Technologie 19 Září 2025 - 28 Září 2025

Vodafone–Three UK agreed a £2 billion network upgrade with Nokia and Ericsson, phasing out Huawei and Samsung equipment at 17,000 sites. Verizon launched a 6G Innovation Forum with Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Qualcomm, and Meta. T-Mobile US named Srini Gopalan as CEO, replacing Mike Sievert in November. Optus in Australia faces investigation after a 13-hour outage disrupted emergency calls and was linked to several deaths.

Global 5G connections reached 2.6 billion in Q2 2025, up 37% year-on-year, with North America leading at 88% population coverage and China reporting 1.15 billion 5G users. Only 1.2% of Africa’s population has 5G access. The Philippines began shutting down 2G/3G networks to fight fraud, with full 3G closure set for September 30. Vietnam’s VNPT won a 700 MHz spectrum auction for $83 million to boost rural 4G/5G coverage.

In 2023, scientists completed the first full connectome of an adult fruit fly brain, mapping 139,000 neurons and 54 million synapses. In 2025, the MICrONS project released a map of 1 mm³ of mouse visual cortex with about 75,000 neurons and half a billion synapses. The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses.

A ten-hour Optus mobile network outage in Australia blocked emergency calls and was linked to three deaths, prompting a government investigation. T-Mobile US completed its $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular, expecting $400 million in added revenue this quarter. China Mobile tested a 6G prototype in Beijing, reaching 280 Gbps—14 times faster than 5G’s theoretical maximum.

SpaceX agreed to buy $17 billion in wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar to expand Starlink’s 5G services. UK and Turkey launched major 5G spectrum auctions, with Turkey planning commercial 5G by April 2026. Gaza suffered a telecom blackout on September 18 amid intensified Israeli operations. EU regulators rejected proposals to charge tech giants for 5G network costs.

Global semiconductor sales topped $600 billion in 2024, with projections reaching $1 trillion by 2030. TSMC held 55% of the foundry market in 2023, while Taiwan accounted for 92% of advanced chip capacity. ASML remains the sole supplier of EUV lithography machines, each costing over $300 million. Chip manufacturing emitted about 190 million tons of CO2 equivalent in 2024.

Siemens launched a maintenance assistant linked to Senseye; IBM added AI agents to Maximo. Studies show AI-based maintenance can cut downtime by 10–45% and costs by 25–35% if implemented correctly. Demand for inspection robots pushed firms like Gecko to unicorn status. The EU AI Act is set to impact industrial AI in 2025.