Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - December 2019

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

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12/31/2019

5G Devices Go Mainstream in 2020

• Southampton University Spin-off Reduces 5G Latency by 16x

• Dayton Hamvention Admission, Fees to Increase in 2020

5G Early Adopters Show Solid Growth

AMSAT CW Day is January 1

12/30/2019

Mid-Band Spectrum Finally Inches to U.S. Market in 2020

Broadcom Looking to Sell Its RF Business Unit for $10B

Record Year for Fab Additions for 2020

• Dell's Jeff Clarke Looks to 2020 and the 'Next Data Decade'

Huber+Suhner Completes Acquisition of BKtel Group

12/27/2019

5G Acceleration to Reduce Cellular Carbon by 0.5B Tonnes

• France Launches Procedure for Assigning 5G Frequency Licenses

• 19 in 2019: Highlights from Design News

• Researchers Crack Newton's Elusive 3-Body Problem (well, almost)

Ofcom Reviews Connected Home

12/26/2019

• Amazon, Apple, Google, the Zigbee Alliance Develop New Smart Home Standard

• FCC's Round 17 Auction of mmWave Spectrum Hit $3B in Bids (subscribers pay the bill, of course)

Analog Devices Sues Xilinx for Patent Infringement

CAMSAT CAS-6 Amateur Radio Satellite Launched Successfully

5 Pivotal Events in AI Chips in 2019

12/25/2019

• Roanoke Division Director Interviews Oldest U.S. Radio Amateur

RF Signal Generator Market to Grow at 2% CAGR from 2019 to 2023

• Senate Commerce Committee OKs C-Band Auction Bill

6 UK Cities Get the 5G Switch-on from EE

Chinese Operators Dominating Worldwide IoT Market

12/24/2019

• Apple and Samsung Sued for Exceeding Authorized RF Radiation Levels

5G Heads into 2020 with 200 Announced Devices, 56 Commercial Launches

NTT's MIST Subsea Cable to Connect Singapore, Myanmar, India

• How Viasat Changes the Satellite Game

Broadband Satellite to Connect Pacific Islands Launched on SpaceX Rocket

12/23/2019

Christmas Carols to be Broadcast on HF from Antarctica

• FCC Drives 5.9 GHz Proposal for C-V2X, Wi-Fi Use

• Ofcom to Ban Sale of Locked Mobile Handsets

• With or Without Huawei? German Coalition Delays 5G Rollout

China's Tech Ban Could Have Grave Long-Term Consequences

Elon Musk to Speak at SATELLITE 2020 Keynote

12/20/2019

• FCC Formally Adopts Proposals to Remove Amateur 3 GHz Band

Tariff Reprieve Granted for Consumer Electronics

Samsung Breaks into Canadian Market with 5G, LTE-A

Bar Code Lead Developer George Laurer, K4HZE, SK

Iridium Extreme 9575 Satellite Phone (yep, Iridium is still operational)

12/19/2019

• AztechSat-1 CubeSat to Demonstrate Intra-Satellite Communication

• Apple Has "Deep Concerns" Ex-Employees Will Flee to China

• Oracle's OpenWorld Moving out of San Francisco Due to Expense, Garbage Everywhere

• Apple Feature Forces Change in Online Ad Industry (doesn't affect RF Cafe advertisers)

• U.S. House Passes $738B National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

12/18/2019

2G / 3G Sunset: Managing a Real Life Case Study

• WBA Wi-Fi 6 Trial in Hostile Wi-Fi Environment Deemed a Success

Who's Hiring Engineers? Who's Firing Them?

• How the Army Is Girding for Electronic Warfare

• Momentous View on the Birth of Photoelectrons

12/17/2019

ESA Calling Radio Amateurs: Help Find OPS-SAT!

• Q3 SEMI Billings up 12% Sequentially

• Amazon Makes Quantum Computing Accessible As a Service

• The Google Guys: Retiring at 46

Deutsche Telekom to End 2019 with 450 5G Sites, Pauses 5G Deals

12/16/2019

FCC to Ditch Flawed Mobility Fund II over Unreliable 4G LTE Coverage Maps

Huawei Elects Canadian Courtesy over U.S. Aggression

Unemployment Rate Hits Historic Low

Qualcomm Has Big Plans for 5G in 2020

Samsung Galaxy S11 May Offer 8K Video Recording

12/13/2019

ARRL Asks FCC to Dismiss Petition Seeking Declaratory Ruling on Encoded Message Rule

AI and Engineering Education

• EU Digital Czar to Probe Facebook and Google Data Wrangling

Peculiar 'Normal' Phase of High-Temperature Superconductors

Huawei Faces Online Storm in China over Employee Treatment

12/12/2019

• FCC Amending Amateur Radio RF Exposure Safety Rules ***

Page and Brin Officially Step Away from Google Management

• How Quantum Tech Puts the World's Data at Risk

• Toward More Efficient Computing with Magnetic Waves

• T-Mobile U.S. Turns up Nationwide 5G on 600 MHz

12/11/2019

• Russia to Create New Radar Field Against Cruise Missiles

5G and IoT lead Telco Transformation Drive

Huawei to Sue over FCC Restrictions on USF Spending

• Novel Material Switches Between Conducting and Insulating States

DSS Used on Live 5G Call Between Switzerland, Australia

12/10/2019

• Huawei to Shift Research Center from U.S. to Canada

China Mandates Face Scans for People Buying Mobile Phones

• Rakuten's Tareq Amin Most Powerful Person in Wireless Tech for 2019

• The Race to Exascale at Supercomputer 2019

• Moortec IP in Radar-on-Chip Device

12/9/2019

ARRL's 12 Days of Deals Start on Monday

Ericsson Holds Lead over Huawei in Mobile Core Market

Antimony Could Replace Silicon in Next-Gen Processors

Corporate Debt Nears Record $10T

FCC Settles 911 Outage Incidents

12/6/2019

• Old 3G Battle Shifts to 5G Struggle

• Chinese Brands to Take 60% of 5G Handset Market in 2020

Software-Defined Satellite Market to Grow >3x over Next 10 Years

• Audi to Spend €12B to Electrify Its Vehicle Lineup

Future Car Design for an Aging Population

12/5/2019

• Australia Using HD Cams to Detect Drivers Using Cellphones

YOTA Month Expanding into the Americas

5G Could Reach 65% of World's Population by 2025

R&D Spend Is Increasing in UK

• U.S. Army Using Positioning Solutions for GPS Denied Environments

12/4/2019

Meteorologists Concerned over 5G Bandwidth Allocation

Nokia Reckons It Doesn't Need a COO Anymore

Demystifying 5G - It's Real and It's Here

Ultrafast Quantum Simulations: A New Twist

• EU Propose Huge Underground Gravitational-Wave Laboratory

12/3/2019

India Disbands Committee After Failing to Deliver Telecoms Bailout

Record-Setting Transistor

Audi to Slash 9,500 Jobs in Germany by 2025

• China Launches Satellite Service Platform

Square Kilometre Antenna Array Hit by €250M Shortfall

12/2/2019

• France Won't Block Huawei from Its 5G Network

Autonomous Balloons to Bring Internet to Rural Peru

• Satellite Companies Suffer Setback in C-Band Plan

• China Launches 2 More Beidou Navigation Satellites (SinoGPS)

• CERN to Announce 1-Year Delay to Large Hadron Collider Upgrade