US lobby group slams new strictures on semiconductor exports; Qualcomm, Chinese firm achieve first 700MHz band 5G data call; Spirit claims a 'transformative' year with record growth in 2020

US semiconductor, services and software firm Qualcomm Technologies has partnered with a Chinese state owned telco to demonstrate the first large-bandwidth 2x30MHz 5G data call in the 700MHz (Band n28) FDD spectrum band, the company says..

Australian-listed Internet service provider Spirit Telecom is trumpeting record growth of the business for 2020, with revenue increasing 100% to $34.9 million and an after tax net loss of $1.5 million in what the company describes as a “transformative” year.
Data centre provider NEXTDC is partnering with networking systems company Ciena and telco service provider Over The Wire to deploy Ciena’s Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) platform to connect its data centres and provide cloud services for customers across Australia.
The US Semiconductor Industry Association, a lobby group for the industry, says new export control rule changes introduced by the US Commerce Department on Monday will bring "significant disruption" to the industry.
The war between Apple and Epic Games is heating up with Apple now stating it will remove Epic Game’s developer account, which not only affects Fortnite but the Unreal Engine too.
Technology analyst firm Canalys says data it has collected in the second quarter of 2020 show that Google Cloud is the top cloud service provider to the retail sector.
Network hardware vendor, D-LINK Australia and New Zealand has launched two next-generation Wi-Fi 6 mesh routers, the DIR-X1860 AX1800 and DIR-X5460 AX5400. Both give a quantum leap in capacity and bandwidth to support more devices at once.
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