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Topics: Semiconductor• Open Source• IPO•

March 14, 2021: State of the Cloud; More Semiconductor Investment; Open Source in China

Hello Interconnected Readers: This Interconnected Weekly issue covers more news on China’s semiconductor industry as it continues to balloon. I also shared some thoughts on Bessemer Ventures’ 2021 State of the Cloud report, the Apache Software Foundation, and yet another Chinese tech company

Topics: Semiconductor• RISC-V• Open Source•

Semiconductor Design Consolidation: MIPS -> RISC-V

Consolidation in the semiconductor industry continues. The latest event is MIPS Technologies embracing the open source instruction-set architecture (ISA), RISC-V, and no longer designing for the MIPS architecture that gave birth to the company more than three decades ago. While this news, reported in

Topics: Open Source• 5G•

USG Embraces Open Source 5G

While the world was on edge back in January, watching to see if the United States will have a peaceful transition of power or fall into chaos, an important announcement from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) was released but swept under the

Topics: For Founders• Developer• Open Source•

Early Stage Sales with Matt Ekstrom

A few weeks ago, I launched the first session of a monthly Company Building webinar series for founders and operators of developer-focused and/or commercial open source startups. The goal of this series is to share tactical knowledge -- the nitty gritty know-hows that

Topics: 5G• Open Source• Agora•

January 31, 2021: r/wallstreetbets, Open Source 5G, Agora Acquisition

Hello Interconnected Readers: Last week, the world was enthralled by the battle between the subreddit, r/WallStreetBets, and Wall Street itself. I really do mean the world. I saw WeChat posts, tweets in different languages, and even bonded with my dad over it, who

Topics: Meta• Open Source•

Open Source, Open Stats, Open Development

This is a shorter post than my customary Thursday articles, but hopefully no less interesting. My last four posts articulated a “Global by Nature” framework, looking at the forces that will shape a technology-driven (instead of a trade-driven) Globalization 2.0, and where investment

Topics: Global by Nature• Developer• API Economy•

Global by Nature (Part IV): Public Companies to Watch

In the first three parts of this “global by nature” series, we went in-depth into the three forces that will power the technology-driven Globalization 2.0: developers (people), APIs (product), open source (paradigm). * Part I: Developers [https://interconnected.blog/global-by-nature-developers/] * Part II: APIs [https:

Topics: Global by Nature• Open Source• Developer•

Global by Nature (Part III): Open Source

Part I and II of this series focused on two interconnected elements of the “global by nature” theme: people and products. The people are developers. The products are APIs. * Part I: Developers [https://interconnected.blog/global-by-nature-developers/] * Part II: APIs [https://interconnected.blog/global-by-nature-apis/] * Part

Topics: Meta• Open Source• Developer•

Building a Bilingual Newsletter: 2020 Edition

I’m taking a departure from my usual deep dive analysis to write this “under the hood” exploration of how I’ve been building this bilingual newsletter. I want to share some behind the scenes information, because I’ve always treated Interconnected as a

Topics: Open Source• Semiconductor• RISC-V•

Some Bearish Thoughts on RISC-V

I have been a supporter, if not an outright cheerleader, of RISC-V, the open source instruction set architecture (ISA). In my writings here on Interconnected [https://interconnected.blog/tag/risc-v/] and elsewhere [https://www.wired.com/story/opinon-the-future-of-american-industry-depends-on-open-source-tech/] , I’ve often used RISC-V as

Topics: Open Source• Geopolitics• India•

[Enhanced] The Future of American Industry Depends on Open Source Tech

This post is an enhanced republication of an OpEd I wrote jointly with Jordan Schneider a month ago that was published in Wired Magazine [https://www.wired.com/story/opinon-the-future-of-american-industry-depends-on-open-source-tech/] . This enhanced version includes more information on how governments around the world are adopting

Topics: Huawei• Open Source• China•

300 Years: Huawei's Open Source Strategy

Lost in the fog of TikTok was an important announcement: Huawei open sourced its homemade mobile operating system, HarmonyOS, now dubbed OpenHarmony. This announcement flew under the radar, but has far-reaching implications to not just the future of mobile technology, but also how that

Topics: Open Source• TSMC• ByteDance•

August 30, 2020: Open Source, Zhang Yiming, TSMC, Loongson, XPeng, MediaTek

This issue covers the period between August 24 - 30, 2020 with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources. Disclaimer: all translated article titles are done by me, not official translations from the media outlets. Before you go

Topics: Open Source• China• Gitee•

Can You "Nationalize" Open Source?

