Intel and MediaTek Partner on 5G Laptops for 2021 (bloomberg.com) 9
Taiwan's MediaTek has announced a partnership with U.S. chipmaking giant Intel to supply future Intel-powered PCs with fifth-generation networking modems from the start of 2021. From a report: The agreement marks a small step toward a big change in the way computing is done, as 5G promises to revolutionize both the speed and availability of cellular networks, creating dense coverage with bandwidth comparable to current Wi-Fi standards and beyond. Mobile computers stand to benefit greatly from this upgrade, and U.S. PC vendors Dell and HP have both been named by MediaTek among the likely first customers for the 5G-enabled, Intel-powered laptops that are to come. In July, Intel agreed to sell its cellular modem business to Apple for $1 billion, which the Cupertino, California company will use to speed up and improve design efforts around a 5G chip for its 2020 iPhones.
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I guess you haven't seen the new 2019, 16" MacBook Pro.
The butterfly keyboard is (finally) gone.
Apple laptop must buy an cell plan or pay $2500 un (Score:2)
Apple laptop must buy an cell plan or pay $2500 unlocked?
MediaTek means GSM only. (Score:2)
MediaTek means GSM only. MediaTek cannot make CDMA Modems due to patent issues in the US
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MediaTek means GSM only. MediaTek cannot make CDMA Modems due to patent issues in the US
TFA and TFS explicitly state that this is a partnership for 5G modems, as in GSM 5G, the only 5G standard worlwide.
TFA and TFS also state that this is for 2021. In most or all developd markets, 2G and 3G (be it the GSM/WCMA, CDMA/CDMA2000 or GSM/TD-SCDMA) networks will be turned off by 2025. And in particular in the USoA, the 2G and 3G networks will be turned off (except for M2M/IoT applications) in 2021, so the point about CDMA is Moot.
Those Mediatek modems will have 5G and 4G (in the LTE-A variant), and w
Apple and 5G (Score:2)
> Intel agreed to sell its cellular modem business to Apple for $1 billion, which the Cupertino, California company will use to speed up and improve design efforts around a 5G chip for its 2020 iPhones.
I could be wrong but I believe Apple will spend more time developing a new 5G chip, even with this acquisition. They will not put something in their phones that performs like the Intel chips again, so they're not ready quite yet. The acquisition was as much about the patents.
In the meantime their settleme
Don't we already have this? (Score:2)
"5G promises to revolutionize both the speed and availability of cellular networks, creating dense coverage with bandwidth comparable to current Wi-Fi standards and beyond ...."
Wi-Fi already exists, with, I imagine "bandwidth comparable to current Wi-Fi". 5G may "promise" dense coverage, but does 5G even exist yet in any practical sense? It uses higher frequencies than 4G, which means shorter distances, which means a need for even more base stations, which is great for companies that sell cell base statio
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