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☆ US lawmakers press Biden for plans on Chinese use of open chip technology
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

RISC-V, pronounced "risk five," is a free open-source technology that competes with costly proprietary technology from British semiconductor and software design company Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F), and Intel Corp (INTC.O). It can be used as a key part of anything from a smartphone chip to advanced processors for artificial intelligence. U.S. firms such as Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google have embraced RISC-V, but so too have many Chinese companies. Reuters last month reported that at least four influential U.S. lawmakers view Chinese use of the technology as a potential national security threat because RISC-V is not captured by the sweeping export controls the U.S. has imposed on sending chip technology to China. They also asked the Biden administration about how it might apply an existing executive order to require U.S. companies to get an export license before working with Chinese companies on RISC-V technology.

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Raimondo, Stephen Nellis, Jamie Freed Organizations: REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Reuters, Arm Holdings, Intel Corp, Qualcomm, Google, Republican, Representatives, Commerce, Thomson Locations: U.S, China, New Jersey , Florida , Michigan, Indiana, San Francisco

☆ LinkedIn hits 1 billion members, adds AI features for job seekers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed LinkedIn logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 1 (Reuters) - LinkedIn, the business-focused social network owned by Microsoft (MSFT.O), on Wednesday said it now has more than 1 billion members and is adding more artificial intelligence features for paying users. About 80% of recent members are signing up from outside of the United States, the company has said. LinkedIn has a free tier of membership but also offers subscriptions from $30 per month. The system can also recommend profile changes to make the user more competitive for a job.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Tomer Cohen, Stephen Nellis, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: REUTERS, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: United States, San Francisco

Chipmakers have been grappling with a smartphone market slump. Last week, Qualcomm rival MediaTek (2454.TW) said it saw sales growth in its smartphone chip business. Qorvo (QRVO.O), another important smartphone chip supplier, on Wednesday projected revenue growth for fiscal 2024, sending its shares up slightly. In Qualcomm's intellectual property licensing business, sales of $1.26 billion were in line with estimates of $1.25 billion according to FactSet data. In its chip business, Qualcomm said fourth-quarter revenue from smartphone handsets was $5.46 billion, beating analysts' expectations of $5.34 billion according to FactSet data.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Qualcomm, MediaTek, FactSet, Chavi Mehta, Stephen Nellis, Richard Chang Organizations: Qualcomm, REUTERS, Wall, Apple, LSEG, Huawei Technologies, U.S ., Samsung Electronics, IDC, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: San Diego , California, Bengaluru, San Francisco

The logo of NVIDIA as seen at its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, in May of 2022. Nvidia's stock fell to as low as $392.30, down 4.7%, to the lowest level since mid-June. "The stock is getting oversold," said Tom Plumb, chief executive and lead portfolio manager at Plumb Funds, which has Nvidia as one of its largest holdings. "Previously, Nvidia has said this is not going to have a short-term impact but it's more in the long term. "These new export controls will not have a meaningful impact in the near term," the Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement.

Persons: Tom Plumb, Plumb, Biden, Thomas Hayes, Chibuike Oguh, Stephen Nellis, Amruta, Lance Tupper, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: NVIDIA, Handout, REUTERS, Nvidia Corp, Nvidia, Alibaba, HK, Baidu, U.S . Commerce Department, Wall, Nasdaq, Plumb Funds, Beijing, Great, Thomson Locations: Santa Clara , California, China, U.S, Iran, Russia, New York, San Francisco, Bengaluru

☆ Nvidia tests chatbots in chip design process in bid to use more AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 30 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday published new research into using chatbots that can generate human-like responses in the process of designing semiconductors. "It turns out a lot of our senior designers spend a fair amount of their time answering questions from junior designers," Nvidia's chief scientist Bill Dally told Reuters. This can save senior designers a huge amount of time." Dally said a big chunk of engineers' time is dedicated to finding a part of the chip that doesn't work and using testing tools to find out why. To carry out that testing, AI systems can quickly write piece of code called a script that operates the tool.

