Wireless Watch 650 August 22: Google's latest OS

Key Issues:

Google’s Fuchsia eyes the web’s next frontier: embedded non-Linux devices 2

Key Issues: Smartphone Q216

• Smartphone giants boost R&D to stay out of the threatened bloodbath 6
• Samsung revives, as Chinese vendors regroup and look to the US 9

Comment:

• Argela brings 5G slicing a step closer using M-CORD 13
• Intel IDF: Wintel alliance reformed to set pace in ‘merged reality’ 17
• Operators pledge harmonized 5G approach, but will politics prevail? 20
• HetNet, LTE-LWA and NB-IoT – Singapore’s M1 piles on the acronyms 24
• G.fast to boost C-RAN and small cells, bringing new suppliers to MNO party 25

Start-Up Watch:

SolidEnergy promises revolution in handset charging 28

IoT Watch:

Samsung and IBM join forces in machine vision race 29

Operator Watch:

Oi proposes new debt plan after dismal second quarter 30

Devices and Components:

Intel licenses ARM’s physical IP and signs LG as foundry customer 31