5G communication technology will be commercially available next year. In other words, next year's MWC exhibition, we are likely to see some terminal equipment supporting 5G connectivity. In fact, the original 5G commercial time is likely to be far behind - but As the giants headed by Qualcomm continue to attack the 5G technology, it can be said that this is the time to “grab”.
Today, we will review Qualcomm’s “5G memorabilia” together and take a look at how this 5G technology has played the most high-profile performance. How did we lead the industry to bring 5G and the Internet of Things to the world in advance?
2016.2: Gigabit Snapdragon X16 Modem unveiled
Qualcomm announced in the beginning of 2016 that the world's first Gigabit LTE Modem, the Snapdragon X16, officially opened the door to LTE Advanced-Pro (4.5G). The Snapdragon X16 supporting up to 1Gbps downlink rate has come even two years later Look, is also one of the top 4G terminal communication solutions; and the first in the Snapdragon 835 it also allows a series of terminal equipment to preemptively support Gigabit LTE communication technology.
As we all know, the 5G new air interface network and 4G LTE and WLAN are complementary. In the era of IoE, not only high-rate and low-latency 5G communications are required, but also 4G connections are required for some devices that require continuous and stable low-power online; therefore, The appearance of X16 continued to consolidate Qualcomm’s position as the leading leader in 4G communication technology, and actually paved the way for the arrival of 5G.
2016.10: The world's first commercial terminal 5G Modem complying with the 3GPP standard was released
The name of Xiaolong X50 is probably a household name. After all, the world's first batch of '5G mobile phones' will carry this chipset. People are full of expectation. As for Qualcomm, it's no secret that the Xiaolong X50 will Using Samsung's 7nm process technology to mass production, is the best solution for the first year of 5G smart phones.
This chip was actually released in Qualcomm's 4G/5G summit in 2016. Therefore, PPT and Qualcomm are also one year earlier than their competitors. More importantly, in 2017 At Qualcomm's 4G/5G summit, Qualcomm completed the world's first 5G data connectivity test with the Xiaolong X50. Therefore, the Xiaolong X50 is not a 'cloud' chip. In addition, it can not only support the high-frequency millimeter-wave spectrum. , And can support the frequency band below 6GHz - to put it bluntly, Xiaolong X50 is the world's first commercial modem products to support the 5G full-band under international standards, and it only has one sub-coin size.
In addition, the Snapdragon X50 integrates multi-mode capabilities that support 2G/3G/4G/5G. That is, it also supports Gigabit LTE while providing a 5G experience. It not only achieves a perfect transition from 4G to 5G, but also The basic idea of 'keeping connected' in the era of the Internet of Everything is implemented: Regardless of network, your equipment, your people, are always with the world.
2017.2: Gigabit LTE connectivity really achieved
With the support of powerful modems, the real realization of Gigabit LTE network connectivity is no longer a dream. At the beginning of last year, Qualcomm, in partnership with Telstra, NETGEAR and Ericsson, launched the world’s first commercial Gigabit LTE network in Sydney, Australia. Australia will naturally become the country with the world's fastest 4G connection.
Of course, without guessing, we can know that this milestone commercial LTE network is backed by Qualcomm's "thigh": NETGEAR's new mobile router, the Nighthawk M1, is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 Modem, which will use three carrier aggregations to grant Australia three licenses. The data streams of the frequency band are aggregated together, and the specification of each data stream is increased from 64-QAM to 256-QAM. Ultimately, the 4×4 MIMO deluxe antenna design explodes the data throughput, achieving a downlink rate of up to 979 Mbps. In the 4G era, this is the fastest network connection you can see.
2017.2: The second-generation Gigabit LTE Modem is available
As rival Intel, Huawei and other vendors actively followed up on the development of Gigabit LTE connectivity products, Qualcomm began to open up the world’s first commercial Gigabit LTE connection, and came up with another big killer. X20 LTE Modem. Compared with the first generation of Gigabit X16, the specifications of the new products have greatly improved: Downstream five-carrier aggregation (the former generation is four-carrier aggregation), 3CA 4*4 MIMO (previous generation is 2CA) and dual Card dual Vo-LTE high-definition call, the downlink peak rate increased to 1.2Gbps.
