SK Telecom, South Korea's dominant mobile carrier and sibling of chipmaker SK hynix, has declared that 5G was over-hyped, has under-delivered, and has failed to deliver a killer app.

Apple has announced it will invest $450 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to develop the infrastructure that allows off-grid backpackers to call for help when outside mobile coverage.

US regulators will investigate units of Samsung, Qualcomm and TSMC over certain semiconductor devices and integrated circuits and mobile devices using those components, the U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday.

Oppo, one of three leading Chinese smartphone brands filling the void left by Huawei's retreat, claimed a smartphone mobile photography first with a self-designed chip that delivers sharper and more faithful images.

Samsung Electronics is looking to expand its mobile device manufacturing capabilities in Pakistan. The company has reportedly entered an agreement with Lucky Motor Corporation - a joint venture by Lucky Corp. and Kia Motors - for the purpose of manufacturing phones locally.

NXP Semiconductors has announced a major industry milestone for 5G energy efficiency with the integration of gallium nitride (GaN) technology to its multi-chip module platform. The new 5G multi-chip modules will sample in the third quarter, with production starting later this year.

China's Huawei Technologies said it will launch its new Harmony operating system for smartphones on June 2, its biggest move yet aimed at recovering from the damage done by US sanctions to its mobile phone business.

Raytheon Technologies and Globalfoundries will collaborate to develop and commercialize a new gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) semiconductor that will enable game-changing radio frequency performance for 5G and 6G mobile and wireless infrastructure applications.

Apple said it's planning to build a new semiconductor design center in Munich as part of a 1 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) investment push to develop custom chips for 5G mobile and other wireless technologies in Germany.

A pair of reports are out today from Opensignal detailing the state of 5G as well as the broader mobile experience in the US.

Intel focused much of its time at this year's virtual CES on its new desktop and mobile processors, as well as spotlighting the laptops that will feature its new hardware debuting in the next few months.

Corellium helps customers find bugs in Apple's mobile operating system. Apple aimed to shut it down.

European mobile operators are starting to consider Samsung Electronics, long seen as a non-starter, in the race to replace China's Huawei as the supplier of their fledgling 5G systems, although early talks suggest it will still be an uphill struggle.

China's Huawei said on Thursday it would invest 200 million euros in building a mobile phone network equipment factory in the east of France, pressing ahead with the roll-out despite French curbs on firms using its 5G gear.

Telecoms equipment maker Nokia's said it expects operating margins at its mobile networks business will be flat in 2021, it said on Wednesday in an update on strategy to streamline the Finnish company into four business groups.

LG Electronics said on Monday it had reorganised its mobile phone division to increase outsourcing of its low to mid-end smartphones, which analysts said represented an attempt to cut costs and compete with Chinese rivals.

Sweden's Ericsson on Monday raised its global forecast for 5G mobile subscriptions to 220 million by the end of this year, citing faster than expected uptake in China.

Chinese handset rivals of Huawei Technologies including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are making aggressive moves to seize market share from their giant rival, after stepped-up U.S. sanctions hobbled Huawei's supply chains, industry insiders say.

China said on Monday that 28-nanometre chips that enable mobile devices to receive signals from the Beidou navigation system are in mass production and mass manufacturing of high-precision 22-nanometre positioning chips will soon kick off.

A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet's Google will collaborate with India's Reliance Industries on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world's second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say.

BT and Vodafone have said their UK customers would face mobile phone signal blackouts if they are given three years or less to strip Huawei's equipment out of their 5G networks.

Beijing is pushing back on a decision by India to ban dozens of Chinese mobile apps as tensions between the countries continue to rise.

Researchers fit tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses onto a single chip.

Broadcom on Thursday forecast current-quarter revenue with a midpoint slightly below analysts' estimates, in part caused by a delay at a "large North American mobile phone" customer that analysts believe is Apple.

India is making it more attractive for Apple and other mobile phone companies to set up production facilities in the country by adjusting the rules for its PLI scheme, a change that could allow Apple to increase manufacturing in the region.

Intel appears to have made its speediest 10th-generation Ice Lake mobile processors exclusive to Apple's MacBook lineup.

Tencent posted earnings that beat expectations thanks to its gaming business as well as better-than-expected performance in both advertising and fintech services.

Chipmaker touts its Ryzen 5 Pro chips can hold up against some mobile Intel i7 chips.

Facebook (FB) is spending billions of dollars for a stake in India's largest mobile operator, and teaming up with the country's richest man to tap into an internet boom.

Japanese mobile carriers NTT Docomo and SoftBank said they will delay their launches of Apple's new iPhone SE model until May 11 instead of the scheduled April 27 amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Intel breaks beyond the 5GHz barrier for laptops with the launch of the 10th Gen Intel Core H-series mobile processors. Headlined by the 10th Gen Intel Core i9-10980HK1 processor, the H-series delivers desktop-caliber performance that gamers and creators can take anywhere.

Need a laptop with a lot of power? Intel has released the new 10th-gen Core H-series processors, capable of delivering up to a whopping 5.3 GHz.

They'll start as low as $519

The CDC could use the info to track compliance with stay-at-home orders

Singapore launched a contact-tracing smartphone app to allow authorities to identify those who have been exposed to people infected with coronavirus as part of efforts to curb the spread of the disease.

Whatever you touch with your hands - food, bacteria, dust - can be transferred to your cell phone, making it a mobile petri dish possibly teeming with germs. So there's a growing discussion about how to keep phones sanitized as the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to spread worldwide.

It's an effort to reduce e-waste.

After last year's decline for the global mobile phone market, Gartner foresees recovery.

AMD makes big moves into mobile, and Intel barely moves.

LG Electronics will showcase its new flagship smartphone with a dual screen and 5G connectivity at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in February, industry sources said Tuesday.