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• Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger has outlined a strategic overhaul at the chip giant
• The Intel Foundry chip manufacturing unit is to become a separate subsidiary that could attract external investment
• Intel has also put its chip manufacturing investment plans in Germany and Poland on ice
• And it’s looking to sell a stake in its Altera subsidiary 

Intel is carving out its chip-making business into a separate subsidiary and putting so

• The two companies announce a bold plan to build “seamless 5G connections” between mobile and satellite networks to provide connectivity worldwide
• Development of new 3GPP 5G standards for non-terrestrial networks lays the foundation for the “ubiquitous network”
• SoftBank and Intelsat are to “jointly lead” the R&D on design, development, field testing and commercialisation of new hybrid network products

Japan’s SoftBank and US-headquartered Intelsat

Telesat Lightspeed program will create and sustain thousands of high-quality Canadian jobs and deliver billions of dollars of investment in the Canadian economy

• BT and Toshiba have already deployed a quantum-safe metro network in the London area
• Now they have teamed up with datacentre operator Equinix
• Its facilities in Canary Wharf, London, and Slough will be connected by data links protected using quantum key distribution

BT, already one of the telecom sector’s leaders in the development of quantum-safe networking services, has taken its post-quantum strategy to the next level: Together with existing partner Toshiba, it has teamed up with Equinix to enable quantum-

• Operator claims a US direct-to-cell first in partnership with Starlink
• Beta testing of the wireless emergency alert messaging service is still to be carried out and there is no timeframe for commercial launch
• T-Mobile says satellite-to-smartphone tech paves way to providing critical emergency alerts in large swathes of areas unreachable with earth-based cell towers
• Would-be satellite-to-smartphone rivals, AT&T and Verizon – which are backing LEO player AST SpaceMobile – are still grounded but perhaps

Nokia and OTE Group set dual world-record optical transmission rates over ultra long distances

• Landmark agreement to accelerate adoption and innovation of network APIs includes a newly formed company that will drive new monetization opportunities for the industry.  

Today, some of the world’s largest telecom operators, including América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Reliance Jio, Singtel, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone, together with Ericsson are announcing a new venture to combine and sell network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on a global scale to spur innovation in digital services.

In Pembroke College on the 12th of September, Cambridge Tech Week hosted a semiconductors deep dive. Here are some of our highlights from the event:

Reasons to be proud

Across the various sessions there was a sense of recognition and pride in the significant achievements and strengths the UK has in semiconductors. Peter Stephens, Director of Government Partnerships at ARM started the event by recognising the leadership the UK had demonstrated over the past 30 years, highlighting that through ARM’s chips, 99% of smartphones today bear Cambridge’s fingerprint.

• New private 5G networks to empower West Sussex growers, creating new digital skills and career pathways.  
• The project, Growing Sussex 5G Innovation Region, has won £3.8million funding from the Government’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology to catalyse sustainable food production through cutting-edge 5G technology. 
• Project to establish a UK-wide model for 5G adoption in the agricultural sector, boosting productivity and sustainability. 

A series of new private 5G networks