Right now, Samsung Galaxy S9, vivo APEX and other mobile phones have taken the high-pass Xiaolong 845 flagship mobile platform to the stage of MWC 2018 exhibition, and millet MIX 2s, HTC U12 and other mobile phones are also poised to be released later. Xiaolong X16 is released here. The second-generation Gigabit LTE Modem products a year ago have finally entered the homes of ordinary people.
2017.7: Advance booking of the largest air outlet in the era of the Internet of Things
Gigabit LTE connection is the cornerstone of achieving 5G and the Internet of Everything. In the face of business opportunities after 5G commercialization, Qualcomm is also unscrupulous.
In previous years, streaming media was dominated by audio and low-quality video. Under high-bandwidth, high-speed, low-latency 5G new air interface connections, a high-quality 4K video can be 'seconds', and people are naturally not content with this. In the era of mobile Internet, VR has been unable to achieve an outbreak because of the extremely limited network connection quality. With 5G, users can watch VR content anywhere, anytime, and even live at a delay of 4K VR, gaining more immersion. Entertainment enjoyment.
Faced with the trend of 'a VR integrator' becoming a reality, Qualcomm officially announced its cooperation with HTC, the leading VR industry leader, at the ChinaJoy exhibition in July last year. Qualcomm provides mobile hardware solutions and is preparing to expand. The HTC in the mobile VR market provides ready-made VR content and development platforms. This time the two giants were able to seamlessly complement each other and make a fortune in minutes.
After the announcement of the cooperation, HTC officially released the first mobile-class VR integrated Vive Focus at the subsequent Vive Developer Summit. It was equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile platform; Summit site, VR content developers and terminal vendors They also expressed their closeness to the industry alliance of Qualcomm and HTC. This unity can provide users with a one-stop solution to avoid 'A content can only go to the A platform, B content can only go to the B platform to see' dilemma, the future is very Can be expected.
2017.10: Everything in the world is finally connected
The world’s first Gigabit LTE network was opened in Australia, but the world’s first connection to the new 5G air interface was completed in Beijing, China. Manufacturers collaborated with Qualcomm are also familiar to the Chinese—China Mobile and ZTE.
The network connection opened in October last year was epic: precisely, it was 'the first global 5G new air interface end-to-end system interoperability based on the 3GPP R15 standard'. Qualcomm (chip vendor), ZTE (base station vendor) After 9 months of joint efforts, China Mobile (operator) realized the successful connection of the 5G new air interface network to the 3.5GHz band. This is not only an important step in the history of 5G development, but also the progress of the entire human communication technology. A heavy ink.
2018.2: The first batch of terminal equipment is coming soon
Before the start of the MWC 2018 exhibition, the industry came news: Qualcomm 'conspired' with more than 20 downstream OEMs and made an advance booking for the 'explosive news' of MWC 2019. As the 'year of outpost' for 5G, this year's MWC was considered As the top priority, the old rival Huawei demonstrated the Balong 5G 01 chip, and Intel used the small-scale 5G connection at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to show how the top sports events will be opened in the future. Although Qualcomm appears to be low-key in comparison, But they are actually trying to toss terminal equipment with their partners. Perhaps for users, this is the most reliable one.
According to this point of view, terminal equipment equipped with Xiaolong X50 5G Modem is likely to be officially unveiled at next year's MWC exhibition. 'Not only PPT is earlier than you, commercial products are also listed earlier than you', and Qualcomm’s advance layout cannot be described. Not Powerful.
Qualcomm is the leader in 5G technology. In recent years, almost crazy operation has made 5G advance commercial use a reality. All things connected and VR live broadcasting may be much faster than we thought, whether it be the development of basic communication technologies or everything Qualcomm is playing an extremely important role in the layout of interconnected industries. Those 'futures' that can only be dreamed in science fiction movies in the early years are now close at hand.
