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Compal and Realtek form a joint venture
Citing industry information, a source recently revealed that Compal Electronics, an ODM company that manufactures laptops, monitors, tablets and TVs for customers such as Apple, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba, Hewlett -Packard and Fujitsu, and chip maker Realtek Semiconductor, well known primarily for network controller chips and audio codecs, have formed a joint venture. It’s called Starmems Semiconductor.
Although there is no information on the creation of a joint venture, for example, on the website of Realtek Semiconductor, the source has information on what kind of products the joint venture will produce. Initially, Starmems Semiconductor is said to focus on ICs for MEMS microphones used in laptops and fully wireless stereo headphones (TWS).
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Software
Elon Musk knocks down the price? He does not want to complete the deal to buy Twitter without an audit, which is impossible

Elon Musk’s purchase of the social network Twitter is getting more and more interesting. The other day, the billionaire said that the number of fake and spam accounts on Twitter can exceed 90% of the number of daily active users, but in general he leans towards 20%.
Musk has already said he wants to audit, so he put the deal on hold for now. However, there appear to be problems with the audit procedure.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal wrote that it is unlikely that an external audit could be carried out.
Unfortunately, we do not believe that this particular assessment can be done externally, given the urgent need to use both public and private information (which we cannot share). Outwardly, it is even impossible to know which accounts are counted as daily active.
Agrawal also said that Twitter is actively fighting spam accounts, blocking more than half a million accounts daily. He reiterated that the company has been counting such accounts for many years, and the rate has always been less than 5%.
Musk said that the CEO of Twitter publicly refused to provide evidence of such indicators, which is why the deal cannot move towards completion.
It is not yet clear how this story will end, but it is likely that all this will allow Musk to buy Twitter for significantly less than the original $ 44 billion. Perhaps from the very beginning, Musk had such a tactic, and now he adheres to it.
Phones
A $250 smartphone with 10x optical zoom? In China, such a device will allegedly be released under the NZone brand.

In China, an inexpensive smartphone with a 10x optical zoom can.
The operator China Mobile under the NZone brand is preparing to release a model with the catalog number SP210, which will receive a triple main camera with a 10x optical zoom. Unfortunately, we only know that the main sensor will have a resolution of 50 megapixels.
Perhaps the information about 10x optical zoom is a mistake or a typo. Firstly, since the smartphone will cost only $250, and secondly, because NZone is China Mobile’s brand under which the company releases Huawei smartphones. And Huawei simply does not have an inexpensive smartphone with a 10x optical zoom. In fact, there are no such devices on the market at all.
Perhaps this refers to a hybrid zoom, or even only digital. But if, by some miracle, a $250 smartphone with a 10x optical zoom does come out, it will be a unique product.
From the rest, a 6.7-inch IPS screen, 5G support, an unknown eight-core platform, 8 GB of RAM, 128 or 256 GB of flash memory, and a 4900 mAh battery are reported. Dimensions will be 163.3 x 74.7 x 8.4 mm with a weight of 195 g.
Phones
Apple wants to use E Ink screens in the iPhone and iPad. The company is testing similar displays as auxiliary displays for flexible models.

Apple may start using E Ink screens in its devices. Well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo spoke about this.
Apple is testing an E Ink display for future foldable devices. The E Ink color display can be the go-to solution for foldable devices that need a cover or second screen due to its excellent power savings
Kuo says that Apple considers such screens as additional ones. For example, it can be a small secondary screen on a foldable iPhone or a screen on an iPad case.
E Ink screens only consume energy to change the image, so they are great for such tasks. We have already seen smartphones with such screens, so there is nothing new for the market.
When such devices can enter the market is not yet clear, but Apple may not release the first foldable smartphones until 2025, according to the same analyst.
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