Category: Communications Networks

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 480 5G Mobile Platform expands the company’s portfolio in the budget tier, offering price points at mid- and high-tier levels that seem pretty certain to expand its market share ahead of competitors. This is a smart business strategy for a chipmaker looking to leverage 5G early to accelerate revenue growth with minimal friction from competitors. It’s also a smart ecosystem strategy, as Qualcomm can use this opportunity to prove to handset makers that it can become their single source of 5G mobile SOCs at every price point.
In this new episode of the Six Five - Insiders’ Edition, co-hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead talk with Qualcomm’s Alex Katouzian about the state of Qualcomm’s 5G advancements including the latest Snapdragon Series 4 announcement.
In a surprising update, long time Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf has announced plans to retire with President Cristiano Amon to succeed him.
Last week AT&T CEO Anne Chow keynoted The Economist Event Series — a Whole New (contactless) World: The Rise of Digital Identity. In her conversation with The Economist’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran, they discussed the convergence of the physical and digital worlds and the need for connectivity to support a distributed infrastructure. Their conversation also touched on the impact of a rapid pivot on corporate culture, what business leaders need to consider, as well as what some key industries are focusing on right now.
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 5G mobile platform blurs the lines between smartphone shots and pro photography with its new Spectra 580 ISP, capable of processing up to 2.7 gigapixels per second. That is an astounding performance capability, especially for a chipset small enough to fit into a phone. This triple concurrency feature also allows a user to capture three 4K HDR videos at the same time.
In this AT&T Business #BIZTALKS roundtable hosted by Futurum’s Shelly Kramer, she was joined by Kevin Jackson, CEO of GC Globalnet, Helen Yu, Founder & CEO of Tigon Advisory Corp, and Jason Inskeep, Director of the 5G Center of Excellence at AT&T for a conversation centered on smart investments business leaders can be, and should be, making for the intelligent future of business.
The Ericsson Mobility Report is essential to understanding the current state of the worldwide 5G market, particularly since it pinpoints the most important developments in 5G backed with insightful and concise data. The report affirms that 5G is forging ahead across the planet despite the uncertainties of the C-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions affecting supply chains. The report plays a critical role in giving Ericsson a prominent role in the overall 5G market, by helping to capture mind share for its brand as well as informing the key decision making across the entirety of the 5G ecosystem needed to power 5G deployments. The key takeaways, including the validation of the FWA business case, Critical IoT’s rising prominence, rapid expansion of 5G subscriber counts, and 5G SA’s progress, to name a few, all provide solid evidence that 5G is ready to play a prominent role in not only the evolution of mobile networks but also society as a whole.
Qualcomm opens the week at its Snapdragon Summit with a focus on premium mobile experiences, 5G, and the dawn of an entirely new era for mobile in 2021. Many of the technologies showcased today will naturally trickle down vertically to other Snapdragon tiers, as well as outward to adjacent growth segments for the chipmaker, like Always-On, Always-Connected laptops, XR devices, Edge/Cloud AI products, and 5G Fixed Wireless solutions, among others.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series, host and Futurum co-founder Daniel Newman talks with Intel’s Cristina Rodriguez about the state of network infrastructure and network transformation including where we are likely to go in the future.
The U.S. House’s Open RAN 5G bill, assuming robust R&D funding remains integral, will further assist ecosystem-wide coordination in key areas like R&D and supply chain integrity. In sum, the mobile industry is steadily shifting to an open RAN model, despite near-term challenges in the process, many of which are expected based on the industry’s experience with previous high-impact technology shifts. The U.S. Congress is sending a clear signal that Open RAN is critical to meeting U.S. government 5G national security and supply chain goals. This provides more funding opportunity for the Open RAN community to prove that Open RAN is ready to meet ecosystem-wide prime time 5G demands.
The technology industry has been a bright spot for the global economic recovery from the effects of the coronavirus lockdowns.

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