Hardware

• [New] Hyundai developed its ICCU to allow for bidirectional power conversion, meaning that vehicles based on the E-GMP platform will be able to use its hardware to output power to external accessories, appliances, and eventually even charge other electric vehicles requiring a bump in electron supply.
• [New] Popular acceptance must be matched by technical capacity within the U.S. government, which will mean modernizing Department of Defense infrastructure - both hardware and software.
• [New] Riken and Fujitsu will develop hardware and software technologies to realize a quantum computer with as many as 1000 qubits and develop applications using a prototype quantum computer.
• [New] The disaggregation of hardware and software, the introduction of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, the movement towards Massive IoT all offer amazing opportunities for the UK to foster significant domestic capabilities.
• Cisco Plus will offer networking, security, compute, storage, applications and observability systems as-a-service with unified subscriptions that are designed to be easy to consume and simple to use.
• The Transversal Contract RT15 - 2021 is a 5-year tender that offers successful mobile service providers the opportunity to serve the South African government with all its mobile and enterprise solutions including hardware and software as well as accessories.
• Huawei's struggles amid U.S.-China trade tensions are driving it to seek opportunities in other smart devices, setting itself up against a raft of hardware makers at home and abroad.
• In the coming years, better hardware and advances in algorithmic technologies should help promote quantum technology as a useful tool that will revolutionize modern pharmacology and even health care systems.
• An increasing fraction of the workforce trained in Saudi Arabia will remain in Saudi Arabia and become the human core of the regional ecosystem.
• Dell' Oro Group last month projected double-digit growth rates for global open RAN sales revenues over the next six years, with cumulative investments in open RAN including hardware, software, and firmware excluding services nearing $10 billion over the 2020-2025 period.
• Advocates for Huawei have claimed its technology is world-leading and cost-effective, while detractors argue that placing Huawei's hardware at the core of 5G network infrastructure would give the Chinese government access to sensitive data and constitute an unacceptable risk.
• There is no shortage of cybersecurity solutions; the market for hardware, software and services to keep networks safe is forecast to grow about 12.6% a year through 2027.
• The hardware market is expected to reach US $ 103.9 billion in 2021, with a compound annual growth rate of 79.2%.
• A vulnerability in the BIOS of Pulse Secure (PSA-Series Hardware) could allow an attacker to compromise BIOS firmware.
• The Colorado Economic Development Commission normally does not throw its weight behind unproven startups, but it did so on Thursday, approving $2.9 million in state job growth incentive tax credits to try and land a manufacturing plant that will produce hardware for quantum computers.
• As demonstrated by Tesla, the performance of a software-defined car might be able to improve over time with new algorithms and without the need to change or replace hardware.
• For some time now, Tesla has been striving to move neural networks to surround video, which will allow cars to reach the next level of Full Self-Driving.
• The POS software and hardware industry is expected to see steady growth for years to come: One report from 2020 estimates 10% compound annual growth until 2027.
• Providers of computing services have an opportunity to assist in building a net zero emissions Europe through the use of virtualisation software, that allows for much more computation with significantly less IT hardware.
• While D-Wave's quantum processor is already making strides in solving real-world problems now, a new comparison will only be fair once devices like IBM's catch up on hardware scaling; the strengths and weaknesses of different methods will be clearer then.
• The United States could launch technology challenges to advance solutions to specific issues like opening up the 5G Radio Access Networks or promoting hardware security.

Last updated: 13 April 2021