UK telcos face “attack of the morons”
5G towers aflame and engineers attacked
The UK is facing an “attack of the morons” with 77 arson attack on mobile phone masts across the United Kingdom and 180 incidents of abuse over the last month.
Realised that the only ones suffering were the US
The US Department of Commerce is close to approving a new rule that would allow US companies to work with China’s Huawei Technologies on setting standards for next generation 5G networks.
IBM and Red Hat show off 5G edge plans
Full to the brim
Big Blue and Red Hat have been sharing their ideas to integrate 5G into the edge.
Xilinx reports fiscal Q42020 and FY2020 results
$3.16 billion, data center 22 percent revenue growth
The fiscal year 2020 (April 2019 to April 2020) was a challenging year for anyone trading with China due to the US government pressures on Huawei. Despite all these challenges, Xilinx managed to make $3.16 billion revenue or three percent higher, year over year.
Ericsson doing well thanks to 5G
Going a viking on the rivals
Ericsson posted better than expected quarterly earnings on strong demand for 5G network equipment even as the coronavirus made a mess of other parts of the company.
BT gives 5G core contract to Ericsson
Too sensitive for Huawei
British mobile carrier BT has selected Ericsson to provide the core of its 5G network.
Versal ACAP ideal for 5G
There is no doubt that Samsung is a big player in the 5G arena, both on the client and infrastructure side. Xilinx also managed to score an important 5G design win with its Xilinx Versal ACAP for worldwide 5G commercial deployments.
That will show them
Terminally stupid terrorists decided that the best way to stop people from dying from the coronavirus was to set fire to a tower serving an emergency hospital to treat people.
TCL 10 Pro, 10 5G and 10L announced
Focus on display and camera
TCL is a big name in TVs, and the company behind the Alcatel brand is making its way into the mobile phone arena too. They focus on the display performance, better camera setup, have a 5G phone, and use Pixelworks and its NXTVISION visual technology to improve and optimize content for its phone.
Telefonica is Xilinx’s major 5G customer
First of many
5G is a transformational technology that will change the decade and enable new scenarios as well as business models. With that in mind, Xilinx has just announced that with a few other industry players, it is building a next-generation wireless radio network to drive 5G innovation using open radio-access network (O-RAN) standards for Telefonica.