Persons: Bill Dally, Dally, Stephen Nellis, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Nvidia, Reuters, San, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

☆ Apple expected to unveil new Macs as PC industry slump eases
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The new Apple Mac Studio computer and Studio Display are displayed shortly after going on sale at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, in New York City, New York, U.S., March 18, 2022. Reuters last week reported that Nvidia also plans to jump into the PC market as early as 2025. At Apple, the Mac hit $40.18 billion in revenue for its fiscal 2022, or about 11% of its revenue. While that was up 14% from the previous fiscal year, sales this year have slowed along with the rest of the PC industry, which has suffered a post-pandemic slump. Bajarin said he thinks that supply constraints will lead Apple to focus on higher-end Mac models used by large businesses.

Persons: Mike Segar, Ben Bajarin, Bajarin, Stephen Nellis, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Apple Mac, Apple, REUTERS, Windows, Intel, IDC, Arm Holdings, Qualcomm, Reuters, Nvidia, Creative, Analysts, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, San, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, New York City , New York, U.S, San Francisco

NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The founder of the world's biggest chipmaker, Morris Chang, said on Thursday that increasing tensions over technology between the United States and China will slow down the global chip industry. The company has helped the democratically governed island of Taiwan become the world's leading producer of advanced chips. Chang, 92, said that cutting off China's chip industry from the rest of the world would affect other players beyond China. Of course, the immediate purpose is to slow China down, and I think it's doing that," Chang said. Born and raised in China, Chang built a career in the U.S., where he become a naturalized citizen in 1962, before being recruited to build the chip industry in Taiwan.

Persons: Morris Chang, Chang, Krystal Hu, Stephen Nellis, Sandra Maler Organizations: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Asia Society, Huawei Technologies, U.S, Thomson Locations: United States, China, New York, Taiwan, U.S, Arizona, San Francisco

☆ Qualcomm unveils new PC laptop chip with AI features for 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A smartphone with a displayed Qualcomm logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. Qualcomm executives said that the company's new Snapdragon Elite X chip will be available in laptops starting next year and has been redesigned to better handle artificial intelligence tasks like summarizing emails, writing text and generating images. Qualcomm will be the first to market with a chip to challenge Apple, whose laptop and desktop computers have more than doubled their market share since the iPhone maker introduced custom-designed chips in 2020. Qualcomm claimed on Tuesday that the X Elite is faster than Apple's M2 Max chip at some tasks and more energy efficient than both Apple and Intel (INTC.O) PC chips. Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Alex Katouzian, Katouzian, Francis Sideco, You've, Sideco, Stephen Nellis, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Qualcomm, REUTERS, Microsoft, Reuters, Nvidia, Devices, Apple, Intel, TIRIAS, Thomson Locations: San Diego , California, San Francisco

The company's revenue rose 13% to $56.5 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $54.52 billion, according to LSEG data. Revenue from Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud unit, which houses the Azure cloud-computing platform, grew to $24.3 billion, compared with analysts' estimate of $23.49 billion, LSEG data showed. Microsoft said on Tuesday that its fiscal first-quarter profit was $2.99 per share, above analyst estimates of $2.65 per share, according to LSEG data. Sales of its Windows operating system and other products in the segment grew to $13.7 billion, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $12.82 billion, according to data from LSEG. The segment containing the LinkedIn social network and its office productivity software grew to $18.6 billion, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $18.20 billion, according to LSEG data.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Jesse Cohen, Jeremy Goldman, Anna Tong, Stephen Nellis, Yuvraj Malik, Devika Syamnath, Peter Henderson, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Microsoft, REUTERS, Investing.com, Alpha, Intelligence, Thomson Locations: Investing.com ., Redmond, Washington, San Francisco, Bengaluru

☆ Apple to hold special event on Oct. 30 dubbed 'Scary Fast'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

