European telcos implementing mmWave 5G
TIM Italy with multi Gigabit speeds
After yesterday’s announcement that Qualcomm has four mm wave 5G antenna solution for a phone form factor, we wanted to shift some attention to carriers that might support these wave lengths and fast speeds and it looks like US and Europe will start straight away.
Huawei to launch 5G by June 2019
Definitely won’t be the first
Everyone is rushing to be the leader in 5G and Huawei made an announcement that the company is planning to introduce 5G chips in March 2019 and ship the phone solution a quarter later. The company officially confirmed these plans.
Ericsson needs 5G take-up
Something needs to turn around
Ericsson needs 5G network services to be taken up to turn it around and end its need to restructure and allow it to expand again.
Paul Jacobs launches XCOM
Ex-Chairman still wants Qualcomm
Last week there was a disturbance in the force. Former CEO and recent chairman of Qualcomm, Paul E. Jacobs, decided to start a new company and call it XCOM. There is little surprise that his new company is focusing on the 5G wireless technologies that will propel the next mobile revolution.
Sprint in bed with Qualcomm and Intel
Free data for Snapdragon PC/sell 5G in 2019 for Intel
Sprint just made two big announcements one with Qualcomm about its 4G always connected PC and one with Intel for its 2019 5G PCs.
Huawei 5G phone to arrive in 2H 19
Lagging behind
Huawei plans to make CPE ((customer premises equipment) infrastructure devices in the first half of 2019 but it looks like 5G for phones won’t happen before 2H 2019.
Non 5G Kirin 980 is Cortex A75 in 7nm
5G Focus on AI
Huawei has its Kirin chips for its phones and later this year it plans to launch its first 7nm TSMC based Kirin 980.
Foldable 5G Galaxy X rumored for MWC 19
5G Galaxy S10 in January 2019
Some overly optimistic reports are coming from Samsung’s native Korea claim that the foldable Galaxy X will arrive in late February at the 2019 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Snapdragon X50 is 10nm
Will be finished this year
3GPP has locked the 5G standard and Qualcomm’s first 5G modem, called the X50, will enter production in the latter part of the year. It is a 10nm chip that goes arm in arm with Snapdragon 855.
Apple won’t do 5G in 2019
Not an early adopter
Apple is known for not being an early adopter when it comes to new wireless standards. According to people close to the matter, Apple 2019 iPhone won’t have 5G capability. Intel might even be ready with its 5G PC solution.