Electronics & Technical Headline News Archive - March 2017

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

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3/31/2017

GaN RF Power Devices ~25% of High-Power Semis for Mobile Wireless Infrastructure in 2017

Tesla Model 3 Ramp up Aims to Crush BMW and Mercedes

3 UK CEO Throws Temper Tantrum over Spectrum Auction

C.I.A. Developed Tools to Spy on Mac Computers, WikiLeaks Disclosure Shows

Nokia Confirms Its New Android Phones to Hit U.S. Shelves

3/30/2017

UK Museum Wants to Hear from Those Who Remember Sputnik Launch

Scientists Evade the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Startup Develops Polymer Electrolyte for Safer, Longer-Lasting Batteries

Lowenstein's View: 5G 'Marketing' vs. 5G 'Reality'

Keurig to Pay $6M for Defective Coffee Maker (the packages are 'yuge landfill cloggers)

3/29/2017

Roadmap Says CMOS Ends ~2024

European SEMI Award Honors Advanced Packaging Technologists

Pai's FCC Moves on Cellular Power, Interference Rules in 800 MHz

How to Escape PowerPoint Prison

3 Ways Requirements Documents Kill Product Development Projects

3/28/2017

Australia Couple are 1st Foreigners to Own U.S. Radio Stations

WikiLeaks Vault 7 Leak Claims CIA Bugs 'Factory Fresh' iPhones

American Tower Discloses $100M Deal, Buoying Tower Sector

Cuba Institutes New Amateur Radio Regulations

Organic Power Electronics Now a Reality

3/27/2017

People Who Think They're 'Tech-Savvy' 18% More Likely to Be Hit by ID Theft (clue to clueless: using smartphone ≠ tech savvy)

Apple to Start Making iPhones in India over Next 2 Months

ARRL Seeking Synergy with Maker Movement

Wireless Networks Vie for Air Time

Embedded SIM Technology Weaves Its Way into Devices

3/24/2017

European Share of Fabless Chip Market Halves to 1%

Record Spending for Fab Equipment Expected in 2017 and 2018

Peregrine Semi Buys MIT Spinoff Arctic Sand

ARRL Reiterates Its Case for New Band at 5 MHz

Keurig to Pay $6M for Failing to Report Defective Coffee

3/23/2017

FAA Eases up on Electronic Devices on Flights

Maritime Radio Day Event Set for April

Trump Bump Military Budget Ups Defense Spending

China Fab Boom Fuels Equipment Spending Revival

FCC Issues Temporary Waiver Order Regarding Caller ID

3/22/2017

Motorola Solutions Sues Hytera Communications, Alleging Patent, Trade Secrets Theft

U.S. Companies Still Hold Largest Share of Fabless Company IC Sales

Everything You Need to Know About Quantum Computers

SEMI February Billings up 6% on January

Why Industry Accelerated 5G Standard, and What It Means

3/21/2017

China Fab Boom Fuels Equipment Spending Revival

ARRL Weighs In on New California 'Driving While Wireless' Statute

Suspected Hack Attack Snagging Cell Phone Data Across D.C.

Growing Quantum Dot Lasers on Microelectronics-Compatible Silicon

Everything We Know About the U.S. Army's New Super Spy Plane

3/20/2017

SIA Backs House Republicans' Tax Reform Plan

FCC's Pai: 'Section 7' to Evaluate New Tech or Service, Including Above 95 GHz

The Kids Will Learn Radio in Tennessee

Can Ultraprecise Time Measurements Warp Space?

Security Chiefs Join Chorus of Concern About Shoddy IoT Devices

3/17/2017

Registration Under Way for CubeSat Developers Workshop

Headphone Batteries Explode on Flight to Australia

Qualcomm Makes $47B Takeover Bid for NXP Semiconductor

Rad-Hard Chips Could Hasten Small Satellites

50% of Global Population to Connect to a 4G Network by 2022

3/16/2017

Losing Smartphone Nearly as Stressful as Terror Threat

Boy Scouts Announce 2017 Jamboree-on-the-Air Theme

Macrocell Market Plunged 14% in 2016

Space-Based Lasers Among Beijing's High-Tech Arms

Marissa Mayer out at Yahoo! with $23M Golden Parachute (would a male failure have gotten more?)

