News & Reviews:   china

Previously, we reported that Apple has moved a portion of its manufacturing for the iPhone 14 series to India as part of its effort to move production away from China. Now, a new report suggests that the tech giant is further investing in India, as half of all iPhones are expected to be manufactured in the country by 2027.

Apple is reportedly planning to move its MacBook lineup’s production from China to Vietnam for the first time next year. This diversification move is following the rising tension between the United States and China, with the tech giant’s top supplier, Taiwan's Foxconn being told to start manufacturing MacBooks in Vietnam around May 2023.

Apple has tweaked how AirDrop functions on the iPhone, whereby users now only have the option to toggle AirDrop sharing with ‘Everyone’ for 10 minutes. Previously, the toggle allows you to always keep AirDrop on, thus allowing anyone nearby to share files with you.

The China Game Industry Group Committee, which is affiliated w the nation's gaming regulator has announced that young people in the country have curbed their addiction to video games. In a report by the committee co-authored by data provider CNG, it was concluded that 75 per cent of young gamers now played for less than 3 hours a week.

Touch 'n Go eWallet just made another milestone. This time, the eWallet platform by TNG Digital Sdn Bhd has been expanded to Mainland China. The cross-border payment is made possible in a collaboration with Alipay+ which is operated by Ant Group.

Apple has been shifting production of its products away from China recently amidst frustrations over supply disruption and restrictive Covid-19 regulations in the country. According to a new report, the tech giant is now planning to shift manufacturing of its MacBook lineup to Thailand, making the country the main non-China production site for the product category.

India is reportedly seeking to restrict Chinese smartphone manufacturers from selling affordable devices in the country in a bid to support its faltering domestic industry. This proposal would ban smartphones cheaper than Rs12,000 or ~RM672 and would definitely affect Chinese brands such as Xiaomi, realme and more that dominate the segment in the country.

Apple is reportedly shifting the production of some of its iPad lineup from China to Vietnam in order to soften the blow of supply disruptions in China caused by the country’s Covid-19 lockdowns. This move follows a similar move by the tech giant who previously shifted a chunk of its iPhone’s production to India.

Chinese chip manufacturing giant SMIC recently posted its earnings for the first quarter of 2022 which saw a whopping year-on-year increase of 62.6 percent. However, despite the company’s immense growth, SMIC is actually projecting a terrible year for smartphone sales worldwide, claiming that it will drop by some 200 million units.

If you ask any smartphone enthusiasts what's the best chipset, they would probably tell you it's the Snapdragon and Apple's A Bionic chipset series. However, both of these chipsets have been taken over by MediaTek as the most popular SoC in China recently.