Overview: The RAN market today us dominated by a small number of incumbent vendors led by Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia. In order to generate more competition and increased vendor diversity, a number of MNOs are supporting the concept of open RAN in which pro...

Overview:  iCarbonX is a key start-up in the emerging AI Healthcare market in China. The company is building a Digital Life Ecosystem targeted mainly at consumers. However, with the recent forced divestitures of its interests in several US AI Healthcar...

Overview: This report outlines the recent developments for Apple in AR (Augmented Reality) space. We expect Apple to lean strongly towards building AR into a core technology platform going forward while focusing on custom hardware for its future AR products...

Overview: In recent years, there has been a lot of focus on the use of 5G as the optimum wireless solution for low latency use cases, particularly in the case of the most demanding Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLCC) type applications. However...

Overview: An overview of Alibaba's AI chip ambitions via wholly-owned subsidiary T-Head, together with an in-depth analysis of its first chip, the Hanguang 800, an AI Cloud Inference chip, which is expected to be launched commercially before the end of ...

Overview: The size of the global hearables (TWS) market is expected to grow by 69% and 79% YoY in terms of sales volume and revenue, respectively, in 2020. Although the spread of a COVID-19 had some impact on hearables (TWS) production and operation in Chin...

Overview: In the past few years, investment in AI-enabled teaching and learning has skyrocketed in China and today more than 10m students in the country use some form of AI in their education. Tech giants and start-ups with expertise in speech and image rec...

Overview: The India Inc. had been mildly affected by the recent COVID19 outbreak in China till March. However, as the outbreak is spreading, the government has enforced a nation-wide lockdown. This has impacted almost all sectors. This short report entai...

Overview: Counterpoint’s CORE (COmpetitive Ranking and Evaluation) is a comprehensive evaluation and comparison of the leading companies and their platform/product/service/solution capabilities, ecosystem and business success for an important technolo...

Overview: An in-depth analysis of AI-based voiceprint technology in China with a major focus on key applications, the voice print ecosystem, use cases and technical challenges and limitations of the technology. Table of Contents: Voiceprint as a B...

Overview: Prominent Chinese AI start-up specializing in machine learning, deep compression, pruning and system-level optimization software for FPGAs. Now part of US FPGA vendor Xilinx. Table of Contents: Corporate Snapshot and Milestones Key Tec...

Overview:  Huawei’s 2-day meeting in London in February 2020 was held in lieu of the cancelled MWC event in Barcelona. Key themes at the event included the importance of offering compact integrated roof-top RAN hardware solutions with improved...

Overview: The hearables (TWS) market is expected to grow at a 75% CAGR from 2019 to 2022 and have a similar growth momentum as the early smartphone market a decade ago. As the hearables market grows fast, the related upstream supply chain is ...

Overview: The hearables (TWS) market is expected to grow at a 75% CAGR from 2019 to 2022 and have a similar growth momentum as the early smartphone market a decade ago. As the hearables market grows fast, the related upstream supply...

Overview: Network slicing will be a key component of future 5G networks and will support innovative new use cases and business models thus enabling Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to offer application-specific services to different groups of enterprises and...

Overview: With the expansion of connectivity, several innovative technologies are becoming more prevalent; location intelligence is one. However, location intelligence and navigation lacked one specific detail – navigation in building and covered spac...

Overview: Total unit sales for the year exceeded expectations, coming in at 130m units in 2019. Global true wireless hearables market size reached 51m units in 4Q19, growing 53% QoQ. North America (NA) was 36% of the global market, growing fastest at 72% Qo...

Overview: A few years ago, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) were excited at the prospect of drastically reducing the cost of mobile infrastructure by replacing proprietary hardware with open RAN alternatives. However, open RAN has been more difficult to imp...

Overview: The Radio Access Network (RAN) market is currently dominated by a small number of incumbent players. However, open RAN represents a big threat to this established order as it provides opportunities for smaller companies offering ‘open’...

Overview: Next generation 5G mobile technology will place unprecedented demands on the scalability, efficiency and flexibility of the Radio Access Network (RAN) which has led to a radical rethink of the entire RAN architecture. This report provides an overv...