As 2018 has passed half, the development of the entire mobile communications industry is also getting closer to 5G. Whether it is a relevant policy development department, or carrier, equipment and terminal manufacturers, all preparations for 5G commercial landing. Among them, there is still little high, especially in the 5G equipment solution for terminal vendors, Qualcomm has already made a lot of layout.
Today, Qualcomm is more close to the road to 5G commercial roads.
Two hands preparation for 5G commercial
On July 23, Qualcomm announced the launch of the world's first intelligent mobile phone and other mobile terminals (5G NR) millimeters (5G NR) millimeters (5G NR) millimeters (5G NR) millimeters 6GHz or less RF modules. Among them, the qtm052 mm wave antenna module series is launched for millimeters; the high-pass launch is the RF module series of QPM56XX 6GHz below 6GHz.
It seems that Qualcomm has been prepared for two 5G hottects below millimeter wave and 6GHz.
Relatively speaking, millimeter waves are more difficult in actual use. The millimeter wave used is a high frequency electromagnetic wave of more than 24GHz. Its transmission band is large, and the high pass is in the MWC display, it has reached a network transmission rate of 4.63 Gbps by using millimeter wave technology. This is a 4G era. Unimaginable fast.
However, by basic physics law, it is possible to know that the higher the frequency of electromagnetic waves, the worse the performance of the propagation loss on the transmission distance; the signal transmission problem facing millimeter wave is also unprecedented. In the booth of the MWC Qualcomm, we only need to use handwritten in the signal transmitter and model mobile phones, it will make the transmission speed and even directly disconnect - in view of this, many people in the mobile industry think that millimeters Applications in mobile terminals and networks are unrealistic and are not implemented.
In order to solve this problem, QTM052 mm wave antenna module launched by Qualcomm can work with the Snapdragon X50 5G modem and form a complete system to deal with the huge challenges of millimeter waves. As a complete system, it supports advanced beamforming, beam directed and beam tracking techniques to significantly improve the coverage and reliability of millimeter wave signals. The system includes integrated 5G new air-port radio transceivers, power management ICs, RF front-end components, and phased antenna arrays, and can be 26.5-29.35 (N257) and complete 27.5-28.35GHz (N261) and 37-40GHz ( N260) The millimeter wave band supports up to 800 MHz bandwidth.
Most importantly, the QTM052 module integrates all of these functions in a compact package, and its packaging area can support up to 4 QTM052 modules in a smartphone. This will allow smartphone manufacturers to continue to optimize their mobile terminal industrial design, which develops mobile devices with millimeter wave 5G new vacancies, and is expected to launch markets in the first half of 2019.
In relatively broad applications, the 6GHz is more than 6GHz (for example, my country's fifth-generation mobile communication system will use 3300-3600MHz and 4800-5000MHz band), Qualcomm introduced QPM56XX module series contains several products, including QPM5650, QPM5651, QDM5650 and QDM5652, etc .; can help with smartphones with Snapdragon X50 5G modems support 5G new vacation in 6GHz.
According to Qualcomm, QPM5650 and QPM5651 include integrated 5G new vacant power amplifier (PA) / low noise amplifier (LNA) / switch, and filter subsystem. QDM5650 and QDM5652 include integrated 5G new empty low noise amplifiers / switches, and filtering subsystems to support diversity and MIMO technology. The above four modules support the integrated channel probe reference signal (SRS) switching to provide optimal large-scale MIMO applications, and support 3.3-4.2 GHz (N77), 3.3-3.8GHz (N78) and 4.4-5.0GHz. N79) 6GHz. Simply, these 6GHz The following RF modules can help smartphone manufacturers support 5G new vaccine large-scale MIMO technology in their own products.
It can be seen, whether it is Qualcomm QTM052 mm wave antenna module series, or Qualcomm QPM56XX 6GHz or less RF module series, which can cooperate with Qualcomm that has previously launched the Snapdragon X50 5G modem, together with the modem to the antenna (MODEM- To-antenna) and multiple functions across the band, and support packaging on your smartphone on the size.
Overall, through the new product released, Qualcomm has completed a solution from 5G modem to RF and across the band and 6GHz, which is ready for mobile 5G network and terminal - especially smartphones ready Support for large-scale commercial support.
