Qualcomm has revealed an accelerated timeline for bringing integrated 5G to its Snapdragon chips for mid-range phones.
An unnamed 7xx-series Snapdragon chip that fully integrates a 5G modem is already sampling to customers such as LG, Motorola, Samsung, HMD Global (Nokia) and others ; with chip launching commercially before the end of 2019. Phones using the chip available “soon thereafter”, which we here at TOT take as the first quarter of 2020.
. The chip fully supports all mmWave and sub-6 GHz frequency bands for 5G worldwide, as well as both NSA and SA networks, both TDD and FDD modes, and DSS (Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, which allows 5G and 4G to share existing frequency bands).
The company also plans to bring 5G to its 6xx-series Snapdragon chips, with devices using those those chips expected to be commercially available in the second half of 2020.
