Five years ago this week… Boeing and US-based satco ViaSat had announced three new ViaSat-3 satellites to provide high-speed internet of around 100 Mbps to remote areas around the world. Each satellite was to carry a total network capacity of 1Tbps, around triple of what the yet-to-be-launched ViaSat-2 had. What’s more, ViaSat claimed that it would be able to offer twice the network capacity of all 400 commercial communication satellites that were in orbit at the time. Expected to launch by the end of 2019 at the time of writing, Viasat has since pushed this back to 2021, with SpaceX now contracted to assist with the launch. — Apple is working with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to develop so-called ultra-advanced…