Milestone release, Qualcomm officially announced the world's most advanced 5.5G baseband chip X75, reaching a data transmission rate of 10Gbps, which is the world's first baseband chip to reach 10Gbps rate, showing that after the United States suppressed Huawei, American chip companies have once again achieved a technological lead.
The X75 baseband chip released by Qualcomm has many technical advantages, it can support ten-carrier aggregation, support millimeter wave technology, and the delay has truly reached milliseconds, thereby achieving a data transmission rate of 10Gbps downlink and 1Gbps upstream, which is the world's fastest chip.
Qualcomm X75 chip Source: Baidu
Why 5G chips are a must for big manufacturers
The focus of the Sino-US technology competition is that after China has achieved the leading edge in 5G technology, it has been promoting the commercial use of 5G in recent years, and now China has 2.4 million 5G base stations, accounting for nearly 60% of the number of 5G base stations in the world, and has built the world's most complete 5G network.
Relying on the world's most complete 5G network, China has developed the world's largest number of 5G users, the number of China's 5G package users has reached more than 1 billion, and the number of users has approached 500 million, and finally for emerging technologies such as autonomous driving, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, ultra-high data transmission rate, ultra-large capacity, and ultra-low latency are its more important indicators.
China Unicom 5G base station, source: Baidu
History of Qualcomm 5 chips
In October 2016, Qualcomm was caught off guard and threw out a 5G Snapdragon X50 that shocked the industry.
Snapdragon X50 press conference Source: Baidu
In 2019, the global 5G commercial use arrived a year earlier than expected, and Qualcomm's second-generation 5G baseband Snapdragon X55 was released. If the first generation of Snapdragon 5G baseband X50 is the originator of 5G, then Snapdragon X55 is the ingenuity of the rapid popularization of 5G intelligent terminal equipment.
It is worth mentioning that according to data from market research institute Counterpoint in the fourth quarter of 2021, Qualcomm Snapdragon's 5G baseband market share is far ahead of its industry peers, reaching 76%, demonstrating Qualcomm's unparalleled strength in the 5G baseband field.
Snapdragon X50 introduction Source: Baidu
In March 2022, Qualcomm brought the fifth-generation 5G baseband Snapdragon X70, the most advanced 5G baseband and RF system to date, containing the technical essence of Qualcomm's first four generations of Snapdragon 5G baseband, adding a more advanced AI concept, which is another breakthrough of Qualcomm in 5G baseband. With the support of AI processors, the Snapdragon X70 is like a tiger. It has reached the theoretical peak downlink rate of 10Gbps, which is endowed with stronger combat capabilities.
5G application conceptual map Source: Baidu
Dual-chip stacking technology
And look at Huawei, which is poised to take off
In the past 3 years, Huawei has been sanctioned for 4 rounds. Even if Huawei's HiSilicon has leading chip design technology, due to sanctions that manufacturers such as TSMC cannot manufacture and freely ship for Huawei, Huawei is deeply anxious about high-end chips, and its previous high-end chip inventory is also stretched thin over time.
HiSilicon chip concept diagram Source: Baidu
Dual-chip stacking technology, simply put, is to stack 14nm chips with two cores, the performance can be comparable to 7nm, and the performance in power consumption and heating is also relatively good. Some time ago, Shanghai reported the news of SMIC's mass production of 14nm chips, which also cleared the way for dual-chip stacking technology, and on the basis of 14nm domestic production, 7nm short-process chips can theoretically be obtained.
Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, stressed that Huawei will return in 2023, but the official explanation for this is that it is only a mobile phone business, and Huawei mobile phones and Kirin chips complement each other. Pollen is also very much looking forward to the return of the Kirin chip king, Huawei has been accelerating its development in chips, not only developing silicon chip technology, but also developing optoelectronic chips, quantum chips and other technologies. Huawei is one of the few companies that has invested a lot of money in independent research and development of chips, and already has the strength to compete with international chip giants. Perhaps in the near future, we can see the pattern of Qualcomm and Huawei competing for supremacy!
Online transmission Huawei MATE60 mobile phone concept map Source: Baidu