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FTC vs. Qualcomm – Support pours in for Qualcomm from all sides in its appeals process

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...

Huawei, Samsung debut 5G SoCs at IFA; neither supports millimeter wave

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 at IFA: 5G for more users, more use cases

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...

Ericsson calls out dynamic spectrum sharing as key to nationwide 5G coverage

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 launches AI chip, aims to ship over 2 million 5G base stations

  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....

FTC vs. Qualcomm: Finally saner senses prevail with appellate court’s decision

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...

Qualcomm, LG reach chip license settlement

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...

Rohde & Schwarz tests 5G LBS with Qualcomm chip

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)...

US government extends temporary general license to Huawei for 90 days

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 founder says company needs to restructure in face of US ban

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...

What is dual connectivity and why is it important for 5G?

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....

How will dynamic spectrum sharing ease the transition to standalone 5G?

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,...

Qualcomm CEO sees 5G ‘inflection point’ coming in 2020

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...

Intel applies for licenses to sell general purpose chips to Huawei

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...

Huawei records 23.3% revenue growth in H1 despite US sales ban

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...

Intel agrees to sell modem business to Apple for $1 billion

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 expands revenues despite US ban; cuts jobs in US R&D unit

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: Without a 5G strategy, ‘You’re going to be left behind’

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...

Trump agrees to make ‘timely’ decisions on Huawei sales requests

  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...

As predicted, Apple reportedly in talks to buy Intel’s modem assets

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 ...

Qualcomm adds gaming, 5G, other enhancements with Snapdragon 855+ mobile platform

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,...

Qualcomm appealing $270 million fine levied by European Commission

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...

US firms to resume shipments to Huawei in two weeks: Report

  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...

Huawei urges Washington to remove the firm from the trade blacklist

  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...