Being answerable to Xi Jinping has not stopped Huawei from protesting it is privately owned, with zero links to the Chinese state, in response to US sanctions. ZTE, the smaller of China s two 5G equipment makers, can table no such defense. Its latest annual report lays bare the grisly details of its parentage. Xi an Microelectronics and Aerospace Guangyu, two of its main shareholders, are themselves government-owned. For any freedom-loving Westerner, ZTE has always looked dodgier and riskier than Huawei ever did.
Yet in a peculiar twist, it is Huawei that has become a seemingly permanent fixture on the US Entity List, the blacklist of companies to which US firms are prohibited from selling by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an adjunct to the US Department of Commerce. ZTE found itself on that list in 2018, when US authorities said it had failed to make amends for past misdemeanors, including the sale of US technology to Iran and North Korea. After paying a second $1 bill
Published: 13 Apr 2021
A note from the editor:
This month we examine the recent US C band auction and look for some winners and losers. Certainly, it made a bunch of money for the US government and is seen as a major boost for 5G in the US. But how did the operators fare and was it worth all of that money? Our guide through the maze of spectrum allocation this month, Miguel Dajer, explains the game, identifies the players and awards grade points for effort and success.
We are excited to announce that as well as untangling spectrum policy for us, Miguel will also be bravely stepping into the position of Editor in Chief for CTN. Your poor current EIC, having spent too much time in the bright glare of online content editing, will now quietly retire to the IEEE luxury retirement home for old editors (we know you always suspected this is how we spent your membership dollars). As always, your feedback is most welcome.
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U.S. President Joe Biden is linking his $2 trillion infrastructure spending plan to alleviating a critical shortage of semiconductors.
“Chips, like the one I have here these chips, these wafers are batteries, broadband it’s all infrastructure,” Biden said in the White House Roosevelt Room on Monday during a virtual meeting with leaders of some of the country’s biggest companies hurt by a global shortage of semiconductors.
The goal of the meeting, according to the president, was to figure out how to “strengthen our domestic semiconductor industry and secure the American supply chain.”
Earlier, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, speaking to reporters, said, “This isn’t a meeting where we expect a decision or an announcement to come out of, but part of our ongoing engagement and discussion about how to best address this issue over the long term, but also over the short term.”
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