Alibaba is growing to the gross. The striking thing is that he is doing it in the opposite way to Amazon

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Alibaba has just presented its results of fiscal year 2025 With a jump of 77% in net benefits, up to 18,000 million dollars. But the most striking are not those good figures, but the strategy behind. Why is it important. While Amazon has been focusing on profitability and operational efficiencyAlibaba is doing exactly the opposite: prioritizing aggressive growth over margins, especially in international markets. In figures. Chinese giant numbers reflect this bet: Revenues of 140,000 million dollars (996.3 billion yuan). International trade grew by 29%, up to 18,500 million dollars. Aliexpress It operates in more than 200 markets. The business Cloud It rose 11%, with products from growing to triple digit for seven consecutive quarters. The contrast. Both companies live in 2025, but they go through different temporal lines: Amazon is in optimization phase: squeeze to the maximum AWS, I adjust prime and cuts operational costs to maximize each dollar of benefit. Alibaba acts as a growing company: Invest the gross in global infrastructure, Open Data Centers in Southeast Asia and burns box to gain fee. The strategy difference reflects different moments: Amazon dominates mature markets where you must defend positions. Alibaba sees expansion opportunities, especially in Asia, the Middle East and emerging markets where competitive advantages can still set. For making a more technological simile: it is an equivalent to Apple and OpenAi positions. One protects a legacy acting often defensive. The other has too much to win. And that explains the differences between the proceeding of both. The results show that the bet is working: Lada It approaches profitability for the first time. Aliexpress consolidates its global position. And the business Cloud It becomes the second growth engine. Even secondary businesses such as Gaode maps They have achieved profitability. At the moment, quarterly. In detail. There is something deeper in these opposite strategies: Amazon centralizes, alibaba decentralizes. Where Amazon standards the global experience from Seattle, Alibaba locates each market with specific platforms: Aliexpress for global consumers. Trendyol For Türkiye. Lada for Southeast Asia. Each with its identity, local currency and cultural peculiarities. This multiplatform strategy is working. The results show that there is no unique electronic commerce model: each market needs its own platform, adapted to specific customs and specific purchasing behaviors. Alibaba is not limited to selling products either. Is exporting Chinese culture: Livestreams Purchasing, Festivals like him Singles Daygamified experiences. When Pop Mart does a Livestream From its offices and attracts 240,000 spectators buying collectible figures, we are seeing the evolution of commerce towards something cultural, almost anthropological. Yes, but. Alibaba is also increasing the pressure on Chinese competitors (and in the Chinese market) with a new round of discount coupons of 7,000 million dollars in coupons for the next 12 months. It is a sign that the price war in China is intensified. In perspective. Alibaba is betting on Timing: He believes that the current moment justifies prioritizing positioning on margins. With the AI ​​putting up the technological sector and a list of emerging markets yet to conquer, the time to achieve world hegemony can be now or never. The question is whether this growth strategy at all costs will be sustainable when markets mature. We have seen too many examples that responded “no”: Wework, Groupon either Moviepassto give a few. In Xataka | China lives a little fever of investment in AI and an old acquaintance does not want to be left behind: Alibaba Outstanding image | Alibaba

China is at the gates of overcoming Taiwan in number of chips produced. Sounds very intimidating but it is not so much

