Digital sovereignty, meaning the push (mostly European) to stop running the whole stack, from cloud to chips to models, on someone else’s terms. Half of it is real strategy and half is political theater, and sorting out which is which is most of what I do here.
The saga of France's 5G rollout was characterized by prolonged debates over spectrum auctions and frustation, while neighboring countries advanced. Delays stemmed from political…
The France 2030 investment plan channels significant public resources into strategic technologies including semiconductors, AI, and energy transition.
The O-RAN Alliance, founded in 2018 by AT&T and China Mobile, has shifted discussions from cost and vendor independence to sovereignty concerns. As governments…
SMIC N+1 is a 7nm-class node built without EUV, after the 2020 Entity List cut SMIC off from the one machine the industry uses…
Sailfish 4 ships with AppSupport for Linux Platforms and a public sector pitch built around European tech sovereignty. The consumer market is gone. The…
France strengthens its quantum technology efforts through national strategy elements and increased public investment around 2021–2022.
An e-commerce company just switched on a national mobile network, fully virtualized Open RAN on commodity servers, in the middle of a pandemic. The…
SMIC 14nm was China's first homegrown FinFET, architected by Liang Mong Song and built for Huawei, proving SMIC could do leading-edge engineering at last.
AT&T and China Mobile just co-founded the same alliance. The xRAN Forum and the C-RAN Alliance are merging into the O-RAN Alliance, and the…
Sailfish X launches as a paid OS download you flash onto your own Sony Xperia X. €49.90 buys you the license. The actual story:…
A Stanford professor and two tier-one operators just launched a forum to turn the radio access network into open software running on ordinary servers.…
The Jolla Tablet Indiegogo raised $1.8 million in 48 hours. A year later the company is in court-supervised restructuring, most backers have nothing, and…
SMIC 28nm reached volume in 2015, four years late after a long yield struggle, just as the leading edge moved to FinFET and left…
The first Jolla Phone shipped on November 27, 2013. It's a real phone running Sailfish OS, with a gesture UI six years ahead of…
Jolla MeeGo is the lineage everyone forgot about. A handful of former Nokia engineers walked out after the burning platform memo and registered a…