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Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 Modem Is the 4G/5G Solution We've Been Waiting For (androidauthority.com)
Qualcomm has unveiled its latest 5G modem, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X55. The chip is the company's second-generation 5G modem and successor to the Snapdragon X50 that was announced back in 2017. "Headline features of this new chip include multi-mode 4G and 5G in a single chip, blazing fast 7Gbps speeds, and futureproof support for the 5G Standalone specification," reports Android Authority. From the report: Starting with 5G, the chip supports both mmWave and sub-6GHz spectrum, just like its predecessor. Theoretical peak speeds are boosted from 5Gbps to 7Gbps download and up to 3Gbps upload. However, you'll need a perfect alignment of network conditions and capabilities to reach such lofty speeds. More important is the introduction of 5G FDD support. This will be crucial in Europe and other places looking to free up low-frequency spectrum (600 to 900MHz) for 5G. The Snapdragon X55 also introduces 4G/5G spectrum sharing, 100MHz envelope tracking for better power management, and antenna tuning in the sub-6GHz region. All very handy improvements over its first generation 5G modem.
Perhaps the biggest point of all is that the X55 also supports the 5G Standalone (SA) specification. First-generation 5G networks and devices are all based on the earlier Non-Standalone (NSA) specification. Eventually, these will transition over to the SA standard. SA ditches the use of LTE networks for backend communication, transitioning over entirely to 5G. This opens up greater networking flexibility with Network Slicing and offers even lower latency for IoT and device-to-device communication. On the 4G side, the Snapdragon X55 supports the Category 22 LTE standard. This allows for peak throughput of 2.5Gbps, making it Qualcomm's most powerful 4G solution to date. The Snapdragon X55 also introduces Full Dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO) for LTE. This includes 3D beamforming, allowing for improved elevation support to improve spectrum efficiency. Importantly, the Snapdragon X55 is built on a 7nm process rather than 10nm with the X50. The new modem isn't expected to appear in devices until late 2019 at the earliest. Android Authority suggests that the X55 will be featured inside 2019's next-gen Snapdragon 8XX processor, which should be officially announced at the end of the year, close to when Qualcomm expects the first X55 products.
"In addition to the new modem, Qualcomm also announced its second-generation mmWave antenna and will be demoing its 5G technologies at MWC," reports Android Authority. "Dubbed the QTM525, the latest antenna module is slightly slimmer than the previous design and can be built into phones thinner than 8mm thick. It now covers 26, 28, and 39GHz mmWave spectrum and Qualcomm continues to suggest that three or four of these will be needed per 5G phone."
Perhaps the biggest point of all is that the X55 also supports the 5G Standalone (SA) specification. First-generation 5G networks and devices are all based on the earlier Non-Standalone (NSA) specification. Eventually, these will transition over to the SA standard. SA ditches the use of LTE networks for backend communication, transitioning over entirely to 5G. This opens up greater networking flexibility with Network Slicing and offers even lower latency for IoT and device-to-device communication. On the 4G side, the Snapdragon X55 supports the Category 22 LTE standard. This allows for peak throughput of 2.5Gbps, making it Qualcomm's most powerful 4G solution to date. The Snapdragon X55 also introduces Full Dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO) for LTE. This includes 3D beamforming, allowing for improved elevation support to improve spectrum efficiency. Importantly, the Snapdragon X55 is built on a 7nm process rather than 10nm with the X50. The new modem isn't expected to appear in devices until late 2019 at the earliest. Android Authority suggests that the X55 will be featured inside 2019's next-gen Snapdragon 8XX processor, which should be officially announced at the end of the year, close to when Qualcomm expects the first X55 products.
"In addition to the new modem, Qualcomm also announced its second-generation mmWave antenna and will be demoing its 5G technologies at MWC," reports Android Authority. "Dubbed the QTM525, the latest antenna module is slightly slimmer than the previous design and can be built into phones thinner than 8mm thick. It now covers 26, 28, and 39GHz mmWave spectrum and Qualcomm continues to suggest that three or four of these will be needed per 5G phone."
How about security?
An American company has come up late with an inferior and more expensive "chip", so the competition had to be destroyed administratively.
So "free-market". Very "competition". Much "honest".
you anti-trump folk never cease to amuse...
