Author: Geoff Blaber

Rethinking Technology Licensing

What value should we place on intellectual property? There has long been tension between creators and users of intellectual property (IP). This friction spans industries and certainly isn’t limited to…

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Innovation in Unprecedented Times

Reflections on the keynote at GSMA’s Thrive “Innovation in Unprecedented Times” felt like an appropriate opening keynote session to the GSMA’s Thrive virtual conference. CCS Insight has studied not only…

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The Significance of Apple’s Silicon Shift

Reasons for a move from Intel to Arm are not single-threaded On Monday, Apple kicked off its 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Given the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Apple was forced…

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A One-Stop Shop for Self-Driving Car Testing Data

US launches an initiative to collect and share information Truly commercial autonomous cars are still a market in development, but in many ways, streets have become live testing grounds as…

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Making Waves

Millimetre wave addresses the growth and change in mobile traffic The mobile industry has seen significant growth in recent years as the advent of 4G and now 5G has created…

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Smartphones at a Pricing Crossroads

The pandemic creates a mid-tier opportunity for 5G devices In 2019, we wrote about the effects of the rising prices of flagship smartphones, particularly as full retail prices hit a…

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Arm’s New Programme for Custom Chips

With the financial muscle of a new parent, Arm is adapting to competition Last week, Arm made several intellectual property announcements unveiling its new chipset core designs, including the Arm…

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The Need for 5G Has Never Been Clearer

The role of 5G in the new reality Plenty has been written about the importance of 5G, its economic value and the role it will play in connecting and digitizing…

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Virtual RAN: Separating Fact from Fiction

Agility and flexibility rather than “one size fits all” It’s hard to escape the hype for 5G, but there’s another area where industry attention is now almost as palpable: the…

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Wi-Fi 6E Will Complement 5G

US Federal Communications Commission to vote on Wi-Fi 6E The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to vote before the end of April 2020 on a plan that would…

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