This month, InterDigital celebrated more than ten years of research and innovation in Europe and our commitment to its continuation through the opening of our new office in London. The event welcomed InterDigital engineers, executives, and long-standing academic and industry partners to experience InterDigital’s research expertise and engage with the brain trust that drives InterDigital’s innovation. About our London Office Established in 2013, InterDigital’s London office is home to our Wireless Lab Europe (WLE). The... Read More

Each generation of cellular wireless technology evolves on roughly a 10-year timeline. Research leaders like InterDigital began planning for 6G in 2020 after the deployment of 5G’s Release 15 of 3GPP standards. With six of these releases planned for 5G, and Release 18 (5G-Advanced) already published, this means we are about “halfway there” on our journey to the 6G era. 5G has rolled out quickly over the past five years, reaching one billion deployed end-user... Read More

The recent report from Mario Draghi, The Future of European Competitiveness, makes for grim reading for anyone like me who is invested in Europe’s long-term economic success and status as a driver of innovation. The report offers several explanations for why the EU has failed to keep pace economically with the world’s other major powers and serves as a warning to policymakers everywhere. As Draghi points out, Europe has, “many talented entrepreneurs and researchers filing... Read More

As audio stimulates our sense of hearing and video engages our sense of sight, innovations in haptic technology are tapping into new avenues of communication to convey the sense of touch. InterDigital’s research and innovation in new media codecs and standards, particularly those related to haptic media coding and delivery, will bring new depths and sensations to our video-based experiences. Haptics are far from a new technology – in fact, a recent white paper from... Read More

By the 2030s global cellular networks will be able to connect not only smartphones and other connected devices but also objects around you, opening up a new frontier in connectivity. In ten years, remote rural areas that currently don’t have any mobile reception will be connected thanks to advances in non-terrestrial networks. And, by the 2030s, improvements in video compression and cellular technology will power new augmented and virtual reality experiences in the workplace and... Read More