So Qualcomm supports Trump?
I knew it.
Imagine how much amusement he'll find at ADX Florence for the remainder of his short treasonous life.
Qualcom wouldn't piss on Trump if he were on fire. That's Russian whore territory.
You pathetic treasonous scum Trump supporters never cease to amaze me at how brain dead fucking retarded you are.
Of course you're so spot on, the US government TRICKED Huawei into creating a wholly party-owned subsidiary company to evade US sanctions, and all those times Huawei stole code from everyone... was probably a big misunderstanding, as were the Huawei CEO's blathering Chi-Com faggot shit threats against the west the other day, just friendly Han Chinese criminal cabalist ethnostate neighborly normal business stuff right Ivan?
Tell it to Meng when you see her at the women's correctional facility, bitch.
HACKINGBEAR you are summoned by the great imperial faggot of China to defend the reputation of one of our fledgling fraud efforts, Huawei. Remember! We have your mother above a simmering bowl of soup! No false moves.
Your social reputation is ticking down while you decide how to propagandize glorious leader's tiny dong!
What did the poor piss do to deserve such awful treatment?
Bad luck.. we will be stuck with Intel modems forever.
He cock blocked Hillary from taking Her Turn at the Presidency.
Have you been waiting for this? I don't think anyone has been waiting for this. Happy to see progress, all the same.
If you believe US companies do not steal IP from competitors, then I have a bridge in NYC to sell you. Since Qualcomm is playing catch up with Huawei with the US Gov running interference (such as strong arming other countries to not buy Huawei gear), you have to wonder how much of this is knock off Chinese tech.
Huawei has no IP, it's based in China. Everything China has is stolen. They're a criminal faggot cabalist ethnostate, not a real country. Nuke em, solve the problem.
First-generation 5G networks and devices are all based on the earlier National Security Agency (NSA) specification.
FTFY.
what about roMing $100/ min can run 100k be for they can cut you off
Hillary will be drinking wine while Obama golfs as Drumpf traitors die in prison, one by one. Lol. Winning the electoral college by fraud was the biggest mistake Drumpftard made in his obese faggot traitor coward's life.
#Under the prison winning?
My AT&T phone already has 5G. Qualcomm needs to catch up.
Wow, there's two of you now? Are you replicating by mitosis?
if not? Then no, this isn't the solution I've been waiting for. For all we know it's probably backdoored hardware.
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I am proud to be dumb in 2019.
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Good luck rolling your own modems, Apple is so far behind on the R&D curve and the current 4/5G tech is going to be so rolled up in current patents that the likes of Qualcomm are going to have a field day with Apple, unless Apple just outright licenses the tech from Qualcomm. Just so they can claim that they have their own modem chip as well. They might as well just buy the Qualcomm parts, sandblast the Qualcomm logo and part number off it, laser etch an apple logo and part number on it, charge a 100% markup premium on it and call it a day.
Even Intel who has tons more experience with this than Apple sucks. Their modems generally perform worse and gobble up more power than an equivalent Qualcomm part.
I wasn't waiting for this at all.
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How about avoiding that litigious shit of a company instead and ignoring 5G altogether (and putting your feet in a competing standard).
so wow-way makes the base station, the stuff inbetween them AND the little radio-chip in the handset and it's real 5G?
whilst qualcomm has all the other base station makers at their doorstep with presents and flowers and candy asking when
it would be convenient for their engineers to explain how best to connect to their 5G base stations?
something in the narrative seems off: the big telecom base station makers decide to create 5G radios, agree on some standard and start manufacturing and marketing the new faster base station to mobile phone network operators and then ... along the way, weeks, months, years later some company decides to actually tap into the 5G waves floating around? or wat? and then there's just two (wow-way and qualicum)?
captcha? you guessed it: paranoia
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Fix't.
and they need to be sanctioned.
Should I continue with more unsubstantiated stuff that slashdot reports on huawei lately?
My data plan isn't large enough to handle 5G. I'll burn through my limit in a day or two. Besides, anything I do using cell data is so small that it comes back so quickly that I wouldn't really notice a difference between LTE and 5G.
Mediatek already has it's 5G chipset out. China beat the US on this one...