Dr. John Smee, Qualcomm’s VP of engineering, says that one of the things that differentiates Qualcomm from other tech companies is its “if you build it, they will come” research mentality: Trying to envision and build technologies that will support what future applications could...
Massive MIMO solutions set for Q4 availability
The availability of Open RAN-compatible massive MIMO radios has been on operator wish lists for some time as they look to bring disaggregated radio access network kit into more demanding, urban deployments. Cloud-native network specialist Mavenir this week...
During his opening keynote address at NVIDIA GTC, the company’s Founder and CEO Jensen Huang characterized artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G as “ingredients” necessary to “kickstart the fourth industrial revolution.” He added, however, that we are still in need of a final “miracle.”
Cue the...
At this year’s GTC, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced updates to its system-on-a-chip (SoC) for autonomous driving DRIVE Orin, as well as the unveiling of DRIVE Atlan, an AI-enabled SoC that will be available to automakers for their 2025 models.
The SoC integrates...
Chinese vendor Huawei is not expecting the Biden administration to remove the company from the Entity List, the company’s rotating chairman, Eric Xu, said during a session with journalists at the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2021.
“We believe that we will need to continue working...
AT&T, SK Telecom, Verizon, Vodafone all working with Intel on 5G network transformation
This week Intel touted its 3rd generation Xeon scalable processor and, in a virtual track focused on telco applications and complementary products, carrier executives discussed their work with Intel around virtualization of...
Intel debuts 3rd generation Xeon scalable processor with telco SKUs tailored for the 5G era
This week Intel announced its third-generation Xeon scalable processor which comes in SKUs that are optimized for use in telco networks that are becoming increasingly virtualized and disaggregated with proprietary,...
Right after the last Nvidia quarterly earnings release, Jim Cramer, host of CNBC Mad Money spoke to Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia regarding the deal with Arm. Most of his questions were softballs, but what caught my attention was Jensen’s comment that Arm was...
The FTC believes that Qualcomm’s licensing practices demonstrate anticompetitive behavior
In September 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for a rehearing of the August 2020 decision of a panel of that court in siding with Qualcomm on...
Intel plans to invest about $20 billion to build two new fab facilities in Arizona, bolstering U.S. jobs and the domestic semiconductor supply.
Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, discussed the fab investments and Intel's strategy in an online financial and business update on the company. He...
SoftBank’s proposed sale of Arm to NVIDIA should be blocked. While there are major UK national interest concerns about this transaction, the threat and likelihood of severe anticompetitive effects are global and more fundamental. NVIDIA’s control over Arm will throttle the advance of other...
Around one-third of the global population doesn't have access to the internet and some that do don't have reliable access. While cable and fiber could solve this, the economics of that aren't tenable. 5G is viewed as another candidate for expanding home internet access,...
Chinese vendor Huawei believes that it will be extremely unlikely that the new U.S. administration would lift the current restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trump, Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, said at a media roundtable.
“I think it's very unlikely that the U.S....
Qualcomm 4th generation 5G modem-RF system sampling now; device launches potentially coming this year
For several days Qualcomm reps have been teasing new product announcements, asking "What's next in 5G?" The question was answered this morning with the announcement of the X65 5G Modem-RF System,...
Qualcomm's fiscal 2021 is off to a strong start with company executives reporting this week that first quarter revenues are up 63% year-over-year to $8.2 billion. The company has seen its 5G strategy play out "largely as expected," according to CEO Steven Mollenkopf, with...
GSA President called the figures 'encouraging'
According to the Global mobile Suppliers Association’s (GSA) newest 5G chipset report, the number of discrete 5G modems more than doubled during 2020, and number of 5G processors increased ninefold.
The report indicated that 29 commercially available 5G mobile processors/platforms...
The Texas chip manufacturing plant would produce 3-nanometer processors
Reports indicate that Samsung's semiconductor manufacturing arm is considering an approximately $10 billion investment in a fab in Texas that would produce chips on a 3-nanometer (3nm) process.
This wouldn’t be the company’s first Texas plant....
Incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger sees major new revenues from combination of 5G and distributed computing
During what would've been Mobile World Congress 2020, which was ultimately scrapped due to the then-still-emerging COVID-19 pandemic, Intel laid out its thinking around 5G--a $25 billion silicon opportunity by...
Qualcomm Technologies has agreed to buy high-performance silicon start-up Nuvia for about $1.4 billion, in a move that Qualcomm says will deliver "step-function improvements in CPU performance and power efficiency to meet the demands of next-generation 5G computing."
Qualcomm has big plans for Nuvia's CPUs,...
CEO Steve Mollenkopf retiring after 26 years with Qualcomm
Qualcomm's Board of Directors unanimously selected company President Cristiano Amon to take over the CEO position from Steve Mollenkopf effective June 30, the company announced today.
Amon started working at Qualcomm in 1995. Mollenkopf has been...
The Snapdragon 480 supports millimeter-wave and sub-6 5G
Qualcomm has kicked off the new year by announcing the Snapdragon 480, its first 5G chipset designed for affordable handsets that fall somewhere in the $200 price range.
Lower-priced phones with 5G capability haven’t been all the rage yet...
The tech industry has seen a blistering pace of innovation and market dominance. Global equity markets are swayed by how Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, Intel, Nvidia perform. Seven out of the top ten companies in S&P500 and three out of the top...
Imaging, gaming and AI get big boosts with Snapdragon 888
On the second day of its Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit, company reps provided deep dives into key aspects of the forthcoming Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform, giving a glimpse into some of the features Android...
Snapdragon 888 ready for global 5G with support for sub-6 GHz, mmWave, non-standalone, standalone, 5G carrier aggregation, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
In lieu(au) of hosting its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit in Maui, Qualcomm today took the event virtual, unveiling its upcoming premium-tier Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile...
