5G mobile phone listing opened 5G commercial competition, which certainly less than 5G processors. From a global, the 5G mobile phone baseband processor has been released, but only Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 and Huawei Ba Long 5000 will be listed on 5G mobile phone.
Therefore, many people should also care about Qualcomm and Huawei 5G baseband processor, which has been listed. Which one is better?
The first 5G mobile phone Mate 20 x (5g) found that Huawei used a larger component, and the dismantling of IHS Markit, which made the project difference between 5G chip competitors more clear.
In a report released today, IHS Markit Research Company said that after dismantling 6 first batch of 5G smartphones that push the market, it has some interesting discovery: chip size, system design and memory, Huawei adopts a relatively inefficient solution, leading to larger equipment, higher cost, and energy efficiency is also lower than the original level.
Which is better than the commercial 5G mobile phone chip?
Huawei's first 5G mobile phone uses independently developed Kirin 980 SOC and Balong 5000 5G baseband, Balong 5000 is the world's first commercial multimode 5G / 4G / 3G / 2G chip.
In theory, this baseband should make MATE 20X more advantages over the early Obstera-based equipment-based equipment, but as IHS said, Kirin 980 has integrated 4G / 3G / 2G baseband, this is in the interior of the mobile phone "is not Use without having to ", and increase cost, battery consumption, more circuits.
Save space from the small SOC is not negligible, and if the relevant component is low efficiency, SOC will become more complicated.
IHS Markit report, Huawei 5G baseband chip Baron 5000 size than Qualcomm's first generation 5G baseband chip Xiaoxue X50 is 50%, the report also said that the baseband with 3GB memory support is "surprising big", and Baron 5000 does not support millimeter wave 5G network.
In contrast, IHS chief analyst Wayne Lam tells Venturebeat, Samsung's Exynos 5100 baseband chip size is almost identical to the Snapdragon X50. The report describes Huawei's design selection as "far-not ideal" and points out that they "highlight" the early 5G technology.
Despite these problems, IHS reports also pointed out that Huawei relies on a 5G / 4G / 3G / 2G baseband rather than a separate 5G baseband plus 4G / 3G / 2G baseband, which is the direction of future development, because it enables baseband and Fusion of related components such as radio, including RF front ends and radio antennas, and the like.
Mate 20 x (5G) has a stand-alone 4G and 5G radio tuner, but with time, these components will be integrated to achieve better energy efficiency.
Qualcomm is expected to be intentionally supports millimeter wave 5G operators and the only choice of original equipment manufacturers, because the company has provided a complete design from the base to antenna, and its competitors are more focused on non-millimeter wave components.
IHS is expected to directly integrate 5G / 4G / 3G / 2G multi-mode baseband directly to the SOC processor will be commercially available in 2020, which will not need a separate baseband to reduce relevant component costs by reducing individual baseband RAM and power management chips. .
Liaotai has announced a launch of 5G SOC. However, competitors may launch a more integrated RF front end, support millimeters and 6GHz below 5G, which helps to achieve "better, cheaper, faster" for 5G smartphones.
Whose 5G chip is more powerful?
In October 2016, Qualcomm released the industry's first 5G baseband Snapdragon X50, achieving a peak download speed of up to 5 gigabits per second, supporting the 28GHz band millimeter wave (MMWave) spectrum, and supports adaptive beamforming and beam tracking Technical Multi-input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna technology.
In February 2018, Huawei released its first 5G chip - Ba Long 5G01 (Baron 5g01). Baron 5G01 supports the world's mainstream 5G band, including Sub6GHz (low frequency), MMWave (high frequency), theoretically up to 2.3Gbps data download rate, and supports 5G independent (SA) and non-stand-alone (NSA) networks.
In June 2018, UNICE was unveiled in the first 5G baseband chip Helio M70. This baseband chip is designed in accordance with 3GPP REL-15 5G new airport, support SA and NSA network architecture, support SUB-6GHz band, high power terminal (HPUE) And other 5G key technologies.
In August 2018, Samsung also introduced 5G baseband Exynos 5100 for 5G NR RELEASE-15, Samsung emphasized its single-chip implementation "Multimode Mode". Samsung said that Exynos 5100 can achieve the highest 2Gbps download speed in the low frequency band below 5G communication environment, 1.7 times faster than 4G products; 5 times speed download speed is also supported in high-frequency sections (mmwave, millimeter wave) environments. Up to 6 Gbps.
In November 2018, Intel released XMM 8160 5G baseband. Intel said that it accelerated the progress of the baseband and held the release date for more than half a year.
At the end of January 2019, Huawei released the world's fastest 5G multi-mode terminal chip Bolong 5000. Huawei said that Baron 5000 baseband is the world's first single-mold multimode 5G baseband, which adopts the most advanced 7nm process, not only support 5G SA independent and NSA fee independent network, but also supports 4G, 3G, 2G network, which is the strongest 5G baseband. It is given a contrast diagram of the Snapdragon X55.
In February 2019, on the eve of MWC2019, Qualcomm announced the release of the second generation of 5G baseband Snapdragon X55. Qualcomm said that the Snapdragon X55 can achieve up to 7Gbps download speed and upload speed of up to 3Gbps; at the same time support Category 22 LTE to bring up to 2.5 Gbps download speed. In addition, the Snapdragon X55 supports all major frequency bands around the world, including millimeter wave bands, and 6 GHz (6 GHz; support TDD and FDD operation mode; SA and NSA network deployment.
On the MWC at the end of February 2019, Qualcomm President Christieno Amon announced that "in the first batch of flagship 5G terminals, we broke our breakthrough 5G multi-mode baseband and application processing technology to single SOC, is 5G An important step towards more widely popular in different regions and product hierarchies. "
However, more information on 5G SOC is not disclosed. However, Qualcomm said that the integrated Snapdragon 5G mobile platform will be launched in the first half of 2020.
Also on MWC 2019, the purple light exhibited 5G communication technology platform Makaru and its first 5G baseband chip - Chunya 510. It is reported that Chunvil 510 meets the latest 3GPP R15 standard specification, supports SUB-6GHz band and 100MHz bandwidth, using TSM 12NM process technology, supports multiple 5G key technologies, enables a variety of communication mode, support SA and NSA networking methods.
In April 2019, people have some accidents. Intel suddenly announced that they will withdraw from 5G (fifth-generation mobile communication technology) smartphone baseband business, and means that they will focus on 5G network infrastructure and other data-centered development opportunities.
In June 2019, UNADD announced the launch of 5G SOC during Computex 2019, which not only uses the most advanced 7nm process, based on the latest ARM Cortex A77 and Mali-G77 GPU, also equipped with the UNAVIC 5G baseband and independent AI processing unit APU. Lianfa said that the first 5G terminal equipped with the mobile platform was the fastest asked in the first quarter of 2020.
What 5G mobile phones can choose?
The competition of the 5G chip is more and more fierce, this competition is significant for consumers to use cheaper, faster, and better 5G mobile phones. At present, there are 5G mobile phones around the world, and more 5G mobile phones will be ushered in 2020. It can be seen that the 5G mobile phones that have been listed include Huawei Mate 20 x (5g), Zhongxing Tesco Axon 10 Pro 5G, Samsung Galaxy 10 Note 5G / Galaxy 10 5g, millet Mix3 5G, OPPO RENO 5G, LG V50 Thinq, Moto Z3, etc. .
In addition, there is a large number of mobile phones that are about to be listed, including Huawei, VIVO, OPPO, and a plus brand.
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