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China will surpass Taiwan in 2030 in the production capacity of semiconductors. This is indicated by a recent Yole Group report that highlights how the efforts of the Asian giant will soon be rewarded. At least in the quantity section. Not so much in quality. Chinese-Taiwan tension. China has one especially delicate relationship With Taiwan, and that shows in the chips race. TSMC is the jewel of the Taiwanese crownabsolute protagonist in the semiconductor sector. No one produces more and better chips, and the restrictions that affect the People’s Republic of China (China) do not affect the Chinese Republic (Taiwan). China, however, has been investing in its own continental companies and manufacturing plants (“Foundries”), and that is giving results. The data. According to this study, the production capacity of semiconductors in continental China plants will represent 30% of the world total quota before the decade ends, when in 2024 it was 21%. Taiwan currently is the market leader with a 23%share, while China is already second with the aforementioned 21%. Behind are South Korea (19%), Japan (13%) and the US (10%). Big Fund. Beijing put years ago its plan to be a “complete nation” in the field of semicoductors. This is: not depending on anyone. To do this, he created the so -called Investment Fund of the Integrated Circuit Industry of China, popularly known as the “great background” or “Big Fund”. The economic support of this body has allowed SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor – two of the main manufacturers of Chinese semiconductors – to flourish especially. Chinese manufacturers evolve. The domestic plants of continental China have been growing in relevance, and They have invested significantly in expansions that allow working in chips for sectors such as automotive or generative artificial intelligence. All this makes the panorama for semiconductors in China improve, but only in a section. Good for quantity, bad for “quality”. The problem of these semiconductor plants is that they use less advanced photolithographs ranging from 8 to 45 Nm. Although these types of chips remain perfectly valid for industries such as automotive, IoT devices or appliances, they are not for advanced AI chips, which are in which TSMC dominates. The great Chinese promise, in trouble. SMIC, the main Chinese semiconductor manufacturer, has been trying to make the leap to a 5 Nm photolithographic node, but this technology He is choking. In fact, his 7 nm node already had Notable problems In performance per wafer, and failing to take that step is for the moment a negative note in that remarkable advance in production rhythms. And while his rivals for all. TSMC and Samsung have already overcome that photolithographic node and are going at full speed to start the mass production of 2 nm chips. It is expected that TSMC achieves it this year and that Samsung does it in 2026. Taiwan in fact is Testing your lithography A14 (1.4 Nm), which will enter large -scale production in 2028. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | ASML’s new lithography team divides chips manufacturers. TSMC considers not using it until 2030

China has been wondering what to do with its 300 million pensioners. It has a “voluntary” solution

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It We count last year. In Europe we don’t stop Find a formula that Relieve the situation of retirement and pension of people. But nothing that happens in the continent resembles what happens in China and its 300 million pensioners (and other hundreds that are projected in ten years). The country has made a decision to stop the problem: gradually upload the retirement age. Gradual increase. China thinks Gradually increase your legal retirement age in the next five years to try to deal with the aging of its population and the increasingly suffocated pension system. An action that is part of a series of resolutions adopted at a high -level five -year meeting of the Communist Party, known as the third plenary. An enlightening fact before giving context to the serious crisis of the Asian country: life expectancy has now increased above the United Statesuntil 78 years, and was only 36 years at the time of the communist revolution in 1949. A crisis of several fronts. The country has a problem: Society ages. With an economy In decelerationa long time since demographic crisis symptoms were felt. Last year, China lost for the second year consecutive population. Meanwhile, on the sidewalk in front, the figures indicated the lowest birth rates since there are records. All this assumes that the population of age to retire, One of the casualties in the world (60 years for men, 55 for women in administrative work and 50 for working class women), it only grows. In 2022 it was 280 million, last year of 297 million (21% of the total census). Worse. There are forecasts that speak of other 300 million projected In the next decade, and for the middle of the century there is talk of a population of 60 years or more than, at least, will exceed 500 million (almost 40% of the total register). In fact, forecasts talk about four workers for each retiree in 2030and in 2050, only two. Gradual retirement by phases. The entire scenario described above leads us to the news that has been confirmed and that has been brewing months ago. “According to the principles of voluntariness and flexibility, we will move constantly and orderly in the reform to progressively delay the legal retirement age,” The Communist Party of China explained last Sunday. The plan, together with some other key reforms, was published in a resolution three days after the country’s leaders concluded the third Plenary of China, an important political meeting in Beijing that takes place every five years. What we know. The truth is that it has not been specified how much retirement age or when, but A report on pension development From China published in late 2023, he explained that “65 years may be the final result after adjustment.” The plan has been at stake for some years, as China’s pension budget decreases. If it serves as a track, in 2019 (and before the pandemic) the cabinet had predicted that the Chinese Pension Fund It would run out in 2035 due to the decrease in its workforce. Years of strong restrictions related to pandemic have further reduced the coffers of local governments and, as they explained, “they could further aggravate the pension deficit.” At the same time and as we said, the huge population of the country has decreased for the second consecutive year in 2023 as the birth rate falls. Doubts. As for those somewhat “diffuse” terms, especially in the case of a capital issue such as pensions, the Global Times state newspaper cited demographs of the country saying that in the plan to increase retirement age, it stands out “voluntariness” and “flexibility”. It is impossible to predict how far that apparent decision of the Chinese citizen would achieve, but what seems clear is that the authorities recognize that there is no unique policy for everyone when it comes to retirement. Skepticism. That is the word that now defines the plan between Many Chinese usury on the Internet. Of all the doubts expressed, one that is repeated. “Those who want to retire in advance are exhausted by their laborious works, but those who perform comfortable and lucrative functions will not choose to retire. What kind of work will end with the youngest generation?” A user comments on the Weibo Networksurely exposing one of the key issues that nobody has yet explained. Image | Soctech, Clay Banks (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | The ghost of the demographic crisis had been threatening China for years. Well, it has started *An earlier version of this article was published in July 2024

