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China's biggest semiconductor manufacturer will be able to produce 5nm chips this year despite efforts by the US to nobble the country's chip industry, a report claims.

Global semiconductor revenue increased by 26.3% year-on-year in 2021, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that this brought the dollar figure to US$595 billion (A$802 billion).

South Korean giant Samsung Electronics became the globe's top vendor of semiconductors in 2021, overtaking Intel for the first time since 2018 with a 31.6% rise in revenue to US$75.9 billion (A$105.2 billion), the technology analyst firm Gartner says.

Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company MediaTek has emerged as the top company in its sector in the second quarter, grabbing a 43% share of the smartphone application processor/system on chip chipset shipments, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says.

With the US administration changing next year, it is very likely that Google will be able to get a waiver on selling the proprietary version of its Android operating system to Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei Technologies, something it has been unable to do ever since the Trump administration put in place sanctions on the Chinese firm.

American firm Qualcomm Technologies, with 29%, remained top of the market for smartphone application processors - also known as system-on-chip - during the second quarter of the year, despite losing three percentage points year-on-year.

A China expert has predicted that the US Government may end up shooting itself in the foot by weaponising the semiconductor supply chain.

A new generation of thin client devices reduce the cost of virtual desktop implementations.

The world's first successful demonstration of 84Mbps WCDMA downlink and 23Mbps uplink has been performed, showing the mobile broadband speeds that may soon be available.