3/15/2017

SK Telecom Exec Talks 5G Tech, 2017 Trials

FBI Allegedly Paid Geek Squad Techs as 'Confidential Human Sources'

World Wide Web's Inventor Warns It Is in Peril on 28th Anniversary

Sprint Shows off Gigabit Class LTE with Qualcomm, Motorola

January Semiconductor Sales up 14% Y/Y

3/14/2017

Samsung Plans to Shift Manufacturing from Mexico to U.S.

Paced by Big Spenders, Chip Capex Projected to Grow

RadioShack Again Files for Bankruptcy

U.S. Fine Pushes ZTE into the Red

ZTE Agrees to Pay U.S. $892B over Iran Charges

3/13/2017

Did MWC 2017 Illuminate or Obfuscate the 5G Vision?

How Vulnerable Is Your Smartphone per WikiLeaks Data?

Caffeine Boosts Enzyme That Could Protect Against Dementia (coffee is a mortal's ambrosia)

Record Spending for Fab Equipment Expected in 2017 and 2018

IBM's Quantum Leap Could Redefine 'Magic'

3/10/2017

UK Comms Industry Welcomes New 5G Investment

Premium Processing for H1-B Visas Suspended for 6 Months

FCC Will Now Review Forfeiture Settlements

FCC Seeking Answers About AT&T's 911 Wireless Outage on March 8

China Confirms 7% Increase in 2017 Defense Budget

3/9/2017

RF Compound Semiconductor Revenue to Grow to $11B by 2021

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017

Tech Giants Urgently Study CIA Data Dump (they are complicit with CIA)

Reinforced Solder Preforms Increase Bond Line Coplanarity

Robot Sales Boom in North America

3/8/2017

Verizon: We Need to Have a Single Standard for 5G

WikiLeaks Publishes Huge CIA 'Vault 7' Document Release

Tesla Autopilot Sends Model S into Concrete Barrier (humans have done that)

FCC Will Now Review Forfeiture Settlements

'Smart' Meters Found to Report up to 6x Higher than Actual

3/7/2017

Protecting Radio's Most Valuable Asset – Our Spectrum

U. of Connecticut Doubled Women Majoring in Engineering

FCC Loosens FM Translator Rules

Handsets Going Wide, Says LG

Renesas Electronics Completes Acquisition of Intersil

3/6/2017

RSGB Says Ofcom is Not Resolving Interference Complaints

FCC Chairman Goes After His Predecessor's Internet Privacy Rules

ARISS to Swap out Handheld VHF Transceivers on Space Station

Arqiva, Samsung to Trial 5G Fixed Wireless in London Soon

What Facebook Knows About You and the Algorithms That Find It

3/3/2017

FCC Passes $453M/yr for Rural & Tribal Lands LTE Coverage

25 Operators Lab Testing Pre-5G

U.S. Cellular Goes Unlimited as It Posts $6M Q4 Loss

1st Trace of Differences Between Matter and 'Ordinary' Antimatter

Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem (as do human-driven cars)

3/2/2017

Wolfspeed CEO Quits Cree Following Termination of Infineon Acquisition

Verizon to Begin 5G Pilot in 1H 2017 in Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, more

Taiwan Maintains Largest Share of Global IC Wafer Fab Capacity

China's Projects Driving Global Fab Equipment Sales

Top Evolution Guy Say Beatles Had Virtually No Influence on Pop Music (heresy to Beatlemaniacs)

3/1/2017

Qualcomm Intros Comprehensive RF Front-End Platform for Next Gen Mobile Devices

What Do Your Co-Workers Really Think of You?

Math and Maps Make You Nervous? Could Be in Your Genes

EEF to Lead Calls for 5-Year Brexit Transition Period

If Robots Replace Humans, Should They Should Be Taxed