Marvell projects $150 million incremental revenue increase in 2023
Marvell Technology, a data center semiconductor specialist, announced this week a "definitive agreement" to acquire Innovium in all stock transaction valued at $1.1 billion and set to close by year end pending approval from shareholders and...
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 newest smartphone series, the Pixel 6, will sport an in-house chip called Tensor. Critical to...
Intel plans to invest $600 million, up from $350 million, in the chip manufacturing plant
As a result of the ongoing global shortage of semiconductors, Intel this week revealed that is has nearly doubled a previously proposed investment in a micro-chip plant in Costa Rica...
Ericsson exec: '5G is leading to a fully realized IoT and bringing us closer to a truly connected world'
Ericsson and MIT have made plans to jointly research and design hardware for 5G and 6G mobile networks. Specifically, Ericsson Research and the MIT Materials Research Laboratory are...
Qualcomm president: 'The global deployment of 5G mmWave is inevitable and essential'
Qualcomm revealed at MWC 2021 that the Snapdragon 888, its 5G mobile platform announced in December 2020, is getting an upgrade. The new model, the Snapdragon 888 Plus, offers an increased Qualcomm Kryo...
The AI-on-5G platform combines the GPU and the DPU on the same EGX Nvidia AI card
At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Nvidia announced that it is extending support for Arm-based CPUs in the Nvidia Aerial A100 AI-on-5G, a platform first revealed in April at...
The floodgate of Mobile World Congress 2021 announcements has opened! 5G Open RAN will undoubtedly be the biggest theme among them. On the first day of the event, the 5G behemoth Qualcomm announced the world’s first 3GPP Rel. 16 Small Cell platform FSM200xx as...
German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it has completed the first 5G Voice over New Radio (VoNR) call in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung and Xiaomi.
The call was made over a 5G Standalone (SA) network set up at Deutsche Telekom's lab in Warsaw, Poland.
This...
"Qualcomm enters the 5G era with our whole company stronger and more resilient," outgoing CEO Steve Mollenkopf says
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf kicked off the company's Q2 earnings call this week, reporting year-over-year increases in earnings per share and revenue, before handing things over...
Chinese vendor Huawei’s business felt the impact of the ongoing U.S. sanctions in the first quarter of the year, with a 16.5% year-on-year decline in revenues.
In a release, Huawei reported revenues of CNY152.2 billion ($23.5 billion) in the first quarter, while its profit margin...
Intel and TSMC CEOs update on chip production outlook
An ongoing global shortage of semiconductors, caused by a number of related factors, has chip makers planning massive capital spends to bulk up production capacity and the U.S. government conducting a review of the global chip...
Dr. John Smee, Qualcomm’s VP of engineering, says that one of the things that differentiates Qualcomm from other tech companies is its “if you build it, they will come” research mentality: Trying to envision and build technologies that will support what future applications could...
Massive MIMO solutions set for Q4 availability
The availability of Open RAN-compatible massive MIMO radios has been on operator wish lists for some time as they look to bring disaggregated radio access network kit into more demanding, urban deployments. Cloud-native network specialist Mavenir this week...
During his opening keynote address at NVIDIA GTC, the company’s Founder and CEO Jensen Huang characterized artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G as “ingredients” necessary to “kickstart the fourth industrial revolution.” He added, however, that we are still in need of a final “miracle.”
Cue the...
At this year’s GTC, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced updates to its system-on-a-chip (SoC) for autonomous driving DRIVE Orin, as well as the unveiling of DRIVE Atlan, an AI-enabled SoC that will be available to automakers for their 2025 models.
The SoC integrates...
Chinese vendor Huawei is not expecting the Biden administration to remove the company from the Entity List, the company’s rotating chairman, Eric Xu, said during a session with journalists at the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2021.
“We believe that we will need to continue working...
AT&T, SK Telecom, Verizon, Vodafone all working with Intel on 5G network transformation
This week Intel touted its 3rd generation Xeon scalable processor and, in a virtual track focused on telco applications and complementary products, carrier executives discussed their work with Intel around virtualization of...
Intel debuts 3rd generation Xeon scalable processor with telco SKUs tailored for the 5G era
This week Intel announced its third-generation Xeon scalable processor which comes in SKUs that are optimized for use in telco networks that are becoming increasingly virtualized and disaggregated with proprietary,...
Right after the last Nvidia quarterly earnings release, Jim Cramer, host of CNBC Mad Money spoke to Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia regarding the deal with Arm. Most of his questions were softballs, but what caught my attention was Jensen’s comment that Arm was...
The FTC believes that Qualcomm’s licensing practices demonstrate anticompetitive behavior
In September 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for a rehearing of the August 2020 decision of a panel of that court in siding with Qualcomm on...
Intel plans to invest about $20 billion to build two new fab facilities in Arizona, bolstering U.S. jobs and the domestic semiconductor supply.
Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, discussed the fab investments and Intel's strategy in an online financial and business update on the company. He...
SoftBank’s proposed sale of Arm to NVIDIA should be blocked. While there are major UK national interest concerns about this transaction, the threat and likelihood of severe anticompetitive effects are global and more fundamental. NVIDIA’s control over Arm will throttle the advance of other...
Around one-third of the global population doesn't have access to the internet and some that do don't have reliable access. While cable and fiber could solve this, the economics of that aren't tenable. 5G is viewed as another candidate for expanding home internet access,...
Chinese vendor Huawei believes that it will be extremely unlikely that the new U.S. administration would lift the current restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trump, Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, said at a media roundtable.
“I think it's very unlikely that the U.S....