There is only one group that is escaping the mortal trap of the house in Spain: the heirs

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Spain is (increasingly) more A country of heirs. And so It is felt In its real estate market. If in 2007 11% of the homes that changed hands did it through inheritances, in 2024 that data already exceeded 19%. In Fotocasa Research they have dropped even more retail And they have found that 16% of the entire Spanish real estate offer feeds on homes that have gone from family members to others, an even greater percentage if we stick only to the sale market. After that figure there are opportunities … and challenges. The percentage: 16%. A few months ago Fotocasa Research technicians asked a question: what weight do inheritances in the Spanish real estate market? To get out of doubt in February they conducted a survey that yields some interesting results. First, because they help us understand the current ‘photo’ of the market, very conditioned by a lack of housing that does not cover the new work. Second, because they are completed with others similar studies of the last five years. Of all its conclusions the most revealing is that, in a market very marked by the mismatch between supply and demand, the inherited homes are almost fifth (16%) of all available properties. It is also not a timely situation. The data coincides more or less with that of the last year (15%), although it is below the 18% peak registered in full pandemic. More sales than rentals. 16% is the ‘general photo’, but hides some nuances that can only be seen when lowering in detail. The main one is that this percentage varies considerably depending on the segment we are talking about, if we refer to houses available to rent or the sale market. In the second case, that of the houses looking for a buyer, the impact is greater. “By segments, the weight of the heirs in the sale market historically doubles that they have in the rent. People who have received an inheritance home represent 23% of the offer in the purchase market, while that percentage is reduced to 11% in the rental segment,” María Matos commentsDirector of Studies and spokesman for Fotocasa. Both indicators are located a percentage point above those noted last year. A full exchange market. Matos remembers that the weight of inherited housing has been increasing year after year due to the country’s demographic drift, marked by the aging of Baby Boomers and the progressive fall of birth rate, and warns of the effects of ‘Great wealth transfer’. “We estimate that in the next decade there will be the greatest transfer of intergenerational heritage in history, which will have a structural impact on the market,” Reflect The Fotocasa spokeswoman, and adds: “However, for each inherited house that is destined for rent, the double is sold.” Why this difference? In addition to collecting data, Fotocasa He has asked Also to some heirs who leads them to sell or rent their homes. The first conclusion, at least among the former, those who choose to get rid of their legacy, is that they weigh above all “personal motifs”, the reason that alleges 34% of respondents. Another key argument is that they are not attracted to the perspective of becoming homemade. And he does not basically do it for fear of defaults. “The heirs who prefer to sell also do so to avoid problems with the payment of rent (32%), an option that has significantly increased their support in recent years, since it was 23% in 2024”, Remember the expert. When preparing its study, the platform has also met with heirs reluctant to lease their homes for fear that tenants cause damage (21%) or the “absence of tax benefits that compensate for the risks” (21%). “A natural way”. Matos remembers that during the last year these misgivings have increased their impact on the market, And warn: “In the lease is where more housing is needed, so, if an environment of greater security and trust, many of these inherited homes could be generated, could become a natural way to increase the offer in rent.” Those who do choose to lease their houses in search of a source of income and profitability. And who inherit? That is another of the questions that answer The report. According to the data collected by Fotocasa, the profile of the heir who chooses to take out his home to the real estate market (either in lease or the sale) is very defined: they are above all men (they represent 60% of the cases) of around 54 years, upper or medium-high class and that usually reside with their partner and children. By communities, Madrid stands out, the region in which the heirs reach greater weight. Second is Andalusia and in the fourth Catalonia. Is there more data? Yes. Fotocasa gives a track, but it is not the only one that shows the impact of inheritance on the Spanish real estate market. Another is contributed by the INE, which has been elaborating for years A historical record of housing transmissions that close throughout the country looking at how they are carried out; That is, if it is donations, sale, swaps, inheritances or some other formula. Your conclusion? In 2007 they changed hands in Spain around 1.2 million homes. The vast majority (775,300) did so in sale operations and 131,200 through inheritances, so that last option had an impact of 11.1% on the market. Last year the photo was already something different. Of the million transmissions noted by the INE, 642,000 corresponded to sale and 201,000 with inheritances, which raises its footprint to 19.3%. Inheritances also gain weight in a delicate moment for the real estate market, very conditioned by the great demand and the shortage of supply. The Housing and Land Observatory shows that in 2024 they were completed almost 101,000 Housing to cover that imbalance, 13% more than in 2023, but the data remains well below the house creation rhythm noted by the INE. Images | Andrés García (UNSPLASH) and Joseph Bouvier … Read more

