Tech Headline News Archive - February 2021

2/26/2021

• USAF to Begin Assembly of Airborne Laser

• Ham Radio in Friedrichshafen Tentatively June 25-27

• The Rise of the IoT Semiconductor

• CPRI Traffic Convergence with Radio over Ethernet

• 10 Amazing Facts About PCBS

2/25/2021

• Anti-Jamming Tests of Military Satellites a Success

• Bitcoin Mining Uses More Electricity Than All of Argentina

• Nano-Barrier Could Protect Satellites from Oxygen Damage

• Hybrid III–V TFETs and MOSFETs on Silicon

• 2/3 of Electricity Meters in North America Are Now Smart

• PA Government Adds 1,586 Employees at >$100k/yr in 2020 -(while Wuhan Flu devastated private businesses)

2/24/2021

• Carmakers Wake up to New Pecking order as Chip Crunch Intensifies

• FCC Preps $1.9B for Huawei Rip and Replace (prediction: it won't happen now)

• CTIA, CCA Cheer Emergency Broadband Provision

• LPWA LTE Networks Will Connect 75% of Smart Cities by 2026

• Keep Your iPhone 12 Away from Medical Devices

2/23/2021

• China Might Ban Rare Earth Exports to U.S.

• Ocean Networks Announces Caribbean Express Cable

• C-Band Assignment Phase Ends

• Can Europe Catch up in Race for 5G?

• Roadmap for 6G Technology Development

2/22/2021

• NASA's Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars w/Helicopter Onboard

• Chipmakers Halt Production in Texas After Power Outages

• UK Already Feeling 5G Speed Boost

• China Supplies 5.9% of Domestic Chip Market

• Supply Chain Professionals Want More Resilience

2/19/2021

• U.S. and China Already Fighting for 6G Dominance

• ARRL Board Considers Plan to Cover $35 FCC Fee for Young Members

• Significant 5G and Radar Chips at ISSCC 2021

• Linux Foundation, DARPA Collaborate on Open Source for 5G

• GlobalFoundries to Manufacture Secure Chips for the U.S. DoD in NY Fab (secure like the voting machine overseas connections?)

• Biden Says No Vaccine Available When Coming into Office

2/18/2021

• French Institute Kicks off Pan-European 6G Research Project

• British Columbia Ham Copies Mars-Orbiting Satellite Signal

• U.S. Army Looks Beyond Land Targets with New EW System

• GeoTargeting Would Undermine Radio's Business Model

• Birds Can "Read" the Earth's Magnetic Signature

2/17/2021

• Recent Shortages in the Semiconductor Industry

• How Broadband Will Transform the Emerald Isle

• Skyworks' Quarterly Revenue Grows 58% to Record $1.51B

• Qorvo Quarterly Revenue Grows 11%

• iPhone 12: Rekindling Smartphone Sales

2/16/2021

• A Perfect Coronal Mass Ejection Could Be a Nightmare

• DARPA Pursues Plan for Robust Manufacturing in Space

• White Hat Hacks into 35 Major Technology Firms

• Quantum Computing Leaps Forward with New "Gooseberry" Chip

• Harvard Astronomer Argues Alien Vessel Visited Earth

2/15/2021

• Google's Transatlantic Dunant Submarine Cable Goes Live

• Ofcom Removes Chinese Propaganda Outlet from British Airwaves

• SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Internet Satellites into Orbit

• Zincblende GaN 4x Higher Hole Concentrations Than Wurtzite GaN

• Products of Tomorrow: February 2021

2/12/2021

• Most of Europe Fails to Enact New Telecom Rules

• 1st Ever Measurements of Einsteinium

• China's Tianwen-1 Probe Has Sent 1st Image of Mars

• New Leadership at Amazon as CEO Bezos Steps Aside (hmmm... not seeing a lot of diversity there)

• $43B for "World's Biggest" Offshore Wind Farm in South Korea

2/11/2021

• Quantum Receiver 1st to Detect Entire RF Spectrum

• IARU Receives Gift of hamradio.org Domain

• RAB: Digital Now 14% of Total Revenue

• Japan Enacts Law Regulating Tech Giant Commerce Platforms

• ARRL School Club Roundup, February Edition

2/10/2021

• LoRaWAN Roaming Available in 27 Countries

• Bell Canada to Spend $935M to Expand 5G, Fiber Footprint

• 6 GHz and Wi-Fi 6 Create Buzz in Wi-Fi Community

• Plans to Retrieve Titanic Wireless Equipment Put on Indefinite Hold (thx to Wuhan Flu)

• "Stay of Execution" for NiMH Batteries

2/9/2021

• Sweden Holds 5G Auction for 2.3 and 3.5 GHz Bands

• Europe Launches Quantum Processing on Silicon Programme

• DARPA Pursues Plan for Robust Manufacturing in Space

• ARRL Board of Directors to Reconsider the Use of Electronic Balloting (yeah, 'cause it worked so well in the presidential election)

• China Issues Anti-Monopoly Rules Targeting Tech Giants

2/8/2021

• Massive GDP Growth and Employment with 5G Networks

• European Union DX Contest to Debut

• Qualcomm Shares Drop Due to Chip Supply Constraints

• Pentagon to Work with Industry on 5G Network Development

• Lunar Traffic to Pick up as NASA Readies Robotic Moon Deliveries

2/5/2021

• Optimising AI Usage in the Telco Space

• GaInAsSb 1.55μm Telecom Device

• AT&T Borrows $14.7B to Buy Spectrum

• SpaceX Violated Launch License in Explosive Starship Test

• IoT at CES 2021: A Sign of the Times

2/4/2021

• What's in Store for Subsea Communications in 2021

• Chemists Settle Li Metal Anode Battery Debate

• Doomsday Clock Remains Perilously Close to Midnight

• Semtech and Swarm Deliver Satellite Communications with LoRa®

• Huawei Suffers Same Phone-Making Jinx as Other Vendors

2/3/2021

• Samsung Considers $10B U.S.-Based Chip Manufacturing Plant

• European Commission Awards €1.47B Contract for 2nd Gen Galileo Satellites

• ARISS Investigating Space Station Ham Radio Failure

• FCC Levies $10M Fine on Robocaller

• FCC C-Band Auction Heads to Next Phase

2/2/2021

• AMSAT RadFxSat-2 Satellite Signals Detected

• Intel Claims 40% Share in 5G Infrastructure Silicon

• U.S. Space Force Wants More Resilient Architecture

• Biden Order Pushes Government to "Buy American" (sounds familiar...)

• Top 10 IC Growth Categories 2021

2/1/2021

• U.S. DoD GPS Tests Threaten Airline Safety

• Wall Street Gears up for 2nd Bout Against Reddit Traders

• New Stretchable Electronics Perform Better Under Strain

• 5G Download Speeds in U.S. a Meager 47-58 Mbps

• China Collects 100 Petabytes of Earth Observation Data