Samsung Electronics has announced that it has now started mass production of its 5G chips. The company’s new chip is the Exynos Modem 5100, which contains a 5G multi-mode chipset. This is the same chipset that is used to power the Galaxy S10 5G.
Along with that, the South Korean tech giant says that it has also started mass production of its single-chip radio frequency transceiver, the Exynos RF 550 and the supply modulator solution, the Exynos SM 5800. These technologies also power Samsung’s flagship 5G smartphone that went on sale this week.
The Samsung Exynos Modem 5100 was first unveiled in August last year and is claimed to be the world’s first 5G modem that is compatible with the 3GPP’s 5G New Radio (5G-NR) standard. It can reach a downlink speed of up to 2 Gbps for frequencies under 6 GHz, and a downlink speed of up to 6 Gbps for the mmWave spectrum.
These blazing speeds make this modem up to 5x times faster than 4G ones. Further, the 4G connectivity with the new Samsung Exynos 5100 has been improved as well, and now it can reach a download speed of up to 6 Gbps.
The Exynos RF 5500 has 14 receiver paths for download, 4×4 MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output), and a higher-order 256 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) scheme for data transfer in 5G networks; and the Eyxnos SM5800 is 30% more power efficient than previous offerings. All three chips support 5G-NR sub-6-gigahertz (GHz) spectrum and legacy radio access technologies.
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As one of the only companies with an end-to-end 5G solution from chipsets, network core, radio solutions, and the end-user devices, Samsung seems to be uniquely positioned to deliver the next-generation smartphone and network.
