China appears to have jitters that the newly announced $40 billion acquisition of Arm by U.S.-based NVIDIA could put its semiconductor industry in peril, and the deal could mean that Arm's traditional neutrality on the companies it works with could be undermined by the...
Chinese vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE have been slowing down their 5G base station installation in the country, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.
According to the report, the two Chinese vendors told some of its suppliers to slow down shipments of some 5G base station-related...
Huawei Technologies Rotating Chairman Guo Ping said that "survival" would be the company’s key objective for 2020 as the U.S. government recently moved to further restrict the Chinese telecom manufacturer’s access to semiconductors.
“Huawei is capable of designing some products, but we are not able...
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced plans to restrict Chinese vendor Huawei’s ability to use U.S. chipmaking equipment and software to design and manufacture its semiconductors abroad.
In a statement, BIS said that the move "cuts off...
Chinese vendor Huawei recorded revenues of CNY858.8 billion ($123 billion) in 2019, up 19.1% year-on-year, while its net profit reached CNY62.7 billion, up 5. 6% versus 2018, the company said in its annual report.
Huawei invested 15.3% of its 2019 revenue – or CNY131.7 billion...
The U.S. government expects to soon publish a new rule that would expand its powers to block sales of foreign-made goods to Chinese vendor Huawei, Reuters reported, citing two sources with knowledge of the matter.
In May 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce added Huawei...
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...
Department of Commerce tallies 260 Huawei license requests
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed that the U.S. government would soon start to issue the first licenses for U.S firms looking to sell components and software to Chinese vendor Huawei, according Bloomberg.
Ross said that the U.S....
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...
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...
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...
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....
Sequans works with aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin to adapt LTE chips to communicate with satellite systems
Sequans is modifying its LTE chipsets to be able to directly communicate with satellite systems, in a partnership with Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed developed an LTE-to-satellite specification, and Sequans...
In a serious-minded classroom setting at Electronica 2018 earlier this month, up in the gods at Munich Messe, UK-based chip design company Arm presented to a handful of enthusiasts about the virtues of custom (system-on) chips for industrial IoT products.
Enterprise IoT Insights was among...
Alibaba’s CEO Jack Ma said China needs to control core technologies such as chip development
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has announced plans to set up a new semiconductor company to focus on the development of artificial intelligence chips and embedded processors to support the...
TSMC is major chip supplier for Apple
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a major supplier of the A11 chip Apple uses in its iPhone X, was recently hit by a computer virus that resulted in decreased production based on key fabrication machines being taken offline.
According to...
After China approves the merger, Marvell moves forward with plans to acquire Cavium.
Semiconductor company Marvell Technology announced on Friday that it has completed the acquisition of Cavium, designer of communications and storage integrated circuits (ICs). The addition of Cavium should boost Marvell’s position in...
Micron confirms that China will ban its DRAM and NAND-related memory items.
Micron has confirmed that China has banned the sale of 26 of Micron’s products in China. The Idaho-based memory chip maker says that it received a preliminary injunction from Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court...
Another semiconductor company fires CEO for bad behavior.
Rambus' board of directors fired its CEO, Ron Black, on Thursday. The semiconductor and intellectual property company did not disclose any specific reason for the firing, except that his conduct was beneath the board's standards.
"The termination follows...
P3's crowdsourced data finds LTE coverage gaps
Interstate highways are often one place where people assume they will have solid cellular coverage -- and that's mostly true, but there are still "white spots" where coverage isn't available or where only devices will only have weak...
Who will Intel tap as next CEO? The next CEO has to continue the company's 5G and IoT push.
Now that journalists and analysts have weighed in on the angles of former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s departure, a couple of themes have emerged.
Although it is...
ZTE must pay up to $1.4 billion, replace its entire board of directors and senior leadership, and submit to a decade of embedded U.S. trade monitors in order to resume receiving exports from U.S. tech companies, in what the Department of Commerce is calling...
Under the new deal, ZTE would pay a combined fine of nearly $1.7 billion
Chinese vendor ZTE has signed an agreement that would lift a U.S. Commerce Department ban on buying from U.S. suppliers, Reuters reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
However, a Commerce...
Some media reports say China's review of Qualcomm/NXP deal is on, some say it's off. The review, however, could move fast in coming days, depending on larger trade issues between United States and China.
China's Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) has approved two semiconductor company acquisition...
