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5G – The patent game.

Updated version. Original mistakenly identified only one working chipset in commercial handsets. RFM is aware of two.   Patent counting is very misleading. A report at the RISE conference in Hong...

Autonomous autos – Pie in the sky.

The whole industry is worth $16.7bn. The valuations being attributed to autonomous driving hopefuls are so high, that I think investors must be assuming that there will only be one...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. VI

It is still a reprieve in name only. A statement from the US Secretary of Commerce (see here) has been interpreted by the press (see here and here) that Huawei...

Tesla – King Canute

Elon Musk is becoming a big problem. Outside of a chronic inability to scale, Tesla’s biggest problem is rapidly becoming its mercurial CEO where I think that his views on...

Google Hardware – Paging Dr. Porat

I think Google’s condition may finally be treated. While the wires are already speculating on the form factor of the Google Pixel 4 due to be launched in Q4, I...

MoviePass – The reality gap

All downhill from here. The move by MoviePass to suspend its service for a few weeks is almost certainly a sign that the end has almost arrived for an ambitious...

Artificial Intelligence – Face-off

Facial recognition has to be nearly perfect. The Metropolitan Police (the Met) is struggling with a report that Scotland Yard commissioned that strongly indicates that its facial recognition technology is...

Baidu Create – Steady showing

Hangs onto the global No. 2 slot. Baidu’s developer conference kicked-off with a demonstration of the company’s supremacy in Chinese AI but stopped short of providing convincing data that would...

Epic Games – App store wars.

The rebellion gains steam. The challenge to the existing status-quo when it comes to revenue sharing for app stores is gathering pace and sooner or later Valve, Google and eventually...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. V.

Reprieve in name only. The White House’s apparent U-turn on Huawei is unlikely to give Huawei the products it really needs and even if it did, it is quite possible...