Two months have passed in 2018. The 5G commercial time proposed by the communications industry is only less than two years away from us. Although for end users, 5G technology is still invisible and inaccessible, but 5G commercial energy is The benefits of humanity are obvious.
For example, 4G has brought the mobile Internet to expand the Internet world, which originally required cable connections and bulky PCs, to reach out of the house. All eyes are at the Internet. The convenient Internet has given rise to the sharing economy. A series of derivative industries within it have turned the dreams of countless twenty years into reality.
The 5G network, with its high bandwidth and low delay characteristics, and its nature of network inclusion with 4G LTE and WLAN, will bring the Internet of Things (IoE) into our daily lives. Everything on the Internet is connected to the Internet, and the business opportunities it contains are completely incalculable—and, as a result, any company that has the ability to tackle 5G connectivity technology is targeting the 'Star of the Future'. .
Smartphones can be regarded as the only entrance to the mobile Internet world. The chip wars in the 3G to 4G revolutionary period put Qualcomm on the throne of the mobile phone SoC community. Today, Qualcomm itself, as a chip manufacturer, is able to respond to the upstream supply chain. , Downstream developers and terminal vendors also know the truth that 'they have won the world.' Therefore, Qualcomm's 'Dragon Ecosphere' seems almost unbreakable - unless the next era of change can directly subvert all of this. , Just as Qualcomm subverted Texas Instruments.
Qualcomm MWC 2018 Booth
The rest of the industry's big brothers are certainly not fools. In the 4G phase, Qualcomm took advantage of the superiority of the 3G era; that is, the 5G technology has reached the most important juncture. Naturally they also want to pull Qualcomm into the water. The MWC 2018 exhibition just finished is very likely. It is the last MWC in the era of mobile internet. The content related to 5G at the exhibition is full of thick gunpowder flavor.
For example, Huawei, although they did not bring P20 series mobile phones on MWC 2018, the emergence of Balong 5G 01 chip was even more impressive than that of the P20, where the machine was not unveiled. However, at the meeting, Huawei stated that Balong 5G 01 is 'the world's first commercial 5G chip that meets 3GPP standards'. Although the name is not small, few people notice that the purpose of this chip is actually the user terminal (Consumer Premise Equipment). The user terminal is mainly used. In order to provide home-based services such as cable broadband, IPTV, and VOIP, not our mobile phones, Huawei also stated that Huawei's 5G low-frequency CPE weighs 2kg and its volume is only 3L.
In fact, the Xiaolong X50 is the world's first commercial 5G chip. After all, the Xeon X50 was officially unveiled at the end of 2016. It complies with the 3GPP R15 standard and supports the full 5G band (millimeter wave and below 6GHz) under the standard; in addition, Qualcomm Already with ZTE and China Mobile in the 3.5GHz band to open end-to-end 5G connection, Qualcomm even before the MWC called on 20 downstream OEM manufacturers, which will be equipped with Qualcomm Xiaolong X50 chip for their terminals. , And officially debut in 2019, becoming the world's first batch of 5G commercial terminals.
It is not difficult to find that the opponent's turbulent PPT has just appeared, and Qualcomm has already come up with a solution with a high degree of completion, and the downstream manufacturers' terminal products are on the market. There is also a very critical issue - the Xiaolong X50 will Samsung's 7nm process makes it as big as a 50 cent euro coin, but Huawei's chip is too big to be stuffed into a cell phone.
Along with Qualcomm's battle for 5G's leading position, there are old chip makers, the familiar 'toothpaste factory' Intel. They know that even Wintel is under the threat of Qualcomm Snapdragon Win 10, they are not even afraid to squeeze in 5G technology. Toothpaste, playing high-profile even more than Qualcomm. The just-concluded Pingchang Winter Olympics is the world's most advanced stage of sports, and Intel, with their 5G connection technology, deployed 22 5G links at 10 Olympic venues in Pyeongchang. , Also deployed in the ice stadium 100 sets of 5G cameras and 200 Tablet PCs with 5G connection.
With the successful conclusion of the Olympics, it turns out that Intel did not 'turn over'. The audience in the 5G experience area of the stadium took advantage of the high speed and low latency of the 5G network, and was able to use a tablet to watch athletes from any angle with zero delay synchronization. Heroic.
