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Qualcomm’s new QTM052 mmWave antenna module wins the 5G race
- thecybernerd 8y agoI just hope the first generation 5G devices are more power efficient than the first gen LTE devices. That four hour battery life on my HTC Thunderbolt was unbearable.
- mehrdadn 8y ago> Qualcomm says they will have 5G phones on the market in early 2019. Wow. Is the first 4G LTE phone coming in 2011 to the first 5G phone coming in 2019 what they envisioned as "long-term" evolution? I would've thought long-term would've meant like 15+ years.
- SkyPuncher 8y agoIt's all related to marketing. Someone got smart and learned that consumers don't like iterations of major wireless stuff. My understanding is "5G" is really what "4G LTE" was originally planned as.
- mehrdadn 8y agoDang, well I guess they got me with LTE, it does sound awesome. Not sure if I'll fall for it again though... 3G was actually slow, but with 4G I feel like network speeds are too fast for the servers to handle these days.
- Jedi72 8y agoMy conspiracy theory brain says this is mostly to do with network planning - Telcos make a lot more money from wireless.
- ksec 8y ago>My understanding is "5G" is really what "4G LTE" was originally planned as. It is not. 5G, NR mmWave are entirely new and has nothing to do with the original 4G vision, which was the 1Gbps Speed. Those are already supported with the latest LTE standard 3GPP Rel 14. Qualcomm and Intel both have modem support 2Gbps / 1.6 Gbps Speed.
- senatorobama 8y agoHow is it 'winning' if there was no competition? There is Qualcomm, and a bunch of startups.
- Moral_ 8y agoIntel isn't a start up my dude.
- gonesilent 8y agoIntel's 10nm is working, for just not for full blown cpu's yet.
- madengr 8y agoArticle is BS. There’s a 1X4 array in that Qualcomm chip, but what the article doesn’t tell you is you’ll need multiple placed around your phone. I’ll guarantee that Intel demo is using much larger arrays in the fold out panels, which are needed to get appreciable gain. The MIMO diversity is only usefull with strong signals in multipath. To collect weak signal, you still need physical aperture. This is more impressive from a circuitry integration standpoint. http://www.ti.com/product/AWR1642 http://www.ti.com/product/AWR1642
- heisenbit 8y agoThe article discusses at length the requirements for multiple antenna modules, the physics constraints driving this and the ability of the X50 to handle those.
- vxNsr 8y agoThis is a fascinating blog, a whole bunch of insider cpu stuff, with the guys personal vendetta on top of it all. I wish I had the inclination to read it all.
- freyir 8y agoWhy does he have an axe to grind with Intel?