The increasing price tags on smartphones is often blamed for the stagnation in sales of the devices. Unfortunately, the next big thing in smartphones—super-fast 5G wireless networks—isn’t likely to make the devices any cheaper.

Optimism abounds in the wireless industry that 5G will spark sales growth by giving smartphone users internet speeds comparable to what they experience ...

Last year, Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, a Chinese government-backed investment fund, made one of that country’s most ambitious attempts to buy a U.S. chip company with a $1.3 billion bid for Lattice Semiconductor. But after the Chinese origins of the prospective buyer attracted scrutiny by the Trump administration, Canyon Bridge scrapped the deal.

The firm quickly turned its attention ...

For some time, Apple has been serious about building more wireless components for its own devices, putting its own Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chips into the latest Apple Watches and AirPod earbuds.

Qualcomm is laying off 269 employees at its offices in Raleigh, N.C. and San Diego, mostly in its faltering data center unit, according to documents reviewed by The Information. Only around 50 employees remain in the data center unit, down from nearly 1,000 employees earlier this year, said one person with knowledge of the situation.

The layoffs follow earlier rounds of staff cutbacks in the ...

In recent years, the chip giant Intel sought to burnish its brand with a series of whimsical marketing antics—from a light show at the 2018 Winter Olympics consisting of Intel drones to a collaboration with Lady Gaga, who performed at the 2016 Grammy Awards with dancing robotic arms and interactive holograms.

Now Intel is sharply scaling back an in-house advertising group, called Agency ...