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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Honda aiming to sell 3.5M electric motorcycles per year by 2030

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Envisioning the future market environment, uses and technological advancements, Honda is exploring a range of future personal-use models including ones equipped with a power source besides swappable batteries. Suzuki Motor Corporation and Yamaha Motor Co.—have Platform strategy. Battery sharing.

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Toyota unveils 2 New bZ series EV models at Auto Shanghai

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Toyota Motor Corporation unveiled two BEV concept models, the bZ Sport Crossover Concept and bZ FlexSpace Concept, at Auto Shanghai. BTET), a joint venture established by Toyota and BYD—; FAW Toyota Motor; and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (China). It is planned to be produced and sold by FAW Toyota Motor.

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Musk echoes Apple, Mercedes CEOs on use of China ties

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.’s Tim Cook dinner, Mercedes-Benz Team AG’s Ola Källenius and alternative automobile and generation corporate bosses in emphasizing the use of keeping up ties with China in his first talk over with to the rustic since earlier than the pandemic. are intertwined, consistent with a central authority remark.

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Nvidia CEO plans shuttle to fulfill China executives regardless of U.S. curbs, file says

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is heading to China to fulfill with tech executives on the earth’s greatest chip marketplace, regardless of emerging tensions between Washington and Beijing, in keeping with nation usual with the topic. Huang has rocketed to famous person condition — a minimum of in tech circles — over the day future.

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Huawei’s smart car tech offers automakers route to China sales – ET Auto

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Even Germany’s Volkswagen will equip its China-made, China-bound Audi Q6L e-tron with Qiankun upon the car’s 2025 launch, in Huawei’s first deal with a foreign automaker, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. ” said Evangelos Simoudis, an investor and corporate adviser.

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Kandi Vehicles signs LOI with China Aviation Lithium Battery Co., Ltd. to promote 20,000 EVs in Hangzhou

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a China-based manufacturer and developer of battery electric vehicles (EVs) and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Zhejiang Kandi Vehicles Co., signed a cooperative letter of intent (LOI) with China Aviation Lithium Battery Co., Kandi Technologies Corp.,

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