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Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - August 2020

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If you came to RF Cafe looking for a certain news item you remember seeing or found on a search engine, there is a good chance it is no longer on the homepage. Headlines change daily (except Saturdays). Here are links to all the headline archives.

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8/31/2020

FCC Proposes to Reinstate Amateur Radio Service Fees

• Q1 2020 Global Cellular IoT Module Shipments Decline 28%

Fast and Steep Recovery at TSMC

TI Names New COO

Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight

8/28/2020

16.7% YoY Decline for Smartphones in Q2

• U.S. Space Force Tests New Anti-Jamming Capability

Carbon-Nanotube "Forest" Yields Flexible Supercapacitors

• Verizon Fights for Timely C-Band Transition

• No Limit Yet for Carbon Nanotube Fibers

8/27/2020

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Projected to Grow Dramatically

Small Cell 5G Network Market >$2.4 Billion by 2025

• Rethinking Electronic Product Design

• U.S. Clamps down on Huawei's Efforts to Circumvent Export Rules

No Roaming Charges Between Central African Countries in 2021

8/26/2020

Hurricane Watch Net Firms up Wednesday Activation Plans

NB-IoT Chipset Market to Be Worth $2.5B by 2025

Next Steps for 5G Survey Report

Huawei Building 45 nm Fab

• UK Ultra Broadband Delivers 178 Tbps

8/25/2020

5G Mast Vandals Sprayed by SmartWater's Forensic Frap

New Contest for Portable Stations to Debut in October

Backup GPS Needed to Protect the U.S. and Spur Innovation

• What Public Safety Users Are Saying About Mobile Device Use

• Calculating Properties of Quantum Materials

8/24/2020

Electronics Supply Chains Splitting Between China and U.S.

• Connected Devices Will Generate 79 Zettabytes of Data by 2025

• 5G Rollout Includes Challenges to Supply Chain

• Lockheed Martin & USC Build Smart CubeSats

Shorter Call Signs Popular with Australian Foundation Licensees

8/21/2020

• Private Networks Get Boost from FCC Ruling on 900 MHz Band

• Amazon Alexa Bug Exposed Voice Data (again)

• October 23 is NASA's Target Date for 1st Operational Crew Dragon Launch

• Cayman Islands Considers New Subsea Cable

Zuckerberg Is Least Trusted Big Tech CEO

8/20/2020

Courts Side with FCC in Red Tape Cutting Plan

China Launches Beidou GPS Equivalent

• IARU Announces HF Digital Mode Band Plan Review

Forgery-Proof Liquid Crystal Material Developed

• White House Announces 100 MHz of Additional Mid-Band for 5G

8/19/2020

Court Rules in Favor of FCC in Small Cell Case

• Army Wants to Reduce Electronic Signatures of Command Posts

• CommScope Claims Rosenberger Infringing on Base Station Antennas Patents

• FCC Updates Smart Device Speed Test App

Cumulus Q2 down 48%

8/18/2020

Do Engineers Live Longer?

Arecibo Observatory Reflector Dish Damaged after Cable Snaps (ET sabotage to prevent detection)

• Navy Completes 1st Flight Test of New EW Jamming Pod

5G Deployments Boost China Towers H1 Financial Results

Global Trade Trends to Watch

8/17/2020

DoD to Share 3450-3550 MHz with 5G Commercial Operations

PALs (Priority Access License) Auction: $3B and Counting

Wi-Fi 6 Becoming More Like 5G

• NGMN Alliance Publishes Its 2nd 5G White Paper

• UK Celebrates ½-Million Gbit Broadband Milestone

8/14/2020

Top Supply Chain Tech Trends for 2020

• USAF Air Force Holds EW Exercise with Classified Stealth Drone

• Wuhan Pandemic Widens Engineering Gender Gap Amongst Young People

Apple Finds Itself on Wrong Side of Russia's Competition Rules

Czech Spectrum Auction Leaves Space for New Players

8/13/2020

• Digital Bits Soon to Outnumber Atoms on Earth

• U.S. Frees More Midband Spectrum as C-Band Auction Falls Short

• FCC Commissioner O'Rielly's Renomination on Hold Due to Ligado

Nokia's New CEO Working on Setting Strategy in "Dream Job"

• Qualcomm Seeks License to Sell 5G Chips to Huawei

8/12/2020

CBRS Auction Surpasses $1B Threshold

Tax Holiday for China's 28nm Manufacturers

Tesla Sets 5-1 Stock Split as Stock Soars

• Strategies to Prevent Component Shortages During a Crisis

• IEEE: 5G Just Got Weird

8/11/2020

• The New Tech Cold War

• FCC Approves C-Band Auction Procedures

June Semi Sales up 5.1% YoY

• NSA Warns Mobile Devices Can Expose User Locations to Adversaries

• European Commission Probes Google's Fitbit Acquisition

8/10/2020

Global E-Waste Increases 21% in Last 5 Years (even eco-warriors won't give up stuff)

Engineers More Harried, But Still Happy with Their Jobs

• Driverless Guru Goes to Jail

• China's Hunan to Reach 22,000 5G Base Stations by End-2020

UK Broadband Gets a Boost in £900mn Government Project

8/7/2020

Subsea Cable Linking Chile to Australia Snubs Chinese Connection

• USAF Experimental Navigation Satellite Cleared for Fabrication

• Amazon Gets FCC Approval for Project Kuiper Satellite Constellation

Semiconductor Rebound Around the Next Corner?

Micro/Mini-LED Revenue to Reach $4.2B in 2024

8/6/2020

Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei Dominance Fading

• T-Mobile Claims World's 1st for 5G Standalone Deployment

• Wuhan Virus Blamed for 15.7% YoY Smartphone Shipments Decline

• White House Partnership to Boost Quantum Science Education

• Telstra 5G to Cover 75% of Aussie Population by June 2021

8/5/2020

GaAs RF Front End Revenue Falls by 3.8% in 2020

Korean Carriers to Share 5G Infra in Small Towns

• Use This AI to Find Your Next Engineering Gig

• Myth Debunked: Young People Do Listen to Radio

Beijing Installs 5,135 5G Base Stations in H1

8/4/2020

Wi-Fi Alliance Mandates WPA3 for Device Certification

Samsung Q2 Profits up 26%

China Chips Lag Government Targets

• AirFuel Alliance Invites Participation in Global RF Wireless Charging Standard

TVA CEO Highest Paid Federal Employee @$8M/yr - Replacing Americans w/H1B

8/3/2020

5G Smartphone Production to Exceed 200M Units in 2020

BAE Systems Acquires Raytheon's Military GPS for $1.9B (another U.S. business gone)

• FCC Shuts Down Boston Area Pirate Radio Stations

Huawei Leads in Smartphone Shipments for 1st Time

Big Tech into Advocacy Overdrive from Trump Immigration Order

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