The US tried to the desperate strangular the Chinese chip industry. It has taken two months to back down

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There is a key to be able to manufacture the best processors in the world: have access to software that allows you to design them. And there, at least currently, the leadership still has the United States through three companies: Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence. The Trump administration has been since May trying to pull the rope with China To use this software as a throwing weapon. And the play has not finished doing well. The context. On May 29, the Office of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce He gave the order: EDA software is ended up to Chinese groups. A movement that sought to stop China’s incessant advance in semiconductors, at a key moment in which the country led by Xi Jiping is achieving milestones in its lithographic, current and future processes. The answer. China, which has been looking for technological self -sufficiency for decades and reduce its dependence with the United States, saw in these new restrictions “the greatest opportunity for history growth”, according to some of the main figures after Chinese EDA software companies. Triggered action, national commitment to a product that has been refining years, and even publication in Github of some of the advances they were achieving in this matter. What happened. The restrictions imposed on the sale of software by Siemens, Cadence and Synopsys have been terminated with immediate effect, According to SCMP. The three giants of this industry can resume their commercial ties with China, so their supply chain can resume the use of these crucial tools. What will happen now. That the United States has unlocked (at least, for now) the use of EDA software is an oxygen ball for the Chinese semiconductor industry. The country is close to achieving capacity to make 5nm chipsalthough It is still choking progress in this lithographic process Before the prohibitions of the US and the Netherlands that prevent Asml extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE). Access to American Eda will be key, but not the key to the future of the country. Empyrean Technology, Primarius Technologies and Semitronix are the names to remember. Three Chinese giants who want to stand up to the three American giants, a task that will not be easy. The American Eda Empire. Together, Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence are around 80% of the global in this industry. They monopolize almost all of the EDA market and are one of the main strategic pillars in the semiconductor design industry. Figures that will not allow China to approach in the short term, but that will not move her away from her inevitable destiny: Lead the semiconductor industry, sooner or later. Image | TSMC In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be. The machine that will manufacture them is close