Qualcomm in 5G layout
For Qualcomm, there is no doubt that 5G will be there; therefore, the layout of Qualcomm in 5G is abnormal.
In fact, in October 2016, Qualcomm has released the Snapdragon X50. It is also the world's first 5G modem; in October 2017, Qualcomm announced that the Snapdragon X50 completed the world's first 28GHz millimeters. 5G Gigabit data connection, also demonstrated the 5G mobile phone reference design based on the Snapdragon X50 - Qualcomm has a foundation for it in 2018 with various manufacturers to reach partnerships in 2018.
In 2018, Qualcomm accelerated its pace in 5G business cooperation.
At the beginning of the CES 2018 show, Qualcomm announced that OEM vendors, including Google, HTC, LG, Samsung and Sony Mobile, will adopt its RFE front end (RFFE). At the Qualcomm China Technology and Cooperative Summit on January 25, 2018, Xiaomi President Lin Bin, OPPO CEO Chen Mingyong, Vivo CEO Shen Wei, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing, SME International Chairman Zhouzi and other science and technology industries can appear In the same venue, Qualcomm, high-pass companies, including CEO Steve Mollenkopf and President Cristiano Amon, also attended this meeting - at the conference site, Qualcomm announced millet, oppo, vivo, etc. China OEM manufacturers. It will use its RF front end (RFFE) in your smartphone.
The radio front end is an important part of the smartphone. It has an impact on mobile phone signals, appearance screens, industrial design, LTE network, and life; but the most important thing is that RF front ends and future is about 5G has an important association, for 2019 The evolution of 5G technology is crucial.
It can be seen that Qualcomm spare no effort to promote the Cooperation of RF front-end, is a transition and preparation for the upcoming 5G - from 4G to 5G, Qualcomm hopes to firmly grasp the integrated solution of RF front end + modem. Essentially, this launched QTM052 mm wave antenna module series and QPM56XX 6GHz The following RF module series is to be born with the Snapdragon X50 in the 5G era.
In addition to the radio frequency baseband, there are many trends in 5G in 5G.
On February 7, 2018, Qualcomm held a 5G day in the United States. In this event, Qualcomm has a muscles. In the 5G Day activity, Qualcomm announced that many OEM vendors from the world have determined that the Snapdragon X50 5G NR modem will be selected in mobile devices issued in 2019; these manufacturers include ASUS, Fujitsu, HMD, HTC, LG, OPPO , Sharp, Vivo, ZTE, SONY, millet, etc.
However, the 5G module solution released on MWC 2018, which is far-reaching in high-pass itself and the industry's industry's industry in high-pass itself and the industry of intelligent terminals (especially smartphones). The purpose of the entire solution is to let smartphone manufacturers quickly deploy 5G in 2019, simply, it has the following characteristics:
It contains several module products, integrated more than 1,000 components, reduces the complexity of terminal design, which reduces the threshold of 5G. Vendors can only be designed by combining several simple modules.
It integrates components covering numbers, radio, connection, and front-end functions, where key components include application processors, baseband modems, memory, pMIC, RF front end (RFFE), antenna, and passive components.
This module solution can also be reduced by 30% of the board area due to the ultra-high integration.
Qualcomm actually wants to express a sentence: The whole program is very simple and saved, and the mobile phone manufacturers who want to go on the 5G road to buy buy buy. However, Qualcomm also has this strength, the key components mentioned above, the manufacturers who can provide at the same time in the world are almost high.
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Of course, the high-pass 5G module scheme announced in MWC has more long-term, it is more like a commercial landing product form that is expected and envisioned; on the current situation, Qualcomm is this QTM052 mm wave antenna model. Group Series and QPM56XX 6GHz The following RF modules are more like a specific product, not just concepts.
Compared with the 4G era, Qualcomm will face more competitors in the 5G era, and the challenge will be larger; it is also difficult to continue its dominance in the 4G era. However, from the current situation of the entire 5G industry, especially the 5G terminal industry, Qualcomm's technical strength and commercial status still don't be underestimated, and it has highlighted performance in the leading ability of 5G commercial layout.
At the moment, Qualcomm also faces the passive fate of the Chinese government to acquire NXP, Qualcomm has been prepared by passive acceptance in the case of no number of times; but in 5G this is about to start warfare. High Tailor No choice, can only take the initiative.
Original address: https://www.eeboard.com/news/5g-134/
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