Qualcomm has added the faster, LTE-based Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 to its mobile platforms.
Qualcomm has added to its Snapdragon 600 and 400 tiers with the Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 Mobile Platforms. The platforms promise better battery life, more efficiency and higher performance,...
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...
ST is accredited by GMSA to produce eSIMs; ST will ship pre-formated eSIMs directly to OEMs.
Semiconductor company STMicroelectronics now has accreditation from the GSMA to produce embedded SIMs (eSIMs) and load connection credentials such as certificates and operator profiles before shipping.
The eSIM is GSMA’s...
Intel CEO shake up: Krzanich resigns after affair with Intel employee is revealed.
Intel has named CFO Robert Swan as the interim CEO to replace former CEO Brian Krzanich, who resigned on Thursday after Intel learned that Krzanich had had a past consensual relationship with...
MediaTek plans to increase research into 5G and artificial intelligence.
Fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Chairman and CEO Ming-Kai Tsai said MediaTek would be investing more money in research and development of 5G and artificial intelligence technologies, according to an article in DigiTimes. The remarks were made...
After it laid off 1,500 workers in April, Qualcomm has filed a new Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) to lay off approximately 300 more employees. The numbers are 61 employees in San Diego and 241 in North Carolina, according to a report from...
5G entering the trough of disillusionment
The hype cycle is a tool developed by Gartner to help understand how particular technologies are regarded in terms of the reality of expectations as compared to how the technology is used over time. There are five phases: the...
The fog of trade war continues to creep in. While The South China Morning Post reported yesterday that China’s regulatory agency the Ministry of Commerce, or Mofcom, finally approved Qualcomm’s $44 billion deal to purchase NXP, the news service Reuters said its sources close...
National Instruments and IP-software startup NanoSemi are collaborating to add NanoSemi’s linearizer to NI’s PXI systems to help test 5G New Radio front-end designs. The addition will streamline some of the advanced 5G testing and add machine-learning capabilities through digital pre-distortion algorithms.
The target customers...
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 networks and equipment on them, even internet of things equipment, will likely have machine learning...
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...
5G-connected laptops, 2-and-1s highlighted by Intel at Computex
From distributed computing and artificial intelligence to enterprise-enablement and 5G, Intel is pushing hard into the next-generation of mobility, which is poised to be about a lot more than just smartphones.
This week at the Computex event in...
Qualcomm pushing for acquisition of NXP
As Qualcomm continues its bid to acquire Dutch silicon firm NXP, the two major global companies this week in Taipei, Taiwan, for the annual Computex event, made big product and partner announcements that highlight the reach, in terms of...
Although Qualcomm has been doing AI research for more than 10 years, a dedicated R&D unit will help to coordinate AI development efforts across the company
In a week where Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Intel are all holding simultaneous artificial intelligence (AI) developer conferences, Qualcomm announced...
Facebook's Terragraph focused on multi-gigabit wireless in urban areas
Densely populated urban areas are centers for demand of more bandwidth and faster wireless speeds. At the same time, these areas are challenging environments to replace legacy copper, deploy costly fiber or quickly stand up cellular...
Qualcomm tells world that its FSM product line will include 5G NR for small cells, multi-gigabit throughput.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced that it will offer a 5G NR version of its 3G and 4G FSM technology for small cells and remote radio heads at the...
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...
The U.S government is allegedly negotiating with China a deal to lift sanctions on ZTE in exchange for the removal of duties on U.S agricultural products
President Donald Trump has justified his decision to help find a solution to help Chinese vendor ZTE get back...
Fabless semiconductor startups are making interesting 5G silicon by converting big ideas into practice
5G is a complex problem: how to create 100x faster networks that can handle 1000x more traffic with low latency using fewer, and sometimes more problematic, resources. Spectrum is a finite...
The Chinese vendor said that the next two weeks will be key to find a solution to the conflict
Chinese vendor ZTE announced that it has ceased its major operating activities due to the export ban imposed by the US government.
“As a result of the...
Mobile phone chips may become main focus if Qualcomm makes data-center server exit.
Qualcomm may leave the data-center server business, reports Bloomberg. Qualcomm did not confirm the rumor, when contacted for comment.
“The reports are valid,” said Linley Gwennap, president of The Linley Group, in a...
The Chinese vendor has received instructions from the U.S government on how to submit additional evidence
Chinese vendor ZTE has been notified on how to proceed with its efforts to try to avoid a ban recently imposed by the U.S government which would potentially cause...
MediaTek said it will need to obtan government permission to resume shipments to the Chinese vendor
Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek confirmed that it has suspended delivery of products to Chinese vendor ZTE, after Taiwanese authorities issued an order for all the country's companies to temporarily...
