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Apple has agreed to acquire Intel's 5G modem business in a deal which highlights the iPad and iPhone maker's desire to control more of its supply chain. 

On Thursday, at the same time that Intel released its Q2 2019 earnings report, Apple announced the deal which is worth $1 billion. 

Under the terms of the agreement, roughly 2,200 engineers will move from Intel to Apple, which forms of the majority of Intel's modem business. 

Apple will also acquire a range of patents, bringing the tech giant's count up to over 17,000 in wireless technologies, cellular standards, and modems. 

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"Intel will retain the option to develop modems for non-smartphone applications, such as PCs, internet of things devices and autonomous vehicles," Apple says. 

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5G networks and services will be available from 2020 and will be the backbone of our future economy and society. Today at the Mobile World Congress, the European Commission and the 5G Public-Private Partnership (5GPPP) have outlined how the manufacturing, health, energy, automotive, media and entertainment sectors could use 5G to digitise their business models and what performance targets 5G should deliver for them to adopt it.

The 5G PPP – launched by the European Commission in 2013 -  brought together experts from the telecoms and  IT field and from companies and organisations most likely to rely on 5G , including Volkswagen, Volvo, Peugeot, ERTICO, ABB, Bosch, European Broadcasting Union. Their know-how fed into a white paper which identifies potential uses of 5G for each sector, pinpoints specific technical cross-sector requirements.

Günther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society said  "We are trying not only to develop a communication network to connect people, but rather one that will deliver the Internet of Things, connecting anything that can be connected and delivering innovation on top of connectivity. Making 5G a reality in Europe by 2020 will be essential for the success of key sectors like automotive, health and digital manufacturing. This is a chance to reinforce the competitiveness of European industry". Read the Commissioner's full speech and blog

The next generation of wireless technology promises much faster speeds while using less power. No wonder Beijing is throwing everything at getting there first.
by Elizabeth Woyke December 18, 2018

The Fangshan district is a quiet outer borough in southwest Beijing. Until recently it was best known for its petrochemical and steel plants. Today, this neighborhood of sleepy apartment buildings and train tracks is part of a mobile revolution enveloping cities across China: the world’s biggest rollout of 5G technology.  

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Last fall, the Fangshan government and China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile operator, outfitted a 6-mile (10-kilometer) road with 5G cell towers. Since September 2018, companies have been using the connectivity to test wireless communications between autonomous vehicles and their surroundings. The 5G network transmits data from car sensors, roadside sensors, and video cameras installed above the road to a local data center, which analyzes the information and sends it back to the vehicles to help them navigate.

How does 5G make this possible? Unlike previous generations of mobile technology, which tended to introduce a single novel feature for users (1G let you walk and talk, 2G let you send texts, 3G got you onto the internet, and 4G let you stream), 5G promises a whole suite of dramatic improvements. It uses entirely new wireless infrastructure to achieve speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G and promises to nearly eliminate any processing delays. It will also kick-start the internet of things, since it was designed to connect billions of machines, appliances, and sensors at low cost without draining their batteries.

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