Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - February 2021 |
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• Roadmap for 6G Technology Development 2/22/2021 • NASA's Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars w/Helicopter Onboard • Chipmakers Halt Production in Texas After Power Outages • UK Already Feeling 5G Speed Boost • China Supplies 5.9% of Domestic Chip Market • Supply Chain Professionals Want More Resilience 2/19/2021 • U.S. and China Already Fighting for 6G Dominance • ARRL Board Considers Plan to Cover $35 FCC Fee for Young Members • Significant 5G and Radar Chips at ISSCC 2021 • Linux Foundation, DARPA Collaborate on Open Source for 5G • GlobalFoundries to Manufacture Secure Chips for the U.S. DoD in NY Fab (secure like the voting machine overseas connections?) • Biden Says No Vaccine Available When Coming into Office 2/18/2021 • French Institute Kicks off Pan-European 6G Research Project • British Columbia Ham Copies Mars-Orbiting Satellite Signal • U.S. Army Looks Beyond Land Targets with New EW System • GeoTargeting Would Undermine Radio's Business Model • Birds Can "Read" the Earth's Magnetic Signature 2/17/2021 • Recent Shortages in the Semiconductor Industry • How Broadband Will Transform the Emerald Isle • Skyworks' Quarterly Revenue Grows 58% to Record $1.51B • Qorvo Quarterly Revenue Grows 11% • iPhone 12: Rekindling Smartphone Sales 2/16/2021 • A Perfect Coronal Mass Ejection Could Be a Nightmare • DARPA Pursues Plan for Robust Manufacturing in Space • White Hat Hacks into 35 Major Technology Firms • Quantum Computing Leaps Forward with New "Gooseberry" Chip • Harvard Astronomer Argues Alien Vessel Visited Earth 2/15/2021 • Google's Transatlantic Dunant Submarine Cable Goes Live • Ofcom Removes Chinese Propaganda Outlet from British Airwaves • SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Internet Satellites into Orbit • Zincblende GaN 4x Higher Hole Concentrations Than Wurtzite GaN • Products of Tomorrow: February 2021 2/12/2021 • Most of Europe Fails to Enact New Telecom Rules • 1st Ever Measurements of Einsteinium • China's Tianwen-1 Probe Has Sent 1st Image of Mars • New Leadership at Amazon as CEO Bezos Steps Aside (hmmm... not seeing a lot of diversity there) • $43B for "World's Biggest" Offshore Wind Farm in South Korea 2/11/2021 • Quantum Receiver 1st to Detect Entire RF Spectrum • IARU Receives Gift of hamradio.org Domain • RAB: Digital Now 14% of Total Revenue • Japan Enacts Law Regulating Tech Giant Commerce Platforms • ARRL School Club Roundup, February Edition 2/10/2021 • LoRaWAN Roaming Available in 27 Countries • Bell Canada to Spend $935M to Expand 5G, Fiber Footprint • 6 GHz and Wi-Fi 6 Create Buzz in Wi-Fi Community • Plans to Retrieve Titanic Wireless Equipment Put on Indefinite Hold (thx to Wuhan Flu) • "Stay of Execution" for NiMH Batteries 2/9/2021 • Sweden Holds 5G Auction for 2.3 and 3.5 GHz Bands • Europe Launches Quantum Processing on Silicon Programme • DARPA Pursues Plan for Robust Manufacturing in Space • ARRL Board of Directors to Reconsider the Use of Electronic Balloting (yeah, 'cause it worked so well in the presidential election) • China Issues Anti-Monopoly Rules Targeting Tech Giants 2/8/2021 • Massive GDP Growth and Employment with 5G Networks • European Union DX Contest to Debut • Qualcomm Shares Drop Due to Chip Supply Constraints • Pentagon to Work with Industry on 5G Network Development • Lunar Traffic to Pick up as NASA Readies Robotic Moon Deliveries 2/5/2021 • Optimising AI Usage in the Telco Space • GaInAsSb 1.55μm Telecom Device • AT&T Borrows $14.7B to Buy Spectrum • SpaceX Violated Launch License in Explosive Starship Test • IoT at CES 2021: A Sign of the Times 2/4/2021 • What's in Store for Subsea Communications in 2021 • Chemists Settle Li Metal Anode Battery Debate • Doomsday Clock Remains Perilously Close to Midnight • Semtech and Swarm Deliver Satellite Communications with LoRa® • Huawei Suffers Same Phone-Making Jinx as Other Vendors 2/3/2021 • Samsung Considers $10B U.S.-Based Chip Manufacturing Plant • European Commission Awards €1.47B Contract for 2nd Gen Galileo Satellites • ARISS Investigating Space Station Ham Radio Failure • FCC Levies $10M Fine on Robocaller • FCC C-Band Auction Heads to Next Phase 2/2/2021 • AMSAT RadFxSat-2 Satellite Signals Detected • Intel Claims 40% Share in 5G Infrastructure Silicon • U.S. Space Force Wants More Resilient Architecture • Biden Order Pushes Government to "Buy American" (sounds familiar...) • Top 10 IC Growth Categories 2021 2/1/2021 • U.S. DoD GPS Tests Threaten Airline Safety • Wall Street Gears up for 2nd Bout Against Reddit Traders • New Stretchable Electronics Perform Better Under Strain • 5G Download Speeds in U.S. a Meager 47-58 Mbps • China Collects 100 Petabytes of Earth Observation Data |
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