Qualcomm car networking
However, as mentioned above, the 5G connection is not a castle in the air. It complements the existing 4G LTE and WLAN connection. The 5G NR network, public facilities, smart home, etc. are required by the network quality requirements for devices such as mobile phones and VR integrated machines in the era of the Internet of Everything. Not high, but devices that must be online at all times use low-power LTE connections. Even if '5G gives you a clear picture', Intel’s industry influence in 4G is still lost to Qualcomm.
HTC Vive Focus equipped with Qualcomm Opteron platform
As for the latter, they not only started to lead the world into the LTE Advanced-Pro (4.5G) era, but also launched in-depth cooperation with the VR industry giant HTC. They successfully swept the VR industry in the era of the IoT. Before 5G commercialization, Qualcomm You can use your own tremendous influence in the 4G phase to influence the wind and rain; and in 5G, Qualcomm has also come up with a mature solution, the Xiaolong X50. Even if everything can be networked in the era of the Internet of Things, the mobile phone is still a very important Internet portal. The 'Xiaolong Ecological Circle' still has high value; moreover, Qualcomm is constantly filling the content of the ecological circle with the influence of the industry, trying to make it more diversified, and more suitable for the grand vision of 'Connecting the Hundred Flowers' of the Internet of Everything. .
Qualcomm Dragon Biosphere
The transformation from 4G to 5G, despite its massive scale, seems to be an unlikely 'regular upgrade' at a time when Qualcomm is a rainy day. There are still so many partners in the industry and the ecology is still abundant. Connection technology has changed its name. If Intel loses, it is very likely that the foundation of the 4G era was not solid enough. Even if the 5G commercial industry ushered in three feet (or even more feet), Qualcomm is also the first team. The leading tycoon, this pattern may not change in the next few years.
This year's MWC really looks good, but it lacks commercial 5G terminals. Mobile phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S9 and vivo APEX have no attraction whatsoever with the '5G mobile phone'. At this time next year, the terminal that cooperates with Qualcomm Vendors are likely to come up with 5G terminals equipped with Xiaolong's X50 chip; by then, we may witness the first MWC exhibition.
Two months have passed in 2018. The 5G commercial time proposed by the communications industry is only less than two years away from us. Although for end users, 5G technology is still invisible and intangible, but 5G commercial energy is The benefits of humanity are obvious.
For example, 4G has brought the mobile Internet to expand the Internet world, which originally required cable connections and bulky PCs, to reach out of the house. All eyes are at the Internet. The convenient Internet has given rise to the sharing economy. A series of derivative industries within it have turned the dreams of countless twenty years into reality.
The 5G network, with its high bandwidth and low delay characteristics, and its nature of network inclusion with 4G LTE and WLAN, will bring the Internet of Things (IoE) into our daily lives. Everything on the Internet is connected to the Internet. The business opportunities it contains are completely incalculable - and, as a result, all manufacturers that have the ability to tackle 5G connectivity technologies are targeting the 'Star of the Future'. .
Smartphones can be regarded as the only entrance to the mobile Internet world. The chip wars in the 3G to 4G revolutionary period put Qualcomm on the throne of the mobile phone SoC community. Today, Qualcomm itself, as a chip manufacturer, is able to respond to the upstream supply chain. , Downstream developers and terminal vendors also know the truth that 'they have won the world.' Therefore, Qualcomm's 'Dragon Ecosphere' seems almost unbreakable - unless the next era of change can directly subvert all of this. , Just as Qualcomm subverted Texas Instruments.
Qualcomm MWC 2018 Booth
The rest of the industry's big brothers are certainly not fools. In the 4G phase, Qualcomm took advantage of the superiority of the 3G era; that is, the 5G technology has reached the most important juncture. Naturally they also want to pull Qualcomm into the water. The MWC 2018 exhibition just finished is very likely. It is the last MWC in the era of mobile internet. The content related to 5G at the exhibition is full of thick gunpowder flavor.
For example, Huawei, although they did not bring P20 series mobile phones on MWC 2018, the emergence of Balong 5G 01 chip was even more impressive than that of the P20, where the machine was not unveiled. However, at the conference, Huawei stated that Balong 5G 01 is 'the world's first commercial 5G chip that meets 3GPP standards'. Although the name is not small, few people notice that the purpose of this chip is actually the user terminal (Consumer Premise Equipment). The user terminal is mainly used. In order to provide home-based services such as cable broadband, IPTV, and VOIP, not our mobile phones, Huawei also stated that Huawei's 5G low-frequency CPE weighs 2kg and its volume is only 3L.
