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Sprint opens 5G experience center in Kansas City

  The carrier aims to launch commercial 5G services in nine markets this year Sprint has opened a 5G experience center at its headquarters in Kansas City with the aim of showcasing and explaining the benefits of 5G technology, the carrier said in a statement. "We are...

Honing cloud focus, Nvidia acquiring Mellanox for $6.9 billion

Intel and Xilinx reportedly tried to acquire Mellanox The confluence of several technology mega-trends--5G, artificial intelligence and big data analytics--require the support of cloud computing and data centers to efficiently run an increasingly diverse set of workloads. To keep pace with this type of demand,...

Naver partners with Intel, KT to develop 5G-enabled service robots

  Naver will use Intel’s computing solution based on KT’s 5G communications network Naver, which is South Korea’s largest Internet portal and search engine, plans to develop 5G-enabled service robots in partnership with compatriot carrier KT and U.S. tech firm Intel. The partnership would allow Naver Labs,...

5G, edge computing and Batman

AT&T, Intel, Ericsson, Warner Brothers showing off 5G-powered mixed-reality at MWC Barcelona Augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality--from here on out we're going to use Qualcomm's umbrella term, extended reality (XR), have long been hyped as a major 5G application given the high-capacity and...

Intel provides technologies for Rakuten’s cloud-native network in Japan

  Rakuten’s network uses Intel Xeon processors and Intel FPGAs for acceleration Intel has confirmed that it will provide technology to Japanese e-commerce and internet services provider Rakuten for a new cloud-native network. Intel said in a statement that the new network will be fully virtualized from...

Ericsson, Intel jointly developing software-defined infrastructure for 5G

Software-defined infrastructure focuses on using common hardware to support variable 5G workloads As service providers increasingly take an IT-centric approach to building and managing increasingly complex networks, there's a move toward swapping out single-purpose hardware for more flexible infrastructure that uses software to virtually spin-up...

On heels of record-setting year, Intel names new CEO

This week the Intel Board of Directors announced that Bob Swam, the former chief financial officer and interim CEO since mid-2018, has taken on the top job permanently. Vice President of Finance and Director of Corporate Planning Todd Underwood will  take on the CFO...

AWS open-sources SageMaker Neo code for training machine learning in edge devices

AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. It is the second time in a few months the company has released source...

Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al  join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos

The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. The launch “changes the IoT and edge computing landscape,” it said in a press note....

Will mobile and cloud gaming be early hits for 5G?

Given huge mobile gaming market, 5G and cloud could provide a big boost to on-the-go gamers Spurred by mega-hit games like Fortnite and PUBG, mobile gaming is quickly becoming a massive market that operators and the telecoms ecosystem at large can not only support but...

5G and edge computing: Three key questions (and answers)

Distributing compute closer to the end user opens up the latency benefits of 5G The conversation about the relationship between 5G networks and edge computing has been going on for some time. The premise is relatively straightforward: To take advantage of the latency benefits that...

Intel, Alibaba to develop AI-based athlete tracking tech for Tokyo 2020

The new technology will use hardware from Intel and cloud computing capabilities provided by the Chinese firm   Intel and Chinese tech giant Alibaba say they are developing athlete tracking technology powered by artificial intelligence that is aimed to be deployed at the Olympic Games Tokyo...

Intel sees 5G converging communications and computing

Snow Ridge SoC designed for combo of edge computing and 5G Taking advantage of the  massive throughput and low latency of 5G requires a new approach to building telecom networks. Often described as born in the cloud, 5G will require not just workload support associated...

Analyst Angle: Taking retail and IoT into a data-driven future

The industry announcement of the Open Retail Initiative (ORI), (see this blog as well), spearheaded by Intel and Dell, couldn’t have come at a better time.  Pithy statements like “Data is the new oil” and “Data is the future” sound great, but the reality...

T-Mobile US completes first 5G call at 600 MHz

With support from Intel and Ericsson, T-Mobile US says it has completed the first 5G data and video calls using 600 MHz spectrum, as it aims to build out nationwide availability of 5G service by 2020. The calls were conducted on a live, commercial network,...

Intel’s AI technology helps protect endangered animals in African reserves

  TrailGuard AI cameras use Intel’s technology to protect wild animals from poachers   Intel's technology is powering non-profit Resolve’s new TrailGuard AI camera to detect poachers entering Africa’s wildlife reserves and alert park rangers in near real-time so the poachers can be stopped before killing endangered...

Qualcomm vs. Apple continues with injunctions against iPhone-maker in Germany and China

Qualcomm alleging infringement of intellectual property In the past two weeks judges in China and Germany have, to varying extent, agreed with Qualcomm's allegation that some Apple iPhone models contain technology that infringes on Qualcomm intellectual property. Both courts ruled that Apple has to stop...

Analyst Angle: With Snapdragon 8cx, ARM processors graduate to performance computing, challenging the dominance of Intel x86

Have you heard the phrase “converting poison into medicine?” Well, that’s kind of what is happening to the PC industry now. Let me explain. Not too long ago, the rise of powerful smartphones and tablets, which were primarily powered by ARM processors, decimated the...

Intel, Huawei complete 2.6 GHz 5G NR test

  Huawei said the new test is based on the latest version of 3GPP Release 15 specifications Intel and Huawei said they have completed 2.6 GHz 5G New Radio interoperability and development testing (IoDT) based on the latest 3GPP Release 15 specifications from September 2018. Huawei claimed...

5G will bring all industries into the telecoms industry

Early network launches are consumer-facing but 5G will drive value across the board Wailea, MAUI—Qualcomm kicked off its third annual Snapdragon Tech Summit today in Maui with company President Cristiano Amon laying out how commercialization of 5G represents a transition much more significant than previous...

1.5 billion 5G subscribers by 2024: Ericsson Mobility Report

5G will cover 40% of the population in six years The latest Ericsson Mobility Report projects 5G will achieve global scale more quickly than previous generations of cellular, reaching 1.5 billion subscribers by 2024 and covering 40% of the world's population in the same timeframe. All...

Analyst Angle: Did Intel’s failure to deliver on XMM 8060 make Apple delay iPhone 5G?

In my stint as an analyst, as well as in my long career as an engineer and a marketer in large corporations, I have developed a believability yardstick: believe less than 50% of what you are told, about 60% of what you are shown,...

Test and Measurement: Viavi launches 5G base station analyzer

Viavi Solutions has introduced what it calls the first "true" 5G base station analyzer, designed to support large-scale network deployments. CellAdvisor 5G brings Viavi's longtime CellAdvisor base station analyzer line for validating and troubleshooting the Radio Access Network into the 5G era. With early 5G...

#TBT: FCC Auction 97 going strong; AT&T and Intel’s $500 wearable; Obama supports net neutrality … this week in 2014

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! FCC Auction 97...