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EE Times Weekly Briefing: Friday, February 1, 2019

EE Times Current · 2 Feb 2019 · 4m

What this episode covers

Rick Merritt, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief for EE Times, outlines key industry developments including Intel's appointment of Bob Swan as CEO and the company's turnaround challenges. He details the FTC's antitrust case against Qualcomm, focusing on allegations of monopoly abuse in CDMA and LTE chip markets and the potential for lower patent royalties. The briefing also covers Uber's hardware engineering stance on deep learning accelerators and Japan's government plan to hack 200 million IoT devices for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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large enterprises

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Intel, Qualcomm, Uber, Apple
Also
Bob Swan, FTC, CDMA, LTE, 5G, 3GPP

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