Huawei licenses key 5G tech to Oppo, amid a US crackdown, and says it has patent cross-licensing deals with 20 companies, including extended deals with Samsung (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple plans to use TSMC’s next generation N3E 3-nm chipmaking technology for the A17 chips in some of its 2023 iPhones and M3 chips for Macs  —  Move will mark industry’s first adoption of updated production technology  —  TAIPEI — Apple aims to be the first company to use …

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Dell aims to stop using chips made in China by 2024 and tells suppliers to significantly reduce the number of all China-made components in its products  —  ‘This trend looks irreversible,’ supplier exec says of tech industry’s production shift  —  TAIPEI — U.S. computer maker Dell aims …

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: in a first, Apple plans to move some MacBook production to Vietnam in 2023, asking Foxconn to begin as early as May, to further diversify from China  —  iPhone maker aims to have ‘out of China’ production alternatives for key products  —  TAIPEI — Apple plans to move …

Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia:
Chinese regulators approve paid games from Tencent and NetEase for the first time since July 2021, as part of granting 73 games licenses  —  Beijing gives nod to licenses as it gradually loosens crackdown on tech sector  —  HONG KONG — Tencent Holdings and NetEase, two of China’s biggest …

Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia:
Samsung says its Q3 profit dropped 31.7% YoY to $7.7B amid inflation and estimates that revenue for Q3 increased 2.7% to about $53B  —  South Korean tech company may suffer poor earnings in coming quarters  —  SEOUL — Samsung Electronics said Friday that its operating profit likely fell …

Nikkei Asia:
Sources detail Huawei’s plans to stealthily build a domestic chip supply chain with partners in Beijing, Wuhan, Qingdao, and Shenzhen, investing over $55.8B  —  Battered by sanctions, Huawei leads the way in stealthily building a domestic semiconductor supply chain