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The government's efforts to keep the company in the Netherlands seem to be working In a major win for the Dutch tech industry, chip giant ASML intends to remain and further expand in the Netherlands. The chip machine manufacturer has signed a non-binding letter of intent with the City Council of Eindhoven, eyeing a potential expansion at the Brainport Industries Campus (BIC), west of the city. Located at Eindhoven’s Brainport region — a major tech and innovation hub in Europe — BIC is dedicated to the high-tech manufacturing industry. For ASML, BIC represents an “interesting option,” Roger Dassen, the company’s CFO, said in a statement. That’s because of the campus’ close proximity to Veldhoven, where the company is based. The preliminary agreement seems to be allaying fears over ASML’s rumoured relocation abroad. While the company has never confirmed or denied such a move was on the cards, it did raise concerns about talent attraction challenges and the overall business climate in the Netherlands. “Ultimately, we can only grow this company if there are enough qualified people,” Peter Wennink, ASML’s CEO, told RTL in January. “We prefer to do that here, but if we cannot get those people here, we will get those people in Eastern Europe or in Asia or in the United States.” A potential relocation would have a major impact on the Dutch tech sector and economy. ASML isn’t simply a world-leading supplier of chip-making equipment. It’s also the world’s sole manufacturer of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines — which are needed for the most advanced chips. In addition, the chip machine-maker is one of the biggest employers and most profitable businesses in the Netherlands, reaching a €27.6bn turnover in 2023. In an attempt to keep its tech crown jewel at home, the Dutch government launched “Operation Beethoven” last month. The €2.5bn initiative aims to improve infrastructure, housing, technical education, and talent attraction — epsecially in the Eindhoven region. All of the above are key aspects for accommodating ASML’s expansion “Decisions about future locations of our company must be supported by favorable conditions, such as the availability of talent, infrastructure, housing and by a strong investment climate in general,” Roger Dassen, the company’s CFO, said in a statement. “The recently announced government measures contribute to this.” However, the deal isn’t set in stone just yet. Discussions will continue and a final decision from both parties is expected in June. If the plan moves forward, ASML could double its existing workforce in the Netherlands, which now stands at approximately 20,000 people. Micky Andriaanses, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate, characterised the agreement as “good news.” “[It] confirms confidence in our business climate in the Netherlands and underlines the government’s support for the chip sector,” the minister said on X.

  Tesla has gutted its charging team in a new round of layoffs, despite recently winning over major automakers like Ford and General Motors and making its connector the de facto standard in North America. Tesla’s Supercharger network has long been seen as one of its greatest competitive advantages. It’s widely available, has far better uptime than other charging networks and the connector technology — known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS — is now being adopted by essentially every major automaker with a presence in North America. CEO Elon Musk announced the new layoffs in an overnight email to executives, first reported by The Information, in which he said he wants leaders to be “absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction,” as he ordered them to cut more employees who “don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” or resign. Senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci and head of new vehicles Daniel Ho are out, according to The Information. TechCrunch confirmed with sources that the entire global charging organization was let go. The move was unexpected and “clearly surprising to everyone,” one source at a major automaker told TechCrunch. Will Jameson, one of the charging team leads let go in the cuts, said in a post on Musk’s social media platform X that he “has let our entire charging org go.” “What this means for the charging network, NACS, and all the exciting work we were doing across the industry, I don’t yet know. What a wild ride it has been,” he wrote. The cuts are so complete that Musk even suggested in the email that the company will slow its expansion of the Supercharger network, writing that Tesla “will continue to build out some new Supercharger locations, where critical, and finish those currently under construction.” Musk is dissolving Tesla’s public policy team as well, according to reports. Rohan Patel, the former VP of that team, left the company two weeks ago at the same time those layoffs were announced. Patel called it the “best policy/bizdev team in the business” at the time in a message to TechCrunch. “I know I’m extremely biased, but honestly the people who were on my team are just phenomenal,” he wrote. Tesla’s policy team is largely responsible for the company winning around 13% of funding available from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and until recently was pursuing another federal grant of nearly $100 million to fund the buildout of a charging corridor for the company’s still-in-development electric big rig. These cuts come just two weeks after Musk announced Tesla was laying off more than 10% of its workforce as part of a company-wide restructuring in service of going “balls to the wall for autonomy. The company is coming off a brutal first quarter where its profits dropped 55% on weaker EV sales. At the same time, the company’s board is trying to reinstate Musk’s $56 billion pay package that was struck down by a judge, and the CEO has publicly threatened to develop AI technology at his startup xAI unless he is given even more control over Tesla.  