An Apple logo hangs above the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City, July 21, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 24 (Reuters) - IPhone maker Apple (AAPL.O) said on Tuesday it will hold a special event named "Scary Fast" on Oct. 30. The company will hold the event at 5 pm Pacific Time (8 pm EST), a departure from its usual morning events. In June, Apple launched a larger MacBook Air with the new M2 chip at a price of $1,299, a year after the company upgraded the 13-inch MacBook Air with the same processor. Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru and Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Krishna Chandra EluriOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mike Segar, Akash Sriram, Stephen Nellis, Krishna Chandra Organizations: Apple, REUTERS, Media, Air, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, New York City, Bengaluru, San Francisco

Microsoft's chief financial officer Amy Hood said on a conference call with analysts that higher-than-expected AI consumption was responsible for a 3 percentage point boost to its cloud business. Alphabet has prioritized snaring AI startups as customers for its cloud division, while Microsoft has relied on its existing relationships to secure larger customers. Azure revenue rose 29%, higher than a 26.2% growth estimate from market research firm Visible Alpha. RBC Capital Markets has previously estimated that Microsoft will clock over $3 billion in revenue from generative AI offerings this fiscal year. Quite surprising to see strong growth reacceleration in the Azure Cloud segment, which is clearly driven by AI-as-a-service related demand," said Global X analyst Tejas Dessai.

Persons: Microsoft's, Bob O'Donnell, Bing, Bard, Amy Hood, Krishna Chintalapalli, capex, Akash Sriram, Anna Tong, Max Cherney, Yuvraj Malik, Greg Bensinger, Stephen Nellis, Sayantani Ghosh, Sonali Paul Organizations: Microsoft, Wall, Microsoft's, TECHnalysis, Parnassus Investments, DAZZLES, Alpha, RBC Capital Markets, Reuters Graphics Microsoft, Tejas Dessai, AWS, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru, Anna, San Francisco

FILE PHOTO: An Apple logo is pictured outside an Apple store in Lille, France, September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) on Tuesday will announce plans to make parts, tools and documentation needed to fix its iPhones and computers available to independent repair shops and consumers nationwide, the White House said. In recent years, Apple executives have begun touting the longevity and resale value of its devices while making it easier to fix them and to access spare parts. Apple started distributing parts and manuals to some independent repair shops in 2019. While Apple has provided spare parts to repair shops since 2019, the California bill also requires it to supply diagnostic tools to those shops as well.

Persons: Stephanie Lecocq, Apple, Joe Biden, Lael Brainard, Brainard, Nathan Proctor, Proctor, Andrea Shalal, Stephen Nellis, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Apple, REUTERS, Rights, National Economic, Manufacturers, Thomson Locations: Lille, France, U.S, California, Colorado , New York, Minnesota, San Francisco

Nvidia and AMD could sell PC chips as soon as 2025, one of the people familiar with the matter said. Nvidia and AMD would join Qualcomm (QCOM.O), which has been making Arm-based chips for laptops since 2016. Nvidia spokesperson Ken Brown, AMD spokesperson Brandi Marina, Arm spokesperson Kristen Ray and Microsoft spokesperson Pete Wootton all declined to comment. Executives at Microsoft have observed how efficient Apple’s Arm-based chips are, including with AI processing, and desire to attain similar performance, one of the sources said. AMD's entry into the Arm-based PC market was earlier reported by chip-focused publication SemiAccurate.

Persons: Intel’s, Ken Brown, Brandi Marina, Kristen Ray, Pete Wootton, ”, Jay Goldberg, Will Moss, Stephen Nellis, Max A, Kenneth Li, Josie Kao Organizations: NVIDIA, Handout, REUTERS, Nvidia, Arm Holdings, Reuters, Windows, Apple, IDC, Devices, AMD, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Intel, D2D, Software, Thomson Locations: Santa Clara , California, San Francisco

☆ Cadence's downbeat fourth-quarter forecast signals weakness in chip industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

FILE PHOTO:The logo of Cadence Design Systems is pictured outside the company's offices in San Jose, California, U.S., January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Stephen Nelli/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 23 (Reuters) - Cadence Design Systems (CDNS.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted profit below Wall Street estimates on Monday, as slower R&D spending by semiconductor firms navigating a tough economy weighs on the chip design software provider. A slower-than-expected chip industry recovery has a cascading impact on firms like Cadence, which makes software tools and hardware that help produce blueprints for chips before they are mass manufactured. Cadence expects current-quarter adjusted profit per share in the range of $1.30 to $1.36. Analysts had expected adjusted profit of $1.37 per share, as per LSEG data.