5G communications technology will be commercially available next year. In other words, next year's MWC exhibition, we are likely to see some terminal equipment supporting 5G connectivity. In fact, the original 5G commercial time is likely to be far behind - but As the giants headed by Qualcomm continue to attack the 5G technology, it can be said that this is the time to “grab”.
Today, we will review Qualcomm’s “5G memorabilia” together and take a look at how this 5G technology has played the most high-profile performance. How did we lead the industry to bring 5G and the Internet of Things to the world in advance?
2016.2: Gigabit Snapdragon X16 Modem unveiled
Qualcomm announced in the beginning of 2016 that the world's first Gigabit LTE Modem, the Snapdragon X16, officially opened the door to LTE Advanced-Pro (4.5G). The Snapdragon X16 supporting up to 1Gbps downlink rate has come even two years later See, it is also one of the top 4G terminal communication solutions; and the first in the Snapdragon 835 it also allows a series of terminal equipment to preemptively support the Gigabit LTE communication technology.
As we all know, the 5G new air interface network and 4G LTE and WLAN are complementary. In the era of IoE, not only high-rate and low-latency 5G communications are required, but also 4G connections are required on some devices that require continuous and stable low-power online; therefore, The appearance of X16 continued to consolidate Qualcomm’s position as the leading leader in 4G communications technology, and actually paved the way for the arrival of 5G.
2016.10: The world's first commercial terminal 5G Modem complying with the 3GPP standard was released
The name of Xiaolong X50 is probably a household name. After all, the world's first batch of '5G mobile phones' will carry this chipset. People are full of expectation. As for Qualcomm, it's time to express that the Xiaolong X50 will be Using Samsung's 7nm process technology to mass production, is the best solution for the first year of 5G smart phones.
This chip was actually released in Qualcomm's 4G/5G summit in 2016. Therefore, PPT and Qualcomm are also one year earlier than their competitors. More importantly, in 2017 At Qualcomm's 4G/5G summit, Qualcomm completed the world's first 5G data connectivity test with the Xiaolong X50. Therefore, the Xiaolong X50 is not a 'cloud' chip. In addition, it can not only support the high-frequency millimeter-wave spectrum. , And can support the frequency band below 6GHz - to put it bluntly, Xiaolong X50 is the world's first commercial modem products to support the 5G full-band under international standards, and it only has one sub-coin size.
In addition, the Snapdragon X50 integrates multi-mode capabilities that support 2G/3G/4G/5G. That is, it also supports Gigabit LTE while providing a 5G experience. It not only achieves a perfect transition from 4G to 5G, but also The basic idea of 'keeping connected' in the era of the Internet of Everything is implemented: Regardless of network, your equipment, your people, are always with the world.
2017.2: Gigabit LTE connectivity really achieved
With the support of powerful modems, the real realization of Gigabit LTE network connectivity is no longer a dream. At the beginning of last year, Qualcomm, in partnership with Telstra, NETGEAR and Ericsson, launched the world’s first commercial Gigabit LTE network in Sydney, Australia. Australia will naturally become the country with the world's fastest 4G connection.
Of course, without guessing, we can know that this milestone commercial LTE network is backed by Qualcomm's "thigh": NETGEAR's new mobile router, the Nighthawk M1, is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 Modem, which will use three carrier aggregations to grant Australia three licenses. The data streams of the frequency band are aggregated together, and the specification of each data stream is increased from 64-QAM to 256-QAM. Ultimately, the 4×4 MIMO deluxe antenna design explodes the data throughput, achieving a downlink rate of up to 979 Mbps. In the 4G era, this is the fastest network connection you can see.
2017.2: The second-generation Gigabit LTE Modem is available
As rival Intel, Huawei and other vendors actively followed up on the development of Gigabit LTE connectivity products, Qualcomm began to open up the world's first commercial Gigabit LTE connection, and came up with another big killer. X20 LTE Modem. Compared with the first generation of Gigabit X16, the specifications of the new products have greatly improved: Downstream five-carrier aggregation (the former generation is four-carrier aggregation), 3CA 4*4 MIMO (previous generation is 2CA) and dual Card dual Vo-LTE high-definition call, the downlink peak rate increased to 1.2Gbps.
