“OPPO has been aggressively recruiting chip talent since last year as they realised that owning the chip design capability will give it more control over its supply chain,” sources familiar with the matter told the website. However, developing a custom chip from scratch is not easy and consumes a considerable amount of time and money, and therefore one should not expect the OPPO mobile chip to be ready anytime soon. … [Read more...] about OPPO hires Qualcomm, MediaTek, HiSilicon engineers to develop custom mobile processor
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Reading Don Delillo’s ‘Cosmopolis’ during social and financial uncertainty
The planet of Cosmopolis is spectral and predatory. “I think you acquire information and turn it into something stupendous and awful,” Packer’s wife tells him, not entirely in disapproval. The interaction, even inseparability, between technology and capital is seen as a worthwhile objective. Numbers and charts are “the cold compression of unruly human energies, every sort of yearning and midnight sweat reduced to lucid units in the financial markets”. The yen rises and falls in a thrumming pulse against a backdrop of commerce and crowds, twin forces that “shape every anecdotal moment”. … [Read more...] about Reading Don Delillo’s ‘Cosmopolis’ during social and financial uncertainty
