Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - April 2022

4/29/2022

• FCC ULS for New Ham Licensees Still Broken (typical gov't)

• Everyone >15 to Own Mobile Phone, Use Internet by 2030

• Chinese Math Genius Leaves Harvard to Help China

• FCC Set to Fine Truphone over Alleged Russian Ties

• Eyes Control Smartphone via Gaze-Tracking Tool

4/28/2022

• DARPA Conducts In-Space Radio Measurements

• Q1 Smartphone Market down 11% y-o-y

• IC Fab Capacity ^8.7% in 2022, Utilization Only 93%

• U.S. Hamstrung by Spectrum Constraints

• Oreometer for Rheology Measurements

4/27/2022

• China's Q1 IC Output down 4.1%

• FCC Wants to Regulate C-Band Radar Altimeter Receivers

• Global Semiconductor Revenue up 26% in 2021

• Sale of Newport Wafer Fab (GB) to China Opposed by U.S. Congressmen

• Can Cell Towers Run on "Renewable" Energy?

4/26/2022

• U.S. Tech Market Leadership at a Crossroads

• 5 Chipmakers Increase Share of Global IC Wafer Capacity

• White House Bars Anti-Satellite Missile Tests (God help us!)

• Optimism for Engineering Apprenticeships

• Jersey Telecom Fined £90,000 for Island-Wide Shutdown

4/22/2022

• FCC ULS Electronic Batch Filing (EBF) System down Since April 19th

• Global Smartphone Shipments Fell 11% in Q1

• Google's Topaz Cable Soon to Link Canada to Japan

• 5G Deemed a "Great Enabler" for U.S. Navy

• Volvo Cars Invests in Rapid Charging Battery Tech

• Microsatellite Fleet to Scan for Black Holes and Supernovas

4/21/2022

• Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hides Satellites from Radar

• Drone Parcel Delivery Happening in Dallas, Fort Worth

• Ericsson Shares Sink Further after Tough Q1

• Google Announces $9.5B U.S. Expansion

• Silicon Spin Qubits Manufactured on Industrial Scale

4/20/2022

• WiFi 6 to be 80% of Smartphone Market by 2025

• Race to Dominate Satellite Internet Heats Up

• Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

• National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show Begins April 23rd

• AT&T Seeks Experimental Licenses for 6G

4/19/2022

• China & Russian Space Assets Increased 70% Since 2019

• WInnForum Publishes New RF Transceiver Interoperability Standard

• IC Unit Growth Returns to Normal

• Declining Nitrogen Availability in Nitrogen Rich World (not another "hockey-stick" curve!)

• Ericsson Likely Faces Fines in Iraq Bribery Investigation

4/18/2022

• Spectrum Coordination Act for Collaboration Between FCC and NTIA

• Strong Connectors/Cable Assemblies Industry Assured

• TSMC Expects $44B in Capex

• Piezo Technologies Transforming 2022

• Nuclear Bunkers Are Not What They Used to Be

4/15/2022

• Plasma Ejections from Sun Could Cause Damage on Earth Today

• U.S. Braces for Russian Cyberwarfare Assult

• Chinese AI Turns Commercial Satellite into Spy Tracker

• Astronomers Detect Galactic Space Laser

• Electrically Tunable Graphene Devices Used to Study Rare Physics

4/14/2022

• 5G a Significant Market Opportunity for GaN

• "Twistons" Keep Electrons Flowing Through 3 Layers of Graphene

• The Senate Bill That Has Big Tech Scared

• Engineered Crystals Help Computers Run on Less Power

• Perseverance Records the 1st Ever Sounds from Mars ("Take me to your leader" heard)

4/13/2022

• U.S. Inflation Now at 8.5% (Putin the scapegoat, but ^ began long before - GasBuddy: Pre-inauguration 1/21 ~$2.20/gal,  4/21 ~$2.85, 12/21 ~$3.30, Ukraine 2/22 ~3.50, 3/22 ~$4.20)

• O-RAN Alliance Releases New Specifications

• February Chip Sales up 32.4%

• DARPA Awards BAE Phase 2 of Next-Gen Advanced Electronics Program

• Austrian Magenta Telekom Sets 2024 for 3G Shutdown

• 1st Private Mission Reaches International Space Station

4/12/2022

• FCC Selects Anritsu for SAR and HAC Compliance Tests on 5G

• Equipment Lead Times Stretching out to 18+ Months

• Pay-As-You-Go Chip Design in the Cloud

• Indian Telcos Want to Control 5G Spectrum

• What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

4/11/2022

• World Amateur Radio Day is April 18 (in 1 week)

• Possible Dock Worker Strike Could Worsen Supply Chain Disruptions

• Chiplets Get a Formal Standard with UCIe 1.0

• Taipei Vies with Taiwan for Core of Semiconductor Ecosystem

• 1st Complete, Gapless Sequence of Human Genome

4/8/2022

• FCC Application Fee Will Not Apply to Amateur Radio License Upgrades

• How Chip Shortage Is Rewiring Tech

• Japan to Cover 95% of Population with 5G in 2 Years

• Smartphone 2022 Forecast Downgraded from 1.380B to 1.366B Units

• Grocery Prices up 30% or More in Germany

4/7/2022

• U.S. Space Force Wants 40% Budget Increase for Missile Warning

• 1.3B 5G Users Projected by End of 2022

• Micron Navigates Supply Chain Issues with >3x Profit

• Russia's Counterspace Capabilities Highlights Space Security

• A $10B Fusion R&D Initiative

4/6/2022

• GaN Demand to Increase 4x by 2030

• FCC Screws Carriers for $3.7B Due to Huawei & ZTE  Rip and Replace Underfunding

• Samsung Dominating Booming Smartphone Display Market

• Algorithm Could Be Quantum Leap in Gravitational Wave Search

• Multi-SIM Devices

4/5/2022

• Source of Super-Fast Electron "Rain" Found

• Elon Musk Buys 9% of Twitter to Help Cancel "Cancel Culture"

• Net 1.42M U.S. Job Loss to Automation by 2032

• Chinese Satellite to Join 30x Earth Size Radio Telescope

• New Way to Make Carbon Fiber

4/4/2022

• ARSINOE Subsea Cable System in Operation

• Lockdowns in China Could Interrupt Global Supply Chains

• Audio Recorded on Mars Reveals 2 Speeds of Sound

• Scavenger Nanoparticles for Fuel-Cell-Powered Vehicles

• Ukraine War Takes Toll on European Software Development

4/1/2022

• ARRL Website Offline for Major Upgrade

• Effect of Ukraine War on Electronics Industry is Indirect

• Intel Invests $100M to Promote Chip Research, Education in U.S.

• Apple Rushes out iOS and macOS Patches for Zero-Day Threats

• China Mobile Exceeds 200M 5G Network Users