The ‘Sohamgate’ has highlighted the recruitment of Silicon Valley

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Silicon Valley may seem like an ecosystem of companies in which, more or less, everyone knows each other, and engineers They jump from company in company as in an exchange of chromos. However, a simple message in X has uncovered the case of Soham Parekh, an Indian engineer who, according to several startup founders, would have been working on several startups dedicated to AI. Ok, Rubén, what is that strange? Many engineers do. The nuance is that he has done it at all at once cheating its employers and leaving a trail of doubts about whether I really had those skills. A message raised the hare. It all started when Suhail Doshi, co -founder and former CEO of Mixpanel, published A message in x warning about this case: “There is a man named Soham Parekh (in India) who works simultaneously in three or four startups. He has been taking advantage of companies of and combinator and others. Be careful,” wrote the founder. Doshi explained that Parekh had been working briefly in his company, Playground AI, but was fired in his first week after his deception was discovered. The surprise is that, following that publication, at least five CEOs and founders of other startups have confirmed that they had also hired Parekh during that time. “It has been doing this for years and works in more than four startups at the same time,” confirmed Nicolai Ouporov, CEO of Fleet AI. Soham Parekh’s method. Beyond being an example of how to overcome selection processes and have Success in work interviewshe modus operandi from Parekh took advantage of the remote job offers of the startups to sign for them. The problem is that he signed for all at once and did not stop presenting all the New offers They were dating. Thus, when a company discovered and said goodbye, it began in a new one. In other words, Parekh’s main job was not to work for the startups that hired him, but to do the interviews for which they were going to hire him. Far from subtracting merits, thanks to his technical and communication skills, Parekh achieved impress recruiters In online interviews. “The guy was so intelligent when I interviewed him that it was crazy. Something did not square, so luckily I didn’t hire him, but fuck …” I wrote Justin Harvey, co -founder of Aivideo. Another founder, Adish Jain, founder of the AI ​​agents company for Mosaic video editing, He joined To the wave of confirmations: “I confirm it. This guy made us waste time for a month. He did very well in the interviews, but he is a liar.” Touch the image to go to the original message An impeccable curriculum … to be false. Parekh’s curriculum shows that he had worked for companies such as Dynamo AI, Union AI, Synthesia and Alan AI, in addition to having a degree at the University of Mumbai and a master’s degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. However, after a more detailed examination, Doshi says that “90 % of its curriculum seems false and most of the links no longer work,” public attaching a capture of the Parekh curriculum. Some of the founders who claimed to have hired Parekh They started publishing the emails that the engineer had sent them as a presentation letter. To anyone’s surprise, they all followed the same employer and only changed the name of the company or the person to whom it was directed. Parekh seams. Despite the curious of the phenomenon #sohamgate that has already become viral, what has really exposed are the seams of some ineffective recruitment processes and even negligent for not checking the curriculum or references of the candidate. “They should pay you to expose their failed contracting processes,” I wrote A software engineer. In this case, in Parekh’s deception has been discovered because a good part of the startups in which “worked” belonged to the environment of And combinatorthe startup incubator that for years Sam Altman directed. But it would have been unnoticed if it had not focused on an environment as close as this business accelerator. The ethical dilemma. Another issue that Sohamgate has put on the table is articulated on the ethics of working in two companies at the same time when both jobs develop remotely. It is not a new theme, since the teleworking became common, they have given themselves hundreds of cases in which workers took advantage of this model to distribute their time between the two jobs. Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Researcher at Standfordassured that his research team has access to a private database of more than 100,000 engineers who work for more than 1,000 companies. That represents 0.5% of developers around the world. “Within this ‘little’ shows, we usually find engineers who work in 2 or more jobs”, I wrote In X. According to Denisov-Blanch calculations, more than 5% of the engineers would have More than a remote job. In Xataka | Pluriempleo in Spain: 15% of workers need more than one job to cover their basic needs Image | Unspash (Mohammad Rahmani)

China has been launching the same message to the world about Taiwan. The date was 2027 … until the US bombarded Iran

