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Intel has announced that it will speed up the launch of its 5G modem "by more than a half-year". It will have peak speeds of up to 6 Gbps:
2019 is shaping up to be a big year for 5G, and Intel — one of tech's biggest mobile players — has finally announced its plans for the next-generation network in the form of its new XMM 8160 5G modem. The XMM 8160 modem is set to be released to manufacturers sometime in the second half of 2019, with the first devices using the chip coming in early 2020.
Intel has big ambitions for the XMM 8160 5G. It envisions using it across phones, PCs, and broadband hubs, with peak speeds of up to 6 gigabits per second. The modem will support both the standalone and non-standalone specs for the 5G NR (New Radio) standard, as well as legacy support for 4G, 3G, and 2G networks all in one chipset. Additionally, Intel says that the modem will support both millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum as well as lower-band parts of the spectrum.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X50 5G NR modem will be available to device makers that want to introduce 5G support in 2019.
Also at EE Times and Engadget.
Previously: Apple Could Switch From Qualcomm to Intel and MediaTek for Modems
Intel Announces Development of 5G Modems (Due in 2019)
Related: Intel Integrates LTE Modem Into Custom Multi-Chip Module for New HP Laptop
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @01:01AM (1 child)
I just read snowcrash the other day and these were heavily used by "gargoyles" to scan their surroundings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimeter_wave_scanner [wikipedia.org]
Is it wise to put mm wave measuring and emitting devices in your home?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:38AM
If all you are afraid of is seeing through clothes, is there still a problem if you stay naked while inside the home?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:04AM (1 child)
1) I thought Intel lost badly to Qualcomm, Broadcomm, and pretty much everyone else outside of your cousin Jared in his basement.
2) Has 5G been ratified? If not it's a marketing term. If so, it's a nice head start for Intel.
Background. Several years ago I worked for a company that wanted to deliver video to TVs wirelessly. The whole marketing campaign was you hung your TV on the wall and the only visible cable was power. The tech worked, but it used the same spectrum as 802.11g. So we were in a race to get our shit working and accepted before 802.11g got ratified. As I'm not rich it's clear to see we lost, mostly because of 1 big marketing mistake combined with 1 big engineering mistake.
1) The tech worked. We were in a 2 story steel framed building, we could put the server in the upper right back corner, and the TV in the lower left front corner, and DVDs played perfectly.
2) Remember those commercials 10 years or so ago, where they moved the TV to where the action was? That company bought our IP in bankruptcy court.
3) That company was run by the biggest bunch of snakes I've ever run across. Close to vesting some options? Your fired. Your stuff works? Your fired. They canned my entire group, 7-8 people, a month after our software was done. A year of 80 hour weeks? Missed kid's birthdays and such? So sad, too bad, fuck off.
/ yeah, time to name names. Magis Networks. President/CEO was banging his 20 y/o secretary, promising to marry her. Wasn't gonna happen. VP of engineering was an out of touch douchebag that was 100% surprised when he got canned with the rest of us.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:41AM
Qualcomm is ahead of Intel by several months to the 5G modem. Intel is not a loser because they scored the Apple money. Apple will eventually stick this modem in iPhones. You were probably thinking of Intel's effort to put x86 chips in phones, which has proven to be a definitive failure.
Who cares if 5G is a marketing term? If it's like 3-4 times faster than LTE, then it's an improvement.
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:47AM (1 child)
Now I can burn through my data plan in two minutes! WEEEE!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday November 14 2018, @12:38PM
Interesting. I do the Google Fi family plan thing where I pay $10 per gigabyte so 6 gigabits/sec costs me ... I'm kinda sleepy doing this math, but about three grand per hour?
Of course the google fi has a cap of 10 gigs aka $100. Above the cap speeds collapse to 256K. So I get 80 gigabits which would take thirteen or so seconds and cost about $100 at 6 gigabit/sec then speeds drop to a bit more than dialup for the rest of the month.
Overall I'm not very interested. Also I can't think of a mainstream use requiring more than a couple megs/sec which makes many gigs/sec technically interesting while also totally useless.
Ironically I'm "old school" where I use wifi instead of data because in the old days data used to be slower than wifi, and everywhere I do I have wifi, so all I use data for is map/directions in the car and outdoor recreation (hike at the park or whatever, which is where we'd go to get away from phones not use them...)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:26AM
There is a post on Semi Accurate discussing how this may well be a publicity stunt, and the chip does not actually exist. After all, Intel even photoshopped the same image they used for their canned 5G chip.
https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/11/12/intel-tries-to-pretend-they-have-5g-silicon-with-the-xmm-8160/ [semiaccurate.com]