As the world is seeing growth in 5G infrastructure deployment, smartphone manufacturers seems to have made 5G connectivity a standard feature on most of the new mid-range and premium smartphones.
While the market for 5G chipset for mobiles is mostly dominated by Qualcomm, MediaTek, Huawei, and Samsung, another company from China has joined the list of suppliers for 5G chipsets for the mid-range devices — UNISOC.
As per the reports, China-based chipset maker UNISOC is taking a leap into the mid-range 5G chipset market after the company provided the T7510 SoC for HiSense F50 5G smartphone in China.
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The UNISOC T7520 is touted to be one of the world’s first chips to be made using TSMC’s 6 nm process technology using extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). It packs four high-performance Arm Cortex-A76 cores, four energy-efficient Arm Cortex-A55 cores, and Arm Mali-G57 GPU.
It also comes with a new NPU that is said to offer 50 percent higher TOPS-per-Watt rate than the company’s previous-generation NPU. It features a four-core ISP that supports up to 100MP sensors and multi-camera processing capability. It also supports 5G NR TDD+FDD carrier aggregation, and is designed to offer peak uplink speed of 3.25 Gbps.
The pricing for the 5G chipsets are currently on the higher side and thus the pricing of 5G smartphones are also not as aggressive as what we’ve seen some of the companies offer on their phones. However, with more competition in the chipset market, we expect the pricing to go down soon.
Qualcomm and MediaTek are the leading suppliers for the 5G SoC in the market for mid-range devices. Huawei has also recently launched its mid-range chipset Kirin 820 with 5G support but it’ll most likely be limited to Huawei and Honor phones. Samsung doesn’t have a good presence in the Chinese market but the company has started supplying its Exynos chipset to other brands, like Vivo.
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