When it was first launched in some markets, 5G drew an underwhelming response from many consumers and even enterprises, with indications it would fail to yield the uplift in ARPU needed to recoup investments in spectrum and infrastructure. Device makers were in a similar boat, again facing resistance to rising prices of smartphones, although for them associated costs tended to be sunk in the ongoing evolution of the platform and underlying processors. Smartphones have for a while been cutting the edge of silicon technology to meet insatiable demand for ever more onboard storage, memory and processing capability without any corresponding increase in footprint, power consumption or heat output. More recently though, both groups have been relieved to note numerous signals…