蘋果(AAPL.O)新任CEO特努斯開啓蘋果發佈會。

At a Sep 7 media day, Pasini CEO Xu Jincheng said the company added a new shareholder in August — a global consumer-electronics semiconductor giant with valuation in the trillions — but he did not identify the investor and did not confirm Samsung. Xu said Pasini is working with Foxconn on production-line data collection; phone manufacturing presents larger demand. He added that automation in phone factories is already high, but end-line inspection and packaging remain labor intensive, and as humanoid robots and smart technologies mature more than 90% of phone and consumer-electronics production steps could be automated.

EIA's September Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts U.S. crude oil production at 13.83 mln b/d, versus 13.80 mln b/d previously.