Delve into your smartphone, turn over your computer keyboard, or peek behind your flat-screen TV. Moulded into the plastic, or attached as a label, is an alphabet soup of approvals. Among them is the FCC logo.
Just before Christmas, we wrote about the battle to set new common standards for AI and 6G mobile networks. The focus was on product design and compatibility construction.
Another standards battleground lies in the assessment and certification of existing standards. In its ceaseless war with China, the US has opened a new front using certification processes to slow the Chinese economy. It affects every company that manufactures electronic products in China for re-export. It works like this.
