Malik Saadi

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Malik Saadi, Vice President at global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, told Newsweek: "Despite spending the past four years under U.S. restrictions banning its access to 5G technology, it is clear that there has been much technical progress by Chinese companies.

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More than 740 companies are working on ROS-based robots, Malik Saadi, VP for strategic technologies at global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, told EE Times. “This includes well-established OEMs, such as Bear Robotics, Canvas, Clearpath Robotics, Fetch Robotics, Gideon, John Deere, Locus Robotics, MiR, Ocado and Vecna Robotics,” he said. “In recent years, big players like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have started to show interest in the system and show support for ROS. All this leads ABI Research to think that, by 2030, around three-quarters of the world’s commercial robots will include a ROS package in some shape or form.” ROS was updated to ROS2 in 2017: new updates are issued yearly. ROS-Industrial (ROS-I), which extends the capabilities of ROS to manufacturing, was posted on GitHub in 2012. Lau doesn’t dispute what Saadi said, or ROS’s power; it’s just that her robots don’t need ROS.

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ABI Research Vice President Malik Saadi says backlogs for some parts are stretching into 2024. “The immediate need is really to create more fab capacity to address the long-tail chipset shortage (sensors, MCUs, RF, etc.) and cater for the needs of a multitude of end-products that rely heavily on this type of chip,” Saadi continues.

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“All the barriers identified by the survey are currently constraining the RTLS ecosystem from developing and flourishing. Current solutions addressing this market today are struggling to generate scale as they are not ticking all the commercial and technology requirement boxes of end-users,” explained Malik Saadi, vice president of strategic technologies at ABI Research.

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The blueprint created by Qualcomm and Vodafone will help mobile operators guarantee infrastructure modularity, avoid vendor lock-ins, and will make it easier for them to swap network elements without fears of compromising the network performance, Malik Saadi, Vice President at global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research, said. ABI Research predicts that in Europe, shipments of Open RAN equipment will exceed 40 percent of total RAN equipment deployed in 2026. Shipments of Open RAN MaMIMO in the region will exceed 25 percent of the total MaMIMO equipment deployed in 2025.

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5G is the first cellular technology generation that enterprise use cases will play a larger role in than consumer use cases. Learn more from ABI Research's 5G Technology Summit.

A global pandemic is crippling entire industries but the 5G market and its prospects will scrape by largely unscathed compared to other markets, according to ABI Research. Capex spending on 5G network deployments will decline 10% globally this year, but those activities will pick up next year, or once the crisis is over, according to Dimitris Mavrakis, research director at ABI Research. “The biggest factors contributing to this slowdown are actually personnel issues and human resources, not supply chain issues,” Mavrakis said during a webinar about the pandemic’s impact on various technologies. Most technicians and engineers can’t visit sites because of public health restrictions, but operators remain confident that 5G deployments will get underway again around June, he explained.

ABI Research vice president Malik Saadi said of the 765 range: “The introduction of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 is a significant milestone. This platform has every potential to accelerate the adoption of 5G in mid-range smartphones, giving a leading edge to Qualcomm in this market segment. In contrast, smartphones powered by chipsets from competitors MediaTek and UNISOC, which traditionally address this mid-range smartphone market segment, are not expected to hit the marketplace before the second half of 2020. “Secondly, the Snapdragon X52 Modem-RF system design is 100 per cent based on Qualcomm’s chips, from the modem to the antenna. This means partners among OEMs will no longer have to go through complex RF procurement processes involving many RF chips suppliers. This will enable them to save both time and money to bring 5G smartphones to the market while adopting the most innovative 5G features as soon as they are available.”

10 SEP 2019 Huawei ended speculation regarding its work to develop an in-house operating system in early August, when it officially unveiled its HarmonyOS (Hongmeng in Chinese). Set to initially be installed in smart TVs from sub-brand Honor, the platform will eventually make its way into some of the vendor’s smartphones and other devices, reducing its reliance on Google’s Android at a time when the US is moving to prevent domestic companies supplying components and software to Huawei. As an exercise to move away from non-domestic providers, the OS makes sense. However, as our US editor Diana Goovaerts previously discovered, building an OS does not necessarily guarantee app developers will rally. And that’s before you consider that US app developers may be prohibited from working directly with Huawei by the export ban. So, will the vendor make a success of it, or will HarmonyOS go the way of the likes of Windows Phone and Samsung’s Tizen? Marta Pinto, research manager covering mobile devices at IDC EMEA (pictured, right), said there is room for new platforms to break into the broader phone market, citing KaiOS as an example. This system was developed in response to a need to bring “some richer digital experience to basic phones,” establishing itself as “an alternative for consumers looking for a 4G experience in a basic phone”. However, in the smartphone sector, Android and iOS emerged victorious from a market which Pinto noted sported 14 different platforms just a decade ago. Pinto highlighted the devices and consumers who use them as the key factors in the success of any smartphone OS, noting the more devices and people, the more attractive a platform is to app developers. “It was the consumer base that dictated the fate of BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone and so many others”. In a blog, CCS Insight’s VP of research for the Americas, Geoff Blaber (pictured, left), explained potential challengers to Android and iOS “were always good on paper”, offering “a decentralised alternative to Android with more open governance, or furthered a given company’s vision of vertical integration.” “It all sounds easy, but it’s extraordinarily difficult to achieve, particularly for a hardware company that has yet to develop any serious services”. Samsung’s Tizen highlights the problems, with the company failing to establish the platform as “an alternative to Android in smartphones”, despite some success in smartwatches and TVs. Malik Saadi, MD and VP of strategic technologies at ABI Research, believes Huawei will learn from Google and Apple’s approaches to developing their OSes, by creating a hub for an application development ecosystem and educating developers on how it is used. The basics Part of this involves ensuring access to basic services including an app store, mapping, payments and messaging, on which other applications can be built. Saadi (pictured, right) noted almost all applications now require access to messaging and location, or include a payment API, “and all of them are also connected to the engine and stuff like that”. Blaber agreed, noting Huawei “presented a clear strategy based on the need for consistency on its devices for consumers and developers”. Having control over the OS “and putting it on a wide range of devices” will put the vendor in a “better position to customise the experience, differentiate and add value through services”. The approach is something of a virtuous circle, as investing in the ecosystem “drives service revenue, which in turn makes the hardware more attractive”, he added. Pinto, too, believes getting developers on board is critical to the success of HarmonyOS outside of China, Huawei’s domestic market, but said persuading consumers is another important factor. Operator appeal However, Saadi sees another opportunity for Huawei beyond simply mimicking Android or iOS. The vendor could help operators to reclaim control of the ecosystem lost to Google and Apple, he argued.

"People can use more innovative applications and can have far better and enhanced augmented experiences in more consistent ways when you use premium content [enabled by 5G]," Malik Saadi, the vice president of strategic technologies at the tech market advisory firm ABI Research, told Business Insider.

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An earlier 5G-only modem, the XMM 8060, “is becoming a development platform” rather than a commercial product, said an Intel spokeswoman. Thus, Intel “will miss the 2019 5G launches, but it is targeting large-scale rollouts from customers such as Apple and [partner] Spreadtrum,” said Malik Saadi, vice president of strategic technologies for market watcher ABI Research. The commitment to an integrated part early in the 5G ramp suggests that Intel got backing from Apple, one or more large China handset makers, or both. “Intel could potentially secure at least 300 million-unit shipments for this first commercial 5G chip across its lifetime — not all chipset suppliers could claim such a performance,” said Saadi. ABI expects that as many as 728.7 million 5G devices will ship by the end of 2023. The market will start off slowly next year, with sales of about 18.5 million devices, it estimates.