Intel has already applied for licenses to sell some components to Chinese vendor Huawei, Intel’s CEO Bob Swan said in an interview with CNBC.
The executive said that Intel had been selling some products to Huawei in the second quarter after determining what products were...
Chinese vendor Huawei recorded revenues of CNY 401.3 billion ($ 58.3 billion) in the first half of the year, climbing 23.3% compared to the same period the previous year, the company said in its earnings statement.
Huawei’s net profit margin for the first six months...
2,200 Intel employees set to join Apple workforce
It's official: Pending regulatory approval, Intel has agreed to sell its modem business to Apple for $1 billion and 2,200 Intel employees will make the move when the deal is finalized potentially in the fourth quarter this...
Huawei subsidiary Futurewei cut 600 researchers from US operations
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies’s revenue grew nearly 30% in the first half of the year as the company managed to secure the supply of critical components to keep production going despite U.S. technology export restrictions, Bloomberg...
Qualcomm CEO says 5G is ramping up faster than 4G
In a video interview at this year’s Brainstorm Tech, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. CEO Steve Mollenkopf spoke about 5G’s ability to dramatically disrupt the consumer and enterprise spaces. Qualcomm, which is currently working with consumer 5G device...
President Donald Trump has agreed to grant "timely" licensing decisions to U.S. technology firms that want to sell components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei, the White House said in a statement.
The decision was adopted following a meeting between Trump and the CEOs of...
Following Apple and Qualcomm ending litigation, Intel exited 5G modem business
As first reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Apple is in "advanced talks" to buy Intel's cellular modem business, including patents and personnel. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal ...
ASUS taps Snapdragon 855+ for updated gaming phone
Qualcomm's premium-tier Snapdragon 855 mobile platform, equipped with the company's X50 5G modem, just got an upgrade to better support mobile gaming, extended reality, artificial intelligence and other 5G experiences, according to the company. Announced July 15,...
EC found Qualcomm violated antitrust laws with 3G 'market dominance'
The European Commission this week fined U.S. chipset giant Qualcomm $271 million, alleging it forced competitor Icera out of the 3G baseband market by selling products below cost. Icera, based in the U.K., was acquired...
U.S. companies could be allowed to resume shipments of components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei in approximately two weeks, Reuters reported, citing a representative for a U.S. manufacturer.
According to the report, the representative was told by a senior U.S. government official that licenses...
Chinese vendor Huawei has not yet seen any benefit from President Donald’s Trump recent decision to allow U.S. firms to sell components to the company and urged the U.S. government to remove the company from a security blacklist, Chinese press reported Huawei’s chairman Liang...
U.S Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed that the U.S. government will issue licenses to local companies seeking to sell components to Chinese vendor Huawei where there is no threat to national security, Reuters reported.
Speaking at a conference in Washington D.C, Ross affirmed that the...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that U.S. companies can sell their equipment to Chinese vendor Huawei as long as the transactions won’t present a “great, national emergency problem.”
Trump made these comments during a press conference at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, after...
SHANGHAI, CHINA-- U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm believes the rapid rollout of 5G networks in China will put the country at the frontline of the global mobile technology evolution, Frank Meng, chairman of Qualcomm China said during a keynote presentation at Mobile World Congress 2019 Shanghai,...
NXP and Nvidia both investing in AI for edge use cases
The vision for the combination of 5G and the internet of things revolves around leveraging the low latency of next-generation cellular networks with sensor data to create efficiencies through lightning fast data processing in...
Chipset makers, network infrastructure companies, device OEMs and test and measurement companies have been heavily involved in the research and development process and the standards work for 5G for years at this point, and that work is coming to fruition as 5G devices begin...
NXP is buying Marvell's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other wireless connectivity business assets for $1.76 billion, in a move that NXP says will boost its ability to offer turnkey offerings in its target IoT, automotive and industrial markets, as well as in communication infrastructure.
NXP will...
Multimode 5G SoC debuts at Computex in Taiwan
While MediaTek is perhaps better known for supplying chips for smart devices like speakers and lower-priced smartphones. But, with the unveiling of a new 5G system-on-chip this week at Computex, the Taiwanese company is looking to take...
Chipset production for 5G has been ramping quickly over the past six months and is expected to continue through the rest of this year, according to David Hall, head of semiconductor marketing at National Instruments.
NI used its annual NI Week event to highlight its...
U.K.-based chip designer Arm has instructed its staff to suspend business with Chinese vendor Huawei, the BBC reported, citing an internal memo.
In the internal document, Arm urged employees to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei and its subsidiaries,...
An export ban recently imposed by the U.S. government on Huawei will not have a huge impact in the company’s capacity to serve customers, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei said during an interview with Chinese media.
“We will certainly be able to continue serving our customers....
A U.S. district court judge has found that Qualcomm violated anti-trust laws, ruling in favor of the Federal Trade Commission and ordering Qualcomm to change some of its licensing and negotiation practices and seven years of monitoring and reporting on its compliance.
Qualcomm has said...
As the 5G network and device ecosystem ramps up, there is much talk of the new generation of wireless technologies as a disruptive force across industries. Some players are hoping that 5G will enable them to disrupt the status quo within the telecom space...
European semiconductor makers said they would still keep on supplying to Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, following an export ban implemented by the U.S. government last week, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A spokesman for German firm Infineon Technologies AG - one of Europe’s largest...