In fact, the Xiaolong X50 is the world's first commercial 5G chip. After all, the Xeon X50 was officially unveiled at the end of 2016. It complies with the 3GPP R15 standard and supports the full 5G band (millimeter wave and below 6GHz) under the standard; in addition, Qualcomm Already with ZTE and China Mobile in the 3.5GHz band to open end-to-end 5G connection, Qualcomm even before the MWC called on 20 downstream OEM manufacturers, which will be equipped with Qualcomm Xiaolong X50 chip for their terminals. , And officially debut in 2019, becoming the world's first batch of 5G commercial terminals.
It is not difficult to find that the opponent's turbulent PPT has just appeared, and Qualcomm has already come up with a solution with a very high degree of completion, and the downstream manufacturers' terminal products are on the market. There is also a very critical issue - the Xiaolong X50 will Samsung's 7nm process makes it as big as a 50 cent euro coin, but Huawei's chip is too big to be stuffed into a cell phone.
Along with Qualcomm's battle for 5G's leading position, there are old chip makers, the familiar 'toothpaste factory' Intel. They know that even Wintel is under the threat of Qualcomm Snapdragon Win 10, they are not afraid to squeeze 5G technology. Toothpaste, playing high-profile even more than Qualcomm. The just-concluded Pingchang Winter Olympics is the world's most advanced sports stage, and Intel, with their 5G connection technology, deployed 22 5G links at 10 Olympic venues in Pyeongchang. , Also deployed in the ice stadium 100 sets of 5G cameras and 200 Tablet PCs with 5G connection.
With the successful conclusion of the Olympic Games, it turns out that Intel did not 'turn over'. Audiences in the 5G experience area of the stadium took advantage of the high speed and low latency of the 5G network. They were able to use a tablet to watch athletes from any angle with zero delay synchronization. Heroic.
Qualcomm car networking
However, as mentioned above, the 5G connection is not a castle in the air. It is complementary to the existing 4G LTE and WLAN connection. The 5G NR network, public facilities, smart home and other devices in the era of the Internet of Everything in the Internet era and VR all-in-one devices are required for network quality. Not high, but devices that must be online at all times use low-power LTE connections. Even if '5G gives you a clear picture,' Intel’s industry influence in 4G is still lost to Qualcomm.
HTC Vive Focus equipped with Qualcomm Opteron platform
As for the latter, they not only started to lead the world into the LTE Advanced-Pro (4.5G) era, but also launched in-depth cooperation with the VR industry giant HTC. They successfully swept the VR industry in the era of IoE. Before 5G commercialization, Qualcomm You can use your own tremendous influence in the 4G phase to influence the wind and rain; and in 5G, Qualcomm has also come up with a mature solution, the Xiaolong X50. Even if everything can be networked during the Internet of Things, mobile phones are still a very important Internet portal. The 'Xiaolong Ecological Circle' still has high value; moreover, Qualcomm is constantly filling the content of the ecological circle with its influence within the industry, trying to make it more diversified, and more suitable for the grand vision of 'Connecting the Hundred Flowers' of the Internet of Everything. .
Qualcomm Dragon Biosphere
The transformation from 4G to 5G, despite its massive scale, seems to be an unlikely 'regular upgrade' at a time when Qualcomm is a rainy day. There are still so many partners in the industry and the ecology is still abundant. Connection technology has changed its name. If Intel loses, it is very likely that the foundation of the 4G era was not solid enough. Even if the 5G commercial industry ushered in three feet (or even more feet), Qualcomm is also the first team. The leading tycoon, this pattern may not change in the next few years.
This year's MWC really looks good, but it lacks commercial 5G terminals. Mobile phones like the Samsung Galaxy S9, vivo APEX, and then there is no attraction for the '5G mobile phone'. This time next year, the terminal that cooperates with Qualcomm Vendors are likely to come up with 5G terminals equipped with Xiaolong's X50 chip; by then, we may witness the first MWC exhibition with a history of staying behind.
