Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone have issued a joint MOU about O-RAN roll-out. The operators said they will work together with existing and new ecosystem partners like the O-RAN Alliance and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to ensure that O-RAN quickly reaches competitive parity with traditional solutions. “Open RAN is the natural evolution of ...

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Renesas has added to its portfolio for macro base transceiver stations (BTS) with four devices, offering customers access to a complete RF signal chain. This expansion includes quad-channel F4482/1 TX variable gain amplifiers (VGA) and the F011x family of dual-channel first-stage low noise amplifiers (LNA). The device set also includes the F1471 RF driver amplifier ...

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Element14 is giving its members the opportunity to come up with creative and altruistic solutions for global disasters. Members are encouraged to think outside the box and share ideas that could potentially be used to combat anything from global droughts and flooding, to world hunger or even complications from long term COVID-19 symptoms or other ...

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Anthony Levandowski, the autonomous driving pioneer who downloaded 14,000 Waymo files before moving to Uber, has been pardoned by outgoing US president Donald Trump. In August Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to the theft. Levandowski was ordered to pay Google $756,499 in restitution and was fined $95,000. In 2009, ...

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Semiconductor industry R&D spending will rise 4% in 2021, after a record 2020, says IC Insights. Intel stays on top of the R&D ranking, but its share of total industry R&D expenditures dipped after its spending decreased 4% in 2020.  AMD moved into the R&D top 10. Research and development spending by semiconductor companies worldwide ...

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The chip industry will grow 18% this year to reach a market size of $520.6 billion, forecast Malcolm Penn (pictured) CEO of Future Horizons, at IFS 2021 yesterday. Three out of the four leading market indicators: demand, capacity and prices are all pointing to a big growth year. The only exception being the general economy ...

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CEA-Leti scientists have demonstrated a machine-learning technique exploiting what have been previously considered as “non-ideal” traits of resistive-RAM (RRAM) devices, overcoming barriers to developing RRAM-based edge-learning systems.  The research team demonstrated how RRAM, or memristor, technology can be used to create intelligent systems that learn locally at the edge, independent of the cloud. The learning algorithms ...

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ON Semiconductor is supplying the Quuppa Intelligent Locating System for the RSL10, the Flash-based BLE radio SoC. Provided in a CMSIS-Pack format, the solution allows manufacturers to design ultra-low-power indoor asset tracking applications with Direction Finding features and advanced Angle of Arrival (AoA) technology. The Quuppa Intelligent Locating System is a  platform for location-based services and ...

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