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Now that there is a certain tense calm in the Middle East, there are many analysts who have turned the magnopolitical framework. In June we already commented that, in a turn of the most perverse events, the United States attack Iran intended to contain a nuclear proliferation could be the catalyst of another even more dangerous: North Korea. There was a second stage to draw: that of China and Taiwan. Start over. The analysts told of the New York Times That the American attack against Iranian nuclear facilities has added a new layer of complexity to the already tense geopolitical equation between the United States, China and Taiwan. What began as a diplomatic strategy became a sudden offensive that now serves as Element of study For Chinese leaders, who seek to anticipate how Trump would respond to an eventual crisis in the Taiwan Strait. His Erratic behavior And his willingness to resort to the use of force, even having previously rejected it, generate confusion in Beijing. China, they agree, observe this turn as a sign that Trump, far from representing a predictable position, could apply a logic of force equally in Asia if it perceives that their interests are at stake. Iran’s mirror. In the same way What North Koreahe Attack on Iran has been able to force Chinese strategists to Check your models of contingency with respect to Taiwan. Despite the obvious differences between the two scenarios, the essential lesson It is shared: Trump is willing to unleash military operations if he considers it appropriate, even against adversaries with limited response capacity such as Iran. Beijing, on the other hand, has a considerably superior military power and is known closer to the theater of operations than any American force. Even so, the possibility of a sudden escalation forces the Chinese to prepare For a Scenario fanfrom a diplomatic crisis to a direct confrontation that escapes their hands. Uncertainty about Trump’s red line is precisely what worries them. Taiwan and ambiguity. A constant in American politics towards Taiwan has been the calculated ambiguity: dissuad China from that invasion that sounds by 2027 (coinciding with The EPL centenary), without explicitly guaranteeing a military intervention. Trump has brought that ambiguity to an extreme level. At times ha praised Xi Jinping And he has given relaxes of distensionwhile in others he has hardened his rhetoric and has intensified The supply of weapons to Taipéi. For Beijing, this duality is disconcerting but also dangerous, because it cannot be certain to its behavior. In this context, Chinese analysts They have intensified His scrutiny, maintaining discrete meetings with American interlocutors in search of clues about the true limits of the former president. The impression they transmit is of nervous caution: they fear that the Trump’s unpredictability can trigger an unwanted crisis. Cross pressures. The tension not only emanates from Beijing. Remembered in another report the Time Magazine that within the United States and Taiwan there is fear that Trump himself, in his eagerness, ends giving something to China In a future summit with XI, perhaps in the form of an ambiguous statement or a significant omission about the defense of the island. Washington, as we said, maintains armament supply (And more) and exhortes Taipéi to increase his military spending, but it is the president who finally decides. That centralization of power and its erratic character They worry both in the Pentagon and in the Taiwanese presidential palace. We have Cash: The recent ones Chinese maneuversincluding deployment of aircraft carriers Beyond the first island chain, they are seen as stress tests: Silent drills to measure the allied reaction capacity and the degree of real commitment of Washington. Taiwan between lines and symbols. While Beijin accuses President Taiwanesa Lai Ching-Te de Separatismo, the island administration insists that it is the maneuvers and Chinese threats that They tension the rope. In turn, within Taiwan, there are those who interpret Trump’s attack to Iran as An indirect warning To the great powers, a coded message towards Moscow and Beijing: if a line is crossed, the answer could be immediate. But the comparison between Iran and China is dangerous. He Missile Arsenal from Beijing (which includes about 3,500 missiles Conventional, nuclear ballistic submarines and a rapid assembly) would make a lightning offensive like the one launched in the Middle East. China knows it, and that is why Multiply your deploymentsair incursions and Naval exercisesconsolidating a constant pressure on the island, designed to wear it psychologically and strategically. China between two fronts. Plus: while facing these uncertainties in the east, Beijing must deal with a growing perception of threat in the West. The Recent statements From the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, alerting about Chinese military expansion and his possible coordination with Russia in case of crisis in Taiwan, reinforce the western narrative of China As a systemic challenge. Beijing, meanwhile, denounces that NATO seeks to justify its expansion to Asia using China As a pretext. A theater of shadows. In summary, Trump has shown that he can change course Without prior noticeand that feature, far from reassuring, introduces a dangerous volatility element. Meanwhile, China explores if you can find a loop to weaken American support to Taipéi, even Without resorting to force. And in parallel, the military apparatus of the United States and its allies fears that any calculation error, any word out of place at a summit, can trigger a chain reaction. The military action In Iran it is not just a specific act: it is a declaration of ambiguous intentions, one that has put all the actors of the Indo-Pacific board alert. Image | Chairman, Garystock In Xataka | That China performs 3,000 military air maneuvers over a year is not striking. To do it about Taiwan, yes In Xataka | It is the third time in a few months that China presents itself against Taiwan with an army. The island has decided to move on to attack

A folding mobile at outlet price. This is the new and spectacular offer in the honor Magic V2

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More and more folding mobiles that come out with a more affordable official price, although obviously we continue to find models with prices that even exceed the a whopping of the 2,000 euros. Here, in this field, honor is a very interesting brand and, although its folding mobiles are usually expensive, from time to time we find them very cheap. Right now, the perfect example is found in the Magic V2 Honora mobile that has dropped from its official price of 1,999 euros to the 819 euros. We will find it at this price in PowerPlanet during your campaign Power Days. If you prefer in another color, it is also in black by others 819 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review A half -price folding mobile He Magic V2 Honor It is a very particular mobile, since it has one of the thinnest designs we have seen in folding mobiles. Regarding their screens, we find a External panel of 6.43 inches which offers a FullHD+resolution, refresh rate of 1 to 120 Hz and compatibility with HDR10+. We also find a 7.92 inches folding screen with 120 Hz refreshment and HDR10+compatibility. And if we talk about its power, the Magic V2 honor mounts the processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It is not the most powerful, but it does offer excellent performance in virtually any scenario of use. To this we must add that, in this case, with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. Regarding the cameras, the folding mobile of honor comes with Two front cameras (an internal and another 16 MP), while we find a 50 MP main sensor, a large angle of 50 MP and a 20 MP telephoto. You may also interest you Xiaomi Mix Flip – 12+512GB smartphone, Leica Summilux, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 4.01 “outdoor screen of 6.86” ​​120Hz, Hypercharge 67W, charger included, black (ES version) * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Galaxy Z fold6 256 GB + Loader – Mobile phone with AI, Free Android Smartphone, 50 MP camera, large screen, long -term battery, dark blue (Spanish version) * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Ricardo AguilarHonor In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price (2025). Your analysis and videos are here

