To provide a foundation for massive things
3GPP formally approved the 5G acceleration proposal at the 75th plenary session of the 3GPP RAN held earlier this year.GPP will speed up the 5G NR process in Release R15 and set up a 5G NR non-independent networking (Option 3) Features completed ahead of schedule in December 2017, six months ahead of schedule, which means 5G standardization time point forward, 5G commercial will accelerate, including the chip, including 5G industry chain development process will also be accelerated.
However, with the 4G network mainly relying on mobile communications such as smart phones, 5G applications more widely.Industry believes that if you want to use a word to summarize the changes brought by 5G, will be 'all things connected.' Thus, the 5G chip Performance should also reflect this feature.
'5G is not only a new generation of mobile technologies, but also a brand new network.' 'Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman of Qualcomm, pointed out at the Ninth Tianyi Intelligent Eco-Industry Summit recently that he said 5G will provide Unified connectivity architecture, multi-dimensional scalability and redefinition of a broad range of industries as a common technology. 5G not only enables enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), but also supports business-critical services, 5G or mass Internet of things Important way
Gartner communications service provider research director Liu Yi in an interview with reporters also pointed out: 'If 3G to 4G, we can think of is a' fast 'word, 5G will have more different. Of course, 5G first to transfer fast Followed by high reliability and low latency, and finally with a high density of access in each area, which constitutes the basic characteristics of the 5G.
This technology architecture provides the basis for a wide range of future 5G application services.If 4G is faster and better mobile broadband, then 5G will break through the boundaries of broadband, become a more powerful unified platform to connect new industries and more Terminal, and the birth of new services.According to the IHS 5G economic report research data, 5G economy will bring up to $ 12 trillion in new products and services to the 5G era, once the need to rely on human driving the car will be able to Automatic driving; have a lot of workers to carry out the production operation of the factory, will rely on intelligent interconnection of production equipment for automated production; unmanned aircraft can repair aircraft, refrigerator can go to you online shopping ... ... 5G multiplication effect to the industry to bring mutant evolution.
Market hegemony has started
It is optimistic about the development prospects of 5G, the major manufacturers continue to promote the chip product development process.There are analysts believe that although the 5G official commercial time point in 2020, but the chip manufacturers, the global 5G chip market early wins Negative in the 2018, 2019 years of Design- in the stage, who win who lost has been decided.Therefore, in the mobile phone manufacturers 5G competition has actually started, the success or failure will be related to the future market share.
'At present, Qualcomm has introduced' full coverage '5G new air interface (NR) prototype system for frequency bands below 6GHz, millimeter wave band and spectrum sharing technology to support testing, demonstrating and verifying 5G design, promoting and tracking 3GPP 5G new air interface Standardization process to accelerate the large-scale pilot and commercial deployment of 5G new air interface. "Paul Jacobs said Qualcomm introduced the world's first 5G modem - Snapdragon X50 modem series, on a chip to 2G / 3G / 4G / 5G support, but also actively promote the global standardization of 5G new air interface.
Spreadtrum 5G chip R & D investment is also very large, the plan will be the second half of 2018 to launch the first version of the 3GPP R15 conference to freeze the first version of the 5G non-independent network 5G standard 5G commercial chip will be launched in 2019 second Edition supports independent networking standard 5G chip, after the completion of the 3GPP standard will continue to update the product.
MediaTek is also accelerating efforts Baseband chip.According to media reports, MediaTek is expected to be completed by the end of 5G prototype chip design, validation stage next year.At present, MediaTek has announced cooperation with China Mobile, Japan NTT DoCoMo 5G deployment experiments.
Intel 5G R & D in the follow-up is also very fast.If both the 3G and 4G era of Intel are 'accompany', then Intel 5G development is not slow at the beginning of the CES show, Intel will exhibit The Gold Ridge 5G modem.Meanwhile, Intel to avoid the disadvantage of communications equipment, but also the car as a breakthrough.If the joint BMW and autopilot developer Mobileye released the Intel Go smart driving platform, based on high-bandwidth 5G to do on-board communication , To achieve automatic driving.
Industry point of view
Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs
Accelerate 5G scalability and adaptability
5G is a new era that we are about to enter.As a new mobile technology, 5G not only for high-bandwidth applications bring good, but also with low latency characteristics, which for the automotive industry, system control and other industrial applications are Very important, because in these applications, a millisecond error will bring upside down changes. 5G contains a lot of important technology, and the key is to achieve 5G scalability and adaptability to meet the extreme needs 5G can not only achieve enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), but also to support mission-critical services (Mission-Critical Services), 5G or Massive IoT (Massive IoT) an important way. Qualcomm has for different industries and regions Conducted a 5G economic research, we look forward to see 5G for China and the world a huge impact, then, 5G will bring us a new experience and promote economic growth.
Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Chairman and CEO Li Liyou
The key to doing 5G is the development of killer applications
Now there are some challenges in the development of 5G, such as cost issues, power consumption problems, as well as the millimeter-wave wavelength shortcomings caused by poor diffraction and other issues. These require people to put energy to solve. Spreadtrum actively invest 5G chip development, In the previous phase of the 5G test work, Spreadtrum chips and Huawei, Ericsson and other companies to achieve the base station in the 5G era, Spreadtrum hope that the chip and standard synchronization advance, to ensure that Spreadtrum 5G chip is always in the world's first wave But the need to emphasize that the current 5G is not a major obstacle to the technical level, but the application of the problem. Operators to develop a more sticky to the user, so that consumers once on the use of non-use Can not be used in order to allow 5G to continue to develop the driving force.
Gartner Communications Services Supplier Research Director Liu Yi
2022 years ago will not happen 5G scale commercial
The country, which is now actively engaged in the development of 5G, is mainly dominated by the United States, Japan, Korea and China, although the EU has recently stressed that it will achieve the entire European 5G coverage in 2025, but it will be relatively slow. 5G deployment and commercial operators to AT & T and Verizon, followed by T-Mobile USA and NTT Docomo. China is also actively promoting the commercialization of 5G. There are about in 2019 to achieve 5G commercial news, but this is not to say 5G will be large-scale arrival. Gartner that 2022 will not happen before the scale of 5G commercial. Prior to this, commercial can be achieved, but more likely to be in a small range to try, promote and large-scale commercial It may take a long time.