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...
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...