Right now, Samsung Galaxy S9, vivo APEX and other mobile phones have taken the high-pass Xiaolong 845 flagship mobile platform to the stage of MWC 2018 exhibition, and millet MIX 2s, HTC U12 and other mobile phones are also poised to be released later. Xiaolong X16 is released here. The second-generation Gigabit LTE Modem products a year ago have finally entered the homes of ordinary people.
2017.7: Advance booking of the largest air outlet in the era of the Internet of Things
Gigabit LTE connection is the cornerstone of achieving 5G and the Internet of Everything. In the face of business opportunities after 5G commercialization, Qualcomm is also unscrupulous.
In previous years, streaming media was dominated by audio and low-quality video. Under high-bandwidth, high-speed, low-latency 5G new air interface connections, a high-quality 4K video can be 'seconds', and people are naturally not content with this. In the era of mobile Internet, VR has been unable to achieve an outbreak because of the extremely limited network connection quality. With 5G, users can watch VR content anywhere, anytime, and even live at a delay of 4K VR, gaining more immersion. Entertainment enjoyment.
Faced with the trend of becoming a reality, Qualcomm officially announced cooperation with HT, the industry leader in VR, at the ChinaJoy exhibition in July last year. Qualcomm provides mobile hardware solutions and is preparing to expand. The HTC in the mobile VR market provides ready-made VR content and development platforms. This time the two giants were able to seamlessly complement each other and make a fortune in minutes.
After the announcement of this cooperation, HTC officially released the first mobile-class VR-one Vive Focus at the subsequent Vive Developer Summit. It was equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile platform; Summit site, VR content developers and terminal manufacturers They also expressed their closeness to the industry alliance of Qualcomm and HTC. This unity can provide users with a one-stop solution to avoid 'A content can only go to the A platform, B content can only go to the B platform to see' dilemma, the future is very Can be expected.
2017.10: Everything in the world is finally connected
The world’s first Gigabit LTE network was opened in Australia, but the first global connection to the new 5G air interface was completed in Beijing, China. Manufacturers collaborated with Qualcomm are also familiar to the Chinese—China Mobile and ZTE.
The network connection opened in October last year was epic: precisely, it was 'the first global 5G new air interface end-to-end system interoperability based on the 3GPP R15 standard'. Qualcomm (Chip Vendor), ZTE (Base Station Vendor) , China Mobile (operator) after 9 months of joint efforts to achieve a successful connection of the 5G new air interface network in the 3.5GHz band, this is not only an important step in the history of 5G development, but also the progress of the entire human communication technology progress A heavy ink.
2018.2: The first batch of terminal equipment is coming soon
Before the start of the MWC 2018 exhibition, the industry came news: Qualcomm 'conspired' with more than 20 downstream OEMs and made an advance booking for the 'explosive news' of MWC 2019. As the 'year of outpost' for 5G, this year's MWC was considered As the top priority, the old rival Huawei demonstrated the Balong 5G 01 chip, and Intel used the small-scale 5G connection at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to show how the top sports events will be opened in the future. Although Qualcomm appears to be low-key in comparison, But they are actually trying to toss terminal equipment with their partners. Perhaps for users, this is the most reliable one.
According to this point of view, terminal equipment equipped with Xiaolong X50 5G Modem is likely to be officially unveiled at next year's MWC exhibition. 'Not only PPT is earlier than you, commercial products are also listed earlier than you', and Qualcomm's advance layout cannot be described. Not Powerful.
Qualcomm is the leader in 5G technology. In recent years, almost crazy operation has made 5G advance commercial use a reality. All things connected and VR live broadcasting may be much faster than we thought, whether it be the development of basic communication technologies or everything Qualcomm is playing an extremely important role in the layout of interconnected industries. Those 'futures' that can only be dreamed in science fiction movies in the early years are now close at hand.