Samsung Galaxy F55 may be renamed Galaxy M55 in some markets A Samsung device  with model code SM-E556B/DS was certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance last month. Although the certification agency did not reveal the name, it is known that this Samsung device may be called Galaxy F55. This confirmation comes from Bluetooth SIG as the organization has certified the SM-E556B_DS and listed it on its website as the Galaxy F55. Samsung Galaxy F55 can be renamed to Galaxy M55 The certification agency revealed that the Samsung Galaxy F55 will have Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity but did not reveal other specifications. However, it also lists the SM-C5560 on the same page as the Galaxy M55, suggesting that the Galaxy F55 and Galaxy M55 are the same phones for different markets. Samsung Galaxy F55 Bluetooth Certified, May Launch as Galaxy M55 in Some Markets Previous rumors suggested that the SM-C5560 is the Galaxy C55 while the SM-M556E/DS is the Galaxy M55, both gaining Wi-Fi Alliance certified. There's also the SM-M556B, spotted on Geekbench last November with Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoC and 8GB RAM.

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy M35 5G this July 2024 is said to use the Exynos 1380 chipset. This is Samsung's internal 5nm chip with a CPU configuration including four Cortex-A78 cores, clocked at up to 2.4 GHz and four other Cortex-A55 cores operating at 2.0 GHz. The integrated GPU is Mali G68. The Exynos 1380 offers UFS 3.1 storage support and LPDDR4X and LPDDR5 RAM. Samsung Galaxy M35 5G revealed on GeekBench has 6GB RAM and runs Android 14. Neither of these things are surprising. Unlike previous M series devices that were often based on the Galaxy A version, we expect a very similar or even identical sized 6.6-inch AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. Samsung Galaxy M35 5G GeekBench score revealed Perhaps a similar flatter mid-frame design. In addition, it is likely that a larger 6,000 mAh battery will be equipped as this has become a signature feature of the M series. Presumably the memory is also expandable and there could be at least an 8GB RAM variant somewhere in there. There will definitely be some downgrades compared to the Galaxy A35 5G, probably in intrusion protection, cameras, and possibly speaker setup. Most of these points are just rumored information from the famous newspaper gsmarena. Please wait for official announcements from Samsung

Intel continues to dominate the CPU market despite the best efforts of AMD and Apple. While global PC shipments experienced a decline for much of 2023, some green signs were seen of an industry-wide recovery. The GPU market saw GPU shipments increase by 5.9% at the end of the year and according to some recently released statistics, when it comes to the desktop and laptop market, it seems Intel may be leading a comeback against its competition in the CPU space, showing some real leadership over its closest rivals. That's the latest statistic from Canalys , a global technology market analysis company (via WCCFTech). In the final quarter of 2023, Intel shipped a staggering 50 million CPUs, maintaining a truly massive 78% market share with 3% year-over-year growth. That figure compares favorably with AMD's 8 million shipments and market share of 13%, which represents a slight 1% year-over-year decline in shipments. Intel still dominates the number of CPUs on the market This number is still significantly higher than Apple, with 6 million units shipped but shipments down 4%. For those who like overall parity, that equates to more than three times as many desktop and laptop CPUs being shipped as both of Intel's main competitors in the market The CPUs add up, a pretty impressive feat, especially since AMD in particular has some very competitive desktop components including the dominant gaming CPU that is the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. That's not all about the performance figures of PC and desktop gaming chips, however. The laptop sector has been credited with leading the growth of both the GPU and CPU segments, and while gaming laptops may account for some of that increase, laptop sales Laptops and laptops in general are said to account for nearly 69% of total sales. global CPU market It seems like a clear sweep for the blue team, as according to recent figures, the x86 CPU segment is still under its control. However, if the most recent leaks are to be believed, it may not be long before AMD launches some new contenders in the desktop CPU market, in the form of its Zen 5 "Granite Ridge" architecture chips. , is now said to likely launch between April and June this year. As for CPUs for laptops, the new Zen 5 "Strix Point" CPU is also rumored to appear later this year. As things stand, Intel remains tight-lipped about the next-gen Arrow Lake desktop CPUs due to replace the current Raptor Lake Refresh generation, despite the launch of Computerx in June and Intel's Pat Gelsinger will give a keynote speech Perhaps we'll get a clearer idea of ​​when we'll see these two giants go head-to-head in the desktop market with some kind of CPU using the new silicon process or even possibly We could be looking at some new laptop chips in the form of Lunar Lake.