Data security prepares world for 5G revolution

As the global telecommunications community scrambles to commercialize fifth-generation wireless technology, more efforts are needed to ensure that data is safely stored, analyzed and used to prepare for a 5G-enabled world, tech tycoons said at the ongoing China Development Forum in Beijing.

"If a computer is the brain, 5G is the nervous system, data is the blood, and memory, as well as storage, is very much the heart of all these things," said Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of Micron Technology Inc, a memory-chip manufacturer from the United States.

"More data will be created by billions of devices, and it has to be analyzed and processed quickly. That all happens in the memory and storage devices that Micron makes, and that provides deeper insight for the experiences of human life as well as for businesses," he said at the weekend.