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"Just" chips? The amount of research and development that goes into designing and fabricating chips used for wireless radio technologies is not so easily writte
by vageli 7y ago
"Just" chips? The amount of research and development that goes into designing and fabricating chips used for wireless radio technologies is not so easily written off with a "just".
- beaner 7y agoI was hoping I could get away with an honest simple question without having to qualify all the assumptions and naïvities in it.
- vageli 7y agoI mean, aren't chips just electrons, protons and neutrons? :) More seriously, the 5g spec is a complicated and long document. Implementing 5g functionality in silicon is not a weekend project and implementations tend to be protected by NDAs and kept as trade secrets, etc. Ultimately the rationale is that development of these technologies is a complex, non-open-source, and costly endeavor. The nuances of _why_ this is the status quo are more human than technical in nature.