Category: Communications Networks

On this special episode of The Six Five - Insiders Edition, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman are joined by Qualcomm EVP and QTL President Alex Rogers to discuss Qualcomm’s recent win in the Court of Appeals, its licensing business, 5G intellectual property, and how Qualcomm helping spread the technology around the world.
Qualcomm has made significant strides in its recent Snapdragon platform updates to create a top quality mobile gaming experience for Android.
Ericsson 5G supply chain credentials are raised by demonstrating its supply chain reliability in meeting Verizon’s 5G mmWave requirements in the vital base station domain. If nothing else Verizon can depend on Ericsson’s supply chain stability as it rolls out its UWB services and demonstrate the viability and competitiveness of mmWave-based 5G use cases.
In 2019, a ruling against Qualcomm forced the company to renegotiate terms for its licensing agreements, but in 2020, the ruling has been overturned.
Qualcomm continues a trend of better than expected earnings as the growing 5G space and demand for connectivity drove revenue and bottom line results.
Marvell’s new Custom ASIC portfolio unveiling showcases Marvell’s successful and rapid execution of the Avera Semi execute acquisition, fortifying the company’s goal of becoming the one-stop semiconductor infrastructure provider for its customers and partners. Through differentiation in key areas such as continuous delivery of IP and advanced technology across its top-priority market segments and executing first-time right capabilities across a dynamic range of business models, Marvell is ready to move the market needle ore, especially in the customer ASIC and data infrastructure semiconductor market segments.
ATX’s GigaXtend portfolio affords cable operators the opportunity to revitalize their outside plants with technology purpose-built to enable and accelerate emerging spectrum increases of 1.8GHz and beyond. By targeting the most pressing cable operator demands and landing the Cisco agreement, ATX can plausibly tout its new family of amplifiers is built on a trusted technology pedigree with the reputation for performance and reliability needed to fulfill the demands of DOCSIS 4.0 and ultimately the 2050 vision of fiber-based 500 Gbps services.
ADI is heading into headwinds in attaining full value from the network infrastructure silicon portion of the Maxim portfolio and is dealing with significant supply chain assimilation challenges, thereby dampening the upside of the overall deal. ADI needs to prioritize touting new wins in the network infrastructure segment (i.e., data center, 5G communications) post-merger to allay addressable market concerns and likewise rapidly implement its supply chain optimization strategy.
What we see with Release 16, in addition to improvements to previous fundamental standards, is a shift towards the next market for 5G technologies: industrial networks and applications. That is why, MIMO and IAB improvements aside, private networks, unlicensed spectrum, multi-TRP architecture, high-precision device positioning, efficient new power-saving protocols, and even multicasting between vehicles, constitute the lion’s share of projects in this release.
The aggregated licensing revenue for the mobile industry in 2018 amounted to roughly $10 billion. That comes to less than 1% of the $1.2+ trillion in annual revenue from handsets, infrastructure, and operator revenue combined. Additionally, it constitutes a mere fraction of 1% when you also include the overall benefit and productivity gains from mobile technologies, which amounted to over $4 trillion in value that year.
Alphabet’s Loon has launched its commercial internet service in Kenya through partnership with Telkom Kenya providing cellular service through their network to an area covering roughly 50,000 square kilometres (31,000 square miles). Here’s why I’m bullish on Alphabet Loon filling a significant void in the internet market for the underserved.

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