Persons: Stephen Nelli, Akshita Toshniwal, Chavi Mehta, Shailesh Organizations: Cadence Design Systems, REUTERS, Wall, Cadence, Revenue, Thomson Locations: San Jose , California, U.S, Beijing, China, Bengaluru

☆ Analysis: Bumper US corn harvest sinks prices, pushes global supply to surplus
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Mark Weinraub | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A bumper harvest will strain storage capacity and hold down prices of the world's most traded commodity crop. Already corn prices are trending near three-year lows at a time when some food prices are rising due to tight supplies of other staples like rice, stoking inflation worries. Just 16 months ago corn prices were at their highest in a decade as the war in Ukraine disrupted supplies from the Black Sea breadbasket. USDA forecast that domestic corn supplies would jump 55% to 2.111 billion bushels in the 2023/24 marketing year, helping push the global stockpile to a five-year high by September 2024. Some growers need to take out loans to fund their operations as they wait and hope corn prices will rise.

Persons: Shannon Stapleton, Steve Pitstick, Pitstick, Stephen Nicholson, Bill Roenigk, Harold Wolle, Wolle, Tom Polansek, Caroline Stauffer, David Gregorio Our Organizations: REUTERS, U.S . Agriculture Department, Brazil, Rabobank, Corn, Maine Foods, U.S, Growers, Thomson Locations: Kelley , Iowa, U.S, PARK , Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Ukraine, Cal

A view of a Nvidia logo at their headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan May 31, 2023. U.S. officials asked for input in devising a "tamperproof" way to keep systems that might contain up to 256 AI chips from being strung together into a supercomputer. The other primary gift that U.S. officials gave Nvidia, Intel and AMD was hobbling their most capable Chinese competitors. New rules will make it nearly impossible for Moore Threads and Biren, two well-funded Chinese startups founded by Nvidia veterans, to have their designs manufactured using cutting-edge chipmaking technology. That means whatever Nvidia is able to sell to China will likely be Chinese buyers' best legal option.

Persons: Ann Wang, ChatGPT, Thomas Krueger, They're, Moore, Piper Sandler, Dan Hutcheson, Japan's, Clete Willems, Akin Gump, Gregory Allen, David Kanter, Stephen Nellis, Max A, Kenneth Li, Jamie Freed Organizations: REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Biden, Nvidia, Intel, Devices, U.S . Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S . National Security Council, BIS, AMD, Japan's Nikon, U.S, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Real, Thomson Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, China, U.S, Netherlands, Japan, San Francisco

The new restrictions will also affect rival chips produced by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) and Intel (INTC.O), according to analysts. In its filing, Nvidia said two of its modified advanced AI chips - the A800 and H800 - both of which it created for the Chinese market to comply with previous export rules, would be blocked for sale under the new rules. Nvidia declined to comment beyond the filing. Chips being built by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices that aim to compete with Nvidia will also be impacted. Intel declined to comment on the Gaudi 2 chip and said it was assessing the new rules.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Dylan Patel, Intel's Gaudi, Bernstein, Stacy Rasgon, Patel, Biden, chipmaker, Yuvraj Malik, Max A, Sriraj Kalluvila, Leslie Adler Organizations: NVIDIA, REUTERS, Nvidia, Beijing, Micro Devices, Intel, Gaudi, AMD, Thomson Locations: China, Bengaluru, Max, San Francisco

