Insight Type: Market Coverage

What is RF Front End (RFFE), and what part does this critical mobile technology play in delivering advanced RF-Modem systems? These are just the first two answers that Futurum senior analyst Olivier Blanchard answers in this three-part series about how RFFE is already solving the growing engineering complexities of 5G, perhaps chief among them how to elegantly solve mmWave challenges, deliver high performance solutions like Qualcomm’s X65 modem-RF system, and provide high speed, low latency connectivity to mobile devices, vehicles, and IOT devices.
Futurum’s Principal Analyst Daniel Newman breaks down the Poly’s announcement from Zoomtopia 2021 including the new video conferencing tools Poly Studio X70 and Poly Studio E70. He also examines how this announcement solidifies Poly’s positioning as a leader in providing technology that enables hybrid work.
Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer breaks down the announcements from Zoom’s Zoomtopia 2021 event where it’s clear that Zoom is not playing when it comes to conferences, events, the contact center, and leveling up collaboration offerings to meet the needs of the hybrid workplace.
Oracle hit its target for EPS and came close on revenue as the company delivered a big update to its Cloud business encouraging investors.
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard explains how the much anticipated U.S. District Court ruling in the Epic Games v. Apple case, along with the broader international push to combat potentially anti-competitive mechanisms built into popular operating systems, could fundamentally impact App Store revenue streams for tech giants like Apple and Alphabet’s Google starting this year.
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the acquisition by Mastercard of CipherTrace. As bitcoin and cryptocurrencies move more and more into the mainstream the legacy financial services players need to bolster their capabilities to process these new digital assets. The acquisition of on-chain analytics company Ciphertrace by Mastercard is a lead indicator that this trend will only increase.
Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers Zoom’s investment of an additional $30M in the video device and as-a-Service hardware offerings company. Zoom and Neat continue to ride the hybrid workplace trend that is clearly here to stay, and this move not only puts other Zoom hardware partners on notice, it provides a hedge against other providers’ vertical stacks.
MircoAI debuts as the rebrand of One Tech, fueled by the mission to deliver personalized AI across edge endpoints using its edge-native AI technology that embeds ML into connected endpoints. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the overall MicroAI proposition, including MicroAI AtomML technology and new go-to-market products, can drive ecosystem-wide innovation of device-specific, personalized AI models that can advance predicted maintenance, IoT edge AI, endpoint device security capabilities as well as provide operational excellence for industrial manufacturing and processing applications.
Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the adoption by El Salvador of bitcoin as legal tender and what this means for Fintech and the global payments and money transfer providers. In a historic move, the country of El Salvador has adopted the cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender.
Futurum Research principal analyst Daniel Newman covers the announcement by Qualcomm, Google, and Renault Group on their partnership to bring immersive in-vehicle experiences to the new Mégane E-TECH Electric by 2022.
This week at the IAA Munich event, Pat Gelsinger announced from the stage of his keynote a new partnership with Luminar on a Robotaxi Service
Futurum’s Daniel Newman covers HPE’s strong Q3 FY21 earnings, fueled by increased (and continued) demand, along with the company’s pivot to ARR and delivering on higher margin solutions that focus on serving customers from edge-to-cloud.

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