Intel officially announces its 5G smartphone modem, first appearance expected in 2020

5G is slowly gaining momentum as both sides of the connection – network operators and phone manufacturers are working on their solutions to bring us those promised blazing fast speeds. To show that it’s making progress, Intel announced the Intel XMM 8160 5G modem. Qualcomm, Intel’s biggest competitor on the smartphone chip market, announced its own 5G modem more than 2 years ago, but we won’t see it in consumer products until early next year, when the first 5G capable smartphones are expected to hit the market.

It’s not surprising then that Intel’s roadmap isn’t any shorter. The company ...

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