Netease Technology News March 16 news, Reuters quickly popular science 5G industry status and the main players.
What is 5G?
The 5G network is currently in the final testing phase. The technology will rely on denser, smaller antenna arrays and the cloud will provide 50 to 100 times faster data transfer speeds than 4G and will serve as a key infrastructure in many industries.
A year later, related industries will begin to roll out large-scale 5G networks. The telecommunications organization GSMA said that by 2025, 1.2 billion users will be able to access 5G networks, and one third of them are Chinese users.
Moving to 5G networks will enable new types of mobile services and even new business models, but it will challenge countries and industries that are unable to invest in 5G technologies.
Unlike 2G (found in the early 1990s), 3G (the beginning of the new millennium), and 4G (2010), the 5G standard not only will enable faster mobile phone and computer transfer speeds, but will also help connect cars, machines, and freight. And crop equipment.
What are the concerns of the United States?
U.S. President Donald Trump has vetoed Broadcom's $117 billion acquisition of Qualcomm’s offer.
The U.S. Overseas Investment Committee stated that Broadcom’s acquisitions threaten to undermine Qualcomm’s strength and help China to have more advantages in the 5G field than the United States. If the acquisition of Qualcomm is successful, it will place a 'crown' on Broadcom’s chip portfolio. Pearl, ie, mobile phone chips that support wifi, power management, video and other functions of smart phones. Broadcom will also include Qualcomm's core baseband chip business, which refers to modems that can wirelessly connect mobile phones and networks.
U.S. officials and analysts worry that after the acquisition, Broadcom will cut Qualcomm’s R&D spending and sell strategically-owned departments to other companies, including Chinese companies.
5G is expected to open up a brand new communications equipment market and create opportunities for more hardware vendors, software vendors and semiconductor manufacturers. Many of these companies will come from Asia and increase Silicon Valley’s dependence on foreign companies.
What are the 5G heavyweight companies?
Before the large-scale laying of the 5G network, which can be used by consumers, it is still necessary to realize two major changes.
Mobile operators first need to upgrade their network infrastructure to 5G equipment. Currently, the major 5G equipment vendors are Huawei and ZTE in China, Ericsson in Sweden and Nokia in Finland.
In addition, mobile phone manufacturers need to have built-in 5G wireless signal receiving devices in mobile phones to prepare for connecting to 5G networks.
Qualcomm is a leader in mobile communications chips, occupying half of the baseband of mobile phone handsets and occupying an important position in the mobile communications hardware industry.
The other share of the baseband chip market is dominated by Asian companies: MediaTek in Taiwan occupies approximately one-quarter of the market. Two large mobile phone makers Samsung and Huawei independently develop chips. Huawei's HiSilicon Corporation is responsible for chip design. business.
Huawei's dominant position in the 5G field is that it excels in two types of services: First, it applies for patents for wireless standards; second, it sells chip designs that meet wireless standards.
International organizations set up wireless standards to ensure that all mobile phones can work in different mobile networks. Enterprises that have been granted 5G standard patents can make money through patent licensing fees.
Qualcomm already has a large number of basic patents, which means that handset manufacturers and communications equipment vendors must pay licensing fees to it. In the 3G and 4G era, it has become the leader in the number of patents held. Now that 5G struck, Qualcomm is still expected to Winning in the patent battle.
Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson and other companies also took part in this patent battle, which led to some complex interactive licensing agreements. The mobile phone patent agreement reached by Nokia and Huawei at the end of last year was an example.