This year's MWC was extremely hot and 5G became the biggest hot spot. After the R15 standard was frozen in December of last year, it ignited the enthusiasm of 5G. On February 25th, Huawei released the world's first 3G standard 5G commercial terminal - Huawei 5G CPE. , It has caused great concern in the industry. At Hall 1, this terminal also gathered a large crowd and became one of the most dazzling stars of the MWC.
Why is this happening? This is because 5G is the same as any generation communication technology. There are two key factors that determine whether it can be used commercially. One is the network and the other is the terminal. The terminal is more important. If there is no feasible terminal, 5G technology will only Can be in the air castle, Huawei 5G CPE debut, means that 5G has finally come from the industry hot spots, really enter the key stage of commercial.
Behind the world’s number one, it’s incredibly hard.
Behind the world's first 5G commercial terminal Huawei CPE is a hidden world expert called Barron 5G01 chip. This is the world's first 3G commercial 5G chip. It supports the global mainstream 5G frequency band, including Sub6GHz (low frequency) and mmWave (high frequency) can theoretically achieve a data download rate of up to 2.3 Gbps, supporting NSA (Non Standalone, 5G non-independent networking, ie, 5G network architecture on LTE) and SA (Standalone, 5G independent networking) Networking, can be called a 5G all-around player.
In other words, Huawei's launch of the world's first 5G terminal uses its own core! This means that Huawei has surpassed foreign giants in 5G terminal chips and is at the forefront of the industry.
The realization of this step is not easy, it is full of incomparable hardships.
Huawei Fellow Ai Wei disclosed that in 2015 it began to develop Barron 5G01 chip. At that time, there was no standard for 5G technology. Everything had to be explored. In December last year, the first R15 standard of 5G was frozen, and after 2 months, Barron 5G01 chip was launched. The speed is the highest in the industry. Behind this is an extremely complicated task. It needs to be adjusted according to the standard, and optimized...
In fact, simply launching the chip is the first step. It is crucial to make the chip and its terminal equipment carrying the chip small. It is understood that some chip manufacturers have also introduced 5G chips, but the 5G terminals made are as large as the refrigerator. It can only be displayed. It can't be used at all. It's like time goes by. Can't let people use 5G to move the terminal to the car?
Therefore, the physical size of the terminal is an important factor reflecting the strength of a chip manufacturer. Huawei's 5G low-frequency CPE weighs 3kg and weighs only 2L. This means that Huawei has reached the world's leading level on the 5G chip. However, it is more The big significance is also that 5G mobile phones are not far away from consumers.
5G commercial inflection point appears
It is understood that Barron 5G01 chips will be commercially shipped in the third quarter of this year, which is also the industry's earliest standard 5G terminal products shipped. The introduction of Barron 5G01 chips is a major event in the 5G field, marking the commercial use of 5G. The turning point has arrived.
The maturity of the Baron 5G01 chip also means that the commercial use of 5G mobile phones has entered an acceleration phase. Everyone is familiar with the Kirin 970 chip inside Huawei's Mate10 series phones. In fact, Barron and Kirin have close links. Kirin is a mobile phone SoC. BP (baseband processor) and AP (application processor) components, Barron is the BP part of Unicorn. Barron 5G01 chip matures, equivalent to the key part of the Kirin chip has matured, Kirin 5G mobile phone chip will also be launched accelerate.
It should be pointed out that Huawei's first introduction of 5G commercial chips is of great significance to the industry and the consumer. At the industry level, this verifies the feasibility of 5G technology and enhances the industry's confidence in 5G. The deployment process of operators; At the consumer level, the extremely high speed brought by the actual 5G terminals allows them to see the value of 5G, and lays the foundation for operators to successfully launch 5G services in the future.
5G is not just a simple iteration like 4G vs. 3G. It is not just that the speed is increased by an order of magnitude, but because of its low latency and wide coverage, it brings a new era of more disruptive Internet of Everything. The industry application is the most revolutionary embodiment of 5G. 3G and 4G are only people-to-person communication, and 5G will bring everything connected, giving birth to autopilot, smart factories, drones and many other scenarios and applications.
On the MWC2018, Huawei's Barron is not only the world's first 5G commercial CPE terminal behind the hero, but also demonstrated the feasibility and great value in the 5G industry applications. Barron 765 launched in the same period, is the world's first 8 antenna 4.5 G LTE modulation and demodulation chip, also the world's first, is the only modem chip in the industry that supports 8×8 MIMO (8-antenna multiple-input-multiple-out) technology. Although Baron 765 is only a 4G communication chip, its 8-antenna technology is 5G. One of the core technologies is that it can provide higher communication coverage and achieve a 9-10dB improvement over traditional mobile phones. This improvement will be of great value for vertical applications such as car networking, drones and smart factories.
As we all know, 5G will be pre-commercially used in 2019 and will be commercially available in 2020. The introduction of Barron 765 has special significance for operators and vertical industries. It means that in the two years before 5G commercialization, operators can put 5G core Technology is deployed on the 4G network, so as to develop the vertical industry market in advance, and the industry will also benefit from it.
Huawei behind the smart world that builds the Internet of Everything
At the end of last year, Huawei had an important move. It was to change its vision and change from 'Building a Better Connected World' to 'Putting the digital world into everyone, every family, every organization, building everything. Connected smart world. '
On MWC2018, Huawei Consumer Business CEO Yu Chengdong also disclosed that it will launch 5G industrial modules linking home and people CPE, Mobile WiFi and smart phones, linking the 5G car box of the car, which shows that Huawei is committed to building a The era of full connectivity.
In such an era, what is the most important? I think the ability to communicate, the quality of mobile phone calls, the speed of the Internet, the strength of the signal, and so on, are all examples of communication capabilities. The reason why Huawei dares to have Emboldened to put forward a new vision, not only lies in the operator's business, consumer business, enterprise business, cloud business such a business layout, but also lies in the communication capabilities of the chip level standing on the forefront of the industry.
Baron not only achieved the lead in 5G. If he is a retrospective, Barron was born in 2007. In the past ten years, he has continuously made breakthroughs in communication capabilities step by step. He has become the leader in communication performance. From the first to support The Barron 700 of LTE TDD/FDD, to the industry's first to support LTE Cat.4, Cat.6, Cat.12/13, Cat18 Baron 710, 720, 750, 760, Barron let Huawei 4G era completely hit the communication The ability to stand up.
All in all, the birth of the world's first 5G terminal Huawei CPE has also made this 'always on line, showy' barbarian chip come out. It is with the Barron chip to give 5G advantages and The value was first verified, accelerating the 5G commercial process. At the same time, it was the breakthrough and lead in the communication capability of Barron chips that enabled Huawei to have a unique leading edge in the core communications capabilities of mobile phones. The foundation also builds an interconnected intelligent world.