Flags of China and U.S. are displayed on a printed circuit board with semiconductor chips, in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. Reuters reported in June that the very AI chips barred by prior regulations could be purchased from vendors in China's Shenzhen. AI capabilities, aided by supercomputing and advanced chips, improve the speed and accuracy of military decision-making, planning and logistics, according to the regulations released Tuesday. LICENSING EXPANDEDThe new measures also expand licensing requirements for exports of advanced chips to more than 40 additional countries that present risks of diversion to China and are subject to U.S. arms embargoes. "We don’t think incremental semiconductor equipment restrictions are likely to have significant long term effects" on equipment suppliers, Wolfe Research said in a client note.

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Moore, Gina Raimondo, Biren, ASML, Lam, Raimondo, Jake Sullivan, Janet Yellen, Alexandra Alper, Karen Freifeld, Stephen Nellis, David Shepardson, Max A, Chris Sanders, Jamie Freed, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Nvidia, Beijing, Commerce, Reuters, Georgetown University's Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Xilinx, Intel, supercomputing, HIT, AMD, U.S, Lam, Applied Materials, Wolfe Research, Semiconductor Industry Association, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Iran, Russia, Beijing, China's Shenzhen, Georgetown, CHINA, Macau, Netherlands

☆ How the US will cut off China from more AI chips
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

CAPTURING MORE CHIPSThe original rules last year restricted chips if they met a two-pronged test for how much computing power the chips contained and how fast they could talk to other chips. Nvidia (NVDA.O) , the top AI chip supplier, responded by creating chips that stayed just under the communication limits for the Chinese market but that still proved useful for AI work. BLACKLISTING CHINA'S NVIDIA CHALLENGERSChip industry watchers believe that if U.S. AI chips are banned in China, Chinese firms will seek to fill the void in the market. On Tuesday, U.S. officials added two leading Chinese chip startups, Biren and Moore Threads, to a U.S. trade blacklist. That threshold would encompass nearly all advanced AI chips and is aimed at helping chip factories spot efforts to work around the rules.

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Moore, Stephen Nellis, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, San, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Macau, San Francisco

Flags of China and U.S. are displayed on a printed circuit board with semiconductor chips, in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. The rules restrict a broader swathe of advanced chips and chipmaking tools to a greater number of countries including Iran and Russia, and blacklist Chinese chip designers Moore Threads and Biren. Nvidia's business has soared since the imposition of last year's rules because its China-only chips are still better than alternatives. LICENSING EXPANDEDThe new measures also expand licensing requirements for exports of advanced chips to more than 40 additional countries that present risks of diversion to China and are subject to U.S. arms embargoes. The Biden administration also hit 21 countries outside China with a licensing requirement for chipmaking tools.

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Moore, Gina Raimondo, " Raimondo, Biren, ASML, Raimondo, Jake Sullivan, Janet Yellen, Alexandra Alper, Karen Freifeld, Stephen Nellis, David Shepardson, Max A, Chris Sanders, Jamie Freed, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Nvidia, Commerce, HIT, AMD, Intel, U.S, Lam Research, Materials, Embassy, Semiconductor Industry Association, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Beijing, Iran, Russia, United States, CHINA, Macau, Netherlands, Washington

☆ Oracle's NetSuite adds AI features to finance software
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NetSuite, owned by Oracle (ORCL.N), said that it is using its parent company's cloud-based systems to develop the new "Text Enhance" feature. In NetSuite's case, some of the new features are aimed at automating the mundane day-to-day tasks of a finance department. Other new NetSuite features are aimed at reading and analyzing financial data to generate summaries and reports. NetSuite said the "Text Enhance" features will roll out over the next six months. The company said typical use levels of the new features, which rely on a new supercomputer built by Oracle, will be included in existing subscription prices, but further new AI features or higher use levels may include additional costs.

