The 6G era is about to emerge, and technology giants such as Huawei and Unisplendour are rushing to layout

6G technology has become the main channel for the next stage of the global communications industry, and the global R&D race is accelerating. Countries and enterprises that have mastered the core technology of 6G will occupy a favorable position in the future communication market.

From the satellite communication technology carried by Huawei's Mate 60 Pro mobile phone, to UNISOC participating in the pre-research of national 6G technology, and jointly releasing the white paper "Exploration and Practice of Space-Earth Integration Technology". From Japan's Fujitsu, NTT, NEC and other telecom giants jointly launched 6G prototype equipment, to South Korea's announcement that it plans to launch 6G services in 2028; From the 2024 MWC conference, many countries reached a "common principle" for 6G research and development, to the recent official approval of the 6G logo by the international 3GPP project coordination group...... All signs show that 6G is unstoppable, and the technology race is in full swing.

The battle for standards and chips behind communication technology

Since 1984, when the 1G standard based on analog cellular technology was introduced, mobile communications have evolved at an average rate of one cycle per decade, experiencing the era of 1G voice, 2G SMS, 3G pictures, 4G mobile Internet, and the current 5G Internet of Everything.

China started late, but it has advanced by leaps and bounds, and it is a gorgeous counterattack, which is summarized in a common sentence in the industry, which is "1G blank, 2G follow, 3G breakthrough, 4G parallel running, and 5G leading".

In the 3G era, China Mobile took the lead in carrying the banner of independent standards and proposed the first international standard TD-SCDMA for wireless communication based on mainland intellectual property rights. The chip company UNISOC (then known as Spreadtrum Communications) launched the world's first mobile phone chip that supports the TD-SCDMA standard, taking a key step in the development of TD-SCDMA industrial terminal core chips from scratch.

In the 4G era, China Mobile, UNISOC and Tsinghua University have worked together to undertake the "Fourth Generation Mobile Communication System (TD-LTE) Key Technology and Application" project, which finally made the 4G national standard seize an important seat in international standardization and become the mainstream standard with 470 million users around the world.

In the 5G era, Chinese enterprises represented by Huawei and UNISOC have made persistent efforts to achieve global leadership in many fields with years of accumulation and massive R&D, including the formulation of standards, breakthroughs in chips, comprehensive construction of equipment base stations, and application solutions for different industries.

It is worth mentioning that in the 5G era, the global mobile phone chip players have been brutally eliminated by the market, and there are only a handful of mobile phone chip players left in the open market, only Qualcomm of the United States, MediaTek of Taiwan, China, and UNISOC of Chinese mainland, forming a three-legged situation. Among them, UNISOC is one of the few manufacturers in the world with complete 2/3/4/5G mobile phone chip technology.

Every change of communication technology standards is a critical moment for the reshuffle of the industry, which means the game of technology, the battle of the market, the formulation of rules and the contest of discourse. Now, 6G is on the horizon, and we are about to witness a new history.

The evolution of 6G technology has given rise to vast opportunities

In the communications industry, a small step in technological evolution may be a big step in the development of the times. The emergence of 3G has made mobile payment come out of nowhere; The emergence of 4G has triggered a carnival of Internet entrepreneurship, and a large number of innovative applications such as group buying, online classes, single fighting, and bicycle sharing have completely subverted our lifestyle; In the 5G era, ultra-high-speed and low-latency networks have made autonomous driving and black-light factories a reality, driving all walks of life to start another round of industrial upgrading. In the 6G era, new capability boundaries and application scenarios are poised to emerge, which will surely give birth to a series of unprecedented intelligent applications and promote revolutionary changes in society.

Therefore, in the face of 6G, a battleground for soldiers, technology giants have already entered the market in advance and rushed to the layout.

Huawei has made continuous breakthroughs in 6G technology, such as air-space-ground connectivity, low latency, and high connection density, and has completed technical verification with operators, which can achieve a downlink rate of 10 Gbps and the ability to "share the same site and coverage" with C-band spectrum.

UNISOC has completed the world's first on-satellite verification of L-band and S-band 5G NTN (non-terrestrial network) technology; It took the lead in releasing the first satellite communication chip V8821 in China that supports the 3GPP R17 NTN standard, which can be used for mobile phones to directly connect to satellites; In terms of R&D for 6G terminal chips, the definition of the terminal prototype platform scheme has been completed.

Xiaomi is leveraging its strengths in smart hardware and IoT ecosystems to explore innovative applications of 6G in smart homes and smart cities. Baidu combines its expertise in the field of AI, focusing on the potential of the combination of 6G and AI, and initiates the exploration of autonomous driving and intelligent transportation.

In addition to multi-point industrial innovation, large enterprises are also promoting cross-industry chain cooperation through extensive layout and promotion of innovative technology research and development, transformation of achievements, and ecological building.

It is reported that China Mobile, together with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and TD Industry Alliance, has established the Zhongguancun Panlian Institute, and has in-depth cooperation with Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Southeast University and other universities and national laboratories such as Pengcheng Laboratory to jointly promote 6G collaborative innovation and achieve phased results.

Relying on the layout of the whole industrial chain in the digital economy, New Unigroup is providing better technical support and innovation power for new technologies and breakthroughs, including 6G, by setting up cutting-edge technology research institutes and concentrating the superior resources of its core enterprises. It is reported that Xi'an Ziguang Guoxin, a subsidiary of New Unisplendour, pioneered the stacked embedded DRAM technology, which realizes the direct interconnection of memory array wafers and logic wafers, meets the data transmission of ultra-large bandwidth, ultra-low power consumption and low latency, and can effectively solve the "storage wall" problem in high-speed communication in the AI era. At the same time, New Unigroup is also actively exploring the application of 6G technology in diversified scenarios such as smart terminals, Internet of Things, and automotive electronics, integrating industrial chain resources and building a closed-loop ecosystem.

With more and more technology leaders actively entering the market, 6G technology is moving from theory to application, from vision to reality. The industry predicts that 6G will be commercialized around 2030, so let's wait and see.

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