All closures and great cancellations

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As we reported yesterday, Microsoft executed a new round of mass layoffs which has shaken a good number of departments from different regions. One of the most affected divisions has been Xbox. And among the 9,000 employees dismissed, we find important studies and cancellations in the company’s gaming division. What happened. Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, confirmed the cuts through An internal email where he explains that they seek to “position gaming for lasting success” and focus resources on “strategic growth areas.” The video game division had approximately 20,000 employees in January 2024, and these dismissals represent the fourth wave of mass cuts in the last 18 months. The games that have been lost. Perfect Dark, the expected restart of the classic franchise that started in Nintendo 64, has been canceled after seven years of turbulent development. The Initiative, the study created specifically for this project in 2018 with veterans such as Darrell Gallagher, has definitely closed. The game had shown A promising trailer In the Xbox Games Showcase of 2024, although we did not know more about him again. The enitiative closure marks a hard xbox stick, especially considering that they promised A new standard in industry with the development of its ‘quadruple to’. Perfect Dark thus remains without reboot, and is lost among the entire list of cancellations and studies closures of the firm. Among other games is also Everwildthe ambitious Rare project announced in 2014, which has also been canceled after 11 years of development plagued with internal reset. This third-person game of the team responsible for Banjo-Kazooie and Sea of ​​Thieves had disappeared from the radar after its presentation in 2019, and despite the fact that Phil Spencer himself highlighted him as the First Party of Xbox What’s most excited about everyonehe has not managed to survive the cuts. Zenimax Online Studios has also canceled Project Blackbirdan unnoticed MMO that had been developing since 2018 and intended to be the successor of The Elder Scrolls Online. In addition, Blizzard has announced that Warcraft Rumble, his mobile game released in 2023, will stop receiving content new and will limit regular events and error corrections. Affected studies and equipment. In addition to the definitive closure of The Initiative, other studies have suffered devastating cuts. Turn 10 StudiosForza Motorsport developer, has lost more than 70 employees, almost half of its template After the mixed criticisms received by his last game. King, head of Candy Crush, has eliminated 10% of its staff, about 200 people at their Stockholm headquarters. The teams of Call of Duty haven’t fought either: Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software and High Moon Studios have suffered cuts. Halo Studios and Undead Labs, creators of State of Decay, have also seen their templates. Even the Xbox user research team, key to guaranteeing the quality of games and tools, has lost almost half of its staff. As a consequence of the cancellations, Gregg Mayles, veteran director of Sea of ​​Thieves and Banjo-Kazooie with more than 35 years in Rare, has abandoned the company. Matt Firor, Zenimax Chief online Studios, has also announced his march after the cancellation of Project Blackbird. Between the lines. These cuts arrive after Microsoft spent $ 68.7 billion on Acquire Blizzard King Activision. The pressure to increase the profit margins is evident, especially when the company has eliminated more than 20,000 positions since it announced the acquisition. Matt Booty, Head of Xbox Game Studios, recognized in its internal statement that these decisions “reflect a broader effort to adjust priorities” in a “changing industrial panorama.” The magnitude of layoffs is, at least, striking: while Microsoft reports record benefits, it has eliminated more than 15,000 employees only in 2025. Sources close to the environment Engadget They suggest that the company is trying to “replace as many positions as possible with AI agents”, adding a worrying dimension to these cuts. The tension between surviving teams is palpable, especially in studies such as Halo Studios where the work environment has been significantly deterioratedaccording to the same sources. And now what. Microsoft maintains that it has More than 40 projects in development active and a “solid portfolio” by 2026. All games shown in the recent Xbox Showcase in June are “safe”, according to Fuentes del Medio Central Windowsincluding titles such as Clockwork Revolution and State of Decay 3. In addition, Phil Spencer will continue at the head of the division of Microsoft Gaming, denying rumors about its march. In addition, it should be noted that Xbox’s plans regarding next generation hardware also remain unchanged despite cuts. Cover image | Xbox In Xataka | Kojima locks himself again in his bubble with ‘Death Stranding 2’. The result is a work as strange as necessary