Persons: Evan Goldberg, NetSuite's, Goldberg, we've, NetSuite, Stephen Nellis, Will Dunham Organizations: Oracle, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Adobe, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

"I just want to say how deeply saddened that we all are about the recent horrific attacks on Israel ... He warned that the war in Ukraine, compounded by the attacks on Israel, could have "far-reaching impacts on energy and food markets, global trade, and geopolitical relationships." On Friday, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser included Israel in her opening remarks on the bank's earnings call. "Once someone ventures into the space of, 'who is the perpetrator and who is the victim,' you enter into the exposure of social media disinformation and risk," Kotok said. Some large companies including Apple (AAPL.O) and Walmart (WMT.N) had yet to issue statements, while some prominent personalities including NBA star LeBron James have spoken out.

Persons: JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Albert Bourla, Jefferies, Michael Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Jane Fraser, Israel, Fraser, Larry Fink, David Kotok, Cumberland, Kotok, Antonio Neri, Andy Jassy, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, LeBron James, Gigi Hadid, Lananh Nguyen, Aditya Soni, Stephen Nellis, Siddharth Cavale, David Gaffen, Arriana, Sayantani Ghosh, David Gregorio Our Organizations: JPMorgan, Pfizer, UBS, New York City, Bloomberg, Delta Air Lines, Citigroup, BlackRock, Cumberland Advisors, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon, Meta, Union, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Walmart, NBA, Thomson Locations: Israel, Ukraine, New York, Florida, Bengaluru

☆ Adobe unveils new image generation tools in AI push
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Image-generating technology from firms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have threatened Adobe's customer base of creative professionals who use its tools like Photoshop. The new generation of tools announced on Tuesday will include a feature called "Generative Match". Like Adobe's earlier tool, it will allow users to generate an image from a few words of text. "Some amount of photography is going to move to virtual photography, where you're generating from whole cloth. Adobe on Tuesday also rolled out tools that generate vector graphics, which can easily be resized and are commonly used for logos and product labels, as well as tools for generating templates for brochures and other items.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Ely Greenfield, Greenfield, Stephen Nellis, Sonali Paul Organizations: REUTERS, Adobe, Reuters, Thomson Locations: San Jose , California, San Francisco

☆ Apple updates iPhone 12 software to address France's radiation testing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Apple has disputed the findings of French regulators who said that the iPhone 12, which has been on the market for three years, gave off more than permissible amounts of radiation and halted sales of the device. On Tuesday, Apple gave its fullest explanation yet of the discrepancy between France's findings and those in other countries where the iPhone 12 has been approved for sale. In a statement, Apple said that the iPhone 12 is still safe to use even without the software update. "We want all iPhone 12 users to know that iPhone 12 is safe to use and always has been. IPhone 12 was certified to meet applicable worldwide energy transmission regulations and standards when it first shipped in 2020 and no changes have been made since then that would affect energy transmission," Apple said in the statement.

Persons: Apple, iPhones, Chavi Mehta, Sriraj Kalluvila, Lisa Shumaker, Sandra Maler Organizations: Apple, L'Agence Nationale des, Thomson Locations: France, Bengaluru

☆ RISC-V group says restrictions on open technology would slow innovation
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The comments come after Reuters last week reported that a growing group of U.S. lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to impose export control restrictions around RISC-V, the open-source technology overseen by the RISC-V International nonprofit foundation. RISC-V technology can be used as an ingredient to create chips for smartphones or artificial intelligence. In a blog post, Calista Redmond, chief of RISC-V International, which coordinates work among companies on the technology, said RISC-V is no different than other open technology standards like Ethernet, which helps computers on the internet talk with each other. Redmond wrote that RISC-V has drawn contributions in equal measure from North America, Europe and Asia. "Having access to open standards allows companies to innovate faster and spend their time creating differentiated products, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel."

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Calista Redmond, Redmond, Stephen Nellis, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, V, Reuters, V International, U.S, Qualcomm, Google, Huawei Technologies, Arm Holdings, San, Thomson Locations: U.S, North America, Europe, Asia, San Francisco

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