The EU imposes customs duties on Chinese optical cables, the first phone with iSIM, a European chip gem

A reporter prepares every Friday Jan Sedlák selection of interesting news from the world of IT. What happened this week?

The European Commission has imposed import duties on optical cables from China. The anti-dumping measure is estimated at 5.1 to 10.3 percent. The European survey found that Chinese producers benefit from a number of benefits provided by their own government, including relief or soft loans from the China Development Bank Fund. The EU considers the field of optics to be critical. It generates a billion dollars a year in Europe and employs five thousand people. Above all, however, it fits into the strategy of digital sovereignty.

ASML achieved sales of 18.6 billion euros last year with a profit of 5.9 billion. Another 20% growth is expected this year. The Dutch chip machine manufacturer continues to benefit from being the only one in the world to supply EUV machines. They are subscribed to by Intel, TSMC or Samsung. Last year, 42 EUV machines were sold, with sales of 6.3 billion euros. One EUV costs about $ 140 million and has over one hundred thousand components. ASML is preparing a new generation of EUVs, the price is expected to rise to $ 300 million and nanometers to fall below three. Intel was the first to order these High-NA devices.

We banned Huawei on 5G networks because the Americans told us so. These are the words of the former British Minister for Trade and Industry Vinceho Cablea. He served in the cabinet David Cameron. He added that the ban “has nothing to do with national security.”

The US campaign against Huawei continues beyond Joe Biden. The Trump administration had a program Clean Networks, with which she toured allies and other countries, including the Czech Republic, and tried to persuade them to ban or severely restrict Chinese society. As LightReading informs, Biden’s team is preparing a new Alliance for the Future of the Internet event. Huawei continues to struggle with pressure, for example invests in a number of chip companies.

Taiwan wants to make the equipment needed to produce the chips itself. The Taiwanese president said she was 100 percent sure the country could do it. The Asian country, thanks to TSMC et al. dominates the production of chips, but necessarily needs, for example, EUV machines from ASML.

Qualcomm and Vodafone show the first phone with iSIM. In contrast to the still not very widespread eSIM, it integrates directly into the processor, so it is not a separate chip on the board. This could help in adoption, as iSIM smartphone manufacturers get it right on the chip.

At TSMC, Intel will acquire the capacity of an entire factory for 3nm production. Intel will probably use this process for its upcoming graphics chips and 3nm processors. At least until he kicks up his own production capacity again. Intel has also reached a milestone in the preparation of the 7nm process in Ireland.

Intel is preparing its own chip for bitcoin mining. Therefore, it will be optimized for the SHA-256 hash function. The code name is Bonanza Mine and the show is coming soon. Intel will have competition in the form of ASIC machine manufacturers, who often design their own chips and are slowly moving towards their 5nm production. According to Fox Business, Intel already has its first interesting customer.

Microsoft has discontinued production of the Xbox One consoles. Podle The Verge this happened at the end of 2020. Sellers are selling out stocks. The Xbox One X can be purchased for eight thousand and somewhere at all. Sony, on the other hand, has extended production of the PlayStation 4, responding to the lack of new consoles.

According to Mizuho Securities, AMD makes Epyc server processors more expensive by ten to thirty percent. Demand exceeds supply. Intel Sapphire Rapids is also supposed to play a role.

Lenovo has made a vendor lock-in for AMD processors. Specifically for Ryzen Pro desktops, these processors are paired with the motherboard. They cannot be used elsewhere. The processors should have an integrated security coprocessor, analyzes Serve the Home.

The creator of Nginx Igor Sysoev leaves the project. He said he wanted to pursue personal activities. Nginx began to emerge in 2002 and the company of the same name was sold in 2019 to F5 Networks. Nginx is the most widespread web server in the world.

Nvidia Introduces New Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution (DLDSR). It follows the increasingly popular DLSS, but does not address upscaling, but downscaling. The technology is analyzed by Cnews.cz. He too writes about ray tracing games on mobile phones, thanks to the Samsung Exynos 2200 with Xclipse 920 graphics built on RDNA 2.

OnlyOffice 7.0 is released. Tables can be password protected, presentations support animations, and online forms can be created. The package is free and now supports a dark look. Wine 7.0 was also released. Added support for VKD3D 1.2, which, for example, works better with the Apple M1.