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AI’s future depends less on algorithms and more on the physical realities of silicon, power, capital, and geopolitics The artificial intelligence sector has entered a new industrial phase. For two …

AI-powered devices and satellite Non-terrestrial Networks (NTN) take center stage in next-gen innovation While 5G continues to evolve with the ongoing shift to 5G Standalone and the early rollout of …

You can’t put a price on data. Or can you? A staggering 92% of all internet access now comes via mobile phone, and by 2025 the industry will have reached …

The RAN compute portfolio from Ericsson includes two high-capacity processors and two high-capacity, energy-efficient routers Ericsson has announced a new portfolio of RAN compute silicon that it is confident will …

New York headquartered GlobalFoundries and Switzerland-headquartered STMicroelectronics (STMicro) have confirmed a deal to build a jointly-operated semiconductor manufacturing facility in Crolles, in France, at a total project cost of €7.5 …

Want to know the latest with Sony’s smart label, the ground-breaking massive IoT use-case the firm’s Israeli IoT chip division prototyped with German pharmaceuticals company Bayer a couple of years …

Viettel began testing commercial 5G services in parts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2019 AMD announced the successful completion of a 5G mobile network field trial with Viettel Group’s …

Their trial conducted on Graviton2 processors yielded an average power reduction of 72% compared to Intel, the companies claimed Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and NEC Corp. announced the completion of a technical …

Volkswagen-owned automotive software company CARIAD has appointed Franco-Italian semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics (ST) to develop a system-on-chip (SoC) for a new line of Volkswagen vehicles based on the CARIAD software platform. …

Arm has issued a flurry of announcements related to its Cortex-M and Cortex-A processor families, restating its mission to “streamline” embedded computing for the IoT developer market. Among the new …

The PC802 SoC is a purpose-designed SoC for 5G NR/LTE small cell disaggregated and integrated RAN architectures Picocom has introduced the PC802 SoC (system on chip), a flexible, low power …

This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT challenges 1-5 – which is available here. Both articles are taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what …

Cisco exec: ‘We have seen the world transform over the last year and a half, and the internet had to transform with it’ Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Cisco have been …

UK-based Arm has introduced a new cloud-based IoT design system to enable software development for IoT without the need for physical silicon. The new offering, called Arm Total Solutions for …

DDoS attacks are growing faster than any other type of internet traffic, says the director of product marketing at Nokia A week or so after announcing its fifth generation of …

Google: ‘Tensor was built for how people use their phones today and how people will use them in the future’ Blaming computing limitations of third-party options, Google announced that its …

Qualcomm Technologies has agreed to buy high-performance silicon start-up Nuvia for about $1.4 billion, in a move that Qualcomm says will deliver “step-function improvements in CPU performance and power efficiency …

The Huawei consumer business has been under “tremendous pressure” Huawei has confirmed that it has made an agreement to sell its consumer smartphone brand Honor and related business, in a …

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit) gave a landmark decision in favor of Qualcomm, on Aug 11th 2020, in the long running antitrust case …

Mentor exec: ‘testing is the key to 5G network success’ Mentor Graphics, which was acquired by Siemens in 2017 for $4.5 billion, has joined the O-RAN Alliance. Mentor, which specializes …

Nokia has been slowly moving from the use of field programmable gate arrays towards 5G silicon technology This week, Nokia has inked two separate deals, one with semiconductor company Marvell …

The title best describes the current situation after the recent hearing in the more-than-yearlong saga between FTC and Qualcomm. On Feb 13th, 2020, a three-judge panel of the US Court …

Everything about 6G networking is still up in the air, but a new whitepaper – the first of many to come – is the first step in defining a service …

  A few weeks ago, the movers and shakers of the IoT industry converged on the Santa Clara Convention center for the 2018 edition of IoT World Americas. IoT World …

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — 3D chips are the next frontier for machine-learning chip design, said Globalfoundaries CTO of ASICs, at the IoT DevCon and Machine Learning Conference this week. Wireless …