Huawei Technologies posted revenues of CNY 610.8 billion ($86 billion) in the first three-quarters of the year, climbing 24.4% year-on-year, despite a trade ban imposed by the U.S. government earlier this year.
The company's net profit margin in this period was 8.7%, Huawei said in...
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...
Huawei Technologies is already manufacturing 5G base stations without components provided by U.S. suppliers, international press reported the vendor’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying.
From October, Huawei expects to produce 5,000 5G base stations per month, and next year it plans to manufacture...
Qualcomm sees 5G and AI as important adjacent technologies
SAN DIEGO--5G is about a lot of things that have a key commonality--the devices that connect to 5G will consume and create a lot of data of myriad profiles. Fortunately 5G is designed to handle all...
The U.S. semiconductor industry urged President Donald Trump to ease the ban on sales to Chinese vendor Huawei through the approval of export licenses, according to Bloomberg.
“We encourage prompt action to issue approvals for sales that do not implicate national security concerns, particularly where...
Qualcomm got a reprieve when the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed the decision of United States District Court for the Northern District of California’s (DC) in its antitrust case. Immediately after the stay, Qualcomm filed its opening brief (175 pages...
5G takes centerstage during IFA keynotes
With keynotes highlighting 5G from executives at Qualcomm and Huawei, the Berlin-based IFA consumer electronics show served as a proof point that device OEMs and their ecosystem partners are working overtime to support the global deployment of 5G, which...
Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon gave a keynote presentation at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin today, laying out the company's ongoing 5G strategy, which is focused on driving access to 5G devices and opening up potentially lucrative new use cases like 5G fixed...
Dynamic spectrum sharing lets operators side-step the spectrum re-farming process
Right now in the U.S., 5G availability is relatively limited. AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon are all currently using millimeter wave frequencies so only parts of some markets have coverage. Sprint is using its 2.5...
Huawei has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) processor – the Ascend 910 – as well as an all-scenario AI computing framework, dubbed MindSpore.
"We have been making steady progress since we announced our AI strategy in October last year," said Eric Xu, Huawei's rotating chairman....
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...