EU mulls legal ban on Huawei and ZTE gear
Commission watchdogs want tougher rules on ‘high-risk vendors’
The European Commission is weighing up plans to turn its 2020 guidance on high-risk telecom vendors into binding law, a move that could effectively force EU nations to phase out Huawei and ZTE kit from their mobile and fixed-line networks.
TP-Link tests Wi-Fi 8 and gets it to go
Connectivity cultists get early sniff of next-gen wireless
A working Wi-Fi 8 prototype has managed to send data without falling over, which is more than many early wireless efforts can claim.
Zhaoxin rolls out KH-50000 server chips with 96 cores
Chiplet design and DDR5 support to take on EPYC
Zhaoxin has unleashed its KH-50000 server CPUs, and the company is pitching them as a serious step up for China’s domestic server market.
SoftBank blasts 5G from the sky
Stratospheric base stations over remote island
SoftBank has managed to beam 5G to ordinary smartphones from the sky using a high-altitude aircraft circling Hachijō Island, Japan.
Taliban pulls the plug on Wi-Fi to save morals
Netflix and cat videos are a threat to civilisation
The Taliban has decided that the real enemy of Afghanistan isn’t poverty, famine, or collapsing infrastructure but Wi-Fi.