Operadores en regiones como Europa, Asia y Estados Unidos han comenzado la carrera del 5G con lanzamientos comerciales durante este año. RCR Wireless News entrevisto a Ignacio Contreras, director de marketing para 5G de Qualcomm, para conocer mas sobre la vision de la empresa sobre...
PC makers have been experimenting with turning computers into something more like phones
On Monday, Intel and MediaTek announced they are partnering to create 5G modems for laptops and other PCs. Intel will define the 5G solution spec, provide optimization and validate designs, while MediaTek...
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to allow rural operators to continue doing certain transactions with Chinese vendor Huawei during an additional six-month period, Politico reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Huawei, which had been blacklisted by the U.S. government in May, has been...
Over the last few weeks I have been testing the new Google Pixel 4 smartphone on the AT&T Mobility network. Parts of this new phone are advanced and even ahead of much of the competition. If you are a current Pixel user, you will...
Expecting Q1 boost on 5G licensing deal with Apple
In a Q4 earnings presentation this week, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said the company has more than 230 5G "design wins launched or in development," which is up from 150 in the third quarter. And, of...
U.K. chip designer Arm, owned by Japan’s SoftBank, will continue to supply Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies after the firm’s legal team determined that its chip technology is of U.K. origin and would not breach U.S. restrictions previously imposed on Huawei, according to a report...
Huawei Technologies posted revenues of CNY 610.8 billion ($86 billion) in the first three-quarters of the year, climbing 24.4% year-on-year, despite a trade ban imposed by the U.S. government earlier this year.
The company's net profit margin in this period was 8.7%, Huawei said in...
Semiconductor company Qorvo has agreed to acquire radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical system (RF MEMS) company Cavendish Kinetics, saying that the purchase will add to its capabilities in antenna tuning and improving 4G and 5G system performance.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Qorvo is a...
Huawei Technologies is already manufacturing 5G base stations without components provided by U.S. suppliers, international press reported the vendor’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying.
From October, Huawei expects to produce 5,000 5G base stations per month, and next year it plans to manufacture...
Qualcomm sees 5G and AI as important adjacent technologies
SAN DIEGO--5G is about a lot of things that have a key commonality--the devices that connect to 5G will consume and create a lot of data of myriad profiles. Fortunately 5G is designed to handle all...
The U.S. semiconductor industry urged President Donald Trump to ease the ban on sales to Chinese vendor Huawei through the approval of export licenses, according to Bloomberg.
“We encourage prompt action to issue approvals for sales that do not implicate national security concerns, particularly where...
Qualcomm got a reprieve when the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed the decision of United States District Court for the Northern District of California’s (DC) in its antitrust case. Immediately after the stay, Qualcomm filed its opening brief (175 pages...
5G takes centerstage during IFA keynotes
With keynotes highlighting 5G from executives at Qualcomm and Huawei, the Berlin-based IFA consumer electronics show served as a proof point that device OEMs and their ecosystem partners are working overtime to support the global deployment of 5G, which...
Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon gave a keynote presentation at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin today, laying out the company's ongoing 5G strategy, which is focused on driving access to 5G devices and opening up potentially lucrative new use cases like 5G fixed...
Dynamic spectrum sharing lets operators side-step the spectrum re-farming process
Right now in the U.S., 5G availability is relatively limited. AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon are all currently using millimeter wave frequencies so only parts of some markets have coverage. Sprint is using its 2.5...
Huawei has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) processor – the Ascend 910 – as well as an all-scenario AI computing framework, dubbed MindSpore.
"We have been making steady progress since we announced our AI strategy in October last year," said Eric Xu, Huawei's rotating chairman....
Last week’s remarkable decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (appellate court) consisting of three judges, finally brings some common sense into FTC’s bizarre antitrust case against Qualcomm. The appellate court granted Qualcomm’s request to stay the United States...
Had LG not settled, it may have faced "catastrophic damage to its mobile business"
Disagreements and a lawsuit followed South Korean electronics company LG’s termination of its master licensing deal with U.S. chip manufacturer Qualcomm in 2018. In June, LG claimed that it was unable to settle its differences with...
Test company Rohde & Schwarz and Qualcomm Technologies said that they have completed the first 5G New Radio location-based services session, with a Snapdragon X55 modem.
The 5G LBS testing consisted of successful verification of an assisted GPS (A-GPS) control plane LTE Positioning Protocol (LPP)...
More Huawei subsidiaries added to "entity list"
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) renewed a special temporary general license (TGL) allowing Chinese vendor Huawei to continue doing business with U.S. companies and serving existing customers for another 90 days.
In May,...
Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei said the vendor needs to embark on a three-to-five year transformation process in order to be well prepared to face the ban implemented by the U.S. government, Bloomberg reported.
In an internal memo seen by the news agency, Ren said that...
Sprint and T-Mobile US both using dual connectivity to roll out 5G
Carrier aggregation has allowed operators to tap into noncontiguous blocks of licensed spectrum, as well as unlicensed frequencies like the 5 GHz band, to create bigger data bites and significantly improve LTE coverage....
Dynamic spectrum sharing accelerates 5G deployments by removing the need for re-farming
Right now, 5G deployments around the world use an LTE core and radio access network with the addition of a 5G carrier. The next step is to move from that scenario, non-standalone 5G,...
LTE demand weakening as operators ramp 5G investment
The pace of 5G network deployments is markedly faster than with LTE. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf expects more than 20 operator network and OEM device launches 12 months after the first compared to four operators and three...
