Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - November 2020

11/30/2020

• Turning Point in RF GaN Patenting over Last 2 Years

• Unlicensed Access to 6 GHz Band to Add $163B to Brazilian Economy

• ARRL Asks FCC to Allow 3.4-GHz Operation Until Spectrum is Occupied

• Government Crack-Down on Tech Giants

• Business Models for 5G Edge Look Scary for Operators

11/27/2020

• Foxconn to Shift Some Apple Production to Vietnam

•  U.S. Department of Defense Unveils Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy

• Universal Radio Announces Closing After 78 Years

• UK Defence Secures Largest Investment Since the Cold War

• Social Media Upstart Parler Tops App Store Charts

11/26/2020

• Dish May Have to Relinquish $3.3B Worth of Spectrum

• Wireless Telecom Group WTT Reports Growth in Q3  Despite Wuhan Flu

• 2021 Beginning of the End of Mobile Data Commoditization

• Qorvo Outperforms Expectations in Q2

• Lockheed Martin to Provide Advanced Radar Signal Processing for E-2D Aircraft

11/25/2020

• Report Shows Chinese Dominance in RF GaN Industry

• Arecibo Radio Telescope Deemed Beyond Repair (heavy sigh)

• Imec Begins 6G R&D

• FCC Votes to Open 5.9 GHz for Wi-Fi, C-V2X

• Crown Castle Lays off ~250 Employees

11/24/2020

• RAF Space Command to Be Established in Scotland

• Arizona Rep. Lesko Introduces National Amateur Radio Operators Day Resolution

• Pentagon to Increase Space Force Funding in Coming Years

• Startup Lands $35M for IC Optical Interconnects

• Nokia, Elisa, Qualcomm Achieve 8 Gbps 5G Speed in Finland

11/23/2020

• SpaceX Dragon Capsule Ferries 4 Radio Amateurs to ISS

• Japanese Telcos Voice Opposition to NTT's DoCoMo Bid

• Apple Takes Chipset Matters into Its Own Hands

• No Such Thing as the "New Normal" for Supply Chain

• 4 Predictions for In-Building Wireless Markets

11/20/2020

• International Broadcast Station Interference Overwhelms Hurricane Watch Net

• Social Media Upstart Parler Tops App Store Charts

• UK Government Wants to Poke Its Nose into Telecoms M&A

• GM Adding 3,000 Tech Jobs for EV Development

• Things to Know About mmWave Spectrum

11/19/2020

• Tempest 6th-Gen Fighter to Get Blistering Radar

• IBA Wants to Help Fired Radio Workers

• 5G Users to Account for 20% of China's Mobile Base by June 2021

• American Tower Buys InSite Wireless for $3.5B

• EU Commission Amends List of Harmonized Standards for Certain Radio Equipment

11/18/2020

• Lockheed Martin EW Systems Enables Submarines to Locate Hostile Radar

• Nominate an Innovative Colleague for an IEEE Medal

• Apple Ditches Qualcomm to Design its Own 5G mm-Wave Antenna Module for the iPhone 12

• Ferroelectricity: 100 Years On

• 4 IoT Medical Devices That Are Vulnerable to Hacks

11/17/2020

• Trump's FCC Nominee Grilled During Senate Hearing

• mmWave 5G to Add $150B to India's GDP through 2040

• Dish, SpaceX Trade Shots in 12 GHz Fight

• Nobel Laureates Say European Commission to Slash Photonics Budget by 30%

• America's Space Development Agency Is Shaking up Acquisitions

11/16/2020

• UK Government Working to Reduce Impact of Wind Farms on Defense Radars

• ARRL Petitions FCC for Reconsideration of Order Removing 3.4 GHz Amateur Allocation

• U.S. Space Force Awards 3rd Contract for Anti-Jamming SATCOM Prototypes

• Apple, Google and LG Join Next G Alliance

• Qorvo Wins U.S. Gov. Contract to Create Advanced RF Semiconductor Packaging Center

11/13/2020

• LoRaWAN Will Temporarily Replace 5G Networks for IoT

• Electronica 2020 Going Virtual for 1st Time

• U.S. 5G Mobile Market Hits Interesting Acceleration Point

• Method Developed  to Detect Charge Traps in Organic Semiconductors

• Reshoring UK Manufacturing: How, Why and Who?

11/12/2020

• FCC Limits Local Review of Co-Located Tower Equipment Expansion

• Wireless Train-to-Ground Connectivity Link Demo at 11.3 Gbps Throughput

• Bureaucracy, Not Tech, Spurred Danish Dominance in Wind Energy

• Brazilian Telecoms Snub U.S. over Huawei 5G Pressure

• New Candidate Material for Quantum Spin Liquids

11/11/2020

• New Strategy Protects Critical Military Tech Like AI and Hypersonics

• RF Semiconductor Market Expected to Grow to $5B by 2030

• Huawei Challenges Swedish Ban

• T-Mobile Inherits $200M FCC Fine Due to Sprint Misconduct

• UK Battery Industrialisation Centre Soon up and Running

11/10/2020

• Vintage TV Identified as Source of Broadband Outage

• Small Cell Forum Publishes Provide Better Indoor Cellular Coverage Guide

• Competitors Protest SpaceX, L3Harris for Hypersonic Weapon Tracking Satellites

• Researchers Demonstrate Impossible Superconductor

• Cumulus Q3 Revenue Drops 29.4%

11/9/2020

• Union Strikes at STMicroelectronics

• ARRL Comments on FCC Draft WRC Recommendations

• U.S. Space Force Launches 4th GPS III Satellite

• W-Band Nitrogen-Polar GaN Amplifier Development for the U.S. Navy

• 2D Semiconductor Shows Logic-in-Memory Promise

11/6/2020

• India's Spectrum Auction Delays Could Leave Them Trailing in 5G

• Reshoring in Full Swing Among American Manufacturers

• Reshoring UK Manufacturing: How, Why and Who?

• Huawei Reportedly Starts Work on Its Own Chip Fab

• ISS Marks 20 Years of Humans Onboard

11/5/2020

• Google Team Reveals Zero-Day (Friday) Windows Exploit

• Consumer Adoption to Drive Expansion of Radar Technology Market

• Rise of Electronics Manufacturing Services

• What Is Infrastructure 2.0 and Why Do We Need It?

• Vodafone UK Backs Open RAN Alternative to Huawei

11/4/2020

• How the iPhone 12 Will Impact mmWave Adoption

• mmWave 5G Communications Can Transform Military Operations

• LoRa Alliance Releases New LoRaWAN TS1-1.0.4 Specification

• Solar Cycle 25: The Sun Wakes Up

• FCC Adopts 5G Rural Fund

11/3/2020

• Thailand's Electronics Sector Still a Magnet for Investors

• Wireless Broadband Alliance Outlines Ambitious Vision for Worldwide Wi-Fi

• Leti to Build Entangled Photon Communications System

• Midband 2.5 GHz Licenses Will Be Unique for Each Licensee

• Oldest Known U.S. Radio Amateur, Cliff Kayhart, W4KKP, SK at 109

11/2/2020

• New Zealand Radio Amateurs Lose Access to 60 Meters

• FCC Set to Vote on All-Digital AM

• mmWave 5G Expected to Add $150B to India's GDP from 2025-2040

• AMD to Buy Xilinx for $35B

• USAF Researchers Patent Tunable Radio Frequency Filter