The last idea to include tolls on the highways of Spain

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From Madrid to Barcelona for about 18 euros. From Bilbao to Cádiz for more than 30 euros. That is The proposal of the Association of Construction and Infrastructure Concessionaires (Seopan) and in that money there has been none of the tolls that we can find along the way and that, without a doubt, would make the journey more expensive. And it is that the employer of the road construction companies has had an idea to finance the thousands of kilometers of highways that are still free in our country. And, from their point of view, they have it very clear: that The drivers pay 3 cents/km route. The figure is much higher for heavy transport for which they propose a rate of 0.14 cents/km route. That is, multiply almost for five previous figures until we place us at almost 90 euros in Madrid-Barcelona and almost 150 euros for crossing Spain in truck. An old dream with Europe looking The proposal was presented by Julián Núñez, president of the association that covers giants such as ACS, Ferrovial, Action, Abertis, Ohla or Sacyr, among others. It indicates that the country has to invest 11,494 million euros for the conservation and maintenance of roads that have not been carried out in recent years. That game is part of the 38,447 million euros in 25 years that, according to their calculations, they are necessary to keep the roads in optimal conditions until 2050. In those items maintenance works are contemplated but also the construction of Roads 2+1 to “improve road safety” or the deployment of load infrastructure for the electric car. All this, they say, would generate income in 25 years of 143,024 million euros, a fiscal return of 35,314 million euros and a public spending saving of 41,038 million euros. Money that would be used to invest in the maintenance of the roads themselves. The implementation of payment for use is one of the great dreams of the construction companies since this would allow them to offer down construction and maintenance services, facilitating these actions and, of course, facilitating their business. However, they ensure that Spain accumulates 68% of free highways throughout Europe which total 13,674 kilometers free of tolls. A flag that the government has presumed, putting each liberalization in value while balancing with Europe. Last year, in fact, Transport Minister Oscar Puente assured that “the roads are not free, or are paid with taxes or tolls.” He did it in a forum organized by The Spanish And the words of Puente soon were read as a notice to navigators. However, just A few hours later he would defend that this was not a way to “reopen the debate” and stressed that the government had released 1,000 kilometers since 2018 on toll highways. To that measure, it has joined not imposing more tolls on roads such as AP-9, AP-66 and AP-68 where bonuses are applied. These decisions, however, collide frontally with the interest that Europe has reiterated in imposing tolls on Spanish roads. For years, institutions have put the table on the table obligation to impose a tarification For use to roads in exchange for continuing to water our country of European funds. This led the government to include it in its Recovery and Resilience Planalready presented in 2021. Since then, The equilibrium game That the Spanish Executive has maintained has made the roads remain free but a new threat has also arrived from Europe: a possible complaint if we do not correct the way. And, although the supposed payment for use comes from afar, the runrún on the payment on the roads has been increasing. Especially if we consider that in 2021 there was already talk of imposing A toll system in less than three years or that Pere Navarro, director of the DGT, has already suggested Who could and who not pay those possible tolls. What they defend from Seopan in their proposal is that, however, Spain would continue to pay cheaper tolls than the rest of Europe since, they say, the average is 0.09 euros/km route for cars and 0.018 euros/kN route for heavy transport. In The countryThey emphasize that Spain represents 21% of all kilometers of high capacity of the European Union but that, however, only 13% are payment. That is, we are an exception that Seopan seeks to reverse with a porch system To pay for use, taking advantage of the fact that the money that the State must due to the investment of the roads already exceeds 10,000 million euros. But also Europe, what For years he presses so that Spain once and for all a melon from which, in the government, He doesn’t want to take care. Remember that it is something that You have been talking since 2012. Photo | Erwin Brevis In Xataka | Hunting for “Simpa” in the tolls of Europe: the new EU system to collect fines abroad

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