was the company the German automaker feared most. Yet BYD’s recent rise has surprised many in the industry....
...Sony does still produce a fair bit of technology hardware (its sensors, for example, are a critical component in the autonomous driving projects of carmakers around the world), and it is still significant...
...Long-term, India wants to have the entire value chain in its borders, according to Prabhu Ram, head of industry intelligence group at CyberMedia Research....
...The company was also outmanoeuvring Nokia on hardware and production before the iPhone even went on sale. And it did so by making a substantial bet on China and its manufacturing sector....
...Yet, Apple’s problems related to hardware shortages are offset by its fast-growing services business....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 8 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Liu last October launched what Foxconn called an “open EV alliance” of software and hardware players in the automotive industry....
...So this is going to be of huge importance to them and to the industry.”...
...Chinese group a potential lifeline....
...integration between its software and hardware....
...For instance, by either making many of its own components, or designing them and outsourcing the manufacturing, it is able to integrate all the software controls that manage the hardware and the charging...
...Yet non-profits remain sceptical of efforts — notably by Japanese megabanks like Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group — and point out loopholes, including the...
...A version of this article was first published on May 14 by the Nikkei Asian Review. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
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...The second is the network of suppliers — panel makers, moulding companies, component makers. It is a big, big headache.”...
...Chinese companies Haier, Jiangnan Huaqian, Keer Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group have set up factories in South Carolina....
...His team is credited with bringing high-quality design to a mass market through aspirational products such as the iPhone and elevating the industry’s standards in the process....
...Huawei Technologies is asking suppliers to move some production to China as it braces for possible restrictions on access to US technology that could starve the Chinese group of components vital to its business...
...Concerns that Apple might cut orders have dragged down share prices of several Apple suppliers and other technology hardware manufacturers, including Hon Hai, the group that makes many key components and...
...They also include components such as motherboards and memory modules, which are imported by big hardware makers to include in products built in the US, as well as cloud computing companies such as Google...
...“It’s definitely a big concern for us, for companies both small and large,” said Rick Kowalski, analyst at the Consumer Technology Association, an industry group....
...Steve Madden is shifting handbag production to Cambodia, Vietnam is sucking up some production for Hoover-maker Techtronic Industries and Google’s hardware maker Flex is seeking new production centres from...
...Pharmaceutical groups, which might see similar benefits from quantum technology in the long term, are still on the sidelines....
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