Monday October 22. Hong Kong’s Kerry Hotel, in the Koom Loom district. Cristiano, not Ronaldo, but Amón, CEO of Qualcomm is preparing to announce to a large group of journalists and analysts from around the world, including those who subscribe and write, that 5G technology is already around the corner. corner, although it seems that in Spain we will not have it before 2020, absolutely everything is going to change.
“Everything will be connected. Billions of objects, things, people. They will also be interconnected with each other at speeds of up to 20 Gbps, and with latencies of less than five milliseconds, will bring a new generation of services. Artificial intelligence, algorithms, machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing,… will be the key to processing all these huge amounts of data to generate a new world of services ”.
And, logically, Qualcomm Technologies, an American company that leads the development and manufacture of chips and processors, which are in networks, smartphones, computers, cars, Smart TVs, connected appliances, ‘connected things’, and those who will be in everything that you want to connect in the most immediate, medium and long term, will be there with 5G to get all its juice. And all the money you can, of course, from all the companies that have to invest to incorporate processors into their ‘things’ to be able to compute all the information they will generate.
Huawei said in a recent whitepaper, entitled ‘5G unlocks a world of opportunities’, that data services emerged in the 2G era, grew in the 3G era, and diversified in the 4G era. And 5G, with a superior user experience and vastly increased capacity, is poised to usher in a new era of mobile communications. 5G will connect everything, and it will benefit all walks of life. It will combine big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and many other innovative technologies to accelerate the arrival of a golden age of information in the next 10 years.
5G means, according to experts, an opportunity to increase business that is estimated at 100,000 million dollars by 2020. Home, car, smartphone are, to name a few, scenarios that will experience an unparalleled revolution in the coming years. That neither Qualcomm nor any of the tech companies are willing to miss out. Europe, China, the United States, Japan and Australia will be the advance party in 2019, and for them Qualcomm announced in Hong Kong a battery of novelties.
With Ericsson, Qualcomm made a call live in Hong Kong with a 5G terminal that had the specifications of the release or version 15 of 3GPP – the body that is responsible for the standardization of mobile technologies. The Over The Air (OTA) call was carried out at the Ericsson Lab in Stockholm, and used an Ericsson 5G test device powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 modem and Radio Frequency subsystem, also 5G.
The American company also announced in Hong Kong its new Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 mobile platform, which represents a qualitative leap in the performance of games on mobile terminals, increasingly advanced thanks to artificial intelligence, as well as a higher performance of the camera. More advanced games demand more and more from a smartphone, and Qualcomm is working with game developers to deliver more advanced experiences. Also with the new Snapdragon 675 mobile platform, the camera that uses it will be able to capture images and videos in professional quality, during the day and at night, in slow motion, and with the help of AI.
Qualcomm also revealed new 5G NR mmWave modules, which are 25 percent smaller, allowing mobile device manufacturers to have higher flexibility for their 5G smartphone designs, specifically in antenna placement, intended for their intended use. launch at the beginning of 2019. Yes, we will see 5G terminals in 2019, with Qualcomm processors, and from other manufacturers, although what we will have to ask is why if 5G networks are not yet fully commercial. Or if it is worth having them when in those places where there is 5G coverage will be minimal, to say the least.
To solve this, Qualcomm also partners with Samsung to develop small cells or small 5G antennas, which open the door to a massive increase in data transmission speed and increased capacity, coverage and ultra-low latencies. Mobile operators around the world, including the United States, Japan and Korea, hope to implement small cells as a catalyst for 5G technology, thus providing multi-gigabit throughputs and latencies at millisecond levels to improve the wireless experience and support a variety of new applications. and emerging, such as augmented reality and virtual reality. And that’s not to mention new opportunities that will emerge such as industrial automation or autonomous driving, for example.
This is not all that we absorbed in Hong Kong around 5G, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and everything that is coming with new communications technologies. But we will tell and illustrate it in future articles, because months and years of profound transformation await us. And as Amon pointed out, “the border between fixed and mobile is over with 5G.”