The impending ban or acquisition of TikTok and ByteDance’s lawsuit against the Trump administration have sucked up all the oxygen in the US-China tech zeitgeist. A gigantic IPO, possibly the largest in the world, by Ant Financials is also looming on the horizon.

Topics: Blockchain• Azure• ByteDance•

August 23, 2020: Crypto, TikTok, JEDI, Zoom, Pinduoduo, Gitee

This issue covers the period between August 17 - 23, 2020 with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources. Disclaimer: all translated article titles are done by me, not official translations from the media outlets. Before you go

Topics: ByteDance• Regulation• Open Source•

A Framework to (Dis)trust and Verify TikTok

Last week, the New York Times tech columnist, Kevin Roose, wrote a well-reasoned piece [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/technology/tiktok-china-ban-model.html] arguing that the U.S. government should not ban TikTok, but use it as an example and opportunity to build

Topics: Antitrust• Open Source• 5G•

August 2, 2020: Antitrust in China, Open Source 5G, Electric Vehicles IPO, ByteDance, Huawei

This issue covers the period between July 27 - August 2, 2020 with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources. I purposely did not include anything related to the antitrust hearing (too many out there) and TikTok’s

Topics: COVID-19• Open Source•

COVID, Open Source, Industrial Policy

By the time you read this post, you are likely bombarded with news and tweets about the antitrust hearing of the big four tech companies (Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet) and their respective quarterly earnings. Meanwhile, another announcement happened in the tech world that I

Topics: COVID-19• Open Source•

July 26, 2020: Mars, Ant Group, New York Times, COVID-19, Open Source, ARM

This issue covers the period between July 20 - 26, 2020 with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources – hand-picked by your humble author to further our exploration of the interconnections between technology, business, investment, and geopolitics. All

Topics: RISC-V• China• Open Source•

RISC-V, China, Nightingales

Last weekend, I read a long, epic piece of techlore [https://www.huxiu.com/article/360061.html] that chronicled the fierce and bitter rivalry between TSMC and Samsung in their fight to become the world’s number 1 chip foundry, which stretched back three

Topics: Semiconductor• Open Source• IPO•

June 28, 2020: Semiconductor, Xiaomi, Facial Recognition, GPS, EDA Equipment, Agora

Note: This issue of Interconnected Weekly covers the period between June 22-28, 2020, with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources – hand-picked by your humble author to further our exploration of the interconnections between technology, business, investment, and

Topics: China• E-Commerce• Open Source•

China-Scale Technology Sandbox

China’s Internet economy is often viewed by many people through the lens of U.S.-China relations or China’s domestic structure. Some times those lenses are useful, other times not so much. One aspect, where applying a geopolitical lens is not useful,

Topics: ByteDance• Open Source• China•

Can ByteDance Build Trust?

As I noted in Interconnected Weekly, [https://interconnected.blog/june-14-2020-interconnected-weekly/] the most interesting news item from last week was the revelation that ByteDance [https://en.pingwest.com/a/6875] is cutting its China-based engineers data access to TikTok and its other international products, reported

Topics: Open Source• China• RISC-V•

Open Source in China: The Trends

This is the third and last part of my multi-part series exploring “open source in China”. If you missed the two earlier posts, I’d strongly recommend you read them first to build some context. (Part I [https://interconnected.blog/open-source-in-china-the-players/], Part II [https:

Topics: Open Source• China•

Open Source in China: The Game

This post is part two of a multipart exploration of “open source in China”. If this is the first time you’ve ever heard of or thought about China’s open source ecosystem, I recommend reading